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Police are making the necessary preparations to institute charges against the nine Brazilian nationals who were arrested in connection with an armed robbery in the town on Tuesday.

Despite inconsistencies in her testimony, the prosecution’s star witness, Samantha Sabbat, yesterday maintained that accused Abiola Jacobs was present at Donna Taylor’s house on the night the woman was murdered.

Communities Minister Ronald Bulkan has voiced government’s objection to the Georgetown City Council’s attempts to convert “green spaces” in residential areas for commercial ventures and has asked Georgetown Mayor Patricia Chase-Green to halt such moves.

A Guyanese man who had fled to his homeland to avoid prosecution was recently sentenced to 21 years in prison by a US Court after he was found guilty of raping a child, according to the Mount Vernon New York Patch.

Devon Ally, the rape accused who was recaptured by police in Beterverwagting on Wednesday, appeared before the Wales Magistrate’s Court yesterday, where he was charged and placed on $200,000 bail for the offence of rape, and fined for escaping custody and assault.

The police last night said that they have arrested a lance corporal of the Joint Services and another individual as they investigate a shooting which occurred in Albouystown yesterday afternoon.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump last June ordered Special Counsel Robert Mueller fired but backed down after the White House counsel threatened to resign rather than follow his directive, The New York Times reported yesterday, citing four people told of the matter.

Vice President and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl Greenidge, will lead a delegation, including Minister of Natural Resources,  Raphael Trotman, to India for a meeting of the Guyana-India Joint Commission and for Inter-Ministerial Consultations scheduled for January 29 to February 3.

The Ministry of the Presidency, Department of Social Cohesion, Culture, Youth and Sport yesterday rejected the headline of a story carried by the National Communications Network (NCN), ‘No skimpy costumes for Mash’, which was aired on January 23, 2018.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump is ready to sign on to a plan that would open a path to citizenship for as many as 1.8 million “Dreamers,” young immigrants brought illegally to the country as children, senior White House officials said on Thursday.

(Trinidad Express) After months of internal investigations, State owned Petrotrin has fired hospitality officer turned oil transfer specialist Vidya Deokiesingh.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – A Brazilian court yesterday approved the seizure of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s passport, the Justice Ministry said, after an appeals court upheld the corruption conviction of the left-wing hero.

Following a report in this newspaper, the traffic lights have been turned back on at the Vlissengen Road and Carifesta Avenue junction.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s pro-government Supreme Court late yesterday excluded the opposition coalition from registering ahead of this year’s presidential election, possibly splintering President Nicolas Maduro’s foes by pushing political parties to put forward competing candidates.

A Lodge resident was yesterday cleared of a robbery, after the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) advised that the charge against him be withdrawn.

SEOUL, (Reuters) – A fire in a South Korean hospital killed 31 people and injured more than 70, a fire station official said on Friday, with eight of those injured listed as being in critical condition.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s planned presidential election undermines the oil exporter’s democratic constitutional order and the results will not be accepted as legitimate, a senior U.S.

(Reuters) – New York’s Guggenheim Museum offered to lend an 18-karat gold toilet to President Donald Trump after the White House asked to borrow a painting by Vincent Van Gogh, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.

Three parliamentary committee reports were on Friday evening adopted by the National Assembly following a show of full support from both the government and opposition.

(Trinidad Express) A taxi cab company owner is Tobago’s first murder victim for the year.