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WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Walmart Inc said yesterday it will pay $282 million to settle a seven-year-long investigation into whether its overseas units in Mexico, Brazil, China and India violated the U.S.

The Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy (GCoM) was launched last week in Port of Spain, Trinidad during the Caribbean Urban Forum (CUF) of 2019.

(Trinidad Guardian) There is said to be an “in­va­sion” of Colom­bians and Venezue­lans at Brick­field in Cara­pichaima which are caus­ing grave con­cerns by vil­lagers who are claim­ing that il­le­gal ac­tiv­i­ties are on a ram­pant in­crease in­clud­ing State land grab­bing, drug traf­fick­ing, guns and am­mu­ni­tion traf­fick­ing and hu­man traf­fick­ing.

ARAUCA/CUCUTA, Colombia,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s crisis is spilling across the border into Colombia as Marxist rebels and right-wing paramilitaries recruit migrants to strengthen their ranks, according to five Colombian military commanders.

Minister of Public Health, Volda Lawrence, on Wednesday announced that by year’s end, Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni) will have a new resident psychiatrist, improving residents’ access to psychiatric care and services.

President David Granger on Tuesday reminded the students of St John the Baptist Primary in Bartica, Cuyuni-Mazaruni, Region Seven, that education is important and emphasised his Government’s motto of ‘Every child in school’ (ECIS).

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez yesterday sent out the armed forces to impose order after protests against his embattled administration descended into lawlessness overnight in parts of the capital, claiming two lives.

(Trinidad Express) A spiritual leader who attempted to exorcise a ‘buck’ allegedly terrorising a Gasparillo family in March was shot multiple times on Tuesday.

(Trinidad Express) A security officer on duty at a Woodbrook casino was shot dead by “Spanish-speaking” men early yesterday morning.

Six Ministry of Education (MoE) Cadet Officers on Monday commenced a three-week attachment in Pomeroon-Supenaam, Region Two, where they are assigned to schools in the Pomeroon River.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuador’s Constitutional Court yestetray ruled against a request to require community consultations for a planned mining project, allowing Australia’s SolGold to move forward with developing its Cascabel copper, gold and silver mine.

Two young men died on Wednesday night after their car crashed into a coconut tree along the Fort Wellington Public Road and then exploded.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A motor vehicle accident yesterday morning along a section of the Barbican main road in Hanover claimed the lives of two drivers and left 18 other persons, including three teenagers, injured.

DUBAI/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Iran today shot down a U.S. military drone that it said was flying over one of its southern provinces on the Gulf, increasing fears of military conflict as Washington seeks to isolate Tehran over its nuclear and regional activities.

(Trinidad Guardian) This coun­try’s lat­est fast fer­ry, the HSC Jean de la Valette, once out­ran some pi­rate ships, a de­scrip­tion from the Ship Tech­nol­o­gy web­site has claimed.

(Jamaica Observer) An associate of former deputy superintendent at the Road and Works Department at the Manchester Municipal Corporation Sanja Elliott testified in court yesterday that she had encashed approximately 41 cheques, amounting to about $15 million from the local government body for work not done.

(Trinidad Newsday) A Santa Flora pundit who was shot five times in front of his home is in critical condition at the San Fernando General Hospital.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Steven Watt, senior staff attorney at the United States-based human rights group America Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), has hit back at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade for what can be described as dereliction of duty after it issued a statement on the five fishermen who have claimed that they were detained at sea by the US Coast Guard for 32 days in inhumane conditions.

(Trinidad Express) The mother of Ornella Phillip was one of four prosecution witnesses cross-examined on Monday during the enquiry into her daughter’s death.

Political party, A New and United Guyana (ANUG) yesterday urged that a shared governance arrangement be entered into by the two main political forces until the next elections and that no contracts be awarded or policy decisions made during that time.