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City vendor Steve Simon was yesterday placed on $150,000 bail after he pleaded not guilty to charges that he forged an ID card and made a false statement to immigration authorities to get a passport.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – His name is not on any ballot paper and he was toppled from power 12 years ago but the shadow of Jean-Bertrand Aristide still looms over Haiti and his supporters are at the center of a new crisis in the impoverished country.

CHICAGO, (Reuters) – U.S. health officials yesterday issued interim guidelines for health care professionals in the United States caring for infants born to mothers who traveled or lived in an area with Zika virus transmission during pregnancy.

GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Guatemala’s communications minister resigned on Monday after questions arose about her business dealings, the first setback for President Jimmy Morales, a former TV comedian who came to power promising zero tolerance for corruption.

(Trinidad Express) A man on his third drunken driving charge was on Monday fined a total of $21,000 and banned from driving for life.

WASHINGTON/HAVANA, (Reuters) – he United States approved a wider range of commerce with Cuba yesterday, making it easier for U.S.

AMMAN/BEIRUT/GENEVA, (Reuters) – The United Nations invited Syria’s government and opposition to peace talks in Geneva on Friday, but Saudi-backed opponents of President Bashar al-Assad have yet to decide whether to drop their objections to taking part.

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – The government of Canada discriminated against aboriginal children by underfunding welfare services on reserves, a human rights tribunal ruled yesterday, a decision that could affect how Ottawa funds education, healthcare and housing for indigenous Canadians.

ST.JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC- Four West Indies cricketers have been given permission to play in the inaugural Masters Champions League (MCL) T20 scheduled to start on Thursday in the United Arab Emirates.

Dhanraj Raghubir and Michael Persaud are wanted by the police for questioning in relation to investigations into several counts of Obtaining Money by False Pretence.

KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – Malaysia’s attorney-general cleared Prime Minister Najib Razak of any criminal offences or corruption today, closing investigations into a murky multi-million-dollar funding scandal that his opponents had hoped would bring him down.

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) is currently experiencing a critical drug shortage.

Government yesterday unveiled an Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)-funded US$15 million plan to reduce the levels of crime and violence here over the next five years.

Two armed bandits, who posed as customers, yesterday robbed the Lands and Surveys Commission at d’Urban Backlands, Georgetown of $1.7 million in what is suspected to be an inside job.

Story and photos by Dhanash Ramroop As rice farmers struggle to cope with an extremely dry season, the Mahaica Mahaicony Abary Agricultural Development Authority (MMA-ADA) and the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) have been forced to monitor the farmers’ use of the limited water.

PPP members continue to defy traffic laws, parking their vehicles diagonally in front of the party’s headquarters on Robb Street, but when asked about it yesterday General Secretary Clement Rohee could not give an explanation.

A Linden man yesterday walked out the High Court a free man after a jury found him not guilty of raping a girl under the age of 15.

The apparent photocopying of his tax information within the walls of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is of concern to Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan who yesterday questioned the timing of the release of this information by outgoing Commissioner General Khurshid Sattaur.

As the PPP continued to take the government to task for the planned closure of the Wales sugar estate, General Secretary Clement Rohee yesterday dodged questions on the closures of the estates at Diamond and La Bonne Intention (LBI) while the party was in office.

Three persons, including the ex-girlfriend of University of Guyana (UG) law student Glenfield Dennison, are currently in police custody in connection with the shooting that has left him hospitalised.