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LIMA,  (Reuters) – The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) yesterday confirmed a ruling ordering Peru not to release jailed ex-President Alberto Fujimori, who was on the verge of leaving prison last month after a presidential pardon was reinstated.

Acting Commissioner of Police Clifton Hicken has charged all Heads of Departments and Branch Commanders within the Guyana Police Force (GPF) to “improve their output” by placing more emphasis on the management of resources within their control.

VIENNA,  (Reuters) – Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer has set off on a one-day trip to Ukraine during which he will meet President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv this morning, his office said in a statement.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – The head of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Mauricio Claver-Carone, yesterday said he was the target of an “anonymous political media campaign” after Reuters reported the bank’s directors were looking into an accusation that he had an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate.

Chief Fire Officer (ag) Gregory Wickham on Thursday said that 150 more fire hydrants will soon be installed across the country.

(Reuters) – Akshata Murthy, the wife of British finance minister Rishi Sunak, said yesterday that she would stop avoiding British tax on her foreign income — bowing to pressure which her husband had earlier dismissed as a political smear.

(Reuters) – A federal jury yesterday acquitted two men of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 and the judge overseeing the case declared a mistrial for two other men after jurors could not come to a verdict for them.

(Reuters) – More than a third of all homes and businesses in Puerto Rico remained without power yesterday, the second day of a massive outage on the Caribbean island that may have been caused by a fire at a power plant.

The Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) will be collaborating with sectoral agencies, including the Ministry of Education, to tackle drug use in schools.

Attorney Nirvan Singh tonight broke his silence on allegations that he had engaged in racist abuse of Woman Police Constable Shawnette Bollers who was assigned to guard Singh’s family’s residence.

The Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament, APNU+AFC MP Jermaine Figueira today lambasted a proposal by the government to change the quorum for the PAC.

The Ministry of Public Works and the Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce in a joint statement today said that they have noted that transportation providers for water, land transportation (minibuses and hire cars) and air operators to interior locations have imposed unilateral fare increases to customers. 

Justice Adrian Saunders, the President of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) is to address the annual dinner of the Guyana Bar Association tomorrow and will speak on how this country’s accession to the court has advanced regional jurisprudence.

(Reuters) – More than a third of all homes and businesses in Puerto Rico remained without power today, the second day of a massive outage on the Caribbean island that may have been caused by a fire at a power plant.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Ukraine said as many as 50 people, including five children, were killed and many more were wounded and lost limbs in a rocket strike at a railway station packed with civilians fleeing the threat of a major Russian offensive in the country’s east.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – The European Commission chief and the EU’s top diplomat arrived in Kyiv today to offer Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy support and reassurance over his bid for EU membership in a capital gradually reviving after Russia pulled back forces.

BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – EU governments have frozen about 30 billion euros ($32.6 billion) of assets linked to oligarchs and other sanctioned people with ties to the Kremlin, the European Commission said on Friday.

(Trinidad Express) Assault by beating, verbal abuse, malicious damage and breach of protection orders are the most common offences associated with domestic violence, and have increased by over 30 per cent in some cases.

(Trinidad Guardian) Public Utilities Minister Marvin Gonzales says the report into the February 16 islandwide blackout will not lead to any punitive action being taken against anyone.

Massy Gas Products Guyana Ltd (MGPGL) has announced that the company is set to make a multi-million US dollar investment in the expansion of its capacity to produce liquid oxygen and nitrogen in order to meet the needs of what, going forward, will be the demands of the country’s economy, principally, its oil & gas sector.