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A welder was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with attempting to murder dog food vendor Shane Cooper, who was shot twice in an attack last week.

Three women were yesterday charged with attempting to bribe a police sergeant to release three men held for unlawful possession of a gun.

A Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) officer on Tuesday denied offering a plea deal to a key witness in the case against accused cocaine traffickers Stephen Vieira, Tazim Gafoor, Nazim Gafoor and Sherwayne De Abreu continued.

An arrest warrant was yesterday issued for a police constable, who was too busy to be cross-examined when the preliminary trial of former police officers Derwin Eastman and Jamenson Williams, who are charged with murder, continued.

A Grove man is now a remanded prisoner after being charged with robbing another man of over $1.4 million in jewellery in an attack with a knife.

(Trinidad Express) A man was shot and killed in Penal this afternoon by two men who broke into the home of his parents.

Demerara Mutual has gone “green,” with the launch of new tech features designed to not only reduce the company’s environmental footprint, but also improve its customers’ experience.

Nearly all of the recent tests conducted at the Guyana Gold Board (GGB), the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC), the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) and the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) have found the mercury vapour concentration to be below the analytical limit of detection, according to preliminary results from a visiting inspection team.

Following a no-case submission that was made on behalf of former Ministry of the Presidency Permanent Secretary Omar Shariff and his wife, who are accused of failing to comply with a court order, the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) prosecutor argued that the duo ought to be called upon to lead a defence to the charge.

(Reuters) – The United States on Thursday charged seven Russian intelligence officers with conspiring to hack computers and steal data from the nuclear energy company Westinghouse Electric Co as well as anti-doping watchdogs, sporting federations and an international agency probing the use of chemical weapons.

The expected installation of street lighting has started on Wakenaam Island.

(Reuters) – Whoever wins Brazil’s presidential race this month will inherit a fiscal straight jacket and a drifting economy in urgent need of repair – but will have no governing coalition in Congress to pass reforms.

Sections of Georgetown were once again without power for several hours yesterday and the Guyana Power and Light Inc.

(Reuters) President Donald Trump’s fellow Republicans gained confidence on Thursday that his U.S.

(TRINIDAD GUARDIAN) John­ny Hamil­ton’s wind­ing jour­ney from south Trinidad has tak­en him to the doorstep of the NBA.

The newly elected officials of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) met yesterday with President David Granger at State House.

(TRINIDAD NEWSDAY) Nishal Sankat is now back home in the safe custody of his parents who met him at the Piarco International Airport last night, after being interviewed by local law enforcement officers.

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) A BARRACKPORE man was gunned down at a bar in Debe on Tuesday night.

(JAMAICA GLEANER) Four men are now behind bars after a cache of firearms, including an Uzi sub-machine gun, and more than 600 rounds of ammunition were found in a barrel at the wharf in Kingston yesterday.

(JAMAICA OBSERVER) MINISTER of Education, Youth and Education Senator Ruel Reid has reiterated that in about five years students sitting Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) subjects will do some aspects of their examinations online.