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The Clerk of the National Assembly, Sherlock Isaacs has rejected a complaint by the opposition PPP that three nominees of the governing coalition were not eligible for swearing in as technocratic ministers on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund dramatically raised the stakes in Greece’s stalled debt talks yesterday, announcing that its delegation had left negotiations in Brussels and flown home because of major differences with Athens.

At the opening of the 11th Parliament on Wednesday, several new parliamentarians were sworn in and the rookies are excited and eager to play their role in the law-making forum.

MUMBAI/NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – More than half of a record 160 million accounts opened in India as part of a drive to offer banking to all are still empty, illustrating the massive task ahead for one of the government’s most high-profile campaigns and the strain on banks.

(Trinidad Express) The wife of a murdered businessman has appeared in court charged under the Trafficking in Persons Act.

Cleveland Allen, accused of break and enter and attempting to commit a felony after police found him in the Bourda Market during prohibited hours, told a city court yesterday that he fell asleep in the market.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Master of the macabre Christopher Lee, who portrayed Dracula in outrageous Hammer Films horror classics but became known to later generations for roles in “Star Wars” and as the wizard Saruman in the “Lord of the Rings”, has died aged 93.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Hundreds of law enforcement agents hunting for two upstate New York prison escapees focused their search on Thursday on a heavily wooded area just a few miles from the maximum security facility where they broke out last week, police said.

A man who admitted to entering a woman’s yard and stealing her clothes baskets and doormats was yesterday sentenced to 18 months in jail.

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Protecting the world’s dwindling forests and making small farms more productive will cost hundreds of billions of dollars annually – money governments and charities do not have to spend, experts said at a London conference.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – A former Venezuelan mayor jailed last year for his role in anti-government protests has ended a 20-day hunger strike that supporters said had weakened him and triggered kidney pain, his wife said yesterday.

(Reuters) – World-class cricket is finally coming to the United States with “three or four” matches being planned for south Florida next year, a top Caribbean official told Reuters on Thursday.

The Ministry of the Presidency today announced that President David Granger has appointed the following individuals to serve as Presidential Advisors.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – West Indies won the toss and sent Australia in to bat on the opening day of the second Test at Sabina Park here today.

Solomon Cherai of the Success Elementary School, Eccles has topped the National Grade Six Assessment with 530 marks, it was announced today by the Ministry of Education.

(Trinidad Express) Attorney General Garvin Nicholas said yesterday officials feared former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner would flee the island after facing US federal corruption charges, but they’re now confident he’ll stay in the country.

Saying that his administration would endeavour to eradicate the enemies of the people, such as crime, disease, ignorance and poverty, President David Granger in his inaugural address to the National Assembly yesterday announced steps the new administration plans to take the country forward.

Declaring that Venezuela’s maritime Decree of May 26th 2015 was a “baseless and shameless” bid to usurp Guyana’s territory, Foreign Minister Carl Greenidge yesterday said that a definitive solution must be found to this shadow that has hung over the country for 49 years and he signalled that the government would be moving for a juridical settlement of the border controversy.

Former senior diplomat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dr Barton Scotland SC, was yesterday elected to preside over the 11th Parliament of the country.

A 41-year-old mother of five is now dead after being subjected to what appeared to have been a botched abortion prior to admission to the GPHC, according to hospital sources.