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A fisherman was yesterday sentenced to nine months in prison after he admitted to stealing items from the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) Sports Complex.

The trial of ex-ministerial aide Kenroy Joseph along with a couple, Mahendra Ramsuchit and Rohbina Basdeoram, who are accused of a plot to smuggle cocaine out of the country, is yet to commence some six months after they were charged.

A landlord found himself in a city court yesterday charged with wounding his tenant.

KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – Malaysian opposition parties and activists kept up pressure on Prime Minister Najib Razak yesterday, undeterred by an anti-corruption agency statement apparently clearing him of receiving nearly $700 million from the debt-laden state fund 1MDB.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Police forces in two further British regions said yesteday they were examining allegations of historical child sexual abuse against the late former prime minister Edward Heath.

Two of the three University of Guyana students who were accused of an armed hold up of a city store, where millions of dollars in items were stolen, were on Monday sentenced to community service for the crime.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Sixteen policemen died yesterday when a helicopter likely crashed into the side of mountain in a wooded region of northwestern Colombia, Defense Minister Luis Carlos Villegas said.

Cabinet has approved the formation of a National Commemoration Commission. GINA said that the Commission comes out of a directive given by President David Granger for the establishment of a national commission under the aegis of the Ministry of Education.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States yesterday called on Venezuela to reverse a ban on opposition members from holding office and participating in the Dec.

The opening of the Kato Secondary School has been rescheduled to January 2016, GINA said yesterday.

Minister within the Ministry of Social Protection, Simona Broomes yesterday led a team on an inspection of Barama Company Limited’s Buck Hall operations in the north west, GINA said.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – Germany’s government sacked the top public prosecutor yesterday after he accused the justice ministry of interfering in a widely criticised treason investigation against a news website.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A diet rich in green leafy vegetables, beans, berries, whole grains and wine can help to slow normal brain ageing and cognitive decline, researchers said yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Using an oral contraceptive, often referred to as “the pill”, gives long-term protection against womb cancer and the longer it is used the greater the reduction in risk, scientists said yesterday.

After a huge investment here dating back to 1996, Guyana Goldfields Inc (GGI) has poured its first gold bar.

(Trinidad Express) Ten charges, including that of murdering PC Sherman Maynard during a daring midday prison break in Port of Spain on July 24, were read to prison escapee Christopher “Monster” Selby when he appeared in the Port of Spain Magistrates’ Court yesterday.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – A judge threw out corruption charges against South African opposition firebrand Julius Malema today, a ruling hailed as a major victory by the vocal critic of President Jacob Zuma.

Three members of the Georgetown City Constabulary have been dismissed for becoming pregnant.

With GuySuCo’s production cost rising to close to US$0.40 per pound, Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the sugar industry Vibert Parvatan says swift “corrective action” will need to be taken to reduce losses as they could prove catastrophic for the current planning to make the corporation viable.

A little boy is left hospitalized after he was knocked down by a speeding motorcycle yesterday afternoon.