Staff Editor

(Trinidad Guardian) The brazenness of the country’s killers went to the extreme in two separate murders that took the toll to 450 for the year between Thursday night and yesterday morning.

City Hall today said that of its five hydro flow pumps, three are operable and two are under repair.

Minister of State, Joseph Harmon today said that while Georgetown and other parts of the country are currently experiencing flooding due to excessive rainfall coupled with the spring tide, the Government is taking every step to ensure that there is minimum loss or damage to property, a release from the Ministry of the Presidency said.

Heavy rain today has flooded parts of the city and the East Coast.

(Trinidad Guardian) Acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams says a mobile app launched yesterday as a “dream come true” for the police service.

The Pattensen woman, who was charged with trafficking a young woman, was today found guilty, sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to pay $2 million restitution to the complainant.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – India off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin was named the International Cricket Council (ICC) Cricketer of the Year on Thursday for taking 48 wickets and scoring 336 runs in eight tests during the voting period.

The two union groupings in the country, the TUC and FITUG today called on Minister in the Ministry of Social Protection.

(Trinidad Guardian) Government allocations for Carnival 2017 have suffered yet another cut.

ONITSHA, Nigeria, (Reuters) – An oil spill from Exxon Mobil Corp facilities in southeast Nigeria’s Akwa Ibom state has hit local communities, affecting farming, fishing and drinking water, a local leader said on Wednesday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Deputy Police Commissioner Wayne Dick said yesterday that the police service was convinced it had charged the correct man in the murder of Shannon Banfield.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Embattled West Indies will spend Christmas at number eight in the ICC Test team rankings.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The prolific Virat Kohli, Joe Root, Steve Smith and Kane Williamson all enhanced their burgeoning reputations in 2016 but, aided by the screams of commentator Ian Bishop to “remember the name”, the year will forever belong to Carlos Brathwaite.

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – A truck ploughed into a crowded Christmas market in central Berlin on Monday evening, killing nine people and injuring up to 50 others, police said, in what appeared to be one of the deadliest attacks in Germany in decades.

MUMBAI, India,  CMC – Nine West Indies Twenty20 stars that have enriched the lucrative Indian Premier League have been retained for next season, organisers announced today.

Guyanese Leezel Campbell who was to have been married yesterday saw her wedding being put off after Dynamic Airways cancelled her flight.

Passengers travelling on Dynamic Airways are stranded both here and in New York.

(Trinidad Express) A 16-year-old boy was shot dead by a relative in Barataria on Friday.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Veteran left-hander Shiv Chanderpaul struck his second straight hundred and the 73rd of an illustrious first class career to help Guyana Jaguars batter a hapless Trinidad and Tobago Red Force here today.

Ranks of the Joint Services this morning carried out a search in the Georgetown Prison and the undermentioned prohibited items were found, the police said.