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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations said yesterday it had received new allegations of sexual abuse and exploitation against UN peacekeepers from Morocco and Burundi in Central African Republic, including one that involved a 14-year-old girl.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A man suspected of laundering money for jailed drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was detained in southwestern Mexico, and faces extradition to the United States, Mexican authorities said on Sunday.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Manneken Pis, the cherubic little statue insouciantly relieving himself in the heart of Brussels, has become a cheeky symbol of Belgian resistance to terror in the week since suicide bombers struck the capital.

(Trinidad Guardian) In the underground world of narcotics he was called “Total” because anything he did, he did to the maximum. “I

The Alliance for Change (AFC) plans to register its concern with A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) over the “unfair” allocation of seats in Georgetown and other parts of the country following the March 18 Local Government Elections (LGE).

The results of the recently held local government elections should give no political comfort to the political parties, according to former Speaker of the National Assembly Ralph Ramkarran who says that rigid ethnic voting patterns remain entrenched.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) owes the Sugar Industry Labour Welfare Fund (SILWF) over $2.7 billion and the Fund has not been following good governance practices in some areas and should tighten up its processes, the forensic audit into the Fund has recommended.

Bees on Saturday attacked a group of Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) workers at Bath, West Coast Berbice leaving one man dead and another hospitalised.

The long-awaited Local Government Commission will not be in place by this month as initially stated but it should be set up by the end of June, according to Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan.

The MMA-ADA says that 45 state land leases at Seafield and No.40 villages on the West Coast Berbice have been cancelled.

Residents of Region Three can now access Tuberculosis (TB) treatment without having to travel to Georgetown, GINA said.

By Mariah Lall in Lethem Photos by Keno George   The stands of the Triple ‘R’ Rodeo Arena came alive over the Easter weekend as hundreds of local and international patrons journeyed to the Region 9 to be part of the annual Rupununi Ranchers’ Rodeo.

A Guyanese engineer attached to the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) departed the country last week to undergo training in India that will result in the water utility being better able to measure water leaks.

The Middle Road, La Penitence beautician who was busted in the US state of Georgia in December last year has pleaded not guilty to two cocaine charges.

Louranza Daniels and her father Leonard Daniels did not only share a home but they were also contesting in the same constituency of Mabaruma Settlement–Barimanobo at the March 18 Local Government Elections.

Forty-two unclaimed motorcycles are to be auctioned at police stations in the next few weeks.

Low fines, lack of qualified persons as well as the absence of an abattoir on the Corentyne are some of the issues affecting the work of the Environmental Health Department in Region Six, according to the Region’s Environmen-tal Health Officer Marvin Dindyal.

President David Granger on Thursday met with the children and relatives of the late Winslow Carrington, who once served as a Minister of Government, a release from the Ministry of the Presidency said.

President David Granger has expressed condolences to Sarah Paris on the sudden death of her father William Haslyn Parris today.

BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – Syrian government forces backed by heavy Russian air support drove Islamic State out of Palmyra yesterday, inflicting what the army called a mortal blow to militants who seized the city last year and dynamited its ancient temples.