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President David Granger this morning told the Annual Police Officers’ Conference 2020 that there has been significant recapitalising of the force but that its current personnel strength is inadequate.

 (Reuters) – Three days after Los Angeles basketball great Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daugther and seven others perished in a helicopter crash, his wife, Vanessa, broke her silence with an Instagram message saying she was “completely devastated” by their loss.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – Hundreds of foreign evacuees from the Chinese city of Wuhan entered quarantine on Thursday as deaths from a fast-spreading virus rose to 170 and markets shuddered at the impact of an inevitable big hit to the world’s No.

(Trinidad Guardian) De­spite a 45 per cent in­crease in the last two years, the Child Pro­tec­tion Unit (CPU) of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has made 29 ar­rests and laid 44 charges for this year so far.

The police are seeking the public’s assistance in locating a Timehri, East Bank Demerara resident in connection with fraudulent conversion committed on another more than three years ago.

Fire broke out at the Psychiatric Ward at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) minutes after nine this morning.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Facing destitution when her marriage broke down, 72-year-old Agnes Sithole went to court to challenge a sexist law – and won not only a share of her husband’s property but a legal victory that will protect some 400,000 other black South African women.

 (Trinidad Express) School teacher Ashram Boodram would be laid to rest on Thursday, as investigators appeal for help in finding the gunman who ended his life.

(Trinidad Guardian) The In­ter­na­tion­al Women’s Re­source Net­work (IR­WN) says that if re­ports of ha­rass­ment were made against Roger Singh, he should have been ar­rest­ed be­fore he was able to mur­der his es­tranged wife, Naiee Singh on Mon­day.

 (Reuters) – A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck the western Caribbean today, triggering evacuations as buildings shook across the Cayman Islands, in Jamaica, and in downtown Miami, but with no initial reports of significant damage.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – President Xi Jinping said today that China was sure of defeating a “devil” coronavirus that has killed 106 people, but international alarm was rising as the outbreak spread across the world.

 (Trinidad Guardian) Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has giv­en the as­sur­ance that his Gov­ern­ment will do every­thing pos­si­ble to pro­tect T&T’s cit­i­zens from the dead­ly Coro­n­avirus.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein’s New York rape trial is expected to continue today, following explosive testimony from two women who have accused him of sexual assault.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s fellow Republicans in the U.S.

ExxonMobil today said it has increased its estimated recoverable resource base in Guyana to more than 8 billion oil-equivalent barrels and made a further oil find northeast of the producing Liza field at the Uaru exploration well, the 16th discovery on the Stabroek Block.

LISBON,  (Reuters) – A Portuguese hacker has taken responsibility for disclosing hundreds of thousands of files revealing how billionaire Isabel dos Santos, daughter of Angola’s former president, built her vast business empire, his lawyers said today.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Teen sensation Billie Eilish swept the Grammy Awards yesterday, winning all four top prizes – album, song, record of the year and best new artist – in a rare feat at the music industry’s highest honors.

CALABASAS, Calif., (Reuters) – Kobe Bryant, one of the NBA’s all-time greats whose international stardom transcended basketball, was killed today in a helicopter crash near Los Angeles along with his 13-year-old daughter and seven others on board, officials said.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said today that the Democratic lawmaker leading the impeachment case against him, Representative Adam Schiff, has “not paid the price, yet” for his actions, a statement Schiff said he viewed as a threat.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Just before his lawyers stepped into the U.S.