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Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam and Middle Road, La Penitence are two squatter settlements the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) is working to regularize this year, its Director of Community Development Gladwin Charles has said, even as the entity’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) warned that there is a “zero tolerance policy” on squatting in critical areas.

TOKYO (Reuters) – Rescue crews searched into the early hours today for seven American sailors missing after a US destroyer collided with a container ship in the predawn hours off the coast of Japan.

The Ministers of Citizen-ship and Public Security have been advised to become acquainted with the country’s international obligations regarding migrants, and to move swiftly in their attendance to the matter involving the Haitians in police custody.

LISBON (Reuters) – A forest fire in central Portugal killed at least 19 people yesterday, most of them occupants of various vehicles that were on the road and caught in the blaze, an official said in televised remarks.

Private developers who have been negligent with honouring their obligations to the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) may have their lands repossessed if they remain non-compliant to their agreements of sale, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Lelon Saul has said.

(Trinidad Guardian) – Speculation that a Chinese mafia operating in Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) ordered the hit on the lives on Chinese nationals Shirui Zhao and Yangli Gu is one of the theories being investigated by police.

CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – The newly opend Brian Lara Cricket Stadium in Trinidad will host the finals of the 2017 Caribbean Premier League in September, organisers confirmed Saturday.

The WPA remains a key member of the governing coalition, according to Minister of State, Joseph Harmon.

(Trinidad Guardian) Speculation that a Chinese mafia operating in T&T ordered the hit on the lives on Chinese nationals Shirui Zhao and Yangli Gu is one of the theories being investigated by police.

Following the granting of a production licence by government here, ExxonMobil yesterday announced that it has made a final investment decision to proceed with the first phase of development for the Liza field at a cost of US$4.4B.

A marathon debate on the PPP/C motion for the revocation of the controversial presidential Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into lands ended last night with the government members voting it down.

A family on the Corentyne is now mourning the loss of the head of their household, after the tractor he was operating in a rice field flipped over, and pinned him on Thursday afternoon around 2 pm.

The business of the National Assembly was at a standstill for 15 minutes last evening when Speaker of the House, Dr.

Head of the Customs Anti-Narcotic Agency (CANU) James Singh was yesterday officially notified of his removal from that past which has resulted from recommendations made by President David Granger as well as a Commission of Inquiry (CoI) recently conducted into the unit’s role in the interception and subsequent release of a cocaine-laden vessel.

A Linden man was yesterday granted bail, after being charged with circulating nude photographs of his ex-girlfriend.

Shafaur Alli, one of the two siblings charged with the discovery of cocaine in frozen fish at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), last year June, had the matter dismissed yesterday, after the prosecution failed to prove its case.

The partially decomposed body that was discovered on a dam in Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara (WCD) earlier this week has been identified as that of a Crane Housing Scheme woman, who had been mentally ill for the past 20 years.

Twenty-eight-year-old father of nine, Satish Diaz, was yesterday sentenced to eight years in jail for the 2014 killing of his friend, Mahendra Singh, who he dealt a single blow, while they were drinking.

Minister of State Joseph Harmon yesterday confirmed that several government ministers have travelled to Ireland to seek medical attention but stressed that this is at their own expense.

Charged last year with driving under the influence, and dangerous driving which caused the death of Bertram Cummings, Michael Fraser was yesterday sentenced to four years for the causing death charge and fined for the other.