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WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Trump administration imposed sanctions on 13 senior officials of Venezuela’s government, military and state oil company PDVSA today, U.S.

(Trinidad Guardian) An employee from the Port-of-Spain General Hospital (PoSGH) and his father, a retiree who also worked at the hospital, were both ambushed and killed by gunmen in Laventille yesterday, while responding to a call of an accident along Picton Road involving one of their vehicles.

A Roraima Airlines pilot died this afternoon after his plane crashed near Eteringbang in Region Seven.

The police today released a flier for the 10 men still wanted after the two prison breaks

ExxonMobil Corporation today announced it has discovered additional oil in the Payara reservoir offshore Guyana, increasing the total Payara discovery to approximately 500 million oil-equivalent barrels.

(Trinidad Guardian) Valencia residents were left in shock yesterday, after a senior citizen was found dead on her bed, naked and with her hands tied behind her back and her throat slit.

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo this evening expressed concern over the escape of 13 prisoners from a Lusignan facility today.

Three shotgun bandits early this morning entered the home of a Corentyne family and carted off an undisclosed amount of cash and gold jewellery, during which the family of three fled their home by jumping off a shed, the police said today in a release.

Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan  says that 13 prisoners who escaped from the Lusignan facility today did so by digging a tunnel into the backlands.

President David Granger and members of the National Security Committee (NSC) being briefed on the latest report of a prison break at the Lusignan Prison.

The authorities have released the names of the thirteen men who escaped from the Lusignan facility sometime today.

The prisons crisis besetting the government worsened today with news that prisoners have fled from the Lusignan compound where they were being held.

  WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior White House adviser Jared Kushner said today that he “did not collude” with Russia and had roughly four meetings with Russian officials during the 2016 campaign and presidential transition.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Defying pressure from abroad and at home, Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro said today that a controversial election would go ahead next weekend for a new congress his foes fear will institutionalize dictatorship.

The Police say they are investigating the murder of Devon Murray, 18, a sawmill operator of 1331 B Field, Sophia which occurred between 20:30h on the 21st and 05:30h on the 22nd.

Marlon Jeffrey who escaped from the GPHC while under police guard, was this morning recaptured at a house in Brutus Street, Agricola, the police said in a statement today.

(Trinidad Guardian) When the new school term opens in September, all sugary drinks including soft drinks will be banned from schools across the country.

Members of the Rastafarian Community setting up a craft display booth at the University of Guyana’s Turkeyen Campus for the National Rastafarian Conference which began on Friday.

The Bar Council of the Guyana Bar Association today issued a carefully worded riposte to a statement made by President David Granger following the ruling made by Chief Justice (ag) Roxane George on the GECOM matter taken to court by Marcel Gaskin.

(Trinidad Express) A Government worker who contended he was never allowed in 2011 to act in the position of diesel mechanic because he is of East Indian descent won $167,351 from the Ministry of Food Production (now Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Fisheries) in court yesterday.