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Police are investigating a fatal accident that occurred on Tuesday at about 12:30 hrs on the Buxton Public Road, East Coast Demerara, in which 19-year-old Treon Goppy was killed.

(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad welcomed its largest cruise ship to date earlier today when the MSC Seashore made its inaugural visit to Port of Spain with approximately 3,500 passengers on board.

QUITO, (Reuters) – The Ecuadorian government declared an animal health emergency yesterday due to an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu, its Agriculture Ministry said.

With the construction of a tarmac at the back of the Hydronie Market on the East Bank of Essequibo, vendors are relieved that their selling woes would soon be addressed. 

LONDON/LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Christine McVie, whose songwriting and signature vocals helped make British-American group Fleetwood Mac one of the best-selling rock bands of all time, died yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) One November night in 2005, four people were liming at a house in Arima drinking puncheon when one of them, a 45-year-old man, indicated he wanted to have sex with another member of the group, a 15-year-old boy.

Senior Minister in the Office of the President with Responsibility for Finance Dr.

Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives today elected Hakeem Jeffries to serve as their leader beginning in January, replacing Nancy Pelosi who has long been at the helm of the caucus, Reuters reported.

Police are investigating a fatal accident that occurred yesterday at about 12:30 hrs on the Buxton Public Road, East Coast Demerara, in which 19-year-old Treon Goppy was killed.

A $39m lotto jackpot is still to be claimed. An advertisement in today’s Stabroek News from the Guyana Lottery Company said that the jackpot is from the drawing on August 31st, 2022.

 (Reuters) – Brazil’s lower house of Congress late Tuesday approved a bill that aims to boost oversight of the country’s cryptocurrency sector, after one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges collapsed earlier this month.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, who led the country for a decade of rapid economic growth after the Tiananmen crackdown in 1989, died today at the age of 96, Chinese state media reported.

(Trinidad Guardian) Although 2022 is now officially the bloodiest year on record in T&T’s history with the murder toll hitting 555, acting Police Commissioner Mc Donald Jacob says this still does not warrant implementing a limited State of Emergency (SoE).

Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley last evening made a pitch to this country’s manufacturing sector to involve the entire CARICOM community and she underscored the importance of diversifying away from the oil economy.

Denying that it is responsible for any destruction, the owner of the MV Tradewind Passion which crashed into the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) last month, resulting in what the government says will cost in excess of one billion dollars in repairs; is arguing that the incident resulted from unforeseen circumstances.

Former Deputy Returning Officer (DRO), Paul Jaisingh, yesterday told the Commission of Inquiry (CoI)  into events around the March 2020 general elections that he was assaulted by a party agent and had received a death threat from a Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) staff member at the Ashmins building on March 4th.

Reputedly the largest suction dredger ever to arrive here, the M.V

The Ministry of Works yesterday charged that officials of the Den Amstel Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) sought to derail a government development project in the West Demerara village by interfering with construction works in progress at the community ground.

The Guyana Fire Service (GFS) yesterday said that investigations have revealed that welding done in close proximity to a foam mattress triggered the inferno which gutted the Z Mohammed and Sons bond at Happy Acres on Monday and during which two fire-fighters suffered smoke inhalation.

Companies from the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador are prospecting for oil and gas partnerships here and other opportunities.