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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican authorities were searching yesterday for a container of radioactive material used for industrial X-rays that was stolen along with a car in central Mexico this weekend, the latest in a series of such case in the country.

Mike Tyson, who was the accused in three separate carjackings, was yesterday sentenced to 58 months in jail after being found guilty at the conclusion of his trial.

The voir dire being conducted to determine the admissibility of a statement that police say was given by Daymeion Millington, one of the five accused in the robbery of Justice Nicola Pierre and her family, continued yesterday.

Adafi Campbell, who was held by police after he allegedly tried to smuggle ganja to a prisoner in the holding cell at the Georgetown courts, was yesterday charged and remanded to prison.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s Justice Minister, Jose Eduardo Cardozo, plans to resign by today, fed up with rising attacks from his Workers’ Party over a wide-reaching police probe into corruption that has ensnared a number of party officials, two presidential sources told Reuters yesterday.

BOGOTA (Reuters) – The office of Colombia’s investigator general said yesterday it had started an investigation into possible failures on the part of the defence minister and high levels of the military which may have left civilians unprotected during a visit by leftist rebel leaders in the country’s north.

Caricom Secretary-General Irwin LaRocque has been reappointed for a new five–year term.

(Barbados Nation) – As health and environment officials focus their energies on Zika, it’s the disease that brought the Aedes Aegypti mosquito to notoriety that has been wreaking havoc on the population.

ROME/SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian Cardinal George Pell, the highest-ranking Vatican official to testify on systemic sexual abuse of children by clergy in the Roman Catholic Church, said yesterday that he has the full backing of Pope Francis.

Cognisant of a press statement issued by the People’s Progressive Party in which the Party called for investigations into a matter of alleged corruption and criminal ties by a police officer, the police say that ranks of the Police Office of Professional Responsibility visited PPP Headquarters at Freedom House today with a view to interviewing officials.

SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates, CMC – West Indies beat Zimbabwe by ten wickets in their second unofficial warm-up Twenty20 game at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium here Monday.

At about 0200h. today, the police say that Carl Haynes, who is attached to a private security company, was walking along Second Street, Campbellville, Georgetown, accompanied by his sister Rayon Haynes, 26 years, when they were held up by a man armed with a firearm.

The Guyana Oil Company (GuyOil) today announced the termination of the services of its Managing Director, Badrie Persaud.

KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – Malaysia’s former premier Mahathir Mohamad said on Monday he is quitting the ruling United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) party, as it is being seen as “supporting corruption” under Prime Minister Najib Razak’s leadership.

President David Granger’s repudiation of the findings of the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry (CoI) report came in for strong criticism yesterday from key WPA members who said he was being partisan which did not bode well for the unity of the country and signalled challenges for the governing coalition.

Middle and lower income Guyanese are now paying higher average tax rates on income and National Insurance Scheme (NIS) contributions combined and government’s tax reform committee has proposed the introduction of progressive rates of taxation to reduce the burden.

Former Guyanese Health Minister Dr Noel Blackman on Friday pleaded not guilty in a New York Court to conspiracy to distribute Oxycodone and distribution of a controlled substance.

Villagers of the Amerindian settlement at St Cuthbert’s Mission in Region 4, have complained that they have been shorted in the procurement process for troolie palm leaves to be used in the rebuilding of the Umana Yana in Kingston.

Former Attorney General Anil Nandlall yesterday said that he is planning to challenge in court the decision that the Tax (Amend-ment) Bill 2016 was passed on Friday night in parliament even though there was an equal number of votes for the government and opposition.

Following allegations against Guyana Defence Force (GDF) soldiers of rape and illegal home raids at Lethem, Region 9 and Hosororo Hill, Region 1 respectively, the army yesterday said that teams have been dispatched to investigate.