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Kaieteur News: "A search team has set up camp at the base of the Kaieteur Falls in efforts to locate the body of 23-year old Aliya Bulkan who plunged off the 700 foot cliff last Saturday.The search team comprising six persons was deployed to the area early yesterday morning and camped the night...

Trinidad and Tobago's Newsday "WHO IS NEXT? This is the question being asked by several prisons officers after one of their colleagues was ambushed and shot to death by gunmen on Saturday night...

The Associated Press:"GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Recent arson attacks and shootings in this violence-wracked South American nation are the work of a mastermind living in the United States, Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo alleged.Jagdeo made the allegation late Friday, shortly after his administration s...

Reuters: "GEORGETOWN, Guyana (Reuters) - A woman jumped off a towering waterfall in Guyana on Saturday in an apparent suicide, tourism workers said.The 23-year-old Guyanese woman broke away from a group and jumped off the 741-foot (225-meter) Kaieteur Falls at the end of an early morning tour,...

AFP: "GEORGETOWN — The United States said it is helping Guyana track down a suspected mastermind in a series of domestic terror attacks, despite local concerns Washington is doing little to help, a US official said.'The request for information is with the Department of Justice and they're are p...

Kaieteur News: "A key employee implicated in a multi-million-dollar fraud conspiracy at the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has vanished.GRA sources yesterday said the staffer was initially questioned when the fraud was discovered on Tuesday...

Stabroek News "Opposition parties yesterday flayed President Bharrat Jagdeo’s announcement that he has ordered the police to conduct an investigation into the recent torture of a 15-year-old murder suspect, saying it lacked credibility and that an independent and detailed probe was needed." ...

Jamaica Gleaner News "Rachel Christie, a beauty queen of Jamaican ancestry who this year became the first black woman to wear the Miss England crown, on Thursday relinquished her title after being involved in an ugly nightclub lovers' quarrel.The 21-year-old, who is the niece of British-Jamaican...

Kaieteur News: "Wednesday morning’s brazen attack in the city, which saw a school and the High Court Registry fire-bombed, and police stations damaged by gunfire, is believed to have been masterminded by someone based in the United States.Investigators have reportedly made the link using t...

Trinidad and Tobago's Newsday "Three men from Penal burnt to death early yesterday morning when a ten-tonne truck exploded after crashing into the Bailey bridge along the Churchill Roosevelt Highway in Macoya."

Stabroek News "President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said that his administration will soon make $2 billion available to assist “vulnerable groups” to acquire loans to build homes.He also announced the lifting of the ceiling of non-taxable housing loans from $3 million to $8 million to satisfy the gre...

Trinidad and Tobago's Newsday "SHERWIN WILSON, the man accused of killing Peter Garcia in the yard of the Rio Claro Magistrates’ Court on October 19, was yesterday afforded heavily armed police protection when he made his first appearance to answer that charge in the San Fernando Magistrates’ Cou...

Trinidad and Tobago's Newsday "AUTOPSIES on the bodies of the four Penal men who on Sunday collapsed and died after drinking homemade wine confirmed they all died from poisoning.However investigators said samples of body fluids have been sent for further testing at the Forensic Science Centre in St...

The Trinidad Guardian: "The United States Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) is making moves to extradite Doreen Alexander-Durity, the former common-law wife of murdered US citizen, Balram “Balo” Maharaj."