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BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s Education Minis-ter Milton Ribeiro resigned yesterday following allegations of corruption in the awarding of ministry funds to municipal districts, according to an announcement in the country’s official gazette.

A man was yesterday sentenced to 50 months imprisonment and fined $215.1M after he pleaded guilty to possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking while his two accomplices were placed on $2M bail each after they denied the said charge.

BAGHDAD/ANKARA, (Reuters) – A nascent plan for Iraq’s Kurdistan region to supply gas to Turkey and Europe – with Israeli help – is part of what angered Iran into striking the Kurdish capital Erbil with ballistic missiles this month, Iraqi and Turkish officials say.

(Trinidad Guardian) Just four days before her 40th birthday, Rosanna Seepersad’s husband of 23 years was killed in their bedroom while she was allegedly heavily medicated and asleep.

Thirty-eight mothers are now equipped with cosmetology skills to find employment or become entrepreneurs in the field.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare said the backlash to his country’s security negotiations with China was “very insulting”, in his first comments on a security treaty he said was being finalised.

(Trinidad Guardian) Missing Williamsville resident Roger Farrow has been found dead.

A man was yesterday  remanded to prison after being charged with stealing a TV, amplifiers and other appliances from the Trinity Methodist Church.

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – The Supreme Court of Honduras yesterday authorized the extradition of former president Juan Orlando Hernandez to the United States, where he is wanted on drug trafficking and firearms charges.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury yesterday proposed a new mechanism to comply with and enforce a 15% global corporate minimum tax agreed to last year by 136 countries, partly by denying deductions for taxes paid in jurisdictions with lower rates.

The Ministry of Health yesterday reported one new COVID-19 case from a batch of 298 tests that were done.

  Deputy Commissioner of Police, Clifton Hicken has been appointed to act as the country’s Commissioner of Police as office holder Nigel Hoppie heads into pre-retirement leave.

LVIV/KHARKIV, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Ukraine and Russia were preparing today for the first face-to-face peace talks in more than two weeks, but a senior U.S.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The Kremlin said today that U.S. President Joe Biden’s remark that Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power” was a cause for alarm, in a measured response to a public call from the United States for an end to Putin’s 22-year rule.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – The Academy Awards telecast was packed with much of what got left out of last year’s pandemic-hindered show, offering a trio of women hosts, a return to lavish musical productions and a big dose of comedy, much of it edgier than usual for the Oscars.

 (Reuters) – Gunmen killed 19 people yesterday in a night-time attack on a clandestine cockfighting venue in western Mexico, authorities said, and several other people were reported hospitalized.

(Trinidad Express) A 44-year-old man was shot and killed in Moruga on Saturday afternoon surrounded by his friends and family.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday launched a major Black Belly Sheep Project in Region Five, West Coast Berbice which has 78 farmers on board already with an additional 1,000 black belly sheep expected to arrive from Barbados in the coming weeks.

Declaring that the people of the country were not getting enough from the country’s oil revenues, PNCR Leader Aubrey Norton on Saturday said that the party must embrace the policy of wealth creation and he pledged the development of a meritocracy in the public service.

Trinidadian Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said that during Guyana’s election impasse in March 2020, he had cautioned President David Granger that if he had lost the polls he should lose it with dignity otherwise there would be consequences for him and his party.