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US Ambassador to Guyana Nicole Theriot met on October 21 with Region 10 Chairman Deron Adams, Mayor of Linden Sharma Solomon, and their teams to discuss shared goals and areas for future collaboration.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) today announced that the Licence Revenue Office has officially commenced the registration of motor vehicles under the new “AJ” series.

 (Reuters) – The European Parliament on Thursday handed its annual Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to Venezuelan opposition leaders Maria Corina Machado and Edmundo Gonzalez for “representing the people of Venezuela fighting to restore freedom and democracy.”

(Trinidad Express) Police are still searching for kidnapped businessman Suvesh Ramnarine.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago has arrested the Solo Creed tug in African country Angola, eight months after the vessel is believed to have abandoned the Gulf Stream barge and caused the oil spill disaster off Cove, Tobago.

After six years, 19 rice millers received the $1.5 billion owed by the Panamanian Government, according to statement today from the Department of Public Information (DPI).

Head of the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) Assistant Commissioner Fizul Karimbaksh today rejected a ‘Big Smith News Watch’ report on the purchase of a property at Schoonord, West Demerara.

LNDCH4 Guyana today announced the arrival of two advanced gas turbines from Sweden, marking a key moment for this country’s huge Gas-to-Energy project which promises a 50% cut in energy bills.

 (Reuters) – Franchises from cricket’s five leading nations will be fighting it out for a US$1 million prize money when a new T20 league kicks off in Guyana next month in further proof of the format’s growing popularity.

A brand-new Industrial Technology and Home Economics Department was commissioned at Queen’s College yesterday afternoon, a release from the Department of Public Information (DPI) said.

NEW DELHI/BEIJING,  (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping held their first formal talks in five years today, signalling that ties between the Asian giants damaged by a deadly military clash in 2020 had begun to recover.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said today that it is time for the BRICS nations to create new payment methods between them, adding that the group’s New Development Bank was designed as an alternative to what he called failing Bretton Woods institutions.

BUDAPEST, (Reuters) – Veteran nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban accused the European Union executive today of trying to overthrow his cabinet and impose a “puppet government” on Hungary, likening his protest to the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising.

On Monday, a contract valued at  $𝟏𝟎𝟖,𝟖𝟐𝟓,𝟎𝟖𝟏 was signed between the Government of Guyana through the Basic Needs Trust Fund (BNTF) and 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞, 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬 & 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 to construct the 𝐃𝐢𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐍𝐨.

A parent was injured yesterday after a beam from the roof of the Bush Lot Secondary School fell, according to a post on the APNU+AFC Facebook page.

(Trinidad Guardian) More than 15 years after the Central Bank assumed control of Clico, the insurance company declared a dividend of $1 billion, which will go to its main shareholders, its parent company CL Financial with 50.85 per cent and Corporation Sole with 49 per cent.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Mike Jeffries, the former longtime chief executive of Abercrombie & Fitch ANF.N,

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haitian gangs are ramping up attacks on areas they do not yet control, the head of the United Nation’s Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) warned today, after days of renewed violence from an alliance of armed gangs in the Caribbean nation.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A U.S. judge ordered Rudy Giuliani to turn over control of a luxury New York apartment, jewelry and other valuables to the control of two Georgia election workers seeking to collect nearly $146 million from the former New York mayor in a defamation case.

In a ruling stemming from its original jurisdiction, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) today ruled that Trinidad and Tobago did not breach the provisions of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas in bailing out CLICO in 2009.