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(Ministry of the Presidency) President David Granger, today, said that the Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the alleged assassination plot against him has exposed serious deficiencies and weaknesses in the Guyana Police Force (GPF), which will have to be corrected.

  (Reuters) – Hurricane Irma threatens to knock out power to more than 4.1 million homes and businesses served by Florida Power & Light (FPL), affecting around nine million people based on the current storm track, the utility’s chief executive said on Friday.

  WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said today Hurricane Irma will devastate part of the United States and that U.S.

At least six die in huge  JUCHITAN, Mexico, (Reuters) – At least 34 people were killed when the most powerful earthquake to hit Mexico in decades tore through buildings, forced mass evacuations and triggered alerts as far away as Southeast Asia.

  President David Granger (second from right) and Foreign Affairs Minister, Carl Greenidge (right) chatting with members of the Brazilian Armed Forces at a reception last evening commemorating the 195th independence anniversary of Brazil.

(ESPN) Trinbago Knight Riders rode on Colin Munro‘s charmed innings to march into the final of CPL 2017, beating Guyana Amazon Warriors by six wickets on Thursday night at the Brian Lara Stadium.

  NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court today rejected the Trump administration’s effort to temporarily bar most refugees from entering the country, ruling that those who have relationships with a resettlement agency should be exempt from an executive order banning refugees.

(Trinidad Express) Caribbean Airlines advises that due to Hurricane Irma, the following flights for September 10th are cancelled.

(Reuters) – Jose strengthened today into a dangerous Category 3 hurricane on the five-step Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale, the U.S.

  LONDON,  (Reuters) – West Indies staged a spirited fightback against England after being skittled for 123 as batsmen suffered a torrid opening day of the series-deciding third test at Lord’s today.

The Dutch/French island of St Maarten/St Martin where hundreds of Guyanese live and work has been devastated by Hurricane Irma’s passing as a Category Five event in the Caribbean.

  BEIJING/VLADIVOSTOK, Russia,  (Reuters) – China said today it agreed the United Nations should take more action against North Korea after its latest nuclear test, while pushing for more dialogue to resolve the crisis on the Korean peninsula.

(Trinidad Guardian) More than 2,000 illegal firearms, mostly pistols and revolvers and approximately 37,000 rounds of assorted ammunition have been recovered by the police in the past 36 months.

The Ministry of Natural Resource began consultations on the draft local content policy framework for the oil and gas sector yesterday.

At around 5 pm today, a koker in the vicinity of Tarla Dam, Met-en-Meerzorg, West Coast Demerara broke away causing water from the sea to flow unhindered southwards, the police said.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Hurricane Irma left a trail of “absolute devastation” as it tore across the tiny Caribbean island of Barbuda today with 185-mile-per-hour (295-kph) winds, destroying houses, snapping trees and killing at least one person Gaston Browne, the prime minister of the two-island nation of Antigua and Barbuda, described the island as “barely habitable” after the powerful Category 5 storm struck early today.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – France’s overseas territories minister said today that at least two people were killed on two of its Caribbean territories, St.

  LONDON,  (Reuters) – Test match cricket faces a bleak future with the sport’s administrators failing to control the ‘runaway weed’ of the hugely popular Twenty20 format, former West Indies pace bowler Michael Holding said.

Ewin Trotman, 59 years of New Jersey Street, Blueberry Hill, Linden, a Retired Detective Sergeant and currently a Rural Constable on full-time duty, attached to the Criminal Investigation Department of the Wismar Police Station, appeared before Senior Magistrate.

(Trinidad Guardian) Seventy-six-year-old Ramdevi Singh was stabbed once in the back of the neck, a wound which paralysed her before her killer/s used her pajama pants to strangle the remaining life out of her.