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(Trinidad Guardian) A Hardbargain family who offered their home as refuge to a relative who was being hunted by criminals, suffered a tragic fate yesterday morning when two of their relatives were killed and two others injured by gunmen who stormed their house.

Trinidad and Tobago is expecting that Venezuela will do nothing to prevent Guyana from realizing the development of its natural resources for its people, T&T PM Dr Keith Rowley said last night, even as he joined Suriname President Desi Bouterse in calling for peace to reign in the region.

A $2 billion bridge across the Demerara River at Linden, the upgrade of wharves across the country and the construction of a waterfront at the Stabroek Market are among a range of infrastructural projects that government hopes to fund with grant resources from the United Kingdom.

The United States has been quietly clamping down on television piracy in Guyana, even as it has promised the Caribbean to help probe similar intellectual property and copyright violations by American companies.

Prime Minister of Jamaica Andrew Holness has called for Caricom leaders to make the movement of labour throughout the Caribbean Community as easy as the movement of goods.

In his inaugural speech to the meeting of the Caricom Heads of Government here in Guyana, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Dr Keith Rowley channeled Caricom unity and told his fellow leaders that leadership is not always about being popular but about leading and making tough decisions.

Former president Donald Ramotar said yesterday that the eight containers of steel belonging to fired specialty hospital contractor Surendra Ltd had been examined by the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) hence his conclusion that the value was $800 million.

Despite an APNU+AFC manifesto commitment to take draft constitutional amendments to Parliament within nine months of taking office, more than a year into his administration, President David Granger is not prepared to commit to a timeline.

The recent referendum which will see Britain exiting the European Union (EU) has brought the survival of integration in the Caribbean Region into focus, Prime Minister of Saint Lucia Allen Chastanet said last evening while noting that the role and purpose of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) is also being questioned.

Chile’s Head of State Michelle Bachelet, last night arrived in Guyana to participate in 37th Conference of Heads of Governments of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) being held over the next two days.

Come July and August Guyanese students are set to become more intimate with STEM, an acronym for Science, Techno-logy, Engineering and Mathematics, when four Georgia siblings hold camps at various locations aimed at helping them to understand the software and technology of the gadgets they are hooked on.

YANGON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Khin Htar Kyu was in her late teens when she left her village in Wakema Township in Myanmar’s southern Ayeyarwady Region with a younger sister to find work in Yangon to help pay the debts of her farming family.

Established to offer active support to the local creative industry particularly in the field of animation, the Guyana Animation Network (GAN), launched on Saturday, brings local animators one step closer to being part of the multi-billion-dollar global animation industry.

LONDON (Reuters) – The leader of the insurgent right-wing UK Independence Party said yesterday he was stepping down after realising his ambition to win a vote for Britain to leave the EU, the latest twist in a dramatic reshaping of the nation’s politics.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – The family of the late Nelson Mandela is furious that a recording of the revered South African leader’s voice is being used by the main opposition party for campaigning in local government elections due to be held next month.

A man is now a patient in a city hospital after he lost control of the car he was driving yesterday morning and it toppled into a drain at Brickdam, Georgetown.

Deputy Mayor Sherod Duncan yesterday toured his constituency South Ruimveldt Park/ Ruimveldt Industrial Estate and evaluated issues affecting residents.

Members of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) were yesterday encouraged to count their blessings rather than wallow in a sense of pessimism at the failures of the integration movement.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The death toll from a suicide bombing in a Baghdad shopping district rose above 175 yesterday, fueling calls for security forces to crack down on Islamic State sleeper cells blamed for one of the worst-ever single bombings in Iraq.

RIO DE JANEIRO/NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Petrobras has warned its Indian partners in a huge offshore project to not expect oil from the site until 2022, according to sources, a fresh sign of how low oil prices and the state-owned company’s corruption scandal and mountain of debt are dragging on Brazil’s energy industry.