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Ninety ballot boxes from the March 2nd general elections were recounted today at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre, according to GECOM Commissioner, Sase Gunraj.

Eleven new COVID-19 cases have been recorded taking the total up to 150.

An accident on the Rupert Craig Highway this morning around 10 involving a Route 44 minibus and a Rav-4 has left a 20-year-old woman dead and two others injured.

MARACAIBO, Venezuela,  (Reuters) – Venezuelans struggling to cope with chronic fuel shortages are jury-rigging vehicles to run on cooking gas cylinders, a practice industrial safety experts describe as dangerous and which has led to at least one explosion.

MONTEVIDEO,  (Reuters) – Leonardo Silveira, a bookstore owner in Montevideo, is hopeful about the future as Uruguay begins a gradual reopening.

Chief Medical Officer Dr Shamdeo Persaud today lamented the “almost runaway” situation with COVID-19 here and noted by contrast the declining number of cases in sister CARICOM countries.

Ninety-two ballot boxes from the March 2nd general elections were recounted today, according to GECOM Commissioner, Sase Gunraj.

 (Reuters) – U.S. deaths from the novel coronavirus topped 100,000 today even as the daily average death toll declines, businesses reopen and Americans emerge from lockdowns across the country.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – The International Cricket Council has told Reuters it is continuing preparations for the Twenty20 World Cup to be held in Australia this year as planned and denied reports on Wednesday that a decision had been taken to postpone the event.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – The Americas will bear the brunt of an estimated 305 million job losses that the COVID-19 pandemic will cause worldwide between April and June, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said today.

LUCKNOW, India,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A 15-year-old girl who won praise for carrying her injured father hundreds of miles across India by bike said today she never thought of giving up after promising her mother she would get him home safely.

(Trinidad Express) A vehicle rented by one of the four murder victims executed in New Grant was recovered by police on Tuesday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The repatriation of T&T nationals aboard Royal Caribbean International’s (RCI) Vision of the Seas hit a possible snag yesterday after 29 St Vincent and the Grenadines crew members tested positive for COVID-19 on arrival to their home country.

(Trinidad Express) A 24-year-old man is expected to appear before a Chaguanas Magistrate today charged with double murder.

Eighty-four ballot boxes were recounted today according to GECOM Commissioner Sase Gunraj.

Former Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GEA) Khurshid Sattaur passed away today having battled illness over the past year.

The Rupununi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) today called on the National COVID-19 Task Force (NCTF) to ensure that the Guyana Brazil border remains closed at least for the next three  months or until such time as it is safe to reopen to regular traffic.

CARICOM today expressed condolences on the passing of Guyanese international civil servant Miles Stoby.

In an independence day message to Guyana, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo yesterday called on the Guyana Government to respect the wishes of voters as expressed on March 2nd 2020.

(Reuters) – LATAM Airlines Group SA filed for U.S. bankruptcy protection today, becoming the largest carrier to seek an emergency reorganization amid the coronavirus crisis.