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President Irfaan Ali on Friday stressed the importance of CARICOM getting serious about achieving the target of reducing food importation by 25% by the year 2025.

The Ministry of Health yesterday said that an unvaccinated woman, 66, from Region Three is the latest COVID-19 fatality.

Mark Samuels, the driver who was charged with breaking into the Health Ministry’s vaccination centre and stealing COVID-19 vaccination cards was yesterday freed after the prosecution failed to present its case against him.

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Police in Canada’s national capital said yesterday they have seized thousands of liters of fuel and removed an oil tanker as part of a crackdown to end days long protest against the government’s COVID-19 measures, while a judge granted an interim injunction against deafening honking that has irked residents.

(Trinidad Guardian) A devastating fire destroyed nine automotive businesses in Bamboo Number Two yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The atrocity suffered by Katherine Akum Lum when lye was used instead of distilled water after her hysterectomy at a public hospital has sparked a firestorm on social media.

Planned infrastructural investments under this year’s $552.9 billion budget will lay the foundation for modernisation, transformation and creation of sustainable prosperity for the future Guyana, Public Works Minister Juan Edghill has said.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said yesterday that the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline would be halted if Russia invades Ukraine and stressed unity with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz as the West rallies to avert a war in Europe.

MANAGUA, (Reuters) – Nicaraguan lawmakers loyal to President Daniel Ortega yesterday passed legislation allowing the state to take over six universities the government effectively shut down last week, in a move critics say entrench authoritarianism.

A Canefield, East Canje Berbice taxi driver on Sunday evening lost all of his belongings after a fire completely destroyed the house he occupied for the last twelve years.

YENAGAO, Nigeria, (Reuters) – At least three people died in Nigeria when the oil storage and production vessel, FPSO Trinity Spirit, exploded last week and four crew are still missing, the operating company said yesterday.

Police today issued a wanted bulletin for a third suspect in relation to the murder of  martial arts instructor and bodyguard, Garfield Newton who was shot during a robbery in Albouystown, Georgetown on Christmas Eve.

The PNCR today joined its coalition partner, the AFC, and others in condemning the PPP/C government for the removal of Dr.

A man was shot dead on Leopold Street this morning while attempting to part a fight between friends.

YENAGAO, Nigeria, (Reuters) – At least three people died in Nigeria when the oil storage and production vessel, FPSO Trinity Spirit, exploded last week and four crew are still missing, the operating company said on Monday.

HOUSTON/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Biden administration is considering a Chevron Corp proposal to allow the U.S.

PNCR Elders will meet this week to help craft a solution to the crisis that has prevented their leader, Aubrey Norton  from entering Parliament more than two months after he was elected at the party’s biennial congress.

The passing of legendary Indian nightingale, Lata Mangeshkar has left fans across the globe heartbroken and in Guyana where she once visited in the prime of her career, several reminisced yesterday on the experience as they shared tributes.

The conviction of a Florida businessman for smuggling gold into the United States purportedly imported from Curacao may provide clues as to what had been the intended pathway for 476 pounds of the precious metal spirited out of this country before it was stolen in 2012 from a Guyanese fishing boat which was docked on the Dutch Caribbean island.

A twenty-three-year-old motorcyclist yesterday succumbed to his injuries and another person is hospitalised after they crashed into a pothole at Laluni, Linden-Soesdyke Highway.