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WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – In the blocks surrounding the White House, signs reading “Love Trumps Hate” and “Build Bridges Not Walls” littered the sidewalks yesterday, the detritus of the Women’s March protesting the policies of President Donald Trump.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Brazilian security officials worked to complete an improvised wall of metal shipping containers yesterday inside a prison where rival gangs have clashed in the past week, resulting in the brutal killing of 26 inmates.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The White House vowed yesterday to fight the news media “tooth and nail” over what it sees as unfair attacks, with a top adviser saying the Trump administration had presented “alternative facts” to counter low inauguration crowd estimates.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro yesterday tapped a political ally and economist, Ricardo Sanguino, to be the new chief of the country’s central bank, amid a deep economic contraction, runaway inflation and Soviet-style product shortages.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Chairman of selectors, Courtney Browne, is hoping the incident between Test batsman Darren Bravo and the West Indies Cricket Board can be solved quickly, so the player can return to action.

The PNCR today denied a report in the Guyana Times  that senior public servants had been requested to attend its General Council meeting on Saturday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May said today she would not be afraid to tell Donald Trump when she finds something he has said unacceptable, as she prepares to meet the new U.S.

Minister of Finance Winston Jordan has blamed recent reporting of what he labelled a “contrived” shortage of foreign currency for creating “a climate of speculation and hysteria.”

Travelling along the Corentyne highway, you could miss Wellington Park, which is considered the smallest village on the Corentyne or maybe even in the entire Berbice, with its 12 houses and population of less than 50 persons.

Alfred De Younge, the man who is accused of burning the mother of his two children in a suspected acid attack last Thursday, was arrested yesterday after he was involved in a vehicular accident in Linden.

A 28-year-old minibus conductor is now in police custody assisting with investigations in last evening’s stabbing to death of a Leopold Street resident near the Stabroek Market.

The copies of the medical certificates and birth certificates of the nine boys allegedly raped by Muslim scholar Nezaam Ali have mysteriously disappeared from the case files and the distraught mother of three of them, is now convinced that efforts are afoot to sabotage the case to ensure that the alleged perpetrator is spared jail time.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) yesterday said that its constitution does not prohibit the party’s leader and other senior office holders from serving more than two successive terms in the same post.

Minister of Natural Resources and Alliance for Change (AFC) executive Raphael Trotman says that he too would be accepting nominations to be party leader and would consider it an honour to serve in the capacity once more.

Attorney Ronald Burch-Smith has clarified that his comments in the report, ‘Jagdeo open to submitting new Gecom list,’ which was published in the January 21st edition of the Stabroek News, were made by him in his personal capacity and not as a representative of the Guyana Bar Association.

Pledging his support for the educational advancement of all, including public servants, President David Granger has said that there is nothing corrupt about the granting of scholarships to ministers Annette Ferguson and Nicolette Henry.

The St Stanislaus farm, established 41 years ago to be a live laboratory for students of St Stanislaus College to engage in and observe agricultural practices, has since grown to become a leader in the promotion of farming technology and agricultural sciences as well as a self-sustaining operation.

Cosmetologists and barbers who operate on the Merriman Mall said they have met Mayor Patricia Chase-Green and voiced their concerns about having to be relocated and suggested that they be allowed to build permanent structures.

National Industrial and Commercial Investment Inc (NICIL) is depending on the court system to resolve issues surrounding land it had leased to the Guyana National Industrial Company (GNIC).

IXMIQUILPAN, MEXICO (Reuters) – Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto spoke with US President Donald Trump by phone yesterday ahead of talks among their officials in Washington next week as the Mexico leader faces populist pressure from a frontrunner in the 2018 election.