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At the invitation of President Irfaan Ali,  Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi will pay a State Visit to Guyana from November 19 to 21, 2024, the Office of the President announced today.

Effective the 4th of June 2025, Georgetown, Guyana will be connected to Amsterdam, the Netherlands with two weekly flights operating on Wednesdays and Saturdays. 

A 34-year-old mother and four of her children are suspected to have perished in a fire of unknown origin early this morning at #64 Village, Corentyne Berbice, the police said in a statement.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Peru and China will sign an updated free-trade agreement during President Xi Jinping’s upcoming visit to the Andean nation that would boost commerce by at least 50% between the countries, Peru’s foreign minister said.

AMSTERDAM, (Reuters) – Oil and gas major Shell SHEL.L today won an appeal against a landmark ruling that required it to accelerate carbon reduction efforts, dealing a blow to campaigners who have turned to legal channels to pursue climate action.

Local Government Minister Sonia Parag yesterday slammed a plan by the City Council to offer a 25% rates cut to One Communication, formerly GTT.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – A Spirit Airlines flight destined for the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince was struck by gunfire today, forcing it to be diverted to the neighboring Dominican Republic.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Violence and crime absorb almost 3.5% of Latin America and the Caribbean’s (LAC) economic output, depleting funds that could be used in education and assisting the vulnerable, a report by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) showed.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Althea Graham-Dolly rested her Bible on a chair, and having donned her hat in preparing to head off to church, was turning back to retrieve something when gunmen, who had been travelling in a motor car, attacked and shot her several times Sunday morning.

BAKU,  (Reuters) – The annual U.N. climate summit began today with some prominent leaders planning to skip the event ahead of tough talks on finance and trade, after a year of weather disasters that have emboldened developing countries’ demands for cash.

(Trinidad Express) There will be no devaluing of the TT dollar as this will not increase the availability of foreign exchange in the country.

(Reuters) – Hundreds of people today set out on a nine-day march to New Zealand’s capital of Wellington in protest over legislation that would reinterpret a treaty at the heart of race relations in the Pacific country.

LIMA/BEIJING, (Reuters) – In South American copper giant Peru, the incoming Donald Trump White House will find itself already on the losing side in a trade battle with China, part of a bigger power realignment around the resource-rich region in Washington’s backyard.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Haiti will name entrepreneur and former senate candidate Alix Didier Fils-Aime to replace Prime Minister Garry Conille, who was tapped for the role in May, according to a transitional presidential council draft resolution seen by Reuters.

The PNCR is in the midst of a two-day General Council which will end at Congress Place, Sophia today.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – An earthquake rocked eastern Cuba today, shaking buildings in Santiago de Cuba, the island’s second-largest city, and the surrounding countryside.

(Trinidad Guardian) The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Friday that T&T’s foreign exchange restrictions are not consistent with the Fund’s Articles of Agreement.

DEARBORN, Michigan,  (Reuters) – Democrat Kamala Harris lost Michigan by more than 80,000 votes amid a nationwide shift to Republicans, as union workers, Black voters, Arab Americans and Muslims either failed to show up at the polls, or cast their ballots for Donald Trump.

(Reuters) – Sweden and Brazil signed a letter of intent yesterday to extend cooperation on aviation, with Brazil intending to buy SAAB SAABa.ST

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s presidential transition effort said today that a Republican operative who outlined some potential contours of a U.S.-backed