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NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Popular Indian yoga guru Baba Ramdev said today he made a mistake and apologised to a court for defying its orders to stop misleading advertisements that claim his traditional ayurvedic medicines can cure chronic diseases like diabetes.

(Trinidad Guardian) Digicel Group has announced Marcelo Cataldo as its new group chief executive officer, effective May,1.

The Ministry of Home Affairs – Ministerial Taskforce on Trafficking in Persons says it has taken note of recent reports circulating on social media concerning alleged incidents of Human Trafficking.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States will not renew a temporary license set to expire on Thursday that widely eased sanctions on Venezuela’s oil and gas sector, a State Department spokesperson said, unless progress is made by President Nicolas Maduro on commitments for free and fair elections this year.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – New York prosecutors asked a judge at the start of Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial today to fine him and remind him he could go to jail for violating a gag order that bars him from interfering with potential witnesses.

A consular team from the US Embassy will be in New Amsterdam on Wednesday, April 24.

TBILISI, (Reuters) – Georgian lawmakers came to blows in parliament today as ruling party legislators looked set to advance a controversial bill on “foreign agents” that has been criticised by Western countries and sparked protests at home.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters)  – Half of the world’s 75 poorest countries are experiencing a widening income gap with the wealthiest economies for the first time this century in a historical reversal of development, the World Bank said in a report on Monday.The

(Trinidad Express) Three houses, six vehicles and a pet dog were lost in a fire in Freeport that police and fire officers were told was initiated by a resident burning trash yesterday.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russian aluminium giant Rusal 0486.HKRUAL.MM said today that new sanctions on Russian metals introduced by the United States and Britain will have no impact on its ability to supply aluminium to world markets.

Full statement delivered by Her Excellency Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, Permanent Representative of Guyana to the United Nations during the Security Council’s open briefing on Iran’s airstrike on Israel:   Thank you, Madame President,   I thank Secretary-General Guterres for his briefing and acknowledge the participation of the Permanent Representatives of Iran, Syria, Israel in today’s meeting.

The Department of Education, Georgetown today said that it is aware of an apparent physical assault on a girl from the Queenstown Secondary School.

Motorists along the Soesdyke-Linden Highway are being advised to proceed with caution due to smoky conditions.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Iran’s attack on Israel drew applause from many Palestinians in Gaza on Sunday as rare payback for the Israeli offensive on their enclave, although some said they suspected Tehran had staged the assault more for show than to inflict real damage.

The Police say they are investigating a fatal incident which occurred today at 5.45 am on # 36 Public Road Corentyne Berbice, involving motor car # PGG 3721 owned by Deborah Campbell of Lot 194 Gibraltar Corentyne, Berbice and driven by Troy Trevor Elias (now deceased) age 38, of Lot 4 Cromarty Farm, Corentyne, Berbice and passenger Mark Anderson, age 34 of Lot 124 Mibicuri, South Black Bush Polder Corentyne, Berbice.

At approximately 5:49 am today, the Guyana Power and Light Inc.

(Trinidad Guardian) Seven families whose babies died of neonatal sepsis over four days at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of the Port-of-Spain General Hospital (P0SGH) have joined together to file a class action lawsuit for medical negligence against the hospital.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – The government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is following the “worrying events” in the Middle East, it said on Saturday, but it did not condemn Iran’s retaliatory strikeon Israel earlier in the day.

JERUSALEM/DUBAI/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Iran warned Israel and the United States on Sunday of a much larger response if there is any retaliation for its mass drone and missile attack on Israeli territory overnight, as Israel said “the campaign is not over yet”.

JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – The first direct attack on Israel by arch foe Iran has shaken Israelis and left them fearful that a bigger war is looming.