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Business Process Out-sourcing company Qualfon has weighed in on the need for cybercrime legislation, revealing that it has been the victim of several attacks.

While declaring several times that the APNU+AFC government will ensure that the sugar industry doesn’t sink, Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo was yesterday unable to offer specific assurances to a National Cane Farmers Conference but urged the attendees to embrace the change imposed by falling market prices, rising costs and climate change.

A steering committee has been appointed to lay the groundwork for a new constitutional reform process.

New Senior Counsel have not been appointed for two decades and the process continues to be frozen, according to the acting Chancellor of the Judiciary Carl Singh.

Ravindra Samaroo, one of the two inmates who fled from the New Amsterdam Prison, has been recaptured and charged over his escape.

Up to the end of last month, there had been 94 murders recorded for the year, representing an 18% increase over the 80 murders recorded during the same period last year, the police force announced yesterday.

Despite fewer accidents, there has been an increase in road fatalities for the year, according to the police force.

After several requests, the Judicial Service Commis-sion (JSC) has still not yet appointed a judge to consider the request by Justice William Ramlall for constitutional redress for the deduction of millions in income tax from his salary.

Bharat Dindyal has been let go as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) after an ongoing clash with his deputy, whom he had accused of overstepping his authority by trying to send senior managers on leave and forcibly removing them from company offices.

Dynamic Airways LLC, which runs a service between Guyana and New York, has been summoned to bankruptcy court over US$130,827 in alleged debt to three hotels.

The Guyana Police Force yesterday concluded its annual youth camp, which Police Commissioner Seelall Persaud lauded for continuing to guide youths.

As part of its 50th anniversary celebration, the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) on Wednesday sashed 19 ranks who will be vying for the Miss Guyana Defence Force 2015 title.

Two men were on Thursday remanded to jail after being charged with stealing $3.4 million in gold jewellery from another man.

A handyman, accused of taking over $700,000 in proceeds from groceries sold at his boss’s shop in the interior, on Thursday told a city court that he was being victimised.

A murder suspect managed to escape from police during a confrontation at Meadow Brook Gardens, in Georgetown yesterday.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called for political change in Cuba yesterday, telling Cubans they should be free to choose their own leaders, as he watched the U.S.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A former U.S. diplomat was sentenced to 64 months in prison on Friday for accepting more than $3 million in bribes to process fraudulent visas in Vietnam, prosecutors said.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Reports of shortages of cancer medicines in Venezuela are worrisome, a doctor representing the World Health Organization’s Americas arm in the scarcity-hit country said in a rare interview this week.

BRUSSELS/ATHENS, (Reuters) – Euro zone finance ministers agreed yesterday to lend Greece up to 86 billion euros ($96 billion) after Greek lawmakers accepted their stiff conditions despite a revolt by supporters of leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.

BOGOTA, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Nearly one million people in Guatemala are struggling to feed themselves as poor rainfall has led to drought and shrunken harvests, worsening hunger among the poor, the U.N.