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–280 workers may be laid off Around 280 workers at the Land of Canaan operation of Barama Company Limited are expected to be made redundant tomorrow as the company shuts down its operations after negligence on the part of four workers resulted in its boiler being irretrievably damaged.

The Caricom Free Movement of Skilled Nationals could result in an increase of human trafficking in person in Caribbean countries.

The decomposing body of the man found with a bullet wound in the head in a South Sophia canal was today identified as that of Devon Simpson, 34, of Kara Kara, Linden.

The USS Iwo Jima is bringing health care to Latin America and the Caribbean and will dock here between October 18-26, the US Embassy here says.

COPIAPO, Chile, (Reuters) – Chile’s 33 newly rescued  miners recovered from their ordeal today while also  pondering the celebrity status they have gained following a  more than two-month entrapment deep under a remote desert.

(BBC) A report by the Britain’s Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has highlighted a continuing picture of disadvantage, under-achievement and denial of opportunity, among Britain’s Afro-Caribbean community.

COPIAPO, Chile, (Reuters) – All of Chile’s 33  trapped miners were rescued from deep underground in a special  capsule yesterday as an extraordinary two-month survival  story many call a miracle triggered wild celebrations.

Kerwyn Greene, 39, of One Mile Wismar this afternoon expressed frustration at the delay by the police in taking action against the off-duty policeman who shot him on October 2.

Three Guyanese men were recently busted by agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in New York for allegedly selling drugs on a Brooklyn street.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Accused swindler Allen  Stanford may not use $100 million in a Lloyd’s of London  insurance policy to pay the lawyers defending him on charges of  running a $7 billion fraud, a U.S.

COPIAPO, Chile, (Reuters) – Fifteen of Chile’s 33  trapped miners were hoisted to safety in a cramped rescue  capsule today, punching the air and hugging their  families in a triumphant end to their two-month ordeal.

COPIAPO, Chile, (Reuters) – The first of 33 trapped  miners was pulled toward safety in a capsule barely wider than  a man’s shoulders tonight, an emotional breakthrough  as their two-month ordeal inside a Chilean mine neared its  end.

The Director of Public Prosecutions has ordered an inquest into the case of Godwin Maxwell who jumped into the Mahaicony River to escape the police.

Chaitram Singh, a 45-year-old Herstelling fish vendor was this afternoon sentenced to 18 years imprisonment for stabbing his wife Eileen Lall to death on February 6, 2007.

Police are trying to ascertain the identity of a man who was found in a trench at Block E South Sophia this morning with a suspected gunshot wound to the back of the head.

Dexter Marshall, the brother of Steve Jupiter, was yesterday charged with murdering Mark Caesar also known as `Lil Mark.

COPIAPO, Chile, (Reuters) – Chilean rescuers today finished drilling an escape shaft for 33 miners  trapped deep underground after a cave-in over two months ago,  triggering cheers and tears from relatives on the surface.

A dazed Bibi Sharima Gopaul and her partner Jarvis Small were this afternoon jointly charged with the murder of her 16-year-old daughter Neesa Gopaul.

Police this evening issued an arrest warrant for businessman Royston Penniston for questioning in relation to murder.

Police at midday released three more bulletins in relation to an extensive murder probe including one for businessman Salim Juman Azeez of West Bank Demerara.