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(Trinidad Express) The swearing in of Senator Garvin Simonette to replace corruption-accused Marlene McDonald as Minister of Public Administration, has been cancelled.

Britain’s Prince Charles will be Patron of the Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development (IIC) for another term.

NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Office equipment for Kenya’s parliament donated by China has gone missing after being loaded onto a shipping container, authorities from both nations said last week.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian Justice Minister Sergio Moro, who oversaw Brazil’s biggest corruption probe as a federal judge, said yesterday he has no interest in elected office and that President Jair Bolsonaro is his candidate for the 2022 election.

The need for collaboration between Village Councils and the Guyana Water Inc.

(Barbados Nation) Today the Medicinal Cannabis Bill will be laid in Parliament.

HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s airport halted flights today, blaming demonstrators for the disruption, while China said the anti-government protests that have swept the city over the past two months had begun to show “sprouts of terrorism”.

 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration unveiled a sweeping rule today that would limit legal immigration by denying visas and permanent residency to hundreds of thousands of people for being too poor.

(Jamaica Observer) Fewer than 10 Jamaicans attend Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, but international student recruitment officer at the institution, Jessica Brown, is hoping that will change with greater awareness of the programmes on offer.

(Jamaica Observer) Jamaican Clive Peck was one of three United Nations (UN) staff members who died when a bomb-laden vehicle exploded Saturday outside a shopping mall in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi.

(Trinidad Guardian) Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Min­is­ter Don­na Cox’s eyes welled up with tears when she vis­it­ed em­bat­tled PNM MP Mar­lene Mc­Don­ald yes­ter­day at St Joseph Po­lice sta­tion and prayed with Mc­Don­ald.

(Trinidad Guardian) Af­ter four days of be­ing in po­lice cus­tody, the rul­ing PNM’s deputy leader Mar­lene Mc­Don­ald and her com­mon-law hus­band Michael Carew were charged last night.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido said yesterday President Nicolas Maduro’s government is preparing to dissolve the opposition-run legislature and call new legislative elections, potentially escalating Venezuela’s political crisis.

(Trinidad Express) The Government has been reliably informed that based on the advice of the Director of Public Prosecutions, the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service shall be charging Minister of Public Administration.

Director, Department of Energy, Dr. Mark Bynoe, this morning, announced that UK-based Tullow Oil Plc’s wholly owned subsidiary Tullow Guyana B.V. 

Discussions at an Alliance For Change (AFC) National Executive Council (NEC) meeting on Saturday focused on a prime ministerial candidate for the next elections and the revision of the Cummingsburg Accord between it and A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), sources say.

Economist Tarron Khemraj is in favour of enforcing a Common External Tariff (CET) on refined sugar imported into the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and has rubbished arguments against the tax by local manufacturers.

With customs and duty exemptions in effect for the importation of electric vehicles, an increasing number of such automobiles can be seen on the streets of Guyana.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) yesterday published the names of 11 companies that have submitted applications for environmental authorisation, which include firms seeking to establish wharf and bond services and oil field completions sale and services.

As Guyana enters a pivotal period with substantial revenues expected from the oil industry, the populace should push for a reemergence of the village movement to enable them to influence decision-making as it is unlikely that there would be a quick change to the current winner-takes- all system, attorney Nigel Hughes says.