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GENEVA,  (Reuters) – Some gold, diamond and bauxite mines in the Venezuelan Amazon are largely controlled by criminal gangs who exploit, beat and even kill workers, a United Nations investigation has found.

BRISTOL, England,  (Reuters) – A sculpture of a Black protester with her fist raised in the air has been erected in a stealthy night-time operation in place of a 17th Century English slave trader whose statue was toppled by anti-racism demonstrators in the port city of Bristol.

A key meeting of GECOM today on the results of the March 2nd general elections was deferred after a new legal action was filed.

The Ministry of the Presidency (MoTP) today rejected  the “wicked and highly outrageous statement issued to the media by Mr.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered Huawei equipment to be purged completely from Britain’s 5G network by 2027, risking the ire of China by signalling that the world’s biggest telecoms equipment maker is no longer welcome in the West.

A fire of unknown origin this morning gutted the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) office at Wismar, Linden.

Paramaribo,  (Reuters) – Suriname’s National Assembly voted in former justice minister Chan Santokhi as its new president today, ending the rule of former strongman Desi Bouterse, who had dominated the country’s politics in recent decades.

GECOM Chair Claudette Singh today instructed CEO Keith Lowenfield to submit the results of the recount of the March 2nd elections by 2 pm tomorrow and she stated that the existing declarations for the 10 districts will be set aside, according to commissioners who attended the Commission’s meeting.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – Fans across India prayed today for Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan and others members of his movie star family who have fallen sick with the coronavirus as the one-day rise in infections hit a new record without any sign of a peak.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain’s new immigration system will provide faster and cheaper visas for skilled health and social care workers, the government announced today, setting out further details of the points-based system that will come into effect in January.

 (Reuters) – Pfizer Inc and partner BioNTech SE said today two of their experimental coronavirus vaccines received ‘fast track’ designation from the U.S.

(Barbados Nation) They came to work, relax, visit family and one person even came to grieve.

Commonwealth Secretary General Patricia Scotland today strongly urged GECOM to “follow the directions given by the CCJ and decisively conclude the 2 March 2020 elections based on the results of the national recount.”

A fire which started following discontent among prisoners over the seizure of a quantity of marijuana this afternoon destroyed the old wooden Lusignan Prison facility and has left about 280-300 inmates dislocated, de facto Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan said today.

SOUTHAMPTON, England, (Reuters) – West Indies beat England by four wickets on the final day of the first international test since the coronavirus break today, taking a 1-0 lead at the Ageas Bowl in a three-test series thanks to a 95-run knock by Jermaine Blackwood.

Adverting to reports that Latin America and the Caribbean face their worst recession in a century, the UN Resident Coordinator here, Mikiko Tanaka has pointed out that the elections process is still to be concluded here.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russian mining giant Norilsk Nickel said today that around 45 tonnes of aviation fuel had leaked from its pipeline in the Arctic.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – Three generations of Bollywood’s Bachchan family were hit by the coronavirus as former Miss World Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and her daughter today joined her father-in-law Amitabh and husband Abhishek in testing positive for the virus that causes COVID-19.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has accused the United National Congress (UNC) of buying votes for $300 as part of their attempt to ensure success in the August 10 general election.

(Trinidad Guardian) With energy prices remaining low, the Government has no choice but to rely on an efficient tax system to generate funds, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said on July 4.