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This year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) examinations have been delayed by three weeks and are now scheduled to be administered from May 23rd.

Lolita Rebeiro, the country’s Chief Medex, lost her battle to cancer on Tuesday evening.

Damian Bissoon, a murder accused who turned himself over to the police on Monday after almost four years on the run, was yesterday remanded to prison.

A cyclist from Foulis, on the East Coast of Demerara (ECD), succumbed on Tuesday morning after he collided with a car along the Enmore access road, ECD.

WARSAW/SOFIA/KYIV,  (Reuters) – European leaders denounced Russia’s attempt to “blackmail” Ukraine’s allies over gas supplies, as Western sanctions batter the Russian economy already struggling with its worst crisis since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union.

Policy Forum Guyana (PFG), a local NGO, has expressed disquiet with two of the appointees to the Board of Directors of the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) and is questioning the practicality of the decision.

(Reuters) – A court in military-ruled Myanmar sentenced deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi to five years in jail yesterday after finding her guilty in the first of 11 corruption cases she faces, a source with knowledge of the proceedings said.

ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif yesterday appointed Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, son of assassinated former premier Benazir Bhutto, as foreign minister, giving his coalition ally a senior role in repairing frayed ties with the United States and other Western countries.

UNESCO, CARICOM  and The University of the West Indies (UWI) have launched the ‘Creative Caribbean – An Ecosystem of “Play” for Growth and Development’ project in the amount of Euros 3 million.

Owing to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic over the last two years, an estimated 2.8 million people, or nearly 40% of the population in the English-speaking Caribbean is food insecure—1 million more than in April 2020—and the situation is further compounded by rising food prices and the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and his base are energized and spoiling for a new fight, political analysts say, after he defied the Supreme Court by pardoning an ally who was sentenced to jail for threatening its judges.

The substance found in the vehicle in which the lifeless bodies of Richie Hansraj and Justin Teixeira were discovered was yesterday sent overseas for testing, sources confirmed.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Peruvian police said yesterday they had evicted an indigenous community that had established a camp inside a huge open pit owned by MMG’s Las Bambas copper mine that had forced the Chinese-owned company to halt operations.

Some 800 residents in the remote community of Monkey Mountain, Potaro–Siparuni (Region Eight) can now boast of improved water supply, the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) said on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government are likely to be excluded from the U.S.-hosted

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The northern English city of York yesterday stripped Britain’s Prince Andrew, who is the Duke of York, of the freedom of the city.

The Ministry of Health yesterday reported a total of 8 new COVID-19 cases.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – A Colombian judge yesterday dismissed a request by the attorney general’s office to shelve a witness-tampering investigation against divisive former President Alvaro Uribe.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – The Cuban central bank issued regulations yesterday for virtual asset service providers, after giving a nod last year to the personal use of cryptocurrencies, a move some experts said could help the Communist-run Caribbean island skirt stiff U.S.

Investigators are probing a break and enter and larceny committed at the D’Urban Backlands home of former President, David Granger during which a number of electronic items were stolen.