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Acting top cop David Ramnarine on Friday assured that the Monica Reece murder investigation is still very much alive and made it clear that he doesn’t know which police officer covered up the crime.

71 students graduated from the Schools of Music, Dance, Fine Arts (ERBSA) and Theatre Arts and Drama at the third Convocation of the Institute of Creative Arts (ICA), which was held at the National Cultural Centre on September 27.

Tinnenben Animation Studio two Saturdays ago launched its ‘Nancy School Daze’ series, funded by IPED, at the Herdmanston Lodge.

Privileged Clothing and Naked Skin Soaps emerged winner and runner-up respectively in the Scotiabank Vision Achiever LivePitch 2016 competition.

National Grade Six Assessment 2016 top performers from the East Coast of Demerara were last week  rewarded at Benjamin’s Bakery’s tenth Annual Bursary Ceremony.

A resident of St Ignatius, Rupununi in Region Nine contested as a councillor for the town of Bon Fim when Brazil held its Municipal Elections yesterday.

LES CAYES, Haiti/ KINGSTON,  (Reuters) – Haiti and Jamaica urged residents in vulnerable coastal areas to evacuate and Cuba suspended flights yesterday as bands of rain from Hurricane Matthew, the strongest storm to menace Caribbean nations since 2007, drenched the Jamaican capital.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian political parties implicated in the massive Petrobras corruption scandal, including that of President Michel Temer, suffered major setbacks in yesterday’s municipal elections that put right-leaning candidates ahead in key cities.

ADDIS ABABA, (Reuters) – More than 50 people were killed in a stampede in Ethiopia’s Oromiya region that was triggered when police used teargas and shot in the air yesterday to disperse anti-government protesters at a religious festival.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s decision to take a $916 million loss on his 1995 income tax return showed his business acumen and “genius” at figuring out how to minimize his tax bill, two of the Republican presidential candidate’s advisers said yesterday.

MANILA, (Reuters) – Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte apologised “profoundly and deeply” to the Jewish community yesterday, and said his references to the Holocaust while discussing his war on drugs were to hit back at critics who had likened him to Adolf Hitler.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombians narrowly rejected a peace deal with Marxist guerrillas in a referendum yesterday, plunging the nation into uncertainty and dashing President Juan Manuel Santos’ painstakingly negotiated plan to end the 52-year war.

SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – A judge in El Salvador has reopened the case of a massacre allegedly carried out by soldiers in 1981 that is considered the worst atrocity committed during the country’s brutal civil war, a lawyer involved in the matter said on Saturday.

PORT-AU-PRINCE/KINGSTON, (Reuters) – Haiti and Jamaica implored residents in vulnerable coastal areas to evacuate and Cuba suspended flights today as Hurricane Matthew, the strongest storm to menace the Caribbean islands since 2007, spun slowly toward the region.

SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates,  CMC – Pakistan defeated West Indies by 59 runs, in the second One-Day International at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium here Sunday.

Attorney Charles Ramson Jnr has resigned as a Member of Parliament with immediate effect to pursue a Masters in oil and gas and has since registered his disappointment at the lack of youth representation in the House and the government’s refusal to send Bills to a parliamentary select committee.

ADDIS ABABA, (Reuters) – Police in Ethiopia’s Oromiya region fired teargas and warning shots on Sunday to disperse anti-government protesters at a religious festival, triggering a stampede that the opposition party said killed at least 50 people.

The controversial award of a juice contract to Surinamese company Rudisa could be in deep trouble as the Government Analyst Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD) was unable to do a vital test because of broken equipment and no sample from the aggrieved local bidder, Topco was provided for comparison.

Babylon, Corentyne, Berbice also called Number 64 Village is home to approximately 600 people.

Three businesses lost millions of dollars yesterday, when a fire of unknown origin swept through a section of the commercial zone in Central Bartica.