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BRUSSELS/LONDON,  (Reuters) – The United States will work to supply 15 billion cubic metres of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the European Union this year to help it wean off Russian energy supplies, the transatlantic partners said yesterday.

MANAGUA, (Reuters) – Nicaragua has expelled a top representative from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) without giving any reasoning, the humanitarian group said yesterday.

Miami Herald foreign affairs columnist Andrés Oppenheimer has said that the Biden Administration should be looking to Guyana to help it ease burgeoning fuel prices and not Venezuela.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – In a scaled-back formulation of its war goals, Russia said today that the first phase of its military operation was mostly complete and it would focus on completely “liberating” Ukraine’s breakaway eastern Donbass region.

BUCHA/LVIV, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Ukrainian troops are recapturing towns east of Kyiv and Russian forces who had been trying to seize the capital are falling back on overextended supply lines, Britain said today, one of the strongest indications yet of a shift in momentum in the war.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered Gazprom GAZP.MM

(Reuters) – China’s state-run Sinopec Group has suspended talks for a major petrochemical investment and a gas marketing venture in Russia, sources told Reuters, heeding a government call for caution as sanctions mount over the invasion of Ukraine.

(Barbados Nation) The prestigious Sandy Lane Hotel has lost a court battle for the third time in relation to the wrongful dismissal of three former employees.

(Trinidad Guardian) The ANSA McAL Group of companies has returned to pre-pandemic profitability levels notwithstanding the enduring COVID-19 and restrictions and closures, the conglomerate’s chairman A Norman Sabga has said.

The Ministry of Public Works’ Board of Inquiry (BoI) into the sinking of a Noble House Seafoods trawler last month and the disappearance of three of its crew has unearthed major breaches and this has triggered safety inspections of all vessels and scrutiny of captain’s licences The findings have led Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill to declare that there must be changes in the system to minimise the chance of a recurrence.

U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) for Caribbean Affairs and Haiti, Barbara Feinstein yesterday met with Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Aubrey Norton where a number of issues were discussed.

(Trinidad Guardian) Say what – Guyana? Foreign Affairs Minister Amery Browne has spoken with Guyana’s Foreign Affairs Minister about a recent video featuring Guyana’s Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo saying that “T&T is falling apart.”

As the police probe into the theft of a quantity of pharmaceutical products and other medical supplies from the Ministry of Health’s (MOH) drugs bond at Diamond, East Bank Demerara (EBD) continues, the prime suspect is scheduled to appear in court today.

Visiting US Deputy Assistant Secretary Barbara Feinstein yesterday announced plans for US$1.5m in urgent COVID-19 assistance through USAID for countries in the Caribbean including The Bahamas, Guyana, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago.

The sister and brother-in-law of Rohan Mangra, the US-based Guyanese who was found in a city hotel days after he was reported missing were yesterday placed on $50,000 bail each after they denied providing the police with false information in relation to the case.

The APNU+AFC has lodged  a motion in the National Assembly calling on the government to promptly devise a strategy to address the high cost of living currently burdening Guyanese.

Since the commencement of the continuous registration cycle on March 07, 2022, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has registered almost 14,000 persons, according to the Chief Election Officer (CEO) Vishnu Persaud.

Seeking to fill a gap in the corporate arena, the Gizmos Group of Companies is embarking on a new venture to provide office solutions to businesses wanting to set up here.

A jury on Tuesday acquitted a man who back in 2016 was accused of breaking into the Essequibo Coast home of a woman and raping her at knife-point after waking her from her sleep.

A man, who restrained another to be chopped because of a quarrel over the winnings of a gamble, is now awaiting sentencing after being convicted on the charge of attempted murder.