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Kavin Singh, the prisoner who was recently recaptured after he escaped from the Lusignan prison was yesterday sentenced to 24 months in jail.

MOSCOW/KYIV, (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on Ukrainians to fly the country’s flags from buildings and sing the national anthem in unison on Feb.

KINGSTON, (Reuters) – A trial of dozens of alleged gang members in Jamaica is testing recent judicial reforms designed to fight the island’s powerful criminal groups, widely blamed for the Caribbean nation having one of the world’s highest murder rates.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A U.S. judge said yesterday he will throw out Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit against the New York Times, after concluding that an editorial in the newspaper did not maliciously link the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican U.S.

NEW YORK, 4 (Reuters) – Oil prices surged over 2% on Monday to their highest in more than seven years as Ukraine’s president declared a “day of unity” for Feb.

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau yesterday activated rarely used emergency powers in an effort to end protests that have shut some U.S.

CARICOM today called for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity to be respected.

Caribbean Airlines’ 737-8 aircraft, 9Y-GUY, made its debut in Guyana today, when it operated as BW 526 from Trinidad with onward service to New York.

Former Prison Warder, Sheldon Prince today pleaded guilty to stabbing his wife to death on December 28, 2016, at the National Psychiatric Hospital.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – Tensions between Russia and the West are driving oil prices, rather than the kind of fundamental fuel shortage that would justify accelerated output increases from OPEC+, UAE energy minister Suhail al-Mazrouei said on Monday.

Police in Regional Division #1 are currently searching for a man who has gone into hiding after allegedly killing forty-three-year-old Venezuelan national Rafael Antonio Aquino Soto between the 10th and 11th of February, 2022, at Return, Baramita,  North West District.

Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force, Brigadier Godfrey Bess yesterday welcomed 56 new recruits following their successful completion of the Basic Recruit Course (BRC) 2021-03.

WINDSOR, Ontario/WASHINGTON/OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – North America’s busiest trade link reopened for traffic late last evening, ending a six-day blockade, Canada Border Services Agency said, after Canadian police cleared the protesters fighting to end COVID-19 restrictions.

KAUNAS AIRPORT, Lithuania,  (Reuters) – A German military aircraft carrying troop reinforcements landed in Lithuania today, the first of several planned NATO deployments amid fears in the region about a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine.

 (Trinidad Express) Wealthy businesspeople are grooming police officers for favours, says acting Police Commissioner McDonald Jacob.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police have charged one man with the murder of security guard Andy Hosein during a jewellery store robbery last week.

An August 2021 report done for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has pointed to the challenges in framing a common vision for the country’s future and says the major parties need to devise a way to form a functioning democracy “based on power-sharing rather than a `winner takes all’ mentality”.

As the private sector begins compilation of a list of possible nominees for the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) Board, the Opposition says that it will not participate in any parliamentary selection process because it is adamant that the Bill for it was not legally passed, APNU+AFC Chief Whip Christopher Jones says.

Commissioner of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) Newell Dennison has said that while he is not sure of the status of the Amerindian Purpose Fund (APF), he can confirm that the Commission has made no deposits for the years 2020 and 2021.

ExxonMobil’s local subsidiary EEPGL is preparing for the drilling of some 12 wells in the offshore Canje Block and may be able to forge ahead as Guyana’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says that the project does not require an Environmental Impact Assessment.