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A Corentyne man was on Friday remanded to prison on a charge of attempted murder following an attack on a Port Mourant labourer who was chopped multiple times.

The attorney for convicted child rapist Colvin Norton, appealing a 28-year sentence, has argued that the medical examination performed on the then six-year-old victim was neither “thoroughly nor properly” done.

A pregnant woman was taken into police custody after she allegedly used a sharp object to slash the face of another woman while at a Church’s Chicken outlet in Rose Hall Town, Corentyne on Thursday.

Two Corentyne women were on Thursday placed on $25,000 bail each after they were charged with the unlawful wounding of a Port Mourant, Corentyne woman, who sustained a chop injury.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – The Russian and Ukrainian governments yesterday signalled an openness to negotiations even as authorities in Kyiv urged citizens to help defend the capital from advancing Russian forces in the worst European security crisis in decades.

Two Guyanese journalists living in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) have been arrested and charged with uttering a forged document and demanding property of the same several months ago.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Canada, the United States, Britain and the European Union yesterday said they could act to exclude Russia from the SWIFT global interbank payments system in a further round of sanctions aimed at halting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

PUERTO ORDAZ,  (Reuters) – Venezuela re-opened its land border with Brazil on Thursday, nearly two years after the government of President Nicolas Maduro shuttered crossings over COVID-19 concerns, local Venezuelan authorities said yesterday.

The decomposed body of a Linden man, who is suspected to have drowned, has been found at the Sue-wanda Backdam, Puruni River, Region Seven.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil voted yesterday  for a draft U.N. Security Council resolution that would have deplored the Russian invasion of Ukraine, despite some reluctance by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to condemn Russia.

KINSHASA,  (Reuters) – A company controlled by Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler will give control of valuable mining and oil assets back to the Democratic Republic of Congo, the government said yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Joe Biden yesterday nominated federal appellate judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to become the first Black woman to serve on the U.S.

The Ministry of Finance today reminded the general public that there is no ‘Entrepreneurship Development Funds and Grants programme’ being implemented by the Ministry.

(Reuters) – The White House today said the United States would impose sanctions on Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as Washington looks to ramp up pressure on Moscow following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

In his Republic Anniversary address on Tuesday, PNCR Leader Aubrey Norton called for the removal of the personal income tax.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once Russia’s richest man before he fell foul of the Kremlin, said on Friday that only revolution would topple Vladimir Putin, and he expected the Kremlin chief to crack down further on dissent at home after invading Ukraine.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – The Russian and Ukrainian governments today signalled an openness to negotiations even as authorities in Kyiv urged citizens to help defend the capital from advancing Russian forces in the worst European security crisis in decades.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – Fuel, cash and medical supplies are running low in parts of Ukraine after Russia’s invasion, which could drive up to 5 million people to flee abroad, U.N.

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Russia’s invasion of Ukraine marked a “deep rupture in Europe’s history following the end of the Cold War” even as her own legacy comes under fresh scrutiny in light of the assault.

 (Reuters) – Former heavyweight boxing champion Vitali Klitschko said he would take up arms alongside his brother and fellow Hall of Famer Wladimir Klitschko to fight in what is a “bloody war” following Russia’s invasion of their country Ukraine.