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The PPP this afternoon flayed APNU+AFC for opposing live streaming and cellphones at the long awaited recount of votes from the March 2nd general elections.

Commentator Kit Nascimento today condemned a request by APNU+AFC to have cell phones and cameras banned from the recount of votes from March 2 general elections.

The sugar union GAWU today mourned the passing of former PPP/C Minister of Home Affairs Feroze Mohamed.

Digicel today said that more than 2,000 medical professionals engaged on the COVID-19 frontlines have received free 4G data bundles for three months.

(Trinidad Guardian) In a special report from the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) released on Wednesday, Trinidad and Tobago has returned to a watch list of countries for concerns of intellectual property violations due to “a lack of enforcement actions.”

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Conservative groups advising the White House have issued an array of coronavirus economic reopening plans with a common theme – Americans should go back to work immediately to halt the economic and societal damage from prolonged lockdowns.

De facto Minister of Public Health Volda Lawrence today lamented the cavalier approach to COVID-19 citing the 110% increase in cases in less than a month despite various measures to contain the spread of the virus.

CARICOM Chair, Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Mottley today called on all concerned to ensure a transparent recount process without further delay in order to provide legitimacy to any government which would be sworn in as a result of the March 2nd general elections.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden denied today that he sexually assaulted a former U.S.

HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil Corp today posted its first quarterly loss in three decades on plunging oil demand and collapsing prices, reporting a $610 million quarterly deficit after a nearly $3 billion inventory writedown.

(Trinidad Express) Digicel has asked all employees, including managers, to take a temporary salary reduction due to the financial losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Government of Guyana has extended the emergency measures related to COVID-19 for one month.

De facto Minister of Public Health,  Volda Lawrence, today confirmed the ninth death in Guyana as a result of COVID-19.

An explosion this morning at the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Camp Stephenson Base, Timehri has left three soldiers dead and two injured.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – The World Health Organization is worried by the community spread of the new coronavirus in a significant number of West African countries, the regional head of the organization said today.

Ranks of the Guyana Police Force yesterday at about 8.30 pm  recaptured one of the recent Lusignan Prison escapees in the cane fields aback of  Beterverwagting Sideline Dam, ECD.,

MUMBAI (Reuters) – Indian actor Rishi Kapoor, who starred in celebrated movies such as “Bobby” and “Mera Naam Joker” made by the Bollywood film industry, died on Thursday after a two-year battle with leukemia, his family said.

De facto Minister of Public Health Volda Lawrence this afternoon said that the number of persons positive for COVID-19 has risen to 78 from yesterday’s 75.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) has written the National Coronavirus Task Force (NCTF) calling for urgent relief measures in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic including income tax relief for employees in vulnerable sectors and the removal of VAT on all food items.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – Some 1.6 billion workers in the informal economy, representing nearly half of the global labour force, are in immediate danger of losing their livelihoods due to the coronavirus pandemic, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said today.