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GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Guatemala’s Congress yesterday approved a “national emergency” decree to curb penalties for illegal election financing after the country’s president was linked to suspected irregularities during his 2015 election campaign.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the U.N.

The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) Segregated Portfolio Company (SPC) will make payments totaling US$29.6 million to six Caribbean countries impacted by Hurricane Irma under their Tropical Cyclone (TC) insurance policies.

The Office of Climate Change (OCC) on Tuesday opened a three-day workshop at the Herdmanston Lodge, which will focus on building the capacity of community leaders and private and public sector stakeholders to tap  the international Green Climate Fund (GCF) A release from the Ministry of the Presidency on Tuesday noted that the Green Climate Fund was set up in 2010 at the 16th Conference of Parties in Cancun, Mexico and is now the world’s largest dedicated climate fund.

PORT LOUIS, (Reuters) – The attorney general of the island nation of Mauritius stepped down yesterday after allegations he had helped launder gambling money.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s federal police yesterday arrested the chief executive of JBS SA, the world’s No.

A West Coast Berbice cash crop farmer is contemplating his next move after a fire of unknown origin destroyed his two-storey wooden house last Friday evening.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said yesterday that taxes on rich Americans might rise, as he pursues a tax code overhaul and reaches out to both Democrats and Republicans in a push to win support for a plan still far from complete.

The International Labour Organization (ILO) is hosting a capacity-building workshop in Guyana which began yesterday and will go up to tomorrow.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The University of West Indies, Mona (UWI) will set up and operate a 7 megawatt liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility, which is projected to shave off up to $350 million annually from the campus’ energy costs.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Trump administration yesterday told U.S. government agencies to remove Kaspersky Lab products from their networks, saying it was concerned the Moscow-based cyber security firm was vulnerable to Kremlin influence and that using its anti-virus software could jeopardize national security.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Pete Domenici, a former minor league baseball pitcher who became a major league power player in the U.S.

Maverick De Abreu, a Robb Street resident was today arraigned at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on a charge of wounding Trinidadian soca singer, Rodney LeBlanc, well knowns as, Benjai.

  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico,  (Reuters) – Despite economic problems and its own damage from Hurricane Irma, Puerto Rico is taking thousands of refugees from the U.S.

(Trinidad Guardian) An Arima community last night paid their respects to a well loved resident who lost her life trying to save her grandson from a massive wave during the passage of Hurricane Irma in St Maarten last week.

The Christianburg/Wismar Multilateral School and the Mackenzie Market were among the structures that were damaged after a freak storm hit Linden yesterday afternoon.

Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum has proceeded on accumulated leave from yesterday and Senior Superintendent of Police Ravindradat Budhram will be acting in his post until December.

President David Granger’s Public Information and Press Services Officer Lloyda Nicholas-Garrett was yesterday accused by Opposition Member of Parliament Nigel Dharamlall of using a racially derogatory term to describe staff at the Ministry of the Presidency.

The Ministry of Public Telecommunications yesterday commissioned its first public Information and Communications Technology (ICT) hub for the city, at Agricola, Greater Georgetown, and residents were urged to use the service to improve themselves.

The absence of Regional Executive Officer (REO)  Rupert Hopkinson at the statutory meeting of the Regional Democratic Council (RDC) of Region Two yesterday, led to a walkout by Councillors of the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C).