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Massy Stores is advertising for staff as it prepares to open supermarkets here sometime this year.

(Jamaica Observer) Government says it is working to transform and strengthen its public procurement system, to ensure greater transparency and efficiency in the management of this process.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Wiping back tears as he remembered children killed in a mass shooting, President Barack Obama yesterday ordered stricter gun rules that he can impose without Congress and urged American voters to reject pro-gun candidates.

(Barbados Nation) The Barbados Government yesterday signed an agreement with telecommunications provider Digicel Business that will see the eventual connectivity of all government data and networks.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago and Grenada registered a 5.0 magnitude earthquake yesterday and the experts are warning of more to come.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition took control of Congress for the first time in 16 years yesteday in a rowdy session, setting up a power struggle with President Nicolas Maduro amid a worsening economic crisis.

(Reuters) – North Korea said it had successfully conducted a test of a miniaturised hydrogen nuclear device this morning.

Investigations are being conducted into the circumstances surrounding the death of fisherman Shahabudeen Haniff, 49 years, of Meten-Meer-Zorg, WCD, whose body was found in the net of a fishing vessel that was working in the vicinity of the Berbice River, during yesterday, the police said today.

The Private Sector Commission today called on the police and the army to explain the circumstances behind an accident last week that claimed three lives following reports that it involved the chase of a person who was believed to be the daughter of NICIL Head Winston Brassington.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australia have withdrawn from the under-19 World Cup in Bangladesh later this month because of concerns over the “safety and security” of the squad, Cricket Australia said in statement on Tuesday.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – West Indies batsman Chris Gayle has been fined A$10,000 ($7,197) by the Melbourne Renegades Twenty20 team for asking an Australian TV reporter out on a date and directing personal comments at her during a televised pitchside interview.

As Anita Baichan burned to death in a fire set by robbers who had invaded her Hope, West Coast Berbice home early Sunday morning, her son could only watch on helplessly.

From its inception, the Skeldon sugar modernisation project proved to be an enormous financial burden on GuySuCo and the government ignored advice from the company’s manager, Booker Tate to fire controversial Chinese contractor, CNTIC, according to the report of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the industry.

The prime suspect in the fatal New Year’s Day beating of Cane Grove cane harvester Deokumar Basdeo has managed to flee to the United States.

Over 400 farmers and other residents on the Essequibo coast are expected to benefit from the installation of the Lima Pump Station which was yesterday morning inaugurated by Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo and Agriculture Minister Noel Holder, GINA said.

Three men were charged with murder yesterday after three separate killings at the end of last year, including the fatal shooting of a Brazilian miner who was robbed of raw gold.

Since the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) questioned the veracity of wage and salary figures for sugar workers contained in the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) report into GuySuCo, the state corporation and the CoI have remained silent.

The victim in the Greenwich Park stabbing, Dewaun Anthony Baksh, 22, died of shock and haemorrhage due to five stab wounds.

The temporary holding site at the Haags Bosch Sanitary Landfill is now accepting waste from Georgetown and the East Bank of Demerara, while garbage from the East Coast will continue to be collected at the Lusignan Landfill.

An autopsy performed on the remains of Ganesh Ramlakhan, who was allegedly murdered by his cousin at Mon Repos on New Year’s Day, has revealed that he died as result of a single stab wound to the heart.