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Vendors who have been relocated from the Stabroek Market Square to the temporary site at Lombard and Hadfield streets are complaining of a noticeable drop in business since the move.

HONG KONG/TAIPEI (Reuters) – A Taiwanese group has intervened in the Philippines’ international court case against China’s claims in the South China Sea, pressing Taipei’s position that Taiwan is entitled to a swathe of the disputed waterway as an economic zone.

BEIRUT/PARIS (Reuters) – Syrian government forces and their allies fought insurgents near Aleppo yesterday and jets conducted raids around a nearby town seized by Islamist rebels, a monitoring group said, as Syria’s military said a ceasefire in Aleppo would be extended by 48 hours starting today.

Parents and students of the Santa Rosa Secondary School are worried that they may be penalised by the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) after delays saw them writing the Agricultural Science Paper 2 yesterday afternoon instead of yesterday morning.

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – A judicial probe of possible corruption during Argentina’s last government is also threatening the new administration as some of President Mauricio Macri’s own allies face investigation.

Murder suspect Rudolph Williams, who managed to elude the police for almost four months after he allegedly killed his wife Bibi Zabeeda Zamaludeen, died on Sunday, one week after he ingested a poisonous substance.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s Senate forged ahead with impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff yesterday, rejecting a surprise decision by the acting speaker of the lower house, who tried to annul a key vote just days before the president could be suspended from office.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who has called for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States, suggested yesterday he would make an exception for London’s newly elected Muslim  mayor, the New York Times reported.

A construction worker is currently a patient at a city hospital after he was ambushed by two bandits who shot him twice and snatched $1.8 million.

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) – Panama will close key crossings on its border with Colombia to prevent undocumented migrants from Cuba and Africa entering the country, President Juan Carlos Varela said yesterday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two nephews of Venezuela’s first lady facing US charges that they conspired to import cocaine into the United States are getting their defence costs paid for by an unnamed third party, prosecutors said.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s socialist government has extended a two-day workweek for public sector employees for another two weeks because of a drought that has sapped hydroelectric power generation in the OPEC country.

An Albouystown man, who was charged with illegal firearm and ammunition possession, was yesterday granted bail by a city magistrate.

A huge fire, which started at Gafoor’s Houston Complex, is currently still raging.

About 1000h. today, the police say that Sean Harper, 46 years, of Cummings Lodge, ECD, was about to exit his motor vehicle at Alexander Street, Kitty, when he was attacked by a man armed with a handgun.

GTT today unveiled its 4G service. A release from the company follows: GTT launches 30 times faster 4G Starting today more than 85% of our customers will get blazing fast 4G.

The police today issued wanted bulletins for three murder accused and one of them is wanted for questioning in relation to two killings.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – The acting speaker of the lower house of Brazil’s Congress annulled the impeachment process against President Dilma Rousseff today and called for a new vote in the chamber.

At about 1455h. yesterday, the police say that Deoram Persaud, 39 years, of Belmont, Mahaica, ECD, was riding a motorcycle along the roadway at Kairuni, Soesdyke-Linden Highway, allegedly at a fast rate, when he lost control of the vehicle and crashed.

About 0110h. today, ranks of a mobile police patrol along Broad Street, Montrose, ECD, saw a man running behind a motor vehicle with registration PSS 6835 and shouting that he had been robbed of a sum of money by persons in the vehicle.