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HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuban President Raul Castro yesterday denounced U.S. President Donald Trump’s partial rollback of the U.S.-Cuban

The Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Associa-tion (GGDMA) on Thursday bemoaned the amount of time it is taking the government to fix key roads in the interior, saying it is stymying efforts to ship supplies and fuel to mining camps.

General Secretary of the Rice Producers’ Association (RPA) Dharamkumar Seeraj is accusing the APNU+AFC coalition government of using “skillful statistics” to inflate the rice production for this year.

(Trinidad Guardian) On the heels of an emergency landing in St Lucia by an ATR aircraft belonging to Caribbean Airlines (CAL), pilots yesterday held a “critical” meeting to discuss safety concerns over the aircraft.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s government has sent Congress a bill to shrink the size of a national forest in the Amazonian state of Pará, according to a statement from the Environment Ministry yesterday, a move environmentalists said would speed deforestation of the area.

GUATEMALA CITY,  (Reuters) – Guatemalan police on Friday arrested 17 people on suspicion of involvement in a web of money laundering and illegal election financing, in an investigation that also has embroiled a local unit of Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim’s America Movil.

Thresha Griffith, the Essequibo woman who was stabbed late last month, has been discharged from the hospital and is at home recuperating.

The state yesterday closed its case against Aniki Jones, who is accused of murdering Carl Garnette on December 15, 2013, at Lot 8 Clifford Street, Lamaha Springs, Joint Services Housing Scheme, Georgetown.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Friday that the Justice Department will ask the Supreme Court to block a judge’s ruling that prevented President Donald Trump’s travel ban from being applied to grandparents of U.S.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba’s economy bounced back from recession and expanded an estimated 1.1 percent in the first half of this year, driven by growth in tourism, construction and agriculture, Economy Minister Ricardo Cabrisas told the National Assembly yesterday.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Rap artist and Hollywood actor DMX pleaded not guilty on Friday to federal charges that he concealed income from the government for years to avoid paying $1.7 million in taxes.

A mother of five minor children was yesterday granted her release on bail after she denied a charge that she had 2.5 grammes of cocaine in her possession.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Peru’s former left-leaning President Ollanta Humala, ordered to spend 18 months in pre-trial detention, was moved on Friday to a prison built for his longtime foe ex-autocratic leader Alberto Fujimori.

Desmond James, one of the six men who fled the Camp Street jail on Sunday was held last night on an access dam at Canal No.1 Polder, West Bank Demerara.

Police are presently investigating an accident on the Linden/Soesdyke Highway which has so far claimed the lives of three unidentified persons.

The opposition PPP today condemned a statement by President David Granger absolving Minister of Public Security.

The Minister of Public Security by virtue of ministerial powers vested in him by the Constitution and based on advice from senior prison officials, who testified to the prisoners’ character and good behaviour, released a total of 57 prisoners over the past week, a statement from the ministry said today.

Five men, including two police ranks, were today charged over the attempted robbery of the Republic Bank branch at Water Street that ended in a fatal shootout between the armed robbers, guards and the police last Tuesday morning.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – The United Nations called on Venezuela’s government to let people take part in an unofficial referendum on the constitution on Sunday and to make sure security forces do not use excessive force against protesters.

(Reuters) – Leading West Indies cricketers such as Chris Gayle and Sunil Narine could soon return to the national one-day international side as a long-running pay saga appears to be finally showing signs of reaching a conclusion.