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PEDERNALES/QUITO, Ecuador, (Reuters) – Ecuador will temporarily increase some taxes, sell assets, and may issue new bonds on the international market to fund a multi-billion dollar reconstruction after a devastating 7.8 magnitude quake, a somber President Rafael Correa said yesterday.

The Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) has been mapping semi-precious stones and with declining prices globally for gold and other metals, Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman says the development of these “neglected” minerals can boost the livelihood of many people.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – From trimming menus in staff canteens to cutting back on soap and washing detergent at worker camps, the global mining industry that once lavished perks on employees is scrimping like never before as a brutal downturn engulfs minerals markets.

A Kuru Kuru resident was on Monday remanded to prison after being charged with having a kilogramme of cannabis for trafficking.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Anti-slavery crusader Harriet Tubman will become the first African-American on the face of U.S.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Beleaguered Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff will travel to New York in a bid to rally international support against her impeachment, leaving behind a Cabinet paralyzed by political crisis as another minister defected yesterday.

TORONTO,  (Reuters) – Canada’s Liberal government will introduce a law in spring 2017 to legalize recreational marijuana, it said yesterday, fulfilling an election pledge and following several U.S.

OSLO,  (Reuters) – Norway violated mass killer Anders Behring Breivik’s human rights by keeping him in a “completely locked world” after being sentenced for killing 77 people in twin attacks in 2011, a court ruled on Wednesday.

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – An anti-graft mission of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Honduras said on Tuesday it will investigate a multi-million dollar corruption scandal that has dogged the president of the Central American country, Juan Orlando Hernandez.

FLINT, Mich., (Reuters) – Three Michigan state and local officials were criminally charged yesterday in an investigation into dangerous lead levels in the city of Flint’s drinking water, and the state attorney general said there would be more charges to come.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua,  CMC – Beleaguered regional governing body, the West Indies Cricket Board, has once again pushed back on growing calls for its dissolution, claiming today it had “lived up to its promises” and urging the region to “trust the process”.

Citing the controversy swirling around Minister of State Joseph Harmon, the human rights group, GHRA today called on President David Granger to lead from the front arguing that there was a crisis of credibility and unfulfilled expectations.

(Trinidad Guardian) Local Muslim leaders want a meeting with the Ministers of National Security and Foreign Affairs to discuss recent Government statements about security and monitoring systems, following revelations that 105 T&T nationals have gone to Syria over 2013-2015 to link with the Isis terrorist network.

Embattled Deputy Director of Prisons Gladwin Samuels yesterday insisted that he did all he could to safeguard the lives of the Camp Street Prison inmates on March 3rd, when 17 of them died, and suggested that prisoners would be hard-pressed to give a true account of the events due to fear.

A young mother of two died last evening after the motorcycle she was travelling on along Mandela Avenue was hit by a car.

Following reports of the shabby construction of the stands for the D’urban Park Development Project, President David Granger yesterday ordered Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson to immediately assume full responsibility for the project and said the concerns are being addressed.

A Wakenaam businessman is now dead after he was shot during a robbery attempt and then accidentally run over by a car in the city.

The mutilated body of Simone Hackett, who was reported missing since Saturday, was discovered yesterday morning in a trench at Cummings Lodge, a short distance away from her home.

The police have arrested the handyman of the elderly couple, Mohamed and Jamilla Munir, who were burned to death in their Good Hope, East Bank Essequibo home, on the suspicion that he has knowledge of the crime.

The Ministry of Natural Resources yesterday said that 13 dredges and one dragger found to be operating illegally in the Kaieteur National Park (KNP) have been confiscated.