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NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – NBC News fired popular “Today” show host Matt Lauer after receiving what it called a detailed complaint from a colleague about inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace, the network said on Wednesday.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan leftist President Nicolas Maduro this evening held a ceremony to swear in a military officer as the new head of state oil company PDVSA in the presence of the military’s top brass and cheering red-shirted oil workers.

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso,  (Reuters) – President Emmanuel Macron today sought to make a clean break from his predecessors saying that he came from a generation that would not tell Africans what to do and would focus his efforts on bridging ties between Africa and Europe.

Finance Minister Winston Jordan today proposed an amnesty for delinquent taxpayers in today’s 2018 budget.

Following protests against the imposition of Value-added Tax on private tuition in the 2017 budget, Finance Minister Winston Jordan today announced that the tax will be removed effective from the first day next year.

Finance Minister Winston Jordan today announced a halving of the tributor’s tax of 20% by half.

Finance Minister Winston Jordan today announced that private sector employees will enjoy a tax-free vacation allowance.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince Harry and his U.S. actress girlfriend Meghan Markle announced today they were engaged and would get married in the spring of next year.

A forty-year-old Venezuelan national and a forty-year-old Guyanese national are in police custody following the discovery of a submersible vessel yesterday in a creek at Annbisi River, Port Kaituma, North West District as a result of information received.

Police are investigating a fatal incident which occurred about 3:10 this morning at Manari Trail, Lethem involving motor pickup #PKK 6060 owned and driven by Anthony Pillew, 32, of Bachelor Adventure, ECD and occupant Brandis Kennedy, 87, a Canadian citizen who died.

A five-year-old and her fifty-two-year-old grandmother early this morning had to seek medical attention at the Skeldon  Hospital where they were treated and sent away for gunshot injuries.

(Trinidad Express) Former housing minister Dr Roodal Moonilal said yesterday he never collected an original cheque from the Estate Management Business Development Company (EMBD) for delivery to a contractor.

BRISBANE,  (Reuters) – A pulsating Ashes opener that had promised a grandstand finish will more than likely end early with a handsome win to Australia after Steve Smith’s side pushed within 56 runs of victory at the close of day four on Sunday.

DAKAR, (Reuters) – Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara called on the International Criminal Court on Saturday to indict criminals who are selling black African migrants in Libyan slave markets.

Regional Executive Officer of Region Five, Ovid Morrison has called on a Bagotville, West Bank Demerara contractor to remove rejected furniture from the region’s compound at Fort Wellington, West Coast Berbice.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley is condemning the lawlessness that took place in two Port-of-Spain communities on Thursday, and is warning criminals his Government will not tolerate anarchy.

Eleven registered nurses of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) are now qualified as the Post-Anaesthetic Care (PACU) nurses following their graduation from a training programme.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – “I know Aussies are not known for leaving the party at the right time but (after) 17 years, it’s time to leave the party,” Hugh Jackman quipped as he discussed his last time playing X-Men superhero Wolverine in this year’s gritty action hit “Logan.”

Police yesterday arrested three male suspects who on  Wednesday allegedly robbed a pastor a sum of cash, on Church Street, Georgetown, shortly after he left a city bank.

Under pressure from within and without the party over what has been seen as capitulation to APNU on key issues, the Alliance For Change today said in a statement that it was disturbed that it could not be represented on the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM).