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Guyana is again ranked among the most corrupt in Transparency International’s (TI) latest Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), with a rank of 119 and a score of 29.

Three men accused of being a part of the gang that robbed the Bank of Baroda branch at Mon Repos last Friday appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s court yesterday charged with the crime and were remanded to prison.

Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Kurt Burke, whose body was found in a clump of bushes at Mahaicony early yesterday.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL), Winston Brassington, has resigned from his post.

After being on the run for a little over one month during which time he had travelled to Trinidad and Tobago, Kevin Budhoo was yesterday arrested by the police in connection with the murder of Corentyne money changer Mohamed Fizal Mamood Baksh.

The preliminary inquiry (PI) into the murder of political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing began at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday with his parents taking the stand.

The live-in assistant of Gem Nascimento was yesterday sentenced to 18 months in prison after she admitted to stealing cash and jewellery from her employer.

More government spending is necessary to offset the slowing of the economy, Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo says.

As the Ministry of Public Health continues to monitor the increasingly troubling Zika Virus, Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Shamdeo Persaud is calling on members of the public to assist in controlling the population of the mosquito vector and using protection to avoid being bitten.

A man accused of kicking another man because he was denied a game of dominoes was placed on a bond to keep the peace when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

A pistol linked to the home invasion of Land Court Judge Nicola Pierre was tendered in court yesterday and a witness testified to finding it next to the body of a man killed in a shootout with police.

The number of reported cases of gastroenteritis at Baramita, North West District have decreased to less than one a day, according to Chief Medical Officer Dr.

Government last Thursday used its majority to vote down an opposition motion to compensate the victims of last year’s polling day violence, citing, among other things, that no attention was given to the many persons who suffered in the days prior to and after elections.

The US Embassy’s Humanitarian Assistance Program (HAP) participated in two school supply and clothes donations in Linden, Region 10, and Bartica, Region 7, from January 20th to January 22nd.

RECIFE, Brazil, (Reuters) – Angela Rocha, a pediatrician in northeastern Brazil, measures the head of a child born with microcephaly, a tragic neurological complication linked to Zika, the mosquito-borne virus sparking a health scare across the Americas.

Support continues to come in for President David Granger’s “Boats, Buses and Bicycles” programme for school children with a donation of ten bicycles yesterday, from Universal Group of Companies.

(Barbados Nation) Attorney General and Minister of Home Affairs Adriel Brathwaite has given a thumbs down to people who want to use current limited economic opportunities as an excuse to push the cultivation of marijuana.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – President Dilma Rousseff said yesterday that Brazil must wage war against the Aedes aegypti mosquito that spreads the Zika virus linked to a surge in cases of a dangerous birth defect, focusing on eliminating the insect’s breeding grounds.

KAMPALA, (Reuters) – Ugandan opposition groups expressed outrage yesterday after the country’s police chief was quoted in a local newspaper telling a civilian anti-crime force to prepare for “war” after next month’s presidential vote.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – President Nicolas Maduro has spent more than 500 hours addressing Venezuela since winning power nearly three years ago, demonstrating a loquacity reminiscent of his late predecessor Hugo Chavez, according to a watchdog.