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A Corentyne hire car driver was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with raping a minor, who hours after the alleged incident consumed a poisonous substance resulting in her being critically hospitalized.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Republican U.S. Representative Tom Rice, who voted to impeach Donald Trump after the Jan.

ATALAIA DO NORTE, Brazil,  (Reuters) – Police have found human remains in their search for British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Pereira after a suspect confessed to killing them in the Amazon rainforest, investigators said yesterday.

An upgrading of the Puruni Road in Region Seven is one of the measures the government will undertake to ease the problems being experienced in the forestry industry.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Ukraine said it urgently needed more weapons to fend off Russian advances in the south and the east, an appeal aimed at the West as the leaders of Germany, France and Italy are expected to visit Kyiv on Thursday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police are on the scene of a double homicide at St Mary’s Village, Moruga.

Two men passed away from COVID-19 on June 14. A statement yesterday from the Ministry of Health said that one of the fatalities was 49 years old.

With concerns raised by several sections of society as it relates to both the cost and plan for the decommissioning stage of Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited’s (EEPGL) developments offshore Guyana, the company says that all associated costs will be their responsibility.

(Reuters) – John Hinckley, who wounded then U.S. President Ronald Reagan and three others in a 1981 assassination attempt, was released without conditions on Wednesday in compliance with a federal judge’s order.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Two company directors, who lured about 2,000 investors into a 37 million pound ($44.6 million) fraudulent green investment scheme in Brazil, on Wednesday were each sentenced to 11 years in jail by a London court.

Three men accused of robbing a group of businessmen of millions in cash and other valuables at a birthday party at La Bonne Intention (LBI), East Coast Demerara during last week were on Monday charged and remanded to prison.

LONDON/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. government has pushed new, increased funding into three technology companies since the start of the Ukraine conflict to help Russians sidestep censors and access Western media, according to five people familiar with the situation.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Republican U.S. Representative Tom Rice, who voted to impeach Donald Trump after the Jan.

(Barbados Nation) Former LIAT (1974) Limited workers are facing foreclosures, repossessions, shut-off utilities and more as they continue their fight for their “entitlements”.

(Trinidad Guardian) Unilever Caribbean Ltd (UCL) will retrench about 108 employees from its manufacturing division effective July 31, 2022.

Amid continuing problems in the sugar industry and subventions from the state, President Irfaan Ali yesterday warned around 180 officials of GuySuCo that there must be sweeping changes and that it can’t be business as usual.

Acting Commissioner of Police, Clifton Hicken yesterday said he was unaware that ranks from the force had trailed Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Monday.

Sherwin Clarke is now awaiting sentencing, after admitting mid-trial that he did have a hand in the 2016 killing of Better Hope pensioner David Ramkissoon, into whose house he and others had gone to rob.

Keron Hope, 25, yesterday appeared at the Bartica Magistrate’s Court charged with the murder of Mariam Edwards, 26, in Puruni, Region Seven between June 8 to 9 this year.

Over five months after Opposition-nominated GECOM Commissioners Vincent Alexander, Charles Corbin and Desmond Trotman proposed that an internal investigation be launched into the events of the March 2020 general and regional elections, Chair, retired Justice Claudette Singh has finally ruled against the proposal.