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(Trinidad Guardian) University of the West Indies history professor, Dr Brinsley Samaroo, great-grandson of indentured Indians, in a moving search for his roots in India, found his relatives in the village of Baraich in Uttar Pradesh and keeps a close connection with them.

A canter was set afire this morning in Blygezeight Gardens. Stabroek News understands that at around 3 am, two men exited a car on Stone Avenue and went up to the vehicle GVV 2601 which was parked on the parapet of Upper David Street.

PARIS, (Reuters) – World number one Angelique Kerber was dumped out of the French Open on Sunday, going down 6-2 6-2 in a first-round defeat to Russia’s Ekaterina Makarova.

Ranks of the Guyana Police Force conducted a drug eradication exercise in Wisroc, Linden between 16:30-18:00hrs yesterday, during which several acres of cultivated cannabis, with an estimated five thousand, three hundred plants, ranging in height of 6 inches to 5 feet and two makeshift camps were found and destroyed by fire.

Police ranks  acting on intelligence conducted a search on a house at Duncan Street, Campbellville between 18:30-21:00hrs yesterday and found the following: Ø 11.4kg of Cocaine.

(Reuters) – Former U.S. national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, who established himself in the Carter administration as a hardliner on foreign policy, died on Friday, his family said.

A Guyanese woman who was caught in The Bahamas with cocaine in a wig was jailed for 28 months yesterday.

Former Attorney General Anil Nandlall today raised grave concerns about the purported blacklisting at the main international airport of 200 persons who are being investigated by the authorities here.

The raised Golden Arrowhead earlier this morning and the grandeur of the military formation on the tarmac.

Guyana’s 51st independence anniversary was celebrated at D’Urban Park last night and ended with a fireworks display.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – Masked gunmen attacked a group of Coptic Christians in southern Egypt on Friday, killing 26 people and wounding 26 others as they were driving to a monastery, medical sources and eyewitnesses said.

Ministers of the government and dignitaries at last night’s flag-raising at D’Urban Park.

One of the packed stands at D’Urban Park for last night’s flag-raising.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Oil prices fell nearly 5 percent today as OPEC’s decision to extend production curbs fell short of expectations of deeper or longer cuts.

(Trinidad Guardian) Ravi Anthony was shot twice and one of his arms and legs were chopped off by his killers, who then tried to set his body afire before dumping it in a forested area in Sister’s Road, his autopsy has found.

Accused of assaulting a woman with a beer bottle, a constable was today granted $75,000 bail on the

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Deepening her split with unpopular President Nicolas Maduro’s government, Venezuela’s chief prosecutor today accused security officers of excessive force and condemned the use of military tribunals to judge protesters.

MANCHESTER, England, (Reuters) – The Manchester suicide bomber who killed 22 people at a concert venue packed with children had recently returned from Libya, a British minister said, and her French counterpart said he had links with Islamic State and had probably visited Syria too.

The PPP this evening condemned the government over what it said was a witch-hunting charge today against the Registrar of Deeds, Azeena Baksh.

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) today kept up the pressure on the government over the Value Added Tax on private education.