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WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. job growth surged in October and the unemployment rate hit a 7-1/2-year low of 5.0 percent in a show of economic strength that makes it much more likely the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates in December.

The autopsies performed on the remains of Kavita Ackloo and Ramesh Beharry, who were found dead on the Kingston seawall on Monday, revealed that they died as a result of pesticide poisoning.

One of the suspects in Wednesday’s Mahaicony Supermarket robbery has been identified as a suspect in a robbery/murder than took place in Linden in April.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – From the Queen of England, a tough chief detective and a handful of ruthless secret agents, Britain’s Dame Helen Mirren has never been a woman to be messed with – on or off screen.

Parliament Office this evening announced that the proposed sitting of the House on November 12 has been postponed to a date to be fixed.

The government today appealed to sugar workers not to go on strike and it maintained its position that wage talks cannot begin now as a 10-year road map is being devised for the beleaguered industry and warned that no more bailout money is available from the state.

The opposition PPP today rejected the use of the historic Red House for the collections of Presidents other than the late Dr Cheddi Jagan.

(Trinidad Guardian) Relatives of PC Govindra Ramroop, who was shot dead by one of his colleagues at the Guapo Police Station yesterday, wants stiff penalties against the offending officer, saying it was caused by negligence.

Government is moving to table a witness protection bill that will see the establishment of safe houses and new identities for persons who put their lives at risk to testify in court, Minister of Governance Raphael Trotman announced yesterday.

Three suspected robbers have been captured after their getaway was derailed by persistent Mahaicony residents, who went as far as to set a field on fire to force one of the men out of hiding.

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday accused government of deception on the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHP) and called on the David Granger administration to join in a “conversation” about the project based on reason.

Observant ranks of the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) yesterday unearthed 25 pounds of cocaine concealed in packets of powdered milk in the suitcase of an outbound passenger at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri.

Two men were yesterday charged with killing Onderneeming miner Sheldon Rodrigues.

Instead of the asking for a relaxation of enforcement of the 2am cap on liquor sales, the private sector should be lobbying for the law to be changed, Governance Minister Raphael Trotman said yesterday.

The fisherman accused of stealing $1.6 million in items from Guyana Stores Limited was yesterday cleared of the charge after a fingerprint analysis revealed he had been implicated wrongfully.

Agriculture spokesperson for the People’s Progressive Party and General Secretary of the Rice Producers Association Dharamkumar Seeraj is calling on the Agriculture Minister to enact concessions that would ease the financial burden faced by rice farmers and millers.

Nadira Persaud, the Norton Street woman who was in July charged with cannabis possession, was freed yesterday after a city magistrate found that no case had been made against her.

Minister of Finance Winston Jordan yesterday began consultations for Budget 2016.

The Government has requested that the Sitting of the National Assembly scheduled for November 12th, 2015, be postponed to enable the attendance of MPs at important conferences abroad.

Cabinet has given its approval for a tobacco control bill to be submitted to the National Assembly as government moves to bring an end to smoking in public places.