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The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) today said that it recently experienced problems with three of its larger engines.

At about 2.30 this morning, acting on information received, Police trailed a Toyota Allion car bearing registration #PAE 2420 from a bar located at New Road Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara, to Crane Old Road, where the car and driver were stopped and searched.

BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Israel carried out its deadliest strikes in months on northern Syria’s Aleppo province today and said it killed a senior Hezbollah commander in Lebanon, stepping up its campaign against Iran’s proxies in parallel with its war in Gaza.

MAMATLAKALA, South Africa,  (Reuters) – A bus crash in northern South Africa killed 45 pilgrims travelling from Botswana for Easter festivities yesterday, authorities said, with the sole survivor an eight-year-old girl currently being treated in hospital.

Former Chancellor of the Judiciary and a former judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice, Desiree Bernard has passed away.

PNCR Member of Parliament, Roysdale Force SC is to run for the post of leader of the party in a challenge to the incumbent, Aubrey Norton.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – Gang violence in Haiti has killed over 1,500 people so far this year, including many children, while dozens have been lynched, stoned or burned alive by so-called self-defence brigades, the U.N.

Traffic Chief Senior Superintendent Mahendra Singh is urging motorists to use their ‘hazard’ lights, be cautious and drive at a moderate speed due to the ‘heavy fog/smoke’ affecting visibility along the Soesdyke/Linden Highway this morning.

SAMREBOI, Ghana,  (Reuters) – Surveying the stripped landscape of her farm – dotted with pools of cyanide-tainted, tea coloured waste water left by illegal gold miners – is enough to make Janet Gyamfi break down.

SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – Authorities in Singapore said they charged two former officials of Sembcorp Marine today with handing bribes to Brazilian officials to advance the company’s interests in the South American nation.

(Trinidad Express) A woman  was found dead with her hands tied in a car in Tobago which had been on fire earlier.

Traffic Chief Senior Superintendent Mahendra Singh is urging Motorists to use their ‘hazard’ lights, be cautious and drive at a moderate speed due to the heavy fog/smoke affecting visibility in areas along the East Bank and in Georgetown.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today said that there are currently a number of fires within regions 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 and 9.

SANTIAGO DE CUBA,  (Reuters) – A crowd swarms the steps of a small state-run market on the outskirts of Santiago, Cuba’s second-largest city, sweating and shouting, jostling for a chance at a once-monthly ration of chicken.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – Creating technological barriers and severing industrial supply chains would only lead to confrontation, Chinese President Xi Jinping warned today, as new Dutch policies on chip exports to China threaten to strain bilateral ties.

Commander of Regional Police Division #9, Senior Superintendent Raphael Rose, says that three girls, ages 5, 6 and 8, are reported to have drowned in a ‘fish pond’ in Massara Village, North Rupununi.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – A major Venezuelan opposition group has registered a candidate for July’s presidential election to ensure a spot on the ballot, even though the primary winner and her alternate were unable to sign up, electoral authorities and sources said today.

France is to establish an embassy here next year, according to a joint communique following a meeting at State House yesterday, Guyana has also agreed to purchase maritime patrol assets from France.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition coalition was left without a candidate in the race for July’s presidential elections after 80-year-old Corina Yoris was unable to register before the expiry of Monday’s deadline.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition to the United States from Britain was put on hold today after London’s High Court said the U.S.