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WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States imposed sanctions on Tuesday on three people and 16 groups it says helped Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his government profit from food aid in the economically struggling country, the Treasury Department said.

 (Reuters) – U.S. gasoline prices jumped on Tuesday after crude oil futures spiked nearly 15% following weekend attacks on Saudi Arabian oil facilities, according to a report by the AAA motor club.

(Trinidad Guardian) While Trinidad and To­ba­go re­cent­ly made head­way in the US on Venezuela, Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley is most up­set with the British Broad­cast­ing Cor­po­ra­tion’s (BBC’s) re­cent doc­u­men­tary on T&T’s Venezue­lan amnesty reg­is­tra­tion ex­er­cise – and he’s writ­ing to the British Gov­ern­ment on it.

President David Granger, this afternoon, received a courtesy call from representatives of the Carter Center at State House and assured them that he will act decisively on receiving advice from the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) as to its readiness to conduct General and Regional Elections.

 (Reuters) – Humberto, which gained hurricane strength late Sunday, is expected to drop another 2 inches of rain on the storm-ravaged northwestern Bahamas as it crawls away from the U.S.

MADRID,  (Reuters) – Spain’s High Court ruled today that the government should refuse a request from the United States to extradite Venezuela’s former military intelligence chief.

ExxonMobil today said it made an oil discovery on the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana at the Tripletail-1 well in the Turbot area.

Director, Department of Energy, Dr. Mark Bynoe, today, announced that UK-based Tullow Oil plc’s (Tullow) Joe-1 exploration well has discovered a new Upper Tertiary oil play in the Guyana basin.

NASSAU,  (Reuters) – As rescuers search for bodies amid mountains of debris and the stench of death on the Bahamas island of Abaco, life on most of the archipelago’s 700 isles is little changed.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The oil market will rally by $5-10 per barrel when it opens on Monday and may spike to as high as $100 per barrel if Saudi Arabia fails to quickly resume oil supply lost after attacks over the weekend, traders and analysts said.

(Trinidad Guardian) The rel­a­tives of To­ba­go gy­ro ven­dor Elias Dab­bourah, 30, are de­mand­ing jus­tice fol­low­ing his death on Sat­ur­day.

(Barbados Nation) The Ministry of Health and Wellness has warned Barbadians about the dangers of vaping, particularly on the heels of reports of an outbreak of severe respiratory illnesses associated with the practice in the United States.

NASSAU,  (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Humberto lashed already devastated parts of the Bahamas with heavy rain and strong winds before crawling northwest on Saturday, and forecasters said it was likely to become a hurricane before the end of the weekend.

RIYADH/DUBAI/LONDON,  (Reuters) – Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group on Saturday attacked two plants at the heart of Saudi Arabia’s oil industry, including the world’s biggest petroleum processing facility, in a strike that three sources said had disrupted output and exports.

(Trinidad Express) A La Horquetta man, charged with the murder of his neighbour, shopkeeper Christopher Khanhai.

Facial recognition cameras will only be deployed at the official ports of entry and not on the streets, according to a release today from the Ministry of Public Telecommunications which also said that the safe city system will not violate anyone’s fundamental human rights.

Under pressure over a series of gaffes, US 2020 presidential front-runner Joe Biden confused Guyana for the African nation of Ghana while speaking at a campaign event, according to a report in the Washington Examiner.

Leader of the Liberty and Justice Party (LJP) Lenox Shuman yesterday told  a visiting team from the Carter Center that general elections can be held before the end of the year.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Those expecting Joe Biden’s presidential candidacy to flame out any day now will have to keep waiting.

NASSAU,  (Reuters) – Piles of debris, decaying human and animal corpses and fetid water on storm-hammered Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas are posing a new risk for those who survived Hurricane Dorian’s wrath: Disease.