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A teenager was yesterday charged with raping an eight-year-old boy. Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan read the rape charge to the 16-year-old accused during an in-camera hearing in Georgetown.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – In a surprise move, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reversed itself yesterday and halted the approval process for the proposed Pebble Mine copper and gold mine project in southwest Alaska’s Bristol Bay region.

Jermaine Smartt, the Guyanese man who admitted to smuggling cocaine into the United States last year by swallowing 39 pellets filled with the drug, is expected to be sentenced to between 12 and 18 months in jail.

(Trinidad Express) Days after threats were made against prison officers during a suspected jail break attempt, a prison officer was shot and killed after leaving the Port of Spain State Prison last evening.

Five months after a member of the City Constabu-lary allegedly raped a juvenile who was in his custody, a charge is yet to be filed in the matter.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron called yesterday for further European Union sanctions on Venezuela, days after the 28-nation bloc agreed a travel ban and asset freezes on seven senior Venezuelan officials.

TORONTO,  (Reuters) – Canadian pharmaceutical billionaire couple Barry and Honey Sherman were murdered in a targeted killing, Toronto police investigators said on Friday in their first detailed comments on the case since the couple’s bodies were found on Dec.

(Trinidad Guardian) After several years of ups and downs with some controversy in attempting to appoint a permanent Police Commissioner, the Police Service Commission (PSC) has selected acting deputy Police Commissioner (Operations), Deodath Dulalchan to be T&T’s new top cop.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A unit of BNP Paribas SA agreed to plead guilty and pay a $90 million criminal fine for rigging foreign currency prices, the U.S.

Burglars broke into Brickdam office of the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) sometime between Thursday afternoon and yesterday morning and carted off over $200,000 in electronics.

GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – A former Guatemalan general was arrested on corruption charges relating to a special bonus paid to President Jimmy Morales by the defence ministry, prosecutors said yesterday.

The police have identified the victim of Thursday afternoon’s shooting in Albouystown, Georgetown and have established robbery as the motive for the attack.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s president said yesterday that more than $58 billion, or 90 percent, of foreign loans borrowed by the previous government was unaccounted for in Finance Ministry records.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC – Controversial Cricket West Indies president, Dave Cameron, has warned Darren Bravo, Sunil Narine and Kieron Pollard they may never play for West Indies again, following their reluctance to represent the regional side at the upcoming ICC World Cup Qualifiers in Zimbabwe.

Councillor Junior Garrett, one of 15 constituency representatives on the Georgetown City Council, died today.

(Trinidad Guardian) After several years of ups and downs with some controversy in attempting to appoint a permanent Police Commissioner, the Police Service Commission (PSC) has selected acting deputy Police Commissioner (Operations), Deodath Dulalchan to be T&T’s new top cop.

Despite the “hue and cry” about the application of Value-Added Tax (VAT) to private education last year, “all but six” private schools are now before the court for failing to file returns and for the non-payment of taxes they would have actually collected on behalf of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), Commissioner-General Godfrey Statia said yesterday.

In the coming days, the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) will undergo significant restructuring to ensure greater efficiency and in keeping with its responsibility to protect the country’s patrimony, President David Granger announced yesterday.

Government has no current plans to revisit the production sharing agreement signed with ExxonMobil in 2016 as it remains adamant that it got the best deal in the circumstances, Min-ister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman says.

With the honouring of the $59,033,281 cheque he received from the New Building Society (NBS), Maurice Arjoon yesterday finally received his pension in full.