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(Reuters) – Diabetes experts called on world leaders yesterday to use sugar taxes to fight obesity, arguing such a move would save lives and slash healthcare budgets.

MILWAUKEE, (Reuters) – Republican U.S. presidential contenders attacked Donald Trump’s views on Syria and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday as simplistic and unrealistic, and rival Jeb Bush said the real estate mogul did not grasp “how the real world works.”

As the government seeks to conclude the development of housing schemes, it is appealing to persons who have been allocated lots to immediately begin construction.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s top legislator lambasted the Organization of American States (OAS) as “perverted” and “corrupt” after its secretary general criticized the country’s electoral board for failing to ensure fair elections.

Following concerns highlighted by the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) on the processing of approximately four to five thousand applications for the promotion of senior teachers (in the public education division) for 2015-2016, a Teaching Service Commission (TSC) statement is maintaining that the body rigidly followed “set criteria and principles” in the exercise.

TORONTO, (Reuters) – Trinidad-born author Andre Alexis on Tuesday won Canada’s Giller Prize, the country’s richest fiction award, for his novel “Fifteen Dogs”, about a group of animals at a Toronto veterinary clinic who gain human consciousness and language.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama, in a phone call with South African President Jacob Zuma yesterday, expressed “deep concern” about the situation in Burundi, the White House said.

Newly appointed Chancellor of the University of Guyana (UG), Professor Nigel Harris is slated to deliver the keynote address at the 49th Convocation of the University’s Turkeyen campus, on Saturday, November 14, at 16: 30 h on the University Square, Turkeyen campus.

(Barbados Nation) A mere five per cent. That’s the extent of the tariff Government is prepared to levy on imported cement in the future.

(Reuters) – Daily fantasy sports sites FanDuel and DraftKings are prepared to fight in court against New York state’s top prosecutor, who said that they were running illegal gambling operations and ordered them to stop taking bets in the state.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The government has signed a memorandum of cooperation with the United States (US) Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) which will allow the US to share information on deportees.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – U.S. Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz stole the spotlight on social media from the front-runners during a televised GOP debate on Tuesday night, drawing attention and getting positive reviews.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – A Brazilian man who visited Guinea is being tested for Ebola and authorities have preventively isolated a public health unit where he first sought medical attention, Brazil’s Health Minister Marcelo Castro said yesterday.

The Guyana Police Force says it has embarked on an aggressive zero tolerance campaign in all Policing Divisions across Guyana, to clamp down on the sale and use of Fire Crackers and other illicit Explosive Devices.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – West Indies ended their dismal tour of Sri Lanka with a consolation victory after Dwayne Bravo’s all-round brilliance secured a series-levelling 23-run win in the second and final Twenty20 International today.

(Trinidad Guardian) For three hours Sita Phillip sat in a vehicle near the Ortoire River, waiting for her husband Larry Phillip to return from a fishing trip on Monday.

Since their loss at the May 11, General and Regional elections the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has been plagued with a series of internal problems mainly around the legacy of former president Cheddi Jagan and the management style of leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo.

A three-year-old boy and his father drowned after the small boat they were travelling in capsized in the vicinity of Pap Falls, Essequibo River on Sunday evening.

Police Detectives in ‘A’ Division say they are investigating the murder of Jermaine Simon, 24yrs, of 46 Norton Street Bagotstown E.B.D,

An unidentified man died at the Georgetown Hospital last evening shortly after he was hit by a vehicle driven by a young attorney-at-law as he was attempting to cross Duncan Street.