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Caribbean Airlines says  that due to construction works scheduled at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri, from 13 October to 03 November 2017, the flights BW 483 (POS/GEO) and BW 484 (GEO/POS) have been affected on specific days.

(Trinidad Guardian) Three men who robbed a woodwork shop in Cunupia were all shot and killed by responding police officers last evening.

The American Burger King fast food chain will soon have a home here as the  Corum Group has been awarded the local franchise.

(Reuters) – Tropical Storm Ophelia is expected to strengthen into a hurricane by Wednesday, the U.S.

The Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) says that in areas where the laws may conflict, the bank takes the position that “its primary duty is to protect the interests of its customers” and maintain the confidentiality associated with its fiduciary relationship with them.

  JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Cricket South Africa’s (CSA) troubled T20 Global League has been postponed to 2018 in an embarrassing climb-down for the organisation which launched the tournament amid great fanfare in London in June.

(Trinidad Express) The wife of Rio Claro businessman Larry Garcia appeared in court yesterday charged with his murder.

Acting Police Commissioner David Ramnarine has confirmed that notorious prison escapee Mark Royden Durant aka Royden Williams and Smallie was intercepted and recaptured tonight at approximately 8 pm on the Weldaad, West Coast Berbice public road.

Dynamic International Airways today formally announced  that effective October 3, 2017 it has discontinued its regular service between New York and Guyana.

(Trinidad Guardian) Plans for birthday celebrations turned to funeral arrangements yesterday, after prison officer Richard Sandy was killed by an ex-convict he knew while liming at a bar in Gasparillo.

(Reuters) – Tropical Depression 17 has formed over the Eastern Atlantic and is expected to strengthen into a tropical storm later today, the U.S.

Police have arrested the suspected mastermind behind the murders of Constance Fraser, 89, and Phyllis Caesar, 77, who were killed last Tuesday in their South Road and Albert Street home.

Mark Arjune, 19, of Strathspey, East Coast Demerara was pronounced dead at the GPHC this morning after the speeding car he was in slammed into a utility pole.

Ferocious high tides on Saturday swept aside this section of the wave wall at Kitty.

(Trinidad Guardian) There are people in this country who are hoarding foreign currency in the hope that the Trinidad and Tobago dollar will be devalued and they will become enriched, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has said.

  NEW ORLEANS,  (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Nate rapidly weakened as it moved over Alabama today, although the fast-moving former hurricane rattled the doors of Biloxi’s casinos and left gambling floors and highways in the region flooded after making its landfall in Mississippi.

Work on the long-stalled East Bank Berbice Road is expected to pick up pace as contracts have been awarded for the purchase of 7,500 tonnes of asphalt concrete.

The People’s National Congress Reform  today hosted a special delegates’ congress in celebration of the Party’s 60th anniversary.

(Reuters) – India beat Australia by nine wickets under the Duckworth-Lewis method in the rain-truncated first Twenty20 international at Ranchi on Saturday.

VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – The Legionaries of Christ, a Catholic religious order which fell into disgrace after the discovery that its founder was a sexual abuser with a secret family, has been hit by fresh scandal with revelations that the head of its Rome seminary fathered two children.