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A private criminal charge has been filed by attorney Christopher Ram against former President Bharrat Jagdeo over controversial statements the latter made at a Babu John, Por Mourant event held by the PPP on March 8th.

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, left front row, is all smiles as she looks at a waving United States President Barack Obama prior to a meeting with leaders of CARICOM countries at the Mona Campus of the University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica, this afternoon.

PPP/C Prime Ministerial candidate Elisabeth Harper today said that she has been the subject of attempts at extortion pertaining to a case that her son has in court.

(Trinidad Express) In her ‘apology’ to the Parliament yesterday in the wake of the furore over her ‘rape’ remarks, Minister Vernella Alleyne-Toppin placed the blame on “ media reports” of her controversial statements, rather than on the statements themselves.

The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) prevalence in the local general population in Guyana has been steadily reduced from 2.45 in 2004 to 1.45 in 2013, GINA said.

A section of the Alexander Village residents at the meeting last evening.

President Donald Ramotar called on citizens, at a public meeting last evening in Alexander Village to give the People’s Progressive Party/Civic, the opportunity to continue Guyana’s development with a majority victory.

At about 0910h. today, police say the G3 rifle and 20 rounds that were taken away from a police rank during an armed robbery on April 01, 2015, outside the Post Office on Regent Street, Bourda, were recovered by police ranks in a trench in the East La Penitence area, Georgetown.

The Secretary General of the Organisation of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, and the Permanent Representative of Guyana to the Organisation, Bayney Karran, today signed an agreement by which the institution will send an Electoral Observation Mission to the general elections of May 11.

During yesterday, the police say that Police Constable Leono Patrick of the Anna Regina Police Station, was reported to have consumed a quantity of poisonous liquid.

(Trinidad Express) Shoppers went scampering for safety yesterday afternoon when the proprietor of a business place, along Southern Main Road, Curepe, was gunned down in broad daylight.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Veteran blues guitarist B.B. King said he was “feeling much better” and heading home on Tuesday after being hospitalized for diabetes-related issues.

Rights activist and miner, Simona Broomes, Amerindian rights activist Jean La Rose and Professor Harold Lutchman are among those on the national top up list for APNU+AFC which was presented at City Hall today, Nomination Day for the May 11th general and regional elections.

The PPP’s list of candidates for the national top up list presented at City Hall this afternoon includes businessman Clinton Urling, dental surgeon, Dr Clive Jagan, President Donald Ramotar’s son Alexei and the Chief Executive Officer of GuySuCo, Rajendra Singh.

(Jamaica Observer) Preparations for this week’s visit of US President Barack Obama have triggered anger among street vendors in sections of the capital city as their stalls have been destroyed.

Amid concerns about the size of the Preliminary voters list, the Electoral Assistance Bureau (EAB) today announced that it will be conducting a `limited test’ of the Revised voters list.

(Reuters) – England made a confident start to their three-test tour of West Indies by bowling out a St Kitts Invitational XI for 59 runs in a two-day match in Basseterre today.

At about 0550h. today police say that the body of Quincy Bowman, 31, was found on a bridge at Festival City, Georgetown, with a suspected gunshot injury to his head.

At about 2000h last night, police say that Brazilian businessman Antonio De Sena, 58 years, was shot and killed by an armed man during a robbery at Arau Landing, Wenamu River.

(Jamaica Gleaner) “I couldn’t find my glasses,” Jean Small said. She was explaining to The Sunday Gleaner, an extra-long, between-scenes wait that the audience had during her one-woman show, The Awful Truth, at the Philip Sherlock Centre for the Creative Arts (PSCCA) recently.