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President David Granger today expressed condolences on the passing of Senior Counsel Bryn Pollard yesterday.

A Bushlot Village, Corentyne woman is presently battling for her life at the New Amsterdam  Public Hospital after she was chopped about her body last evening by her husband who later committed suicide.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Representative Adam Schiff, making his closing argument in the impeachment trial of U.S.

 (Trinidad Express) A court-appointed forensic psychologist from the Federal Bureau of Prisons in the United States has deemed Rondell Henry medically unfit to stand trial.

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) today urged customers to be more vigilant and seek verification of promotions as the company has seen an increase in fraud reports during 2019.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Democrats serving as prosecutors in U.S. President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial argued today he improperly impeded a probe by Congress into suspicions he coerced Ukraine’s government to dig up dirt on Joe Biden, a political rival.

HOUSTON,  (Reuters) – A massive explosion at a machine shop ripped through a Houston neighborhood early this morning, killing at least two people and damaging homes while sending out blast waves for miles.

ZOMBA, Malawi,  (Reuters) – Malawi’s Rastafarians are cheering a court ruling that will allow their children to go to school with dreadlocks.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Serena Williams suffered her earliest exit from the Australian Open in 14 years today, falling to China’s Wang Qiang in a stunning third round reversal that left her bid for a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam title in tatters once again.

Over 100 employees of the Russian-owned Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI) have been laid off effective from today and the company has informed employees that the downsizing of operations is a result of a “fuel shortage.”

The European Union today announced the deployment of its March 2 election observer mission here.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – China put on lockdown today two cities at the epicentre of a new coronavirus outbreak that has killed 17 people and infected nearly 600, as health authorities around the world scramble to prevent a global pandemic.

THE HAGUE,  (Reuters) – The International Court of Justice today ordered Myanmar to take urgent measures to protect its Rohingya population from atrocities, a ruling hailed as a “triumph of international justice” by the tiny African country that brought the case.

KINGSTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said today the United States is not seeking to divide Caribbean bloc Caricom after some governments voiced discontent that only certain countries had been invited to meetings with him in Jamaica.

DAVOS, Switzerland, (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud said today that an allegation the kingdom’s crown prince had been involved in a plot to hack the phone of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was “absurd”.

GECOM today ruled that the leader of the Liberty and Justice Party (LJP), Lenox Shuman be removed from the list of candidates submitted by his party as he was a dual citizen at the time.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate rejected a second Democratic bid today to obtain documents and evidence in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, an early sign the trial could proceed along lines favourable to Trump.

Cuban medical specialists have confirmed that President David Granger’s medical examination shows that he has improved to the satisfaction of his doctors and that he is in good health, according to a statement today from the Ministry of the Presidency.

ABUJA,  (Reuters) – Nigeria’s financial crimes watchdog charged a former attorney general suspected of taking bribes to facilitate a $1.3 billion oil block sale, the agency said today, in the latest twist in one of the industry’s biggest alleged corruption scandals.

 (Trinidad Guardian) The T&T Gov­ern­ment has backed Bar­ba­dos’ po­si­tion not to send a rep­re­sen­ta­tive to to­day’s meet­ing be­ing held by US Sec­re­tary of State Mike Pom­peo with sev­er­al Caribbean lead­ers in Ja­maica.