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President Irfaan Ali yesterday expressed shock at the passing of former PNCR Member of Parliament and owner of Guysons Engi-neering Limited, Kadim ‘Kads’ Khan, who was pronounced dead yesterday morning.

After spending almost six years behind bars and facing two trials, Alexis Turpin was yesterday discharged of the 2016 murder of her partner, Sherwin Johnson, after a judge upheld a no-case submission made on her behalf.

A 51-year-old woman lost her life in a fire that razed her Lot 14 Bachelor’s Adventure, East Coast Demerara (ECD) home yesterday.

Attorney Nirvan Singh, who is accused of verbally abusing a police constable with racist remarks while she was performing guard duties at his father’s residence, was charged on Wednesday.

A 21-year-old man was on Tuesday remanded to prison on the charge that he murdered his 19-year-old girlfriend, who was fatally stabbed.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – A small plane crashed onto a busy street in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince yesterday, killing at least six people including the pilot, officials said.

Advancing that it augurs well for accountability in public spending, Attorney General (AG) Anil Nandlall SC has defended passage of the motion tabled by the government side of the National Assembly, which now requires five, as opposed to three persons to form a quorum for the holding of a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) meeting.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday appointed the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) board and named Major General (Rtd) Joe Singh as the Chairman.

(Reuters) – A top ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russian forces will seize the last main stronghold of resistance in the besieged city of Mariupol today after Ukraine proposed talks on evacuating troops and civilians there.

Late co-founder of the Red Thread collective, Andaiye, will be remembered at the 2022 NGC Bocas Lit Fest, the annual festival of words and ideas based in Trinidad and Tobago.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department yesterday appealed a judge’s ruling ending a mask mandate on public transportation and airplanes after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the measure was still needed.

MANAGUA,  (Reuters) – Nicaragua’s parliament, controlled by allies of President Daniel Ortega, yesterday shut down 25 non-governmental organizations in a move slammed by the opposition as a further attack on civil society.

(Reuters) – Costa Rica confirmed yesterday that the computer systems of the finance ministry remained disabled after a cyberattack on official platforms the previous day.

Some $69.3 million will be spent by the Ministry of Public Works for the upgrade of the Leonora Market Old Road, Region Three, the Department of Public Information (DPI) reported.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) and the Ministry of Labour’s Board of Industrial Training (BIT) are to collaborate on training of youths.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday accused his far-right rival Marine Le Pen of being in thrall to Russian President Vladimir Putin over a years-old Russian bank loan to her party during a fiery TV debate ahead of Sunday’s election.

A 52-year-old businessman is now counting his losses after a fire of unknown origin gutted a building which housed his workers and equipment at Kwakwani, Region Ten yesterday.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Ministry of Agriculture’s Hydro-meteorological Service yesterday signed a handover agreement for 45 rain gauges and 90 measuring jars to support Guyana’s sustainable disaster preparedness and response initiatives. 

(Reuters) – Peru’s government will present a bill to allow for chemical castration as a penalty for raping a minor, Cabinet members told reporters yesterday, following national outrage over the rape of a 3-year-old girl.

WASHINGTON/LONDON,  (Reuters) – Top officials from Britain, the United States and Canada walked out on Russia’s representatives at a Group of 20 meeting yesterday and many members spoke to condemn Moscow’s war in Ukraine, exposing deep divisions in the bloc of major economies.