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Three men were yesterday remanded to prison after appearing before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan at a city court on separate charges of cannabis possession for trafficking purposes.

Even as the life of the current Board of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) comes to an end later this month, government yesterday stated that mining in Guyana is in a terrible state and needs to be cleaned up.

Nomination Day for local government elections (LGE) will be on January 26 next year, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has disclosed.

When Cabinet met on Tuesday of this week over $1B in contracts were given its no objection in addition to the approval for the shipping out of 42 containers of scrap iron even as it examines the scrap trade.

Police have recovered a car that was stolen from taxi driver Colin Clarke, who was found dead almost two weeks ago.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – A controversial secret congressional vote that stacked an impeachment committee with opponents of President Dilma Rousseff was found legitimate yesterday by the Supreme Court justice who suspended proceedings against her last week.

A taxi driver and a labourer accused of breaking and entering Corner Kick Sports Bar were yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with the crime at a city court.

AMSTERDAM, (Reuters) – A motion of censure against Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte over the handling of a 15-year-old deal with a convicted drug trafficker failed narrowly in parliament last night after almost the entire opposition backed it.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Two senior Venezuelan officials facing U.S. drug trafficking charges are accused in an indictment of taking payments from narcotics traffickers and alerting them to drug raids, according to a person with knowledge of the case.

AMSTERDAM, (Reuters) – Nicaragua violated Costa Rica’s sovereign territory by establishing a military presence in parts of a disputed waterway, and must compensate its neighbour, the United Nations’ highest court said yesterday.

“Watch out!” was the cry heard by a city clean-up campaign worker right before he suffered several chops to the arm.

Minister of Governance with responsibility for Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman on Tuesday toured the ship, Fugro Americas which has been contracted by ExxonMobil for geophysical surveys of the offshore area where it found oil earlier this year.

(Reuters) – U.S. and Cuban officials said yesterday they had made important headway in a months-long effort to restore scheduled flight service between the countries after half a century of confrontation.

(Jamaica Gleaner) People’s National Party (PNP) Central Westmoreland Member of Parliament (MP) Dwayne Vaz has buckled under pressure from a wave of stinging public criticism and has “categorically and unreservedly” apologised for his offensive utterances on a political platform in Mount Salem, St James, last week.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentina said yesterday it was lifting its currency controls and would allow the peso to float when markets open, setting the stage for a sharp devaluation, following vows by new President Mauricio Macri for reforms to spur economic growth.

(Trinidad Express) A teenager who refused to heed her parents’ advice to change her lifestyle, was found burnt, along with a friend, in the back seat of a car in Chaguanas on Monday night.

(Trinidad Express) Police continue to question four suspects following the murders of PC Russell Ramnarine, 24, and university student Avery Keshwar, 22, on Monday morning in Aranjuez.

(Suzanne Garment, a lawyer, is the author of “Scandal: The Culture of Mistrust in American Politics.”

President David Granger administered the Oath of Office to Justice Yonette Cummings-Edwards who was earlier today sworn-in as Chief Justice (Ag), in a ceremony at the Ministry of the Presidency, a release from the Ministry of the Presidency said.

At about 2200h last night, the police say that a mini-bus driven by Jermain Brown, 38 years, of Sparendaam, ECD, was stopped by a man along the Railway Embankment at Liliendaal, ECD.