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The police force says that a pivotal meeting was held today between Timothy Semons, Regional Security Officer at the US Embassy, and his team of local staff, alongside Commissioner of Police Clifton Hicken and Senior Officers from the Guyana Police Force (GPF).

BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – The EU’s foreign policy chief today appeared to criticise the United States giving Israel one month to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza, saying that during that time, too many people would die.

VILLA OLIVA, Paraguay, (Reuters) – A sharp decline in the Paraguay River, which hit a record low this month due to drought upstream in Brazil, is fueling a conflict between the country’s fishers and rice farmers over water use in a southern wetland region bordering Argentina.

The Ministry of Labour yesterday said it is deeply concerned about the recent workplace fatalities that occurred in October 2024, highlighting serious deficiencies in safety and health practices within key sectors.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Former One Direction singer Liam Payne was found dead after the 31-year-old fell from his third-floor room balcony at a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentine police said on Wednesday.

Three persons were charged today with trafficking in narcotics in relation to the illegal landing of an aircraft at an unauthorised airstrip in Bashaizon Village, South Rupununi, Region 9, on 6th October 2024.

Police are investigating a fatal accident which occurred at about 17:45 hrs yesterday afternoon on the Lichfield public road, West Coast Berbice.

MARACAIBO, (Reuters) – A huge fire that erupted on Tuesday at an oil tank in Venezuela’s La Salina terminal operated by state company PDVSA is almost completely extinguished, Cabimas firefighters said on Wednesday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The world is on the brink of a new age of electricity with fossil fuel demand set to peak by the end of the decade, meaning surplus oil and gas supplies could drive investment into green energy, the International Energy Agency said on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says that if he does not win the Nov.

The Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) today announced that dozens of charges have been recommended in an expanded probe of Assistant Commissioner of Police Calvin Brutus and the matter is now with the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) yesterday said that on October 10, 2024, it received a report from Crane Village, West Coast Demerara, regarding a substance seeping from the ground.

The Bureau of Statistics today said that it has noted recent “erroneous” claims made on social media suggesting that political interference is responsible for the delayed publication of the 2022 Population and Housing Census results and said it wished to provide the following response.

(CDB) October 15, 2024 – BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Nine outstanding researchers whose work is advancing climate resilience and sustainability across the region are being sponsored by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) to present their innovative studies at the 2024 Canada-Caribbean Institute (CCI) Research Symposium, taking place on the campus of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, from October 16-18.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Curfew measures aimed at quelling civil unrest on the French island of Martinique, where there have been violent protests over rising living costs, have been extended for a week, said the Caribbean island’s local administration.

(Trinidad Guardian) Caribbean Airlines Limited pilots, represented by the Trinidad and Tobago Airline Pilots’ Association (TTALPA), delivered a letter to the Minister of Finance yesterday.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The fight over how India should allocate satellite broadband spectrum intensified today as Elon Musk said any move by New Delhi to auction it, rather than allocate it, would be “unprecedented”, challenging the position of rival billionaires.

The Department of Public Information (DPI) last night issued a press release in which it claimed that Stabroek News (SN) had misreported statements by Minister of Foreign Affairs Hugh Todd on Venezuelan migrants in Linden.

NEW DELHI/OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canada expelled six Indian diplomats including the high commissioner today, linking them to the murder of a Sikh separatist leader and alleging a broader effort to target Indian dissidents in Canada.