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Residents of Georgetown who live in areas where parking meters will be placed are being invited to apply for discounted parking.

(Trinidad Guardian) A police investigation has begun into the housing allowance paid to President Anthony Carmona.

(Trinidad Guardian) In an interesting development coming to hand is that the owners of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) is allegedly looking for the buyer for the tournament.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – West Indies Cricket Board president, Dave Cameron, has renewed his commitment to making the embattled regional body profitable, even as he announced a name-change of the organization to Cricket West Indies.

The Guyana Rice Producers Association (RPA) today condemned in the strongest possible terms, what it described as the “unilateral draconian increase” in land rent and other charges to farmers by the MMA-ADA.

(Trinidad Guardian) The desire to be the best in her studies may have caused 16-year-old Rachael Ramkissoon to wake up late yesterday morning after studying the night before and as a result she missed the school bus.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two Laventille brothers were ambushed as they slept at the La Pena Street home early yesterday morning in what relatives say was aimed at getting their home, which is prime vantage point for two warring gangs in the area.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Cricket’s shortest Twenty20 format should be restricted to domestic franchises to maintain the relevance of one-day internationals, Pakistan coach Mickey Arthur has said.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Actress Priyanka Chopra is resting at home after a “minor incident” on the set of her ABC show “Quantico,” the network said Friday.

The management of the Demerara Harbour Bridge Corporation (DHBC) is apologising to commuters for the extended opening of the bridge yesterday, GINA said, attributing this to work that was needed to prevent a section of the structure from  collapsing.

LONDON, (Reuters) – A comic film about Michael Jackson was dropped by British makers on Friday after the daughter of the late American pop star described the episode, which casts a white actor to play her father, as vomit-inducing.

Work will begin in the first quarter of this year to install Public Internet Access Points (PIAPs) at public buildings, GINA said today.

Police during a search, early this morning of several apartments in Rasville, Georgetown, detained nine persons inclusive of three females, after they found sixteen live rounds of different calibres of ammunition and one hundred and eighty ecstasy pills.

(Trinidad Express) RBC Royal Bank is looking to merge branches in west and south Trinidad and as a result will be cutting jobs.

After having served for just over a year, the Chairman of NCN, Bish Panday has resigned effective December 31st, 2016, sources say.

(Reuters) – West Indies will host a full series, including three tests, against Pakistan beginning on March 31, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has said.

US oil company ExxonMobil today announced positive results from its Payara-1 well offshore Guyana.

(Trinidad Guardian) Between 1996 and 2016, the Registrar General recorded 3,478 child marriages, with almost 98 per cent being females.

President David Granger today said that Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo will be given the clarifications he has sought over the nominees to Chairmanship of the Guyana Elections Commission.

Eighteen-year-olds will be allowed to apply for house lots and once approved lots would be allocated when they turn 21, according to the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) end-of-year report.