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A teenager was yesterday charged with breaking and entering a house and stealing over $200,000 in cash and valuables.

A Cummings Lodge man was yesterday brought before a court on a charge that he assaulted his common-law wife because she refused to use his photo as her WhatsApp profile picture.

The Ministry of Social Protection is backing an initiative by Queen’s College students to counter human trafficking (TIP) in Guyana, a release from the Ministry said yesterday.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – A Brazilian court suspended the operating licence for the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam, one of the world’s largest, just weeks before owner Norte Energia SA planned to start electricity generation, prosecutors said yesterday.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff yesterday signed a bill that gives amnesty to holders of undeclared offshore assets in exchange for a fine, part of efforts to cut a swelling budget gap and revive investment in the recession-hit economy.

NEW YORK, 4 (Reuters) – A former finance director at a New York foundation accused of participating in a scheme to bribe a former United Nations General Assembly president on Thursday became the first defendant to plead guilty in the case.

JAKARTA, (Reuters) – Suicide bombers and gunmen attacked the heart of Indonesia’s capital yesterday and the assault was claimed by Islamic state, the first time the radical group has targeted the world’s most populous Muslim nation.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – A judge in Miami on Thursday ordered the transfer to Texas of a Venezuelan businessman accused by U.S.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Grueling revenge movie “The Revenant” emerged as the Oscar front-runner yesterday in nominations that pit big-budget movies against small personal dramas and once again shut actors of color out of the industry’s biggest honors.

(Reuters) – A rally in battered energy shares led U.S. stocks to rebound yesterday, while financials rose after upbeat results from JPMorgan Chase & Co.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – An American operator of an Antigua-based online sport betting enterprise, who spent over 13 years as a fugitive from U.S.

MONROVIA, (Reuters) – Liberia was declared free of the Ebola virus by global health experts yesterday, a milestone that signalled an end to an epidemic in West Africa that has killed more than 11,300 people.

GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Guatemala’s new president pledged “drastic” measures against corrupt officials as he was sworn into office yesterday, following an election campaign last fall dominated by anti-graft fervor.

MONTREAL, (Reuters) – René Angélil, the husband of award-winning Canadian singer Celine Dion, died yesterday at the age of 73 after a long battle with cancer, Dion announced.

The Police today said that four Linden men are wanted for questioning in relation to the armed robbery of Antonio Jardine and Trevor Jardine at Mabura, Linden Highway on November 21, 2015.

Minister of Public Health Dr. George Norton says that the first case of the zika virus has been detected in Guyana.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Winning tickets in the nearly $1.6-billion Powerball lottery were sold in California, Florida and Tennessee, officials said today, leaving at least three people to split the record-setting jackpot.

Former Prime Minister Samuel Hinds and current PPP/C Members of Parliament Gail Teixeira, Irfaan Ali and Nigel Dharamlall have been questioned by the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) in relation to the findings of the forensic audit into government’s holding company NICIL.

Two teenagers accused of a gruesome fatal chopping of a Bush Lot, Berbice couple appeared at the Fort Wellington Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged with murder and were remanded to prison.

Town Clerk Royston King yesterday announced that the city council would no longer allow new vendors to trade on Georgetown’s pavements and vendors who do not adhere to regulations would be permanently banned from selling on the city’s streets.