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MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – All drugs including cocaine, heroin and crystal meth will be legal in drug-scarred Mexico within 10 years, former Mexican President Vicente Fox believes, after a court ruling that he said makes the legalization of marijuana inevitable.

Industry resident Emile Ferreira, suffered a fractured hip following an accident at La Bonne Intention on the East Coast last Thursday at around 11pm.

LONDON, (Reuters) – A new gene that makes bacteria highly resistant to a last-resort class of antibiotics has been found in people and pigs in China – including in samples of bacteria with epidemic potential, researchers said yesterday.

SYDNEY/TORONTO, (Reuters) – A deadly mud slide at an iron ore mine in Brazil has reignited calls for safer ways to dispose of millions of tonnes of ore waste held back by man-made dams.

LONDON, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – An army of religious sisters who rescue victims of human trafficking by posing as prostitutes to infiltrate brothels and buying children being sold into slavery, is expanding to 140 countries, its chairman said yesterday.

Transparency Institute Guyana Inc (TIGI) today hammered the police over two high profile probes involving senior coast guardsman Gary Beaton and a policeman snared in a cocaine extortion case.

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Grenada’s Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell has bristled at the suggestion by West Indies Cricket Board president, Dave Cameron, that his board was too busy to have an urgent meeting with CARICOM leaders to discuss the recommendations of the Governance Review Panel report.

Former Home Affairs Minister Ronald Gajraj is suing his successor Gail Teixeira for defamation over statements she allegedly made about him which were contained in a US diplomatic cable released by the Wikileaks website.

(Trinidad Guardian) A discussion is currently taking place with the Attorney General on revisiting or changing the current situation of free, unrestricted/unhindered entry of T&T nationals who have joined the Islamic State (ISIS), National Security Minister Edmund Dillon confirmed yesterday.

The Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) is calling on the David Granger administration to show it has the best interest of teachers at heart by respecting agreements made for their benefit under the previous administration.

Employees of the Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) will now benefit from a 20% increase as the local consortium and three trade unions yesterday signed a multi-year collective bargaining agreement.

Historian Tota Mangar was robbed of his SUV on Monday evening, just after he exited Moray House on Camp Street, Georgetown.

A West Ruimveldt gold miner was yesterday sentenced to nearly five years in prison after being found guilty of armed robbery.

The two men busted at a hotel with a quantity of cocaine pellets last Friday were yesterday refused bail after being charged with conspiracy to traffic the drugs.

The People’s Progressive Party has proclaimed that following a meeting on Saturday of its Central Committee (CC) there will be no engagements in relation to unity talks with the government.

Guyana will not be caught unawares by the H1N1/ Swine Flu virus, Minister of Public Health Dr George Norton said, adding that doctors at the Georgetown Public Hospital are aware and alert to the possibility of the virus entering Guyana.

A police officer was chopped on Monday night when he intervened in a fight outside of a wedding house opposite his home and he is dissatisfied with how fellow officers have handled the case so far.

A 69-year-old fisherman of Ruby, East Bank Essequibo drowned in a canal around 2 pm yesterday while trying to set a seine.

One of the three men held after the recent robbery of a Mahaicony supermarket is now blind as a result of injuries he sustained when villagers apprehended him.

The government has revealed that the E-Government Unit has begun rolling out Wi- Fi networks in schools, with the hinterland and remote areas projected to benefit from internet access by the end of the first quarter of 2016.