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(Jamaica Gleaner) A total of 948 persons have been murdered across Jamaica since the start of the year, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has told the Parliament.

Minister within the Ministry of Communities, Annette Ferguson yesterday handed over a cheque of $1M to the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Guyana team, which will be representing the country at this year’s ‘First Global Robotic’ competition in Dubai.

The prosecution yesterday closed its case against Matthew Parks in the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the charge that he murdered Roger Allen, the Freeman Street youth who was stabbed during a fight at D’Urban and Chapel streets, Lodge last year.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Investors managing $15 trillion in assets turned up the heat on oil and gas sector yesterday ahead of a United Nations summit in New York aimed at accelerating efforts to fight climate change.

(Trinidad Express) The father of a teenage boy who was shot and killed by a police officer during a party in 2014 has been awarded more than $1 million in damages by the High Court.

(Trinidad Guardian) Va­p­ing is a new trend that is now re­ceiv­ing crit­i­cal at­ten­tion and analy­sis from leg­is­la­tors, not on­ly in coun­tries like the Unit­ed States but here at home as well.

A Grove, East Bank Demerara man, accused of two armed attacks in the North West District, was remanded to prison yesterday.

MADRID, (Reuters) – Spain will hold its fourth election in four years on Nov.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States imposed sanctions on Tuesday on three people and 16 groups it says helped Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his government profit from food aid in the economically struggling country, the Treasury Department said.

 (Reuters) – U.S. gasoline prices jumped on Tuesday after crude oil futures spiked nearly 15% following weekend attacks on Saudi Arabian oil facilities, according to a report by the AAA motor club.

(Trinidad Guardian) While Trinidad and To­ba­go re­cent­ly made head­way in the US on Venezuela, Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley is most up­set with the British Broad­cast­ing Cor­po­ra­tion’s (BBC’s) re­cent doc­u­men­tary on T&T’s Venezue­lan amnesty reg­is­tra­tion ex­er­cise – and he’s writ­ing to the British Gov­ern­ment on it.

The Supreme Court of Judicature yesterday launched a $17 million Sexual Offences Court at Suddie, on the Essequibo Coast.

Following a meeting with the Carter Center, President David Granger once again said in a nationwide address yesterday that it is the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) which must advise him on the best possible date for elections.

A quarrel between two brothers escalated  and ended in the death of one yesterday at their home at Enterprise, East Coast Demerara.

Corruption allegations levelled by junior ranks against Deputy Commissioner of Police Lyndon Alves warranted an independent and robust investigation, Co-President of the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) Mike McCormack says.

Four of the 14 suspected gang members, who were arrested by police last week during an operation in Linden, were yesterday faced with separate charges of possession of military paraphernalia and possession of ganja.

Commending government’s efforts to develop an oil spill response plan as the country is poised to become one of the most active offshore oil exploration and production (E&P) centres in the region, a United States (U.S.)

A Venezuelan national was on Sunday stabbed to death at Tabatinga Creek, Region 9 and the suspect has been arrested by the police.

On September 13, 2019, technical experts from Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago participated in a bilateral meeting on  market access issues related to the export of agricultural products from here to the Twin-Island Republic.

Director, Department of Energy, Dr. Mark Bynoe, yesterday, announced that UK-based Tullow Oil plc’s (Tullow) Joe-1 exploration well has discovered a new Upper Tertiary oil play in the Guyana basin.