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Chief Constable Andrew Foo says once a formal complaint is made, allegations of vendors being extorted by city constables will be investigated.

Although the City Council recently instituted a line system to curb congestion at the East Coast minibus park, the demarcated zone for operators is quickly becoming too small to serve its function.

The members of new Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) Board and the Sea and River Defence Board yesterday received their letters of appointment.

The National Mine Workers’ Union will be aiming to tackle the major issues that are affecting all miners and giving them a voice, while striving for a better working environment, according to union president Sherwyn Downer.

A Turkeyen resident was yesterday brought before a Georgetown Magistrate’s Court and charged for killing a Brazilian national.

An employee of DeSinco Trading, accused of embezzling in excess of $4 million, was yesterday placed on $250,000 bail by a city court after he denied the allegation.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s socialist government decreed an “economic emergency” yesterday and published the first data in a year showing the depth of a recession fueled by low oil prices and a sputtering state-led model.

A teen was yesterday sentenced to 12 months in prison after admitting he threatened to chop off a market vendor’s head.

A Linden man, caught on camera robbing a store, attempted to justify his actions to a city court yesterday by saying that the store owner owed him money.

(Reuters) – Wall Street bled yesterday, with the S&P 500 sinking to its lowest since October 2014 as oil prices sank below $30 per barrel and fears grew about economic trouble in China.

OUAGADOUGOU, (Reuters) – At least 20 people died and others were taken hostage when Islamist gunmen stormed a hotel in the capital city of Burkina Faso yesterday, a hospital director told Reuters, and al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) claimed responsibility for the attack.

(Jamaica Observer) Aluminum Holding Corporation (NAHC) announced on Wednesday several cost-cutting actions, including laying off of 25 per cent of its work force at its refinery in the United States.

MOGADISHU, (Reuters) – Al Shabaab fighters attacked a remote Somali army base and entered a nearby town close to the border with Kenya yesterday, saying they had killed dozens of Kenyan soldiers in an African Union force supporting the government.

The Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) on Thursday returned 24 files to the Guyana Police Force (GPF) and requested additional investigations into a multi-million dollar theft from the former Public Service Ministry.

NASHVILLE, Tenn., (Reuters) – A Tennessee couple holding one of three winning tickets for this week’s record $1.6 billion U.S.

St Lucia’s Prime Minister Dr Kenny Anthony has rejected criticisms by the US that his government has failed to prosecute police for extrajudicial killings and laid the blame on the island’s Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s opposition presidential candidate Jude Celestin has announced he will not take part in a runoff election because he does not have faith in the process, in a move that could mean a shoe-in for the ruling party on Jan.

Officers from the Police Narcotics Branch unearthed some 2.7 kilogrammes of cocaine hidden in the walls of an outbound package at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) yesterday afternoon.

Two days after being involved in a motorcycle accident that left her battling for her life, four-year old Paula Waterman succumbed to her injuries on Thursday morning at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says T&T has to cut costs to be able to live on the limited resources in the country.