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A young woman was yesterday remanded to prison on multiple charges, including being in possession of a police badge and handcuffs.

A vendor was yesterday refused bail on a charge of possession of cocaine, which police say was found during a search of his home.

An East Canje cane harvester was brutally chopped and stabbed about his body early yesterday morning by a gang of men during a row over music.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – The Nigerian government’s ambitions for improving electricity supplies are “not remotely realistic”, a report by experts advising the presidency says, an early blow to one of President Muhammadu Buhari’s most important reform promises.

New Region Ten Chairman Rennis Morian is supporting a call by the Linden municipality for the reopening of the Kara Kara toll booth, which he says can fund road repairs.

COLUMBIA, S.C., (Reuters) – South Carolina yesterday removed the Confederate battle flag from the state capitol grounds in a joyous but solemn ceremony that relegated a divisive symbol of the South’s pro-slavery legacy to a museum.

Saying it is in the early stages” of preparations for the likely holding of local government polls, the Guyana Election Commission (Gecom) has started recruiting and training staff.

Charges will be instituted shortly against a man positively identified in the murder of Agricola resident Gladstone George, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum said yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Prisons Officers’ Association (POA) is commending the Government for moving forward with plans to implement several new security measures at T&T’s prisons.

Finance Minister Winston Jordan on Thursday admitted that the US$1.6 billion figure he had said was the external public debt was incorrect and that the figure actually stands at US$1.2 billon, with the domestic debt standing at US$0.4 billion.

UFA, Russia, (Reuters) – India and Pakistan began accession to a regional security group led by China and Russia yesterday after two days of summits which President Vladimir Putin held up as evidence Moscow is not isolated in the world.

Although former president Bharrat Jagdeo is slated to return to the National Assembly as opposition leader for the PPP/C, he will not be receiving both a presidential pension and a salary as a Member of Parliament, according to Second Vice-President Khemraj Ramjattan.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – EU and IMF officials have given euro zone governments a positive assessment of Greece’s request for a new bailout, a source close to the matter said, making it likely they will agree today to open talks on lending Athens tens of billions of additional euros.

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – The militarization of Central America’s violent Honduras has helped to stem gang bloodshed in a land known for the world’s highest murder rate, but it has created another problem – an apparent spike in abuses blamed on soldiers.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet yesterday scaled back expectations for her ambitious reform drive, saying her government will have to prioritize some policy decisions as an economic slowdown has eaten into fiscal resources.

ASUNCION, Paraguay, (Reuters) – Pope Francis urged Paraguay to consolidate democracy and end corruption and drug trafficking, after receiving a colourful welcome yesterday at the start of the last leg of his eight-day South American tour.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Jeffrey Webb, one of seven current and former officials of soccer’s world governing body FIFA detained in Switzerland in a corruption probe, has agreed to be extradited to the United States, Bloomberg News reported today.

Commencing 15th July, 2015, Ogle Airport will accept commercial night operations when LIAT will introduce its first scheduled evening flights between Piarco Airport, Trinidad & Tobago, Grantley Adams Airport, Barbados and Guyana.

At about 2230h. last night, the police say that three men, one of whom was armed with a firearm, entered the business place of Christopher Moonsammy at Punt Trench Dam, East Ruimveldt, Georgetown, and held him up.

The Guyana Bar Association (GBA) today expressed shock at yesterday’s attack on land court judge, Nicola Pierre and her family.