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Prime Minister Samuel Hinds (third from right), his wife Yvonne Hinds (second from right), Chairman of Bornion Guyana Inc.,

A section of an AFC meeting at Whim, Corentyne this evening.

Sixty-three persons graduated from the Upper Corentyne Industrial Training Centre last week.

(Barbados Nation) People accused of rape, murder, and robberies will be the first to have their statements to lawmen recorded using the ten newly outfitted interview suites at police stations across the island.

As it has been doing for many years now, the government today announced unilateral salary increases for public servants.

(Trinidad Express) Road rage early yesterday morning resulted in the killing of 42-year-old Dennison Rodney of Cocorite Terrace, Cocorite.

Professor Mina Singh, of York University, Canada, who is currently visiting Guyana, and worked with the Tutor Development Education Programme, in collaboration with the Health Ministry to train nursing tutors, yesterday presented more than CAN $21,000 in books and other educational materials to the Georgetown Nursing School.

Hundreds of people from all walks of life turned out last night to witness President Donald Ramotar, accompanied by First Lady Deolatchmee Ramotar, flick the switch to light the massive Rahaman’s Park Christmas tree at the Houston junction.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The police have arrested farmer Dipak J.

The Gaston Browne Administration of Antigua yesterday signed a Memorandum of Agreement for an investment project valued at over US $250 Million with film star Robert De Niro.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – An Egyptian court on Saturday dropped its case against ousted President Hosni Mubarak, his interior minister and six aides on charges of ordering the killing of protesters during the 2011 revolt that removed him from power.

The Ministry of Agriculture this evening said it is monitoring a weather pattern that if it stays on course will bring significant amounts of rain tonight and into the morning for various coastal communities.

Amid questions about the government’s use of a jet on which the pilot was held last week in Puerto Rico with US$620,000 hidden away, the government today said that the craft was used thrice by President Donald Ramotar and paid for.

(Trinidad Express) A driver was shot dead following an argument over a minor accident on the highway today.

(Trinidad Express) Some of the country’s biggest industrial plants were forced to shut down operations on Wednesday after being alerted that their power supply had to be unplugged as a result of the rupture of the Cross Island Pipeline.

Today, 483 men and women from the Government Technical Institute (GTI) graduated from the institution having completed two years of technical training in different areas.

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC- The 2014 Caribbean Premier League (CPL) pumped a massive US 166 million into the region’s economy, a new independent economic impact study revealed yesterday.

At about 2300h. last night, police say that Lester Cummings, 46 years, of No.

The police say they are investigating an armed robbery that occurred at about 0310h.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes died in a Sydney hospital today, two days after being struck by a ball that led to a “catastrophic” injury which caused “massive” bleeding to his brain and ultimately proved fatal.