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A policeman yesterday testified about the man accused of murdering West Canje resident Errol Lindo handing over a Taurus .32 pistol.

A woman is now critical at the Georgetown Public Hospital after the bus she was traveling in crashed into a utility pole at Providence, East Bank Demerara, last night.

Tyre salesman Rajesh Seegobin was yesterday found not guilty of knowingly underreporting £2,000 in cash at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri last year.

President David Granger yesterday met with members of the Canadian Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), who are in Guyana seeking to foster closer ties  among Commonwealth Parliamentarians, a release from the Ministry of the Presidency said.

The finals of the annual Children’s Mashramani competitions will be held from February 17 to 20 at various venues.

At about 1120h on Wednesday, police ranks, acting on information received, conducted a search on a camp at Belle Vue Village, East Bank Berbice, where 4 kilograms of marijuana were found, the police said in a release yesterday.

Fourteen US Peace Corps Volunteers will now be working with local health professionals  to boost health care delivery to the residents of four  regions – Two, Three, Six and Ten, GINA said yesterday.

An elderly Berbice man was on Tuesday brought before a city court on a charge that he used a forged birth certificate in a bid to get a US visa.

A Baramita, Region One man is currently nursing serious head wounds at the Georgetown Public Hospital after allegedly being chopped by another man during a fight.

A Mon Repos man was fined $15,000 on Wednesday after he was found guilty of verbally abusing his wife for not cooking his food.

A man who allegedly assaulted a 16-year-old boy who he claimed attempted to rob him was on Wednesday released on his own recognizance when he appeared before Magistrate Alex Moore at a city court.

(Trinidad Guardian) Autopsy results today revealed that Japanese pan player Asami Nagakiya was strangled.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A New York City police officer was convicted of manslaughter yesterday for fatally shooting an unarmed black man in a darkened public housing stairwell.

MUNICH, (Reuters) – Major powers agreed yesterday to a cessation of hostilities in Syria set to begin in a week and to provide rapid humanitarian access to besieged Syrian towns, but failed to secure a complete ceasefire or an end to Russian bombing.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – A judge in Brazil’s state of Minas Gerais has frozen 470 million reais ($118 million) of assets owned by Vale SA and 1.8 million reais linked to BHP Billiton Ltd to ensure payment of damages related to a deadly dam rupture, Rio de Janeiro’s O Globo newspaper said yesterday.

WASHINGTON, (Reut-ers) – Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was endorsed by the Congressional Black Caucus yesterday, a much-needed boost to her campaign as it competes for the important black voting bloc in South Carolina’s primary this month.

MONTERREY, Mexico, (Reuters) – A battle between the feared Zetas drug cartel and rivals at a prison left 49 people dead in the northeastern Mexican city of Monterrey, authorities said yesterday, days ahead of a planned visit by Pope Francis to another jail in Mexico’s far north.

(Barbados Nation) ST JOHN’S – LIAT, The Caribbean Airline, has issued a travel advisory for all customers with reservations booked on or before February 10 who are concerned about travelling to destinations with the Zika virus.

(Trinidad Guardian) There are now calls from the public to have Raymond Tim Kee removed as Mayor of Port-of-Spain.

BURNS, Ore., (Reuters) – The four holdouts in the armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon surrendered yesterday, with the last protester repeatedly threatening suicide in a dramatic final phone call with mediators before he gave up, ending the 41-day standoff.