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SHANGHAI/SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia, (Reuters) – More than 300 American passengers have been flown home from a cruise ship after two weeks under quarantine off Japan, including 14 found to have coronavirus who were kept isolated on the flight.

SANTO DOMINGO, (Reuters) – Dominican Republic’s nationwide municipal elections were suspended only four hours after voting began today due to a glitch in the electronic voting system, officials said.

SHANGHAI/BEIJING,  (Reuters) – The number of new coronavirus cases in China fell today and a health official said intense efforts to stop its spread were beginning to work, as another 70 people tested positive on a virus-stricken cruise ship quarantined in Japan.

(Trinidad Express) Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith says the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) is doing all that can be possibly done to deal with the crime situation in Trinidad and Tobago.

(Trinidad Guardian) Ice, a large pri­vate yacht, docked in Port-of-Spain on Fri­day.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s military on Saturday held exercises that deployed civilian militia and armored vehicles in the capital Caracas and around the country, an effort by President Nicolas Maduro to show strength as Washington prepares to escalate sanctions.

A group of businessmen in the Caribbean Marketing Enterprise Inc (CMEI) are building two branded hotels on 20 acres of land at Ogle and a sod-turning ceremony will be held on Wednesday.

(Trinidad Guardian) A high court judge has found the South West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) guilty of med­ical neg­li­gence in the death of 30-year-old Navin Singh.

(Trinidad Guardian) Pi­o­neer­ing So­ca Pro­duc­er Dar­ryl Brax­ton, the man who made hits for Bun­ji Gar­lin and KMC, died yes­ter­day.

(Trinidad Express) Machel Montano is now a married man. The King of Soca wedded his long-time girlfriend, Renee Butcher, at the Red House in Port-of-Spain on Friday.

Former Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding will head the Organisation of American States (OAS) observer mission to Guyana’s March 2 general elections.

On the occasion of its 5th anniversary as a coalition, the governing APNU+AFC launched its manifesto for the March 2, 2020 General and Regional Elections promising among other things conditional cash transfers, non-custodial sentences for the possession of small quantities of marijuana and constitutional reform,  the latter of which it failed to deliver as per its 2015 pledge.

(Trinidad Express) I don’t want to die. This from Chaguanas businesswoman Rachael Sukhdeo, woman who broke her silence yesterday on the carnage that has surrounded her since the killing of her husband, Sheron Sukdeo almost two years ago.

(Trinidad Guardian) It’s a moth­er’s worst night­mare to wake up to trag­ic news of her daugh­ter be­ing killed and her grand­daugh­ter shot and wound­ed and in a crit­i­cal con­di­tion at hos­pi­tal.

 (Trinidad Guardian) The son of a re­tired po­lice su­per­in­ten­dent was shot dead while ly­ing on the ground next to his fa­ther, in a hold-up in Freeport Wednes­day night.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – There were no doctors, nurses or medical equipment at the Wuhan hotel converted into a temporary quarantine facility for suspected coronavirus patients when brothers Wang Xiangkai and Wang Xiangyou arrived two weeks ago.

The APNU+AFC campaign committee today announced that its manifesto for the March 2 general and regional elections will be launched today at campaign headquarters – 216/217 Lamaha Street, Georgetown.

President David Granger this morning received a courtesy call from Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of  Trinidad’s ANSA McAl Group of Companies, Anthony Sabga III who signalled the company’s interest in expanding its business here.

Republic Bank is advising its customers that Visa OneCard transactions which were conducted online and via other banks’ point-of-sales terminals and ATMs during the period November 4, 2019 to December 31, 2019 are now being processed to accounts.

SINGAPORE/SEOUL/LONDON, (Reuters) – As lion dancers snaked between conference room tables laden with plastic bottles, pens, notebooks and laptops, some staff from British gas analytics firm Servomex snapped photos of the performance meant to bring good luck and fortune.