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Two sex workers yesterday found themselves before a city court on a charge that they robbed a man in a violent attack.

A police constable, who is accused of borrowing a friend’s car and not returning it, has been released on $100,000 bail.

Andre Hardy, accused of stealing a quantity of articles from a woman he used to be romantically involved with, was yesterday granted bail by a city court after denying the charge.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – David Cameron hailed a landmark deal yesterday he said gave Britain “special status” in the European Union and pledged to campaign heart and soul to stay in the EU at a deeply uncertain referendum expected in June.

A Kitty man, allegedly caught with an illegal gun at his home, was yesterday faced with charges in a city court, which heard that the weapon belonged to his cousin.

(Reuters) – U.S. and Brazilian researchers are heading to João Pessoa in the state of Paraíba on Monday to recruit mothers and babies in one of the biggest government-led studies to understand whether the Zika virus is linked to microcephaly, a rare birth defect.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – An international anti-money laundering group wants government financial intelligence agencies to give extra scrutiny to transactions and business relationships involving Iran and North Korea.Paris-based

LA PAZ, (Reuters) – Repsol SA discovered 4 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of possible natural gas reserves in Bolivia that it will start tapping in 2019, the government and company said yesterday – a finding that could boost the Andean country’s reserves by 40 percent.

TRIPOLI, (Reuters) – U.S. warplanes launched air strikes against a suspected Islamic State training camp in western Libya on Friday, killing more than 40 people, likely including a militant connected to two deadly attacks last year in neighbouring Tunisia.

(Barbados Government Information Service) Prime Minister Freundel Stuart and other CARICOM leaders are so concerned about the problems facing West Indies cricket, including its governance that they intend to approach the International Cricket Council.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation and the main sugar union GAWU today deadlocked over the annual pay incentive with the corporation pointing out its dire financial situation.

Plans are underway to hold flag raising ceremonies across the country for the republic anniversary.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A man charged with killing a Washington, D.C.

(Trinidad Guardian) Energy Minister Nicole Olivierre says all but one of the 137 service stations in this country are operating illegally and the state will give operators of these businesses six months to regularise their status.

The police were yesterday granted an additional 72 hours to keep three of the four men held over the murder of political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing in custody and lawyers have since alleged that one of them was beaten by the police.

The opening of the Kato Secondary School whose construction has been the subject of controversy has once again been delayed because major structural defects have been found.

Acting Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) Renford Homer has been tipped to replace the utility company’s acting CEO Colin Welch, sources say.

More than six months after she was nominated, Guyana’s Ambassador to Venezuela Cheryl Miles was accredited by Caracas on Wednesday.

Businessman Charles Henry yesterday admitted to fatally shooting Errol Lindo, whom he said was advancing towards him with an axe.

The closure of the Wales sugar estate will see the maintenance of drainage and irrigation systems in the Patentia/Wales area becoming the responsibility of central government.