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BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Former Brazilian leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a top contender to win next year’s presidential election, was convicted on corruption charges today and sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison.

The police this afternoon released bulletins for two more escapees from the Camp Street prison on Sunday.

The police force is currently combing the backlands of Buxton, East Coast Demerara for escapees from Sunday’s prison revolt.

Minister within the Ministry of Public Health, Karen Cummings (right) and Director of Prisons (ag), Gladwyn Samuels today visited Hubert Trim, a Prison Warden injured during Sunday’s revolt at the  Camp Street Prison.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump today defended his eldest son as “innocent” following emails that showed Donald Trump Jr.

-masterminds seized revolver from warder The number of Camp Street Prison inmates unaccounted for after Sunday’s breakout stands at eight, according to Director of Prisons Gladwyn Samuels, who also said yesterday that the four masterminds took a service revolver from a warder.

A Route 32 minibus driver was fatally shot around midday yesterday on the McDoom Public Road, East Bank Demerara after he attempted to drive away from bandits who robbed several passengers onboard his bus. 

Taxi driver Matthew Shivtahal, who says he was abducted by four of the men who broke out of the Camp Street jail on Sunday, yesterday credited his one-year-old son as the reason why the men spared his life.

President David Granger yesterday said that his administration does not intend to rebuild a full scale prison facility at the site of the former Georgetown Prison on Camp Street, the Ministry of the Presidency said last evening.

While lauding the performance of the security forces during Sunday’s revolt at the Camp Street prison, the Private Sector Commission (PSC) yesterday flayed the government for not doing enough to act on the recommendations made after last year’s inquiry into a similar insurrection and called for more information to be made public.

Three-time golf champion Imran Khan, of Courbane Park, Annandale, passed away on Monday evening, mere hours after being diagnosed with the bacterial infection, leptospirosis.

One of the accused in the murder of businessman Rajendra Singh, who was killed after being kidnapped in 2014, was yesterday discharged after the prosecution failed to prove a case against him.

Retired Assistant Com-missioner of Police, Paul Slowe was yesterday sworn in to lead the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into an alleged plot to assassinate President David Granger and the police force’s handling of the investigation.

Relatives of inmates relocated to the Lusignan Prison after Sunday’s Camp Street jail fire yesterday bemoaned what they said was the slothfulness of the prisons authority in providing them with information.

Residents on the Essequibo Coast are frustrated due to frequent power outages that they have been experiencing daily.

The 200 acres of seed paddy that was cultivated at Wales estate, as part of the diversification venture following the closure of sugar operations in December 2016, would be ready for harvesting in September.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s eldest son eagerly agreed last year to meet a woman he was told was a Russian government lawyer who might have damaging information about Democratic White House rival Hillary Clinton as part of Moscow’s official support for his father, according to emails released yesterday.

Two billion-dollar bids were opened yesterday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) for the acquisition of emergency pharmaceutical supplies for Regional Health Services under the Ministry of Public Health.

Poor preparation by officials of the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs on Monday saw the deferral of a scheduled hearing before the National Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) for the second time in the space of a month.

CAIRO/BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told Reuters yesterday it had “confirmed information” that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had been killed.