Staff Editor

In the wake of the two prison uprisings that led to the murder of a prison warder, the demolishing of the Camp Street jail and the escape of dangerous inmates, the opposition PPP/C has lodged a motion with parliament that calls on the government to accept collective responsibility and to make full disclosures on all matters.

ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – Pakistan’s Supreme Court disqualified Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from office today over undeclared assets, plunging the nuclear-armed South Asian nation into political turmoil after a period of relative stability.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Industrial Court has ordered that international courier firm DHL pay TT$2.3 million in compensation for the wrongful dismissal of its former district manger for the English-speaking Caribbean.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Republicans failed early on Friday to overturn the healthcare law known as Obamacare, in a stinging blow to President Donald Trump that may end the Republican Party’s seven-year quest to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

CARACAS/BARINAS, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Clashes between Venezuelan security forces and demonstrators have killed five people during the latest opposition-led strike to protest against an election on Sunday critics say will mark the end of democracy in the OPEC nation.

The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority today announced that in keeping with new rules, screening of passengers travelling to the US will be intensified.

(Trinidad Guardian) Relatives of Roumelda ‘Twinkle” King said yesterday she suffered a life of abuse at the hands of the man who took her life.

Kendall Skeete, one of the 13 prisoners who tunneled out of a Lusignan pasture on Monday, was recaptured today.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Trump administration imposed sanctions on 13 senior officials of Venezuela’s government, military and state oil company PDVSA today, U.S.

(Trinidad Guardian) An employee from the Port-of-Spain General Hospital (PoSGH) and his father, a retiree who also worked at the hospital, were both ambushed and killed by gunmen in Laventille yesterday, while responding to a call of an accident along Picton Road involving one of their vehicles.

A Roraima Airlines pilot died this afternoon after his plane crashed near Eteringbang in Region Seven.

The police today released a flier for the 10 men still wanted after the two prison breaks

ExxonMobil Corporation today announced it has discovered additional oil in the Payara reservoir offshore Guyana, increasing the total Payara discovery to approximately 500 million oil-equivalent barrels.

(Trinidad Guardian) Valencia residents were left in shock yesterday, after a senior citizen was found dead on her bed, naked and with her hands tied behind her back and her throat slit.

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo this evening expressed concern over the escape of 13 prisoners from a Lusignan facility today.

Three shotgun bandits early this morning entered the home of a Corentyne family and carted off an undisclosed amount of cash and gold jewellery, during which the family of three fled their home by jumping off a shed, the police said today in a release.

Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan  says that 13 prisoners who escaped from the Lusignan facility today did so by digging a tunnel into the backlands.

President David Granger and members of the National Security Committee (NSC) being briefed on the latest report of a prison break at the Lusignan Prison.

The authorities have released the names of the thirteen men who escaped from the Lusignan facility sometime today.

The prisons crisis besetting the government worsened today with news that prisoners have fled from the Lusignan compound where they were being held.