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A truck driver was fined $20,000 with an alternative of one week in prison for hauling a trailer without tail-lights along the Linden-Soesdyke Highway.

-labour workshop hears Permanent Secretary in the Labour Ministry Trevor Thomas has urged greater focus on the participation of women in national development, comprise more than half of the country’s human resources.

– under US$23M diversification programme The Ministry of Agriculture informed a national stakeholders’ meeting about the interventions it has undertaken as it moves ahead with plans to establish three agribusiness sub-sectors under a US$23 million Agriculture Diversification Programme.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Goldman Sachs Group Inc was charged with fraud by the US Securities and Exchange Commission over its marketing of a subprime mortgage product, igniting a battle between Wall Street’s most powerful bank and the nation’s top securities regulator.

By Cathy Richards Residents of Linden complained of not getting “a fair chance” from police ranks in the area when they met with head of the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) former Chancellor Cecil Kennard at a hearing in the town, Wednesday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The firestorm raging over the extradition request for Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke and the possible role of United States law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips blazed on Thursday with a damning report in an American publication.

LONDON (Reuters) – A huge ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano spreading out across Europe is causing air travel chaos on a scale unseen since the Sept.

-noted efforts at conscious mining Minister of Transport and Hydraulics Robeson Benn on Friday assured over 200 miners at Mahdia that at no time government had engaged in discussions to stop mining, rather it had been seeking ways to make it sustainable, particularly within the framework of the LCDS.

(Trinidad Express) – Prime Minister Patrick Manning issued a release from his office at 1.05 pm yesterday, advising President George Maxwell Richards to issue a writ of election, appointing Monday, May 24, 2010, as the date of the general election.

YUSHU, China (Reuters) – Tibetans cremated their dead today after a massive earthquake struck a remote part of China earlier in the week, killing more than 1,000 people and leaving thousands huddled in the cold in makeshift tents.

– as second Expo launched Turning Guyana into a wedding destination was the major plan touted as the second annual Wedding Expo was launched last evening at the Roraima Duke Lodge in Kingston.

BOGOTA (Reuters) – A Colombian man accused of exporting tonnes of cocaine to the United States was captured yesterday at Rio de Janeiro’s famed Ipanema beach in a multinational police operation, ending a years-long manhunt.

PHOENIX (Reuters) – US police arrested 47 people and broke up a human smuggling network that used rogue shuttle firms to ferry thousands of illegal immigrants from the Arizona-Mexico border across the United States, authorities said on Thursday.

Haiti reconstruction Haiti’s parliament has approved the creation of a commission that will allow foreign donors to participate in deciding how to rebuild the nation.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – The likely election win of Sudan’s president will enrage many disgusted with his Darfur record, but the West will have to find ways to engage with him in the build-up to an even more dangerous vote.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A US trade panel on Thursday gave final approval to punitive duties on billions of plastic shopping bags made in Indonesia, Taiwan and Vietnam.

The Indian Arrival Com-   mittee (IAC) will host three grand melas to mark the upcoming 172nd anniversary of Indians Arrival in Guyana.

The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) in collaboration with the ICC World T20 project team held a land search and rescue workshop to prepare participants who will be on stand-by to respond to any disaster during the matches in Guyana.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday remanded Laurence Hunte to prison on the allegation that he sodomised a seven-year-old boy.

– Brassington The government yesterday defended the award of the US$15 million contract for the first phase of the Amaila Falls Project to Synergy Holdings Inc, saying that the firm submitted the most viable and lowest-priced proposal among bidders.