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NAIROBI,  (Reuters) – Kenya will send 600 more police officers to Haiti next month to bolster an international anti-gang mission, President William Ruto said today during a visit by the Haitian prime minister intended to speed up deployments to the force.

PARIS, (Reuters) – France announced today new curfew measures to try and quell civil unrest on its Caribbean island of Martinique, which has been hit by violent protests over the last month due to anger over rising living costs.

OSLO,  (Reuters) – Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, won the Nobel Peace Prize today, in a warning to countries who have nuclear weapons not to use them.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has defended the $50 million allocation to the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) for entertainment and functions.

President Irfaan Ali today announced an one-off $10b injection into the National Insurance Scheme to help pensioners facing hardship and to assist those who don’t have the required number of contributions.

President Irfaan Ali today announced that energy bills will be cut by 50% for all before the end of 2025.

Colombia’s airline Avianca will begin twice weekly flights here from December 11.

President Irfaan Ali today announced in Parliament that from January, 2025 tuition fees will be abolished at the University of Guyana. 

President Irfaan Ali today announced that next year a $10,000 Universal Health Care voucher will be provided to enable baseline testing for all persons.

President Irfaan Ali today said that each household in the country is to receive an one-off payment of $200,000. 

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida,  (Reuters) – Hurricane Milton plowed into the Atlantic Ocean today after cutting a destructive path across Florida that spawned tornados, killed at least 10 people and left millions without power, but the storm did not trigger the catastrophic surge of seawater that was feared.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Rafa Nadal will call time on his illustrious but injury-plagued career after next month’s Davis Cup Finals, the 22-times Grand Slam champion announced today, as one of the greatest players in the sport prepares for an emotional farewell.

STOCKHOLM,  (Reuters) – South Korean author Han Kang won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature for “her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”, the award-giving body said today.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has erased Republican rival Donald Trump’s advantage in the vast middle of American society: suburban residents and middle-income households, an analysis of Reuters/Ipsos polling shows.

A fire at approximately 10:40 am today has completely destroyed fifteen buildings at Puruni Landing, Mazaruni River, in Region #7, the police say.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Caribbean Broilers Jamaica (CB Group) has been named CARICOM Farmer of the Year at the Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA) 2024, marking a major victory for Jamaica and its leading practices in sustainable agriculture.

 (Reuters) – Haiti’s armed gangs are increasingly recruiting children into their ranks, a report by Human Rights Watch warned on Wednesday, as near-famine conditions push boys to pick up guns while girls are sexually abused and forced into domestic work.

Keith Jeffrey called ‘Pugga’, a 58-year-old labourer from Enmore sea dam, East Coast Demerara, was arrested and charged with the murder of Theodore Baynes, which occurred on September 30, 2024, at Haslington North, East Coast Demerara.

STOCKHOLM,  (Reuters) – U.S. scientist John Hopfield and British-Canadian Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries and inventions that laid the foundation for machine learning, the award-giving body said today.

(Trinidad Guardian) The new car industry has been labelled as the largest consumer of foreign exchange in this country by Minster in the Ministry of Finance Brian Manning.