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(Trinidad Express) The decomposed body found in a forested area at Las Lomas on Tuesday has been identified as kidnapped businessman Sheldon Sukhdeo.

PHOENIX,  (Reuters) – An Arizona male nurse has been charged with raping a severely disabled woman at the long-term care facility where he worked, a crime that came to light only after she gave birth, prosecutors said yesterday.

(Jamaica Observer) After a relatively short but debilitating battle with stage 3 breast cancer, all the relatives of 48-year-old Sandra Rhone wanted was to ensure that her request to be laid to rest beside her mother at Melrose Cemetery, in Manchester, was granted.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Melissa Harriot, the St James woman accused of stealing a three-week-old baby at Cornwall Regional Hospital on January 4, was given a stern warning by Parish Judge Kacia Grant when she had her bail extended in the St James Parish Court yesterday.

(Jamaica Observer) With the idea of becoming a professional footballer appearing a pipe dream, Jamaica’s retired track superstar Usain Bolt says he is placing greater emphasis on cultivating business ventures.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona Campus has revealed that it now has thousands of uncollected certificates for students with arrears.

(Trinidad Guardian) Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Stu­art Young says Trinidad and To­ba­go will not get in­volved in the cur­rent po­lit­i­cal tur­moil in Venezuela and says he has no in­for­ma­tion of a “coup” in the coun­try.

Caribbean Airlines today said that due to a global outage of Amadeus that was affecting all airlines using the  system, Caribbean Airlines was temporarily unable to ticket customers at ticket offices, the call centre or online.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Trump administration ratcheted up pressure on Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro today, announcing U.S.

 (Trinidad Guardian) The in­tro­duc­tion of ju­ry-less tri­als will not, on its own, make a dent on chron­ic back­logs with­in the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem.

With a 90-day constitutional  clock ticking, the Guyana Elections Com-mission (GECOM) has mandated Chief Election Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield to prepare a report of possible scenarios with timelines for the holding of general and regional elections for discussion tomorrow when the commission meets again.

A taxi driver was shot dead at McDoom, East Bank Demerara  last night by a gunman on a bike who later fled the scene on foot with an accomplice.

With plans to create over 200 jobs for locals in the oil and gas sector, an overseas-based Guyanese is partnering with an experienced United Kingdom offshore support company to create another shore-based operation in Region Four.

A city magistrate yesterday sentenced a former police officer to four years for trafficking almost a pound of cocaine found at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), while his two co-accused were freed.

The police administration of ‘B’ Division (Berbice) is undergoing a shake-up with the assignment of Deputy Commander Superintendent Wayne Dehearte to head Sub-Division Three.

A minibus conductor was yesterday charged with two counts of raping a 13-year-old girl.

Nick Skeete, a cousin of one of the seven persons on trial for the 2013 murder of Met-en-meerzorg grocer Zulfikar Namdar, yesterday denied fabricating a story implicating the accused to avoid being charged in connection with the man’s death.

A family is asking for an investigation to be done into the sudden death of a 30-year-old mother of two at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) earlier this month.

Deputy Commissioner of Police Nigel Hoppie will act as the country’s top cop until the return of Police Commissioner Leslie James, who is currently overseas on duty.

Cabinet last week gave its no-objection to the award of several multi-million dollar contracts, including for the supply of fibre optic cables as well as for electrical upgrades at the University of Guyana’s Turkeyen Campus.