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A Guyana Defence Force soldier is now critical at the Georgetown Public Hospital after he was struck down by a speeding car on Saturday morning.

A police officer attached to the Tactical Services Unit (TSU) was interdicted after he was accused of sexually molesting a teenager.

The woman who was seriously injured in a crash at Providence, East Bank Demerara on Thursday is recovering.

A miner was yesterday fined $50,000 for stealing from his boss.

A Mahaicony miner, accused of fraudulently converting money given to him to purchase mining machinery, was yesterday granted bail by a city court.

ECATEPEC, Mexico, (Reuters) – Celebrating Mass for more than 300,000 people in one of Mexico’s poorest and most dangerous cities, Pope Francis yesterday took a swipe at the country’s rich and corrupt elite.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Republican lawmakers and presidential candidates hardened their positions yesterday on blocking a move by President Barack Obama to fill the Supreme Court seat left by the late conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, a lifetime appointment that would help decide some of the most divisive issues facing Americans.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s lawmakers selected an opposition senator who served as interior minister under former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide as interim president yesterday, in a move aimed at filling a power vacuum threatening stability in the Caribbean nation.

BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Sunni politician Saad al-Hariri said on Sunday Lebanon would never be an “Iranian province” hostile to Saudi Arabia, and attacked Shi’ite Hezbollah’s role in the Syrian war in a speech reflecting regional tensions.

(Trinidad Guardian) Port-of-Spain Mayor Raymond Tim Kee is expected to tender his resignation today.

(Jamaica Observer) Ash Wednesday was no ordinary holiday for friends and relatives of Lansil Gregory, 71, and his 74-year-old wife Corita, who had gathered to clean the couple’s rural Manchester home.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Thousands of people and lion mascots swarmed the weekend opening of a “Make in India” drive to attract foreign direct investment, pitched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as “the biggest brand that India has ever created”.

KINGSTON, (Reuters) – The threat of West Indies being forced to field a second string side at the World Twenty20 was averted on Sunday when 12 of 13 players in the original squad signed the contracts which had caused a standoff with the board.

At about 2330h. last night, the police say that Dennis Persaud, 43 years, of La Belle Alliance, Essequibo Coast, was driving a motor car along the Reliance Public Road, Essequibo Coast, when he lost control of the vehicle which turned turtle into a canal.

(ICC) Only time will tell how West Indies Under-19 lifting the ICC Under-19 World Cup 2016 trophy will impact the health of the game, especially in their islands.

A year after the inking of the Cummingsburg Accord which underpinned the successful pre-election alliance between APNU and the AFC, the partnership appears to be going strong and a major criticism that the Prime Minister was not chairing Cabinet in breach of the agreement has been quelled.

Story and photos by Joanna Dhanraj Prospect means outlook, scene, or vision but our first view of the East Bank Demerara village was not a clear one.

Last month, as her cassava crop wilted in the unforgiving heat, Marlene Mandokin descended from her farm in the forests at the foot of the Kanuku Mountains and cleared a small plot of savannah close to the Moco Moco creek, hoping the water there would be enough to cultivate new crops.

Commissioners of the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry (CoI) say that because of a lack of facilities they were made to print their final report at their hotel and when completed it was handed over to the Attorney-General’s secretary following instructions reported to have come from President David Granger.

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has advised that a Coroner’s Inquest be held into the Carifesta Avenue fatal accident which resulted from a bungled Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) surveillance operation.