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VADUZ (Reuters) – The tiny principality of Liechtenstein celebrated its 300th anniversary on Thursday as an island of peace and prosperity in an unsettled world — and a place where citizens can go drink a beer with their monarch.

(Trinidad Guardian) Au­top­sies on the bod­ies of the Pe­nal triple mur­der vic­tims re­vealed that their throats were slit.

Pinnacle Communications, the parent company of RCA Television, Mega 102.1 FM and 91.7 FM, on Friday honoured the top five Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) performers from the Essequibo Coast.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – New York City’s chief medical examiner determined on Friday that suicide by hanging was the cause of death for financier Jeffrey Epstein, whose body was found six days ago in a Manhattan jail cell while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.

(Trinidad Express) A pregnant woman was among four people shot by police in Santa Cruz on Friday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) An em­ploy­ee at the Port of Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal was ar­rest­ed and a quan­ti­ty of mar­i­jua­na seized by of­fi­cers of the Port-of-Spain Di­vi­sion Task Force, dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise on Fri­day.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley said the coun­try is go­ing through a pe­ri­od when the pub­lic will see “more and more of what hap­pened in the last week”, re­fer­ring to the re­cent ar­rest and charges be­ing laid against for­mer min­is­ter Mar­lene Mc­Don­ald.

Minister within the Minis-try of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs Valerie Garrido-Lowe last evening told a handful of Corriverton residents that based on information from President David Granger, general elections will be held this year.

Giving the  APNU+AFC a “mixed review” and apologising for its shortcomings while in office, APNU member the Working People’s Alliance(WPA) yesterday announced that it would remain in the governing coalition for the next elections and pledged to be active in ensuring that promises are kept.

Both Guyana and Britain have dismissed as untrue a claim by Russia that a British military base is being constructed within the Essequibo River to train Venezuelan refugees to destabilise the Nicolas Maduro-led government.

A city magistrate yesterday struck out charges brought by police against four owners of Superbet betting shops, who were to be charged with operating without licences. 

Infrastructural upgrades under the Sophia segment of the Inter-American Develop-ment Bank (IDB) funded Adequate Housing and Urban Accessibility Programme are 25 per cent completed and the majority of the works are expected to be finished before the project end date of March 2020.

The sod was turned yesterday for the construction of a $1.2 billion permanent headquarters for the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) and China has been hinted as a possible source of funding for the project.

Minister of Citizenship Winston Felix has again condemned claims of illegalities regarding Haitian travellers to Guyana, saying that of the 8,476 Haitians who arrived here between January and July 2019, 6,925 of them reported to Brazilian immigration officials after crossing the border, which separates the two countries.

Georgetown’s Mayor and City Council yesterday announced that residents of Sophia, Liliendaal, Pattensen and Turkeyen are exempted from paying interest on rates accrued up to December of this year.

Guyanese Professor Stafford A. Griffith has been named as Interim Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the Five Islands Campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), located in Antigua and Barbuda.

Director of Maritime Safety John Flores yesterday voiced the need for regulatory and enforcement agencies to have more resources in order to properly monitor vessels plying their trade in Guyana’s waters.

Santa Rosa Mission, in the Moruca sub-region of the North West District, in Region One, is now without electricity due to a burst power line, while residents and businesses in the region’s Mabaruma township have had to contend with a reduction in their power supply due to mechanical problems affecting one of the generators servicing the area Regional Chairman Brentnol Ashley yesterday told Stabroek News that a power line burst while some residents were cutting a tree at Santa Rosa.

  A bus driver was yesterday sentenced to six weeks in jail after he admitted to assaulting a conductor.

A Cuban chef, who was arrested at the Mabura checkpoint after the police discovered that he overstayed in the country, was yesterday fined for the offence and ordered deported.