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The Ministry of Health yesterday reported 31 new cases of COVID-19.

The police in Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica) are investigating the death of a 60-year-old man, whose partially decomposed body was found at his Bachelor’s Adventure, East Coast Demerara (ECD) home on Friday afternoon.

(UK Guardian) A Thursday afternoon at Maida Hill market square is filled with pensioners happily chatting and playing cards while enjoying the sunshine.

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) on Friday  donated 46 desk-top computers, one laptop, and 15 tablets to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).

MANILA,  (Reuters) – Crowds of hundreds of thousands massed in the Philippines yesterday where the leading presidential candidates made a last-ditch bid to sway undecided voters with patriotic, upbeat messages after a divisive election race.

Youths and women will soon benefit from training in specialised agricultural skills under a collaboration between the National Agriculture Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) and a non profit organisation out of Canada.

A three day virtual symposium is being organized to examine the history, significance, and legacy of the first Caribbean Festival of Arts (Carifesta), which was held in Guyana, while marking the fiftieth anniversary of the event. 

KYIV, (Reuters) – All women, children and elderly civilians have been evacuated from the Azovstal steel mill in Mariupol, Ukrainian officials said yesterday, after a week long effort rescued hundreds of people during an ongoing Russian assault at the plant.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Former leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva launched his presidential bid yesterday calling on Brazilians to unite behind him to defend Brazil’s democracy from the autho-ritarian government of far right President Jair Bolsonaro.

BELFAST, (Reuters) – Sinn Fein, the former political wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), hailed its first victory in a Northern Ireland Assembly election as a “defining moment” for the British-controlled region and called for a debate on a united Ireland.

President Irfaan Ali on Wednesday accepted Letters of Credence from diplomats from the Czech Republic and the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

KABUL,  (Reuters) – Afghanistan’s Taliban government ordered women yesterday to cover their faces in public, a return to a signature policy of their past hardline rule and an escalation of restrictions that are causing anger at home and abroad.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuban rescue workers yesterday picked through rubble for bodies and possible survivors after a Havana boutique hotel was devastated by what authorities said was a gas explosion, leaving at least 26 dead.

KYIV, (Reuters) – All women, children and elderly civilians have been evacuated from the Azovstal steel mill in Mariupol, Ukraine’s deputy prime minister said today, despite what military officers said was an ongoing Russian assault at the plant.

BELFAST, (Reuters) – Sinn Fein, the former political wing of the IRA, hailed its first election win in Northern Ireland’s history as a “defining moment” for the British-controlled region and called for a debate on the creation of a united Ireland.

KABUL,  (Reuters) – Afghanistan’s Taliban government ordered women today to cover their faces in public, a return to a signature policy of their past hardline rule and an escalation of restrictions that are causing anger at home and abroad.

TAIPEI, (Reuters) – Taiwan hopes that the world would sanction China like it is sanctioning Russia for its war on Ukraine if Beijing invaded the island, Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said today.

(Trinidad Express) Two police officers have been charged with multiple misbehaviour in public office offences.

(Trinidad Guardian) Fifteen days after Western Division tactical officer PC Clarence Gilkes was killed during a police exercise in Diego Martin, three police officers have now been suspended, alongside a major shake-up in the division.

Residents of Experiment Village, West Coast Berbice are now counting their losses after a storm last night damaged several roofs and sheds in the area.