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Minister of Governance Raphael Trotman this morning announced that the Berbice Bridge toll will be reduced in keeping with the administration’s one hundred-days plan.

The police say they are conducting investigations into the circumstances surrounding the death of miner Rasharda Dusrah, 29 years, of Station Street, Kitty, whose body was found in an abandoned mining pit at Oku Backdam, Puruni, yesterday, with a wound to his throat.

The Ministry of Public Security today urged full public support for its initiative to enforce the closing of night clubs and other places of entertainment at 2 am saying it was being done in the interest of citizens’ security.

(Reuters) – UEFA head Michel Platini announced today his intention to stand for presidency of FIFA in place of Sepp Blatter.

The police say that investigations are being conducted into an armed robbery that occurred at about 1340h.

The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions today recommended that former Minister of Public Service Jennifer Westford be charged over her alleged attempt to transfer a government vehicle into her name.

Former President Donald Ramotar today criticised the decision of the APNU+AFC government to shorten the life of the inquiry into the killing of Dr Walter Rodney and said that history will record that the PPP/C government had established a credible probe commission.

At about 1830h yesterday, miner Morvin James, 40 years, of Baramita, North West District, was involved in an argument with another man at Baramita, during which he was fatally stabbed to his chest.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – South Africa’s first captain of the post-isolation era Clive Rice died today after battling a brain tumour, the country’s cricket board said.

Claude Housty, former General Manager of the Guyana Rice Export Board has been appointed as Chairman of the Guyana Rice Development Board.

Minister of Governance, Raphael Trotman, who also shares responsibility for Natural Resources and the Environment, over the weekend, met with several Toshaos and other representatives in Region 9, Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo, where several issues, including good governance and sustainable community development were discussed, a release from the Ministry of the Presidency said today.

The Guyana Police Force is informing the general public that in further efforts with the decentralization of the delivery of passports to citizens, with effect from Monday August 03, 2015, members of the public residing between No.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Caribbean Premier League T20 has been going the rounds in the region for the past three years attracting huge crowds on its way.

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, CMC – Jamaica’s Reggae Boyz suffered a disappointing 3-1 defeat to Mexico, in the final of the CONCACAF Gold Cup here Sunday night.

(Reuters) – Bobbi Kristina Brown, the only child of late singer Whitney Houston, died today at the age of 22, some six months after suffering irreversible brain damage in an incident at her suburban Atlanta home, her family said in a statement.

(CPL) Trinidad & Tobago Red Steel are the new kings of Caribbean cricket after winning the 2015 Hero CPL.

(Trinidad Express) Prison escapee Hassan Atwell, 41, has been killed. Reports are that Atwell was not killed by police but by members of the Rasta City gang.

At about 0245h. today, the police say that two men were involved in an argument on the Plaisance Railway Embankment, ECD, when one of them discharged rounds at the other which missed and struck bystander Jomo Lewis, 34 years, of Plaisance Squatting Area, ECD, to his shoulder and abdomen.

(Trinidad Express) The brother of murdered Senior Counsel Dana Seetahal is questioning the timing of the arrests and charging of 11 men in connection with his sister’s murder.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC- Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel have sailed into the finals of the Caribbean Premier League for the first time on the waves of an explosive 49 by Kamran Akmal and an outstanding bowling performance here today.