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HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Foreign ministers and other officials from 25 Caribbean countries met in Havana yesterday to discuss a joint response in the face of Trump administration threats to migrants and trade.

Police are searching for three suspects who robbed an overseas-based couple in an armed attack at Brickery, East Bank Demerara, on Wednesday afternoon, just hours after they arrived in the country.

  WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States and Mexico will launch a new round of negotiations to resolve a years-long trade dispute over Mexico’s sugar exports to the United States, senior officials in both governments said yesterday.

Armed bandits robbed the Shell gas station at Ogle, East Coast Demerara early yesterday morning, after they tied up the security guard.

  NEW DELHI, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – India will more than double maternity leave, allow work from home and require employers to have crèches to improve maternal and child health and boost a declining female workforce.

The government has appointed Dr. Jan Mangal, an expert in offshore and civil engineering, as Petroleum Advisor in the Ministry of the Presidency.

The police say that at 17:30hrs today, Corporal Shevon Marks who had been held over the smuggling of an AK-47 turned himself in to the police.

Former Attorney General Anil Nandlall says based on information received from his clients who were interviewed at SOCU Headquarters in the Pradoville 2 probe, UK adviser Dr Sam Sittlington may have exceeded his remit.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Head coach Stuart Law believes there is enough ability within the West Indies set-up, to be able to transform the struggling regional side into a winning unit.

Following an operation this morning, ranks from the Criminal Investigation Department’s (CID) Major Crimes Unit found two firearms, an AK-47 rifle and a ruger rifle with magazines in an empty lot at Cumming’s Lodge, East Coast Demerara.

Amid questions about the role of UK Advisor Dr Sam Sittlington in the arrests and questioning of former President Bharrat Jagdeo and a series of former ministers and other officials, British High Commissioner to Guyana, Greg Quinn today provided a clarifying statement.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two men, a Chinese and a Guyanese, were each fined $5,000 yesterday after appearing on separate charges of illegal entry into the country and possession of a tampered passport.

  While ANSA McAl says it adhered to a procurement process which saw it getting a contract for the supply of $605M in drugs to the Georgetown Public Hospital, the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) says that it has not seen the contract or approved any such sum.

While former People’s Progressive Party/Civic  Minister Robert Persaud yesterday said that he was amenable to a mutually acceptable resolution in the Pradoville 2 matter, Anil Nandlall, legal representative of the People’s Progressive Party General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo and other former ministers, said that option has been “ruled out”.

President David Granger yesterday said that the “fragile fabric” of the country’s social cohesion could potentially be damaged by what he dubbed “reckless” and “provocative” calls.

  From April 1, 2017, former PNC Prime Minister Hamilton Green is expected to start receiving almost $1.5 million a month in pension payments and other benefits after the government used its parliamentary majority last evening to pass a controversial bill to confer him with the package.

Cane-cutters and cane transporters of the Wales estate and their families and workers from the Enmore estate yesterday staged picketing exercises in front of the Ministry of the Presidency and Parliament building over severance payments and the end of sugar operations at the West Bank Demerara estate.

A Vergenoegen, East Bank Essequibo (EBE) pedal cyclist succumbed yesterday afternoon at the Georgetown Public Hospital while receiving medical attention after being involved in an accident at around 3.15 pm.

Nucklus Singh, 21,  is wanted by the police for questioning in relation to causing the death by dangerous driving of Chandanie Dass on 2014-08-02 on the Annandale Public Road, Essequibo Coast.

Although the Mayor and City Council continues to stand firmly behind its contract with Smart City Solutions to implement metered parking in Georgetown, supporters of the Movement Against Parking Meters maintained their lobby for the project to be scrapped at their sixth protest in as many weeks yesterday.