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BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff took her battle to survive impeachment to the Supreme Court yesterday, in a last-ditch attempt to stay in office a day before the Senate will likely vote to try her for breaking budget laws.

BANGKOK, (Reuters) – A university in Thailand has caught a group of students using smart watches and cameras concealed in glasses to cheat during entrance exams, forcing the cancellation of the tests for others.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – The CONCACAF confederation which runs soccer in North and Central America and the Caribbean has chosen Soccer United Marketing (SUM) to sell its sponsorship rights for five years, it said today.

Businessman Edris Dookie today said he has no relationship with Panama-based bank Mossack Fonseca which has been the subject of international scrutiny after a large amount of its data was leaked to a German newspaper.

(Trinidad Guardian) Over a decade of physical and verbal confrontations between father and son came to an end on Sunday night when Sham Siewnarine was stabbed to death, as his mother told T&T Guardian, by his father.

Hundreds of employees of the Gafoor’s Houston Complex and associated businesses housed there face uncertainty after a massive fire destroyed several sections of the multi-billion dollar complex yesterday afternoon, leaving behind billions of dollars in damage.

The Panama Papers affair has widened, with a huge database of documents relating to more than 200,000 offshore accounts posted online and three persons with Guyanese connections have been listed.

Years of abuse ended tragically yesterday when a mother of seven was murdered by her reputed husband, who chopped her neck after having brutally beaten her.

Amidst controversy, the Ogle International Airport was last evening renamed the Eugene F Correia International Airport and Public Infrastructure Minister David Patterson revealed that the concerns raised by those opposed to the renaming are among issues to be addressed by a review of the airport’s operations being undertaken by an independent legal firm.

An ex-policeman died during the wee hours of yesterday morning after he was shot by police, minutes after he and an accomplice had robbed a man.

A fire yesterday morning completely destroyed a two-storey wooden building at Shell Road, Kitty, leaving some 11 persons homeless.

Weeks into an ongoing controversy surrounding the outstanding US$5 million owed for the sale of government shares in the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT), the public is yet to be told who has the money.

PPP General Secretary Clement Rohee yesterday strongly denied reports of infighting among the party’s leadership and asserted that it is united and stronger than ever.

Head of the European Union (EU) Delegation to Guyana Jernej Videtič last evening called once more for government to abolish the death penalty, decriminalise same sex intimacy and to strengthen efforts to combat domestic abuse and trafficking in persons.

A drinking spree ended tragically on Sunday evening when a labourer was stabbed to death allegedly by his friend.

With its facilities boosted, the Bartica Hospital has reduced the number of referrals it sends to the Georgetown Public Hospital by nearly half, the Ministry of Health boasted on Saturday.

The naked body of an unidentified man was discovered on the Kitty foreshore yesterday morning but there were no reported marks of violence.

A man was chopped to death in the wee hours of yesterday morning during an altercation over music in Bloomfield, Corentyne, Berbice and the alleged perpetrator is currently in custody.

After five months of wrangling, local distributor International Pharmaceu-tical Agency (IPA) Guyana Ltd has agreed to comply with an order to withdraw Lailac Infant Milk from the shelves.

Two sons of a Rose Hall Town cambio dealer were robbed at gunpoint yesterday and police have since arrested two persons on the Corentyne suspected to be part of the five-man gang police have been hunting.