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A former consultant is suing government for in excess of $25 million for breach of contract after he says he took up an offer to direct the Ministry of Health’s mental health and maternal and child-health improvement programmes for just US$5,000 a month, giving up a better paying job in the United States, only to be told that the work agreement was invalidated.

MIAMI,  (Reuters) – Hurricane Dorian churned toward Florida with increasingly powerful winds and drenching rains yesterday, wreaking havoc on people’s Labor Day weekend plans in one of America’s biggest vacation destinations.

Another group of youths yesterday graduated from the third ‘Youth in Natural Resources’ apprenticeship programme.

A cattle farmer was yesterday sentenced to two years behind bars after admitting to possession of an unlicensed firearm and matching rounds that were found on him during a police search.

SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) – The account of Twitter Inc Chief Executive Jack Dorsey was hacked yesterday afternoon, sending public tweets and retweets including racial slurs and curse words to 4 million followers before Twitter secured the account.

A labourer has been sentenced to 24 months in prison after being found guilty of break and entry and larceny.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – After more than 1,000 days of political brawling, hordes of headlines and dizzying lurches in sterling, the battle of Brexit enters the endgame.

GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – In late August, U.N. officials, judges and civil society leaders met in Guatemala to say farewell to a U.N.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – Factory activity in China shrank in August for the fourth month in a row, official data showed yesterday, as the United States ramped up tariff pressure and domestic demand remained sluggish.

Fourteen boys, all between the ages of 13 and 17, have been equipped with barbering skills after recently completing a two-month “Protect Your Peace” training course.

Businesses along Sussex Street are not expected to be affected by the planned closure of a section of the road.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – Australian universities will be required to work with security agencies to ensure they guard against undue foreign interference, Minister for Education Dan Tehan said on Wednesday.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Communist-run Cuba unveiled tighter regulations on non-agricultural cooperatives yesterday, including curbs on their prices, in keeping with a broader push to increase control of the growing non-state sector.

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Seven eggs from the world’s last two remaining northern white rhinos have been successfully fertilised artificially, reviving hopes of saving the endangered animals, scientists said last Monday.

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – The death toll from Democratic Republic of Congo’s year-long Ebola outbreak has climbed above 2,000, government data showed on Friday, as responders battle to overcome community mistrust and widespread security problems.

Guyana’s Department of the Environment today expressed concern about the forest fires raging in the Amazon, calling them a global emergency.

(Trinidad Guardian) On the day Dale Lemessy got his let­ter of re­trench­ment, he got the shock­ing news that his wife Dana was hav­ing triplets.

(Barbados Nation) More than a year after a legal fight began over a $5 bank fee, the matter is yet to be heard by the Fair Trading Commission (FTC).

(Trinidad Guardian) Pub­lic Ser­vices’ As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) Pres­i­dent Wat­son Duke has been re­leased on $250,000 bail af­ter ap­pear­ing in court to an­swer a sedi­tion charge.

(Trinidad Express) A veteran lifeguard fell ill while on duty at Vessigny Beach in La Brea and died on Wednesday.