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QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuador will immediately lift mask mandates for both indoor and outdoor spaces thanks to significant gains made against coronavirus, President Guillermo Lasso said yesterday.

(Reuters) – The premier of the British Virgin Islands was arrested in Miami yesterday for alleged money laundering and conspiracy to import cocaine, according to a U.S.

(Trinidad Express) Businessman Inshan Ishmael has been defeated in a civil lawsuit he brought against the Trinidad Express Newspapers Ltd, and its editor-in-chief Omatie Lyder and journalist Renuka Singh for defamation of character.

A nine-year-old pupil of Tain Primary School, Corentyne, Berbice, was yesterday morning discharged from the Port Mourant Public Hospital after she was struck down by a car on Wednesday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Massy has confirmed that the shutdown of its supermarkets across the country was caused by a cyber attack that led to its check out service being made inoperable.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Russian businessman Oleg Tinkov, who last week criticized Russia’s war in Ukraine, has sold his 35% stake in the company he founded to a firm controlled by Russian billionaire Vladimir Potanin, the companies said on Thursday.

Ten new COVID-19 cases were yesterday reported by the Ministry of Health from 1, 077 tests that were conducted.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – California’s attorney general announced today he issued a subpoena to ExxonMobil XOM.N

(Reuters) – The premier of the British Virgin Islands was arrested in Miami today for alleged money laundering and conspiracy to import cocaine, according to a U.S.

Police in Region Seven are probing the murder of a 49-year-old Venezuelan woman, whose body was found buried in a shallow grave with multiple chop wounds on Tuesday at Eteringbang Landing, Cuyuni River.

KYIV, (Reuters) – The United States accused Russia today of planning to stage fake independence votes to justify its conquest of territory in Ukraine, as Russian forces stepped up a major offensive in the east.

 (Reuters) – Ukraine accused Russia today of stealing grain in territory it has occupied, an act which it said increased the threat to global food security posed by disruptions to spring sowing and the blocking of Ukrainian ports during the war.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Joe Biden asked Congress for $33 billion to support Ukraine – a dramatic escalation of U.S.

Yardan Jacobs, the labourer who was shot along with his cousin more than a week ago in North Sophia has succumbed at a city hospital.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – The U.N. human rights committee said today that corruption proceedings against former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva that led to his imprisonment and prevented him from running again for office in 2018 violated due process.

(Trinidad Express) As Debe grandmother Sita Jagessar was laid to rest yesterday, her daughter Melissa Jagessar was charged with her murder.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Ministry of Health has confirmed that the country is now recording 85 per cent more daily COVID-19 cases on average when compared to two weeks ago.

(Trinidad Guardian) The relatives of one of two men who were murdered during a shooting incident in Couva said yesterday if the killer is not arrested by the police, they will get justice from God.

The Inter-American Com-mission on Human Rights (IACHR), in a landmark ruling, has recommended that the Government of Guyana adopt the necessary measures to ensure that the Region Seven Amerindian village of Isseneru and its members receive “full reparations for the material and immaterial damages they suffered on the account of the violation of their human rights.”

Businessman Nazar ‘Shell’ Mohamed is forging ahead with operationalising Hadi’s World Inc’s Quarry operation in Region Seven, as the company yesterday signed a US$25 million agreement with China Harbour Engineering Company Limited to execute the works there.