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The driver accused in the Bath Settlement Public Road accident that claimed the life of an eleven-year-old boy was yesterday charged with three offences including causing death by dangerous driving.

A Mazaruni miner was yesterday sentenced to 18 months in prison by a city court after he admitted to stealing a quantity of quick silver, a gas bottle, $1,000 and a cellphone.

The United Nations (UN) yesterday held a consultation workshop at the Arthur Chung International Convention Centre, Liliendaal with government officials, civil society and non-governmental organisation to draft the next cycle of the development goals.

A North Sophia man was yesterday remanded to prison after police reportedly found him smoking a “joint” and with a quantity of cannabis stashed in a chair at his residence.

SAINT DENIS, France, (Reuters) – A suicide bomber blew herself up in a police raid yesterday that sources said had foiled a jihadi plan to hit Paris’s business district, days after a wave of attacks killed 129 across the French capital.

A water vendor accused of having 18 grammes of cannabis in his possession for the purpose of trafficking was yesterday sentenced to three years’ imprisonment together with a $30,000 fine.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – Islamic State’s official magazine carried a photo yesterday of a Schweppes soft drink can it said was used to make an improvised bomb that brought down a Russian airliner over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula last month, killing all 224 people on board.

President David Granger yesterday signed the Book of Condolence at the French Consulate in Georgetown in memory of the 129 people who lost their lives in horrific terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday, November 13 and contended that all states are vulnerable.

Two men were committed to the High Court for trial on Monday after it was ruled that the prosecution had made out a prima facie case against them for the murder of Ashmini Harriram Lennox Wayne, also known as ‘Two Colours’, and taxi driver Elroy Doris appeared before Magistrate Zamilla Ally at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court where the verdict was handed down after a 14 month preliminary inquiry.

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Honduran authorities said yesterday they had intercepted six Syrian nationals traveling on doctored Greek passports in the past week, including five who had been trying to reach the United States.

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.