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Police said that at about 0940h yesterday, ranks of the Police Narcotics Branch at the Ogle Airport, ECD, acting upon information received, conducted a search on the cargo belonging to Anthony Thompson, 29 years, of Independence Boulevard, La Penitence who was on a local flight to Imbaimadai, Mazaruni.

Guyana and the US are to sign an air transportation agreement which will replace the one that has been in effect since 1946 via an agreement between Washington and the United Kingdom.

SAN JOSE,  (Reuters) – Costa Rica on Monday became the first Latin American country to ban hunting as a sport, following an unanimous and final vote from Congress.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva knew about and used funds from a far-reaching vote-buying scheme to pay for personal expenses, according to testimony by a convicted former consultant to the ruling Workers’ Party.

STOCKHOLM,  (Reuters) – A new museum devoted to ABBA may attract hundreds of thousands of visitors to the Swedish capital but that does not mean the four members of the super group will ever reunite, at least on stage, former ABBA member Bjorn Ulvaeus said.

(Reuters) – Cayman Islands’ Premier McKeeva Bush was detained by police today in connection with a series of police investigations in the normally tranquil offshore financial center, authorities said.

(Jamaica Gleaner) American Airlines (AA) has reportedly paid out millions of dollars in damages to several persons who were injured when one of its aircraft crashed in Kingston almost three years ago.

(Barbados Nation) The European Union (EU) has no plans to withhold aid from Barbados if it refuses to decriminalize buggery.

(Trinidad Express) Charges are yet to be laid in the case of the suspect who bit chunks off a baby’s cheek and leg on Sunday at an East Dry River home.

(Trinidad Express) Two fishermen were shot and killed in the Sea Lots area yesterday morning.

(Trinidad Express) Gene Dziadyk, former chief executive officer (CEO) of CLICO, had a US$2.3 million Executive Flexible Premium Annuity (EFPA) with the insurance giant that attracted an interest rate of 75 per cent.

(Trinidad Express) The explanations given by Tobago Organisation of the People (TOP) leader Ashworth Jack for the construction of a mortgage-free multi-million-dollar home on lands to which he does not yet have title have raised more questions than answers.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – More than half a million Syrian refugees are now registered or awaiting registration in the region, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said today.

(Trinidad Express) Machel Montano deserves some jail time for the beating he put on his victims outside the Zen nightclub in Port of Spain that night more than five years ago.

(Trinidad Express) Soca star Machel Montano and songwriter Kernal Roberts can be sentenced to a maximum term of imprisonment of five years having been found guilty of charges of assault occasioning bodily harm.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – Former South African President Nelson Mandela, who is 94 and has been in hospital since Saturday for tests, has suffered a recurrence of a lung infection but is responding to treatment, the government said today.

(Trinidad Express) THE women’s crown in the RMSL (Reliability and Maintenance Services Limited) Super Singles Table Tennis Tournament has gone back to Guyana.

(Barbados Nation) THE 43-YEAR-OLD FATHER whose baby died after he forgot the child in his car has been charged with manslaughter.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the hotel maid who accused him last year of attempting to rape her have agreed to a settlement in her civil lawsuit against him.

EZjet today said that two-thirds of the passengers left in the lurch by the suspension of its air service have been refunded and only US$190,000 is outstanding.