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By Clem Seecharran Rohan Bholalall Kanhai will be 80 on 26 December 2015.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – California Governor Jerry Brown yesterday pardoned “Iron Man” film star Robert Downey Jr.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Days into his presidency, Mauricio Macri faces his first big threats as he seeks to fix Argentina’s ailing economy: inflation and recession.

About 0700h. this morning the body of Mohamed Fizal Baksh, 56 years, of Crabwood Creek, Corentyne, was found on the foreshore at No.

(Trinidad Guardian) Central Bank Governor Jwala Rambarran has been fired. The T&T Guardian confirmed that Rambarran was dismissed by the Minister of Finance, Colm Imbert yesterday.

The APNU+AFC Government yesterday announced that it has ordered head of NICIL, Winston Brassington, and his deputy to proceed on immediate leave and has instructed that files be turned over to the police for further investigations to ascertain if any “criminality” was involved in the management of the government holding company.

The much anticipated Commission of Inquiry (COI) report into the sugar industry will be tabled in the National Assembly on Wednesday having received the go-ahead from Cabinet on Tuesday.

There has been no sign of a Corentyne money changer three days after his disappearance, but his family continues to hope for positive news.

Three Lindeners appeared before a city court yesterday on several charges of robbery under arms, where millions worth in items were taken from the victims.

A Guyana-born, US cardiologist who ordered patients to undergo unnecessary open heart surgery and carried out risky tests and procedures in order to tap fraudulent payments from Medicare and private insurers has been sentenced to 20 years in a US federal prison, the UK Guardian reported yesterday.

Minister of State, Joseph Harmon yesterday said that when Cabinet met on Tuesday it gave its no-objections to contracts to the value of $375,225,580 The contracts are shown below.

The Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) yesterday advised that a murder charge be levelled against Seon Anthony Edwards over the death of – miner, Rawle Peters five years ago, the police say.

President David Granger’s Boats, Buses and Bicycles or ‘Three Bs’ Programme for schoolchildren yesterday grew by another boat which was donated by Charity fisherman, Kumar Lallbachan.

A miner was yesterday remanded to prison on a charge of attempted murder, when he appeared before the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.

A 41-year-old man can now spend Christmas with his family as he was released on bail after facing breaking and entering charges.

One of the utility poles which crashed on Hadfield Street on Tuesday evening fell on a minibus but luckily there were no injuries.

It is almost a year since Brian Devine suffered severe injuries after being hit by an out-of-control car that claimed the life of his best friend and this Christmas will be unlike any other he has celebrated as he is still hospitalised.

Minister of Finance Winston Jordan yesterday signed a pact which will see IDB-funded surveys in key areas such unemployment statistics, perceptions on crime and living conditions.

The West Coast Demerara highway project from Vreed-en-Hoop to Hydronie is now approximately 20 percent completed.

The body of a Lusignan handyman was found early yesterday morning tucked between the rocks at the Kitty Seawall.