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MOSCOW/WARSAW (Reuters) – A plan by Washington to station tanks and heavy weapons in NATO states on Russia’s border would be the most aggressive US act since the Cold War, and Moscow would retaliate by beefing up its own forces, a Russian defence official said yesterday.

A fish vendor was yesterday charged with attempting to steal a truck battery from B.K

(Trinidad Express) – In dismissing allegations by Jack Warner that he was involved in covering up marijuana found at her private residence two years ago, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has challenged Warner to take his information to the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and local police.

A West La Penitence youngster was refused bail yesterday after it was alleged that he held a woman at gunpoint and robbed her of her jewellery.

(Reuters) – Amnesty International criticised yesterday what it said was a “dismal” global response to the plight of Syrian refugees and urged neighbouring countries struggling to cope with the influx of refugees to lift “deeply troubling” measures designed to keep them out.

Three days after a chlorine leak at the Guyana Water Inc’s (GWI) Water Treatment Facility at Better Hope, East Coast Demerara, the water company’s investigating team is yet to determine the cause of the seepage.

KARACHI (Reuters) – Dr Raza was waiting for his next patient when two young men walked into the consultation room, took pistols from a bag and shot him six times.

BRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) – The United States and Russia are competing for a strategic role in Brazil’s plan to launch commercial satellites from its base near the equator, opening up a new theatre in their rivalry for allies and influence.

The court is still awaiting a psychiatric report which was ordered over one month ago on Ryan Bobb-Semple, who was charged with the murder of nine-year-old Shaquan Gittens.

SEATTLE (Reuters) – Rachel Dolezal, a civil rights advocate who became embroiled in national controversy over her racial identity, announced her resignation yesterday as leader of a local branch of the NAACP in Washington state.

(Trinidad Express) – Five people have been arrested and are expected to be charged for stealing cellphones from the cargo in a plane that stopped off in this country on its way to Guyana.

The opposition PPP today accused the APNU+AFC government of conducting a state-sponsored campaign characterized by brazen and outright lies and vilification of the former PPP/C administration and its Ministers.

(Trinidad Express) Five people have been arrested and are expected to be charged for stealing cellphones from the cargo in a plane that stopped off in this country on its way to Guyana.

(Trinidad Express) Take it to the FBI. In dismissing allegations by Jack Warner that he was involved in covering up marijuana found at her private residence two years ago, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday challenged Warner to take his information to the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and local police.

The time for good offices, negotiation or mediation in the territorial controversy with Venezuela has been brought to an end by Caracas’ recent hostile act in claiming Guyana’s maritime space, former Guyana Facilitator to the Good Officer Process, Ralph Ramkarran says.

Following a visit, new Minister of Public Health, Dr. George Norton, has expressed dismay at the state of the Suddie Hospital in Region Two (Pomeroon/Supenaam) and signalled that major work would have to be undertaken.

The relatives of Nigel Isaacs were left in a state of shock and surprise when they received word that the murder charge against his “friend”, who had reportedly accidentally shot him in his head had been withdrawn.

A 47-year-old labourer of Goed Intent, West Bank Demerara who sustained a severe blow to his head on Friday afternoon succumbed at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) early yesterday morning.

Defending the raid at a Bartica nightclub which resulted in several women suspected of being trafficked being taken into custody but no charges being laid against the alleged traffickers to date, junior Minister of Social Security Simona Broomes says that there is need for a proper unit to tackle this crime.

The release of water from the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) into the Hope Canal on the East Coast continued yesterday and was going smoothly, Head of the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA), Lionel Wordsworth said.