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Magistrate Fabayo Azore yesterday sentenced two vendors to three years in jail after they were found guilty of having a small quantity of cocaine in their possession.

Another man has been taken into custody as police continue to investigate the murder of Mon Repos businessman Pooran Lalchand, who was stabbed over a dozen times.

A Cotton Tree, West Coast Berbice contractor was allegedly assaulted by an Alliance For Change (AFC) executive member and a group of men two weeks ago in Fort Wellington, Berbice but the AFC member has not responded to police requests to visit the station for questioning.

The European Union (EU) and the Caribbean Forum (CARIFORUM) have signed a €346 million cooperation programme to develop the region.

All Saints Primary School in New Amsterdam, Berbice not only produced the top student for the entire Region Six at the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA), but also the third and fourth placed students as well.

Thirty members of the Guyana Arts and Craft Producers Association (GACPA) have benefitted from a three-week- long workshop on modern techniques in ceramic moulding and manufacturing.

Volunteers from the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) yesterday visited the Chase’s Indigent Home and the St Thomas More Men’s Hostel to interact with senior citizens and offer basic assistance to them.

(Trinidad Express) Election Day is Monday 7 September. The announcement was made by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar in the Parliament yesterday.

The Loyola Documentary Film Festival will host its second annual competition and interested filmmakers are urged to apply before the June 30th deadline.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A raging battle over President Barack Obama’s request for “fast-track” authority central to improving U.S.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – The European Union and Mexico agreed yesterday to launch negotiations towards a new free-trade agreement, as Mexico seeks to avoid being sidelined by Europe’s bigger trade deals with the United States and Canada.

Calvin Bernard was on Monday elected as the President of the new Board of Directors of the Transparency Institute Guyana Inc.

The Carter Center is looking forward to continued efforts with the new David Granger administration in some critical areas, including electoral reform and inclusive governance, according to the Center’s Field Office Director Jason Calder.

LILLE, France, (Reuters) – Dominique Strauss-Kahn was acquitted of sex crime accusations by a French court yesterday, the final chapter in a transatlantic scandal that destroyed the political ambitions of a man once tipped to become his country’s president.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A female employee of an upstate New York prison was arrested on Friday on charges that she helped two inmates stage a daring escape from the maximum security facility, authorities said.

Representatives from various Chinese businesses in Georgetown yesterday met with Mayor Hamilton Green at City Hall to discuss the maintenance and restoration of the city.

Grenada-born Dt Slinger Francisco, 79, better known as the Mighty Sparrow has been conferred with the Order of the British Empire.

CHISINAU, (Reuters) – Moldova’s prime minister resigned yesterday after state prosecutors, whom he has accused of moving slowly over the disappearance of $1 billion from the country’s banks, questioned him over his school certificates.

With rain swelling the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) to dangerous levels, the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) was yesterday putting procedures in place to begin operational testing of the Hope Canal relief channel.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – China-linked hackers appear to have gained access to sensitive background information submitted by U.S.