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WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – FBI Director James Comey told a congressional panel yesterday that a final court ruling forcing Apple Inc to give the FBI data from an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters would be “potentially precedential” in other cases where the agency might request similar cooperation from technology companies.

KINGSTON, (Reuters) – A final vote count showed Jamaica’s opposition won last week’s general election with a one seat margin, electoral authorities said yesterday, ending days of uncertainty over the outcome of the close race fought in the shadow of a tough austerity plan.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Federal prosecutors who uncovered a huge corruption scheme at oil company Petrobras are looking into whether Brazil’s former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva received undue favours from engineering firms they are investigating.

First Lady, Sandra Granger on Monday launched her ‘Self Reliance and Success in Business Workshop’ at the Mabaruma Learning Resource Centre in Barima-Waini (Region One), where more than 40 women will be exposed to entrepreneurial and management training, a release from the Ministry of the Presidency said.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Provisional Haiti President Jocelerme Privert said yesterday a new election council would determine if a delayed runoff could be held by an April deadline, as concerns grow that a political standoff would again scupper efforts to hold the vote.

(Barbados Nation) The crackdown against people accessing illegal television programming content has moved region-wide.

The Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) in collaboration with the Ministry of Education is currently training 29 volunteers to become tour guides for Georgetown, GINA said.

(Trinidad Express) For the second time in less than four months, a prison officer has been murdered near his home, prompting Prisons Commissioner Sterling Stewart to declare “we are under attack”.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden outlined in letters and other documents how at least $29 million of his funds and possessions should be apportioned after his death, requesting that most of it be used to continue global jihad.

Sixty-four students were yesterday welcomed into the health care system at an orientation ceremony at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), GINA said. 

The Russian Federation has pledged to continue providing training for members of the Guyana Police Force.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Executives from Brazil’s second-largest engineering company, Andrade Gutierrez, have testified that the company paid suppliers for President Dilma Rousseff’s 2010 electoral campaign off the books, newspaper a Folha de S.Paulo

Progress has been made on the rehabilitation of the Diamond Well Station, East Coast Demerara, the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) said yesterday and testing will begin on Thursday.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Samarco Mineracao SA will pay at least 20 billion reais ($5 billion) over 15 years as part of a deal reached with the Brazilian government to settle a lawsuit for damages caused by a deadly dam spill at a mine in November, a government source told Reuters yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment,” was the Bible quote Darlene Gordon used in describing her son Ronaldo Gordon’s tragic death.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – The Rolling Stones will perform a free outdoor concert in Havana on March 25, the band announced yesterday, a milestone event in a country where the communist government once banned the group’s music as an “ideological deviation.”

(Reuters) – Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton rolled up a series of wins yesterday, as the two presidential front-runners took a step toward capturing their parties’ nominations on the 2016 campaign’s biggest day of state-by-state primary voting.

At about 1730h. today, police ranks stationed at Matthews Ridge, NWD, went to arrest Dennis Marks who was wanted pending investigations into a report of alleged rape.

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI) today said that 22 bids have been submitted to provide 1.5 MW of renewable energy to Bartica.

(Trinidad Guardian) “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment,” was the Bible quote Darlene Gordon used in describing her son Ronaldo Gordon’s tragic death.