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KUALA LUMPUR/SEOUL,  (Reuters) – The U.S. government strongly believes that North Korean agents murdered the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Malaysia, U.S.

SAN FRANCISCO,  (Reuters) – Microsoft President Brad Smith yesterday pressed the world’s governments to form an international body to protect civilians from state-sponsored hacking, saying recent high-profile attacks showed a need for global norms to police government activity in cyberspace.

(Barbados Nation) Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler, represented by Solicitor General Jennifer Edwards, will head to the High Court today to have a temporary injunction preventing him from firing Central Bank Governor Dr DeLisle Worrell lifted.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s powerful vice president yesterday called his blacklisting by the United States on drug charges an “imperialist aggression” in the first flare-up between the two countries under new U.S.

(Barbados Nation) On February 1 1, 2017, the Massy Group further delivered on its strategy of regional diversification through the Massy Motors acquisition of two large automobile dealerships in Colombia – Autogalias in Bogotá and the Grupo Automontaña in Medellín, which incorporate four dealerships.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Finance Minis-ter, Audley Shaw, has indicated that 84 public entities are to be merged, closed or divested as part of the Government’s ongoing rationalisation of the public service.

The Alliance For Change today said it is alarmed and disturbed by reports that Georgetown Mayor Patricia Chase-Green has sought to blame Deputy Mayor Sherod Duncan for taking misinformation to the public and causing civil disobedience.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Michael Flynn, resigned late on Monday after revelations that he had discussed U.S.

Mayor yesterday announced plans to slash parking rates by 50%. At a meeting yesterday with members of the commercial banking community, Chase-Green said the rates would possibly be reduced to a rate of $28 VAT inclusive for 15 minutes or just over $100 per hour.

Mayor Patricia Chase-Green yesterday accused Deputy Mayor Sherod Duncan of causing “civil unrest” by peddling misinformation in the public domain.

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) would be filing private criminal charges against ministers and other government officials for corruption.

Wales Estate cane cutters picketed the Ministry of the Presidency yesterday, claiming that they are being denied their severance payments, while being strong-armed by GuySuCo to take up positions at the Uitvlugt Estate.

Former Auditor General Anand Goolsarran has written the Chairperson of the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) Carol Corbin to challenge the disregarding of his application for the post of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the body.

In its 44th year, the Caribbean Community (Caricom) is working fairly well and making strides in areas its residents often take for granted, according to Caricom Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque.

An audit of the Guyana Office for Investment (GO-Invest) found files for major investments in disarray, inconsistencies in how tax holidays were granted and in one case an investment officer was instructed to sign a key agreement which was later withdrawn.

After a shutdown in the Demerara Berbice Inter-connected System (DBIS) resulted in large parts of the country being plunged into blackout on Sunday night, a second incident on the system yesterday resulted in large parts of Georgetown and other areas experiencing a shutdown for several hours.

Bandits over the weekend broke into the Agricola, East Bank Demerara home of local singers and music and film producers, Charmaine Blackman and Bonny Alves and carted off two laptops which contain most of their professional work, some of which is yet to be released.

Anjanie Boodnarine, the common-law wife of convicted drug trafficker Barry Dataram, was yesterday cleared of a charge that she forged a passport after a city magistrate found that there was insufficient evidence.

Three youths, who were busted last year for possession of amphetamines during an undercover police operation, were yesterday found guilty and sentenced to three years in prison.

A decision is to be made next week on an application by the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to forfeit the sum of $9 million that was allegedly seized from convicted drug trafficker Barry Dataram and his brother, Troy Dataram.