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(Trinidad Guardian) The Bank­ing and Gen­er­al Work­ers’ Union (BIG­WU) has con­firmed it re­ceived a com­plaint of in­ap­pro­pri­ate be­hav­iour against its for­mer pres­i­dent Vin­cent Cabr­era one month be­fore he was ap­point­ed In­dus­tri­al Court judge.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Water Resources Authority (WRA) is warning that the below-normal rainfall observed since 2018 continues to affect the water resources of the island.

(Trinidad Newsday) Retired cricket star Brian Lara yesterday apologised once again for disturbing the animals at the Emperor Valley Zoo last week.

(Trinidad Express) A seven-month-old baby boy died of last Thursday after becoming lodged between the wall and bed at the family’s Point Fortin home.

TITUSVILLE, Fla., (Reuters) – Hurricane Dorian intensified into a dangerous category 5 storm as it approached The Bahamas today, expected to pound the islands with up to two days of torrential rain, high waves and damaging winds before taking aim at the U.S.

United States Ambassador to Guyana Sarah-Ann Lynch has warned that the tenor of some of the ongoing advocacy for the local content policy for the oil and gas sector may make foreign investors feel unwelcome.

A 71-year-old pedestrian died on Friday evening after he was fatally struck by a car along the Garden of Eden, East Bank Demerara Public Road.

Bandits on Friday afternoon shot a miner and robbed him of $2 million in cash, shortly after he made a withdrawal from a bank on the East Bank of Demerara.

A Guyana-born Toronto imam is among a number of Canadian Muslims who have been denied entry from Canada into the United States in what some immigration lawyers say is a growing trend.

The perennial poor state of the transport infrastructure in the South Rupununi makes travel risky in the sprawling savannah region and with disintegrating bridges and crumbling roads continuing to plague the area, residents are wondering if the authorities would ever heed their cries for improvement.

Guyana Golden Lives Organisa-tion (GGLO) in collaboration with the Wellness Centre has launched a Grief Support Project to bring comfort to bereaved children and adults.

Even as some parents turn to online shopping to avoid the mad rush of in-person back-to-school shopping, Regent Street and its environs in Georgetown were still teeming with multitudes shopping for last minute deals ahead of the start of the new school year tomorrow.

An improved water filtration system is expected to be funded by a $3.5 billion loan from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), according to Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) Managing Director Dr Richard Van West-Charles.

The Lamaha Gardens Management Committee has cited increased crime, use of roads in the community as “racetracks” and zoning violations as major ongoing problems it wants addressed.

Twenty-nine girls who participated in the Ministry of Public Telecommunication’s ‘Guyanese Girls Code’ camp were yesterday awarded certificates for their successful completion of the five-week training programme during a mini-exhibition of the projects that they developed.

JACKSONVILLE, Florida (Reuters) – Hurricane Dorian punched northwest yesterday to threaten Georgia and the Carolinas, possibly sparing Florida a direct hit, as the Bahamas braced for catastrophic waves and wind from the muscular category 4 storm.

Gun-toting bandits yesterday afternoon invaded Rambarran’s Enterprise in Campbellville, Georgetown, where they held employees of the poultry business at gunpoint before carting off an undisclosed amount of cash.

LONDON/BELFAST (Reuters) – Thousands of people across Britain and Northern Ireland protested yesterday against Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend parliament for about a month before the deadline for the country to leave the European Union.

(Barbados Nation) A major step has been taken towards having a medical marijuana industry in Barbados with the piloting of the Medicinal Cannabis Industry Bill 2019 in the House of Assembly on Friday.

STOCKHOLM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Indigenous peoples from the Amazon to the Arctic are being left out of the global conversation on water property rights, a United Nations’ indigenous rights expert has warned.