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(Barbados Nation) Barbadian Prime Minister Freundel Stuart met today with Jorge Arreaza, Vice President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Rival Republican presidential candidates piled on Donald Trump yesterday for his caustic remarks about a female debate moderator, and the billionaire celebrity candidate backpedalled in an effort to keep his campaign from unraveling.

KABUL (Reuters) – A wave of attacks on the Afghan army and police and US special forces in Kabul have killed at least 50 people and wounded hundreds, dimming hopes that the Taliban might be weakened by a leadership struggle after their longtime leader’s death.

TAIPEI/YILAN, Taiwan (Reuters) – A powerful typhoon battered Taiwan yesterday with strong wind and torrential rain, cutting power to 3.62 million households as the death toll rose to six.

At about 1815h. yesterday, the police say that a motor lorry with a load of lumber and four persons seated on top of the lumber toppled while descending a hill along the Upper Demerara trail.

Investigations are being conducted by the police into a fire that occurred at about 0950h.

Public Infrastructure Minister David Patterson today said that the thousands of persons from Timehri North, which the previous administration wanted to displace, will no longer have to move to facilitate the expansion of the airport runway, GINA reported.

(Barbados Nation) Barbadian Prime Minister Freundel Stuart met today with Jorge Arreaza, Vice President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

Aeshwar Deonarine, Deputy Chief Executive Officer (DCEO Administration) of the Guyana Power and Light (GPL), is seeking time to repay the $27.8M, which was transferred from the PetroCaribe fund to his personal bank account.

A team of ranks from the SWAT Unit has been dispatched to “B” Division (Berbice) to support the Division in its policing strategy, the police said today.

Regan Rodrigues, who police have linked to the weapon that killed political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing, was charged yesterday with his murder.

VAT will not be cut this year as had been promised by APNU+AFC, the biggest miss so far in the 100-day agenda that it had laid out, but Finance Minister Winston Jordan yesterday assured that the other monetary-related pledges will be kept.

A police investigation into the disappearance of $120M belonging to the Public Service Ministry has now widened after figures show that at least $355M cannot be accounted for, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum confirmed yesterday.

Each of the country’s ten administrative regions is now considering its own flag and emblem as part of an initiative by the Ministry of Communities to encourage the regions to develop their own identities.

A well-known restaurateur was murdered in his home yesterday morning, plunging the East Ruimveldt community where he lived and operated his business into mourning.

A city businessman was wounded last night during a shootout with three men who attacked him in an attempted robbery.

Following the handing down of community service sentences to two youths who stole over $9M in electronics and other valuables during a gunpoint hold-up of Golyn & Sons Fashion, the store’s proprietor Mahendra Boodhoo has voiced his dissatisfaction with the punishment meted out.

Ex-policeman Ruel Brandon was yesterday charged with the murder of Davonan Sookram, whose decomposing body was found along the access road at Ruby, East Bank Essequibo last Friday, four days after he went missing.

A mother and daughter accused of selling a quantity of cocaine to a police officer were yesterday refused bail by Magistrate Fabayo Azore.