Staff Editor

Pres­i­dent Paula-Mae Weekes has de­clared the dan­ger­ous drugs amend­ment act law and it comes in­to ef­fect on Mon­day.

CUTTACK, India,  CMC – West Indies face India in Sunday’s decisive third One-Day International knowing victory will see them end a near two-decade wait for a series victory on the subcontinent.

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – More than 1,500 protesters have been arrested across India in the past 10 days, officials said, as police try to quell sometimes violent demonstrations against a citizenship law that critics say undermines the country’s secular constitution.

(Trinidad Express) The fire ignited by a fallen transformer, not the collision injuries, led to the death of Michael Bradshaw, Djenne Hills-Dyer, two of the four victims of a fiery crash on Thursday.

ExxonMobil today announced that oil production has started from the Liza field offshore Guyana ahead of schedule and less than five years after the first find of hydrocarbons, which is well ahead of the industry average for deepwater developments.

Two brothers serving in the Guyana Police Force (GPF) were granted their release this morning after they were jointly charged with abducting and wounding 17-year-old Ak shay Budhiram, who was allegedly beaten and burnt at the brothers’ La Parfaite Harmonie home.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – French telecoms group Orange and its former CEO Didier Lombard were guilty of “moral harassment” that prompted a spate of suicides during a restructuring at the company in the late 2000s, a Paris court ruled today.

(Trinidad Guardian) Rel­a­tives of bank em­ploy­ee, Ro­ma La Mothe, 28, who was found dead in a drain along De­mer­ara Road in Ari­ma, are dis­put­ing ru­mours that a close rel­a­tive had any­thing to do with her demise.

(Trinidad Guardian) One Com­mu­ni­ty Emer­gency Re­sponse Team (CERT) em­ploy­ee, who moon­light­ed as a se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer with MI4 Se­cu­ri­ty Ser­vices, was shot dead ear­ly this morn­ing at Pen­nysavers Su­per­mar­ket, Carn­bee, To­ba­go.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Democrats today pressed the Republican-controlled Senate to call Donald Trump’s top lieutenants to testify in its trial of the impeached president, as they sought to focus attention on the trial ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

 (Reuters) – The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) removed the fictional country of Wakanda from an online list of nations that have free trade agreements with the United States on Thursday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Since the ABM Task Force was rein­tro­duced by the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) in Sep­tem­ber, 19 per­sons have ap­peared be­fore the courts, in­clud­ing 18 non-na­tion­als.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump today became the third U.S. president to be impeached as the House of Representatives formally charged him with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress in a historic step that will inflame partisan tensions across a deeply divided America.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – India openers Rohit Sharma and both smashed hundreds and combined in a stand of 227 to set up a comfortable 107-run win against West Indies in the second one-day international today, levelling the three-match series at 1-1.

At least five persons are believed to have died following a fatal accident at Mahaicony around midday today.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazil federal prosecutors today said shipping companies Maersk , Tide Maritime and Ferchem were targets in the latest phase of a wide-ranging corruption probe for alleged graft involving shipping contracts with state-run oil firm Petrobras.

The Guyana Elections Commission  (GECOM) today decided by a majority vote to allow a five-day field verification of the supposedly new registrants recorded during the truncated and controversial House to House (HtH) exercise.

Two police constables, who are brothers are currently under close arrest after they allegedly beat and burnt a 17-year-old, who they accused of breaking into their Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara (WBD) home last week.

The police are investigating the murder of a 28-year-old athletics coach whose lifeless body was discovered early this morning with multiple stab wounds at D’Urban Park.

ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – A Pakistani court sentenced today former military ruler Pervez Musharraf to death on charges of high treason and subverting the constitution, government officials said.