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The Ministry of Public Security on Thursday said an updated national drug strategy master plan will soon be released and on another front, it vowed to invest in the total eradication of trafficking in persons.

Life for 44-year-old Sandra Sookdass has been tough but her wish for the New Year is to finally find happiness and to own a home so she can be together with her children.

As it continues to examine alternative means of generating electricity, the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) plans to install more solar powered, energy-efficient street lights this year.

Team Benschop says that thirty-one-year-old businessman Ronson Gray has joined it for the upcoming Local Government Elections, slated for March 18, 2016.

(Trinidad Express) Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh has launched a probe into the death of a teenage boy whose mother said nurses laughed as he lay writhing in pain at hospital.

(Reuters) – Grammy-winning singer Natalie Cole, whose biggest hit came in a virtual duet with her late father, pop legend Nat King Cole, of his decades-old hit “Unforgettable,” has died at the age of 65, her family said today.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will take his case for new gun control measures directly to the American people this week while proposing new executive actions in a final big effort to reduce gun violence during his last year in office.

DUBAI/RIYADH, (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia cut ties with Iran yesterday, responding to the storming of its embassy in Tehran in an escalating row between the rival Middle East powers over Riyadh’s execution of a Shi’ite Muslim cleric.

(Trinidad Express) After spending time with his family on New Year’s Day, 27-year-old Ravi Maniedeo was shot and killed outside his apartment in Chaguanas, a short distance from the Longdenville Police Post.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition coalition yesterday chose Henry Ramos to lead the country’s National Assembly, which convenes tomorrow for its first session with an opposition majority in more than 16 years.

KIGALI, (Reuters) – The United States is “deeply disappointed” by Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s New Year’s announcement that he would seek a third term in 2017, according to the U.S.

LOS ANGELES, (Variety.com) – Having vanquished “Titanic” and “Jurassic World,” “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” has set its sights on “Avatar.”

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – The United States has requested the extradition of Jaime Rosenthal, the 80-year-old Honduran banker and politician accused of participating in a scheme that moved illicit funds through U.S.

Investigations are being conducted into the circumstances surrounding the death of Anita Baichan, 49 years, of Hope, WCB, who perished in a fire at her home about 0230h.

(Trinidad Guardian) A security expert at a local commercial bank says skimming attacks like the one which occurred on December 28 will happen again because ATMs are increasingly being targeted by cybercriminals who are using increasingly sophisticated high-tech methods to empty the accounts of bank customers..

Seven months after being elected to office, the APNU+AFC government has been able to fulfil and make progress on some of its pledges but it has also courted controversy on several issues and has been accused of being slow to take action.

Den Heuvel, on the East Bank Demerara, has a population of approximately 300 and is located just before Soesdyke.

A Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara family was sent into a state of shock on New Year’s Day after a carpenter was stabbed to death allegedly by his cousin.

Ten minutes into the New Year, a Crabwood Creek, Corentyne man was fatally stabbed by another man during a confrontation.

Returning home from Barbados to spend Christmas with his family for the first time in five years, a 22-year-old Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo (EBE) man was stabbed to death on New Year’s Day during an altercation with a group of men at a rum shop at Greenwich Park, EBE.