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The Hydrometeorological Service this afternoon issued a warning about impending heavy rainfaill.

(Trinidad Guardian) Law enforcement officers yesterday raised concerns about the security in place at this country’s ports of entry, after they discovered three high-powered assault rifles – AK47s – in a barrel containing loose dog food at the El Socorro Bond area of Piarco Air Services.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Discarded two-time Twenty20 World Cup-winning captain, Darren Sammy, has blamed West Indies’ recent travails in the one-day format on the controversial eligibility rule which has robbed the Caribbean side of its senior players.

An agent from the Drug Enforcement Unit (DEU) of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) was among four persons who were denied bail at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court yesterday on charges of trafficking in 84.9 kilos of cocaine.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump will follow through on a campaign pledge to pull the United States out of a global pact to fight climate change, a source briefed on the decision told Reuters, a move that should rally his support base at home while deepening a rift with U.S.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Twenty20 World Cup star, Johnson Charles, stroked a half-century but was the only bright spark as Afghanistan opened their limited overs tour of the Caribbean with a 12-run victory over the WICB President’s XI here Tuesday night.

KABUL, (Reuters) – A powerful bomb hidden in a sewage tanker exploded in the morning rush hour in the centre of the Afghan capital on Wednesday, police said, killing at least 80 people, wounding hundreds and damaging embassy buildings.

A Queens, New York woman tried to block federal immigration officers from arresting her Guyanese husband yesterday morning, prompting a standoff when neighbours  started ripping into President  Donald Trump, law-enforcement sources said, according to a report in today’s New York Post.

Five persons, including well-known motorbike racer Stephen Vieira and race car driver Nazim Gafoor, will today be charged over the almost 85 kilos of cocaine that were unearthed in dressed lumber at Zeelugt, East Bank Essequibo, almost three weeks ago.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – “Grease” actress and singer Olivia Newton-John said on Tuesday that her breast cancer has returned and spread to her lower back.

The police say that a thirty-six year old farmer of Champagne, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara was yesterday afternoon arrested and placed in custody for allegedly attempting to bribe two ranks stationed at the Mahaicony Police Station with $150,000 to release his brother Bishomit Rajkumar who is in custody awaiting to be escorted to the Georgetown Prison to commence a two-year sentence for Unlawful Wounding committed on Asif Alli of Champagne, Mahaicony, ECD, which was handed down in absentia on May 12, 2017.

After major repairs, the Liliendaal Bridge on the East Coast Railway Embankment has been reopened.

Terrence Ramlochan, a thirty-one-year-old contractor of North Better Hope, East Coast Demerara who was shot in the upper region of the right side of his chest during an attempted robbery in front of his premises last night, is hospitalised at a private hospital, in a stable condition, the police said today.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Government Information Services Limited (GISL) will be no more and its 60 employees will be sent home, Minister of Communications Maxie Cuffie confirmed yesterday.

PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, who spied for the United States before his drug trafficking and brutality triggered a U.S.

The private sector today called on the government to stay its hand on any closure of estates citing the range of likely repercussions.

The police say that they are investigating a fatal accident which occurred about 7.30 this morning at the intersection of Middle and Camp Streets that resulted in the death of Motorcyclist Dereck Francis Mangal, 47, a businessman of lot 779 Block X Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel underlined her doubts about the reliability of the United States as an ally on Monday but said she was a “convinced trans-Atlanticist”, fine-tuning her message after surprising Washington with her frankness a day earlier.

The Guyana Police Force today responded to a report in the Kaieteur News on the blacklisting of persons by the police.

(Trinidad Newsday) An abusive relationship ended in murder on the weekend as Guyanese-born grandmother Enid Rosaline Periana, 62, was chopped to death inside the man’s apartment in Madras Road, St Helena.