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Minister of Housing and Water,  Collin Croal and Minister of Home Affairs,  Robeson Benn  today officially handed over the new Cummings Lodge Police Outpost to the Guyana Police Force.

(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has made the Time 100 list of the most influential people.

DAVOS, Switzerland, (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy today told a meeting of global business leaders at Davos that the world faced a turning point and had to ratchet up sanctions against Russia as a warning to other countries considering using brute force.

TOKYO, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said today he would be willing to use force to defend Taiwan, capping a series of critical comments about China while in Asia that an aide said represented no change in U.S.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – A Ukrainian court sentenced a Russian soldier to life in prison today for killing an unarmed civilian in the first war crimes trial arising from Russia’s invasion.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has announced that Trinidad and Tobago has been chosen to receive funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which he described as “not-insignificant”.

Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago yesterday signed a five-year  Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which will see the establishment of a high-level bilateral commission and address areas such as non-tariff barriers which have strained relations between the two countries.

While stating that they welcome development and fully support the planned gas-to-shore project, residents of the lower end of the West Bank of Demerara were on Friday mainly concerned about if jobs would be available and if some of them would be displaced by the planned pipeline but they got no satisfactory answers.

Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago will soon experiment with the setting up of a ferry service between the two countries to transport people and cargo.

A team from Guyana – comprised of UG students and staff – has won the international Webby Award from a field of 150 contestants with a proposal to combat deforestation through the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with drones.

Guyana will be attending the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, California, USA next month but will continue to support CARICOM in its campaign for fair treatment of its long-time ally, Cuba.

A West Coast Berbice woman says she has finally broken free after years of abuse by her husband and is now requesting assistance from the authorities to move on with her life as she left her home with just a few pieces of clothing. 

Several communities across the country have reported floods following persistent heavy rainfall on Saturday and yesterday.

President Irfaan Ali says that Brazilian investors from the neighbouring State of Roraima are interested in becoming part of CARICOM’s vision of reducing its food import bill by 25% by 2025.

MARIUPOL, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Russian soldiers cleared mines and debris on the industrial grounds of the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol yesterday after hundreds of Ukrainian forces holed up in the vast plant for weeks were ordered to stand down.

The Ministry of Education is inviting trained teachers with three or more years’ service to apply for a scholarship to pursue an approved degree at the University of Guyana.

TORONTO,  (Reuters) – The death toll from powerful thunderstorms in Canada’s two most populous provinces this weekend rose to at least eight, authorities said yesterday, as emergency crews continued a massive clean-up to restore power to half a million people.

Trinidadian manufacturer, Novo Life Farms, says it is prepared to partner with Guyanese farmers for the supply of raw produce as it seeks to increase production and enter new markets with its line of processed food products.

SEOUL,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden, in Seoul before heading to Japan as part of his first Asia trip as president, had a simple message for North Korea’s Kim Jong Un: “Hello… period,” he told reporters on the last day of his visit to South Korea yesterday.

The Ministry of Health yesterday reported 48 new cases of COVID-19.