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(Jamaica Gleaner) Top real estate attorney Jennifer Messado, has been arrested in a major fraud probe.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Senior American, Canadian and Mexican officials yesterday ended a week of talks without a deal to modernize NAFTA, agreeing instead to resume negotiations soon, ahead of a deadline next week issued by U.S

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) today restored the 2013 acquittals of James Hyles and Mark Royden Williams for their alleged involvement in the ‘Lusignan Massacre’ of 2008, despite substantial procedural errors at trial.

(Reuters) – Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos predicted today there would be “regime change” soon in neighbouring Venezuela, which holds a controversial presidential election on May 20 likely to consolidate socialist rule.

A badly decomposed body suspected to be that of a missing fisherman from the April 27th piracy attack, yesterday washed up on the Number 63 Beach, Corentyne, Berbice.

A Linden taxi driver was fatally stabbed yesterday morning after he was attacked by his reputed wife’s former partner.

Following a request by the Guyana Elections Com-mission (GECOM), a team from the United Nation is here evaluating what electoral assistance may be needed for the Local Government Elections due by the end of this year and the 2020 General Elections.

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) yesterday overturned a ruling by the Guyana Court of Appeal, ending a decades-long land dispute between two Essequiban brothers, when it ruled that adverse possession of the land by one, trumped any titled interest of the other.

Thirty-five-year-old Vindra Siriram Persaud now faces sentencing for the unlawful killing of his wife, Shelly-Ann Persaud, who was found with her head submerged in a half-filled bucket of water.

A third man was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with the murder of America Street money changer Shawn Nurse, also known as ‘Fabulous’, who was killed during an attempted robbery earlier this year.

Minister of State Joseph Harmon is likely to face a series of questions on the Guyana People’s Militia at today’s sitting of the National Assembly.

Forty-year-old Lloyd Green was yesterday sentenced to 10 years in prison for the stabbing death of his brother-in-law with whom he had previously had a fight.

Two of the persons detained here for the vicious April 27th attack on more than a dozen fishermen in Suriname waters were yesterday released on $100, 000 station bail each while the third will most likely be set free on Monday.

A Guyanese woman said to be in her mid-30s was found dead in a house at Long Point, St Kitts yesterday afternoon.

The Caribbean Community’s foreign affairs ministers have reiterated support for  Guyana’s sovereignty and territorial integrity in its border controversy with Venezuela and have taken note of this country’s move to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for a final resolution of the matter.

Masked, gun-toting bandits, during the wee hours of yesterday morning, robbed the operators of the Lucky Star Chinese Restaurant, located at Better Hope, East Coast Demerara, of hundreds of thousands in cash.

Police ranks on a mobile patrol in Dennis Street, Campbellville  about 8 pm on Wednesday observed the suspicious behaviour of two males, each riding a bicycle and decided to stop and search them.

A teenage girl, reportedly preparing to write the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) exam, and a taxi driver, were yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with trafficking 26 pounds of cannabis.

SOLAI, Kenya,  (Reuters) – A dam on a commercial flower farm in Kenya’s Rift Valley burst after weeks of torrential rain, unleashing a “sea of water” that careered down a hillside and smashed into two villages, killing at least 47 people.

A 23-year-old man was yesterday remanded to prison after he was read charges of attempted murder, armed robbery, and firearm use, one of the incidents stemming from an attack on two Kitty market vendors in March.