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Dear Editor, It is very sad that the Rice Producers Association representatives are misleading farmers in Region 5, when this association claims that it has the farmers’ interest at heart.

Two pump attendants employed by the Mayor and City Council were suspended for three days after they were found guilty of neglecting their duties at their pump stations during heavy flooding two Fridays ago. 

KINSHASA,  (Reuters) – Congolese President Joseph Kabila will step down after elections to be held by the end of 2017 under a last-minute deal struck by political parties yesterday, the lead mediator of the talks said.

The woman whose hand was severed by her ex-boyfriend on Christmas Eve, at Number 70 Village, Corentyne, Berbice, along with her mother who was also chopped, will be spending New Year’s in the Hospital.

(Reuters) – U.S. stocks slumped on the last trading day of the year yesterday, led down by Apple and other big tech stocks, but major indexes still posted solid gains in 2016.

Minister of Public Health, Dr. George Norton on Thursday visited the family of Lonette Nicholson-Prince, 22, the hairdresser of Lot 11 Levi Dam, Angoy’s Avenue, who was brutally stabbed some fifteen times by her estranged husband, in the compound of the National Psychiatric Hospital, New Amsterdam on Wednesday.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s former leader Mahinda Rajapaksa on Thursday criticised a government plan to grant 15,000 acres for Chinese investment in his constituency, saying it will deprive people of agricultural land.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – A Rio de Janeiro policeman confessed to murdering Greece’s ambassador to Brazil in what investigators yesterday called a “cowardly act” carried out at the direction of the diplomat’s Brazilian wife with whom the officer was romantically involved.

A teenager was yesterday granted bail after being charged with breaking and entering, and stealing over $200,000 in items.

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI, (Reuters) – As India’s biggest corporate showdown heads from the boardroom to the courtroom and brings in a Who’s Who of the country’s legal profession, ousted Tata Sons chairman Cyrus Mistry vows a multi-layered battle for governance reforms at the $100 billion conglomerate, people close to him say.

A youth was yesterday placed on $50,000 bail by a city magistrate after he denied being involved in a robbery.

NEW YORK, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The United Nations criticized the government of Ecuador yesterday for ordering the closure of a land rights advocacy group that supports an indigenous community protesting mining plans in land they claim as their ancestral home.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela yesterday said it was formally ceding the rotating presidency of Mercosur to Argentina, citing the end of its term as the head of the trade bloc, a move that follows acrimonious dispute over its suspension from the group.

The Guyana Police Force says it is investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a three-year-old who perished when her home went up in flames in an early morning blaze at Triumph Squatting Area, E.C.D,

The Cheddi Jagan Research Centre Inc today secured a conservatory order against the decision by the government to revoke its lease to the historic Red House.

(Trinidad Express) PriceSmart customers may have some difficulty getting certain items at the company’s branches around the country.

President David Granger yesterday ordered that the controversial  lease for the historic Red House to the Cheddi Jagan Research Centre Incorporated (CJRCI) be revoked and that the occupants vacate the property by tomorrow.

With the year almost at an end, hundreds of Wales estate workers remain in limbo and Minister of Agriculture, Noel Holder yesterday said that sugar is no longer viable and that GuySuCo does not see a way to make the Skeldon estate profitable.

An onshore oil and gas facility which will see the investment of US$500m and the creation of 600 jobs is to be built at Crab Island, Berbice.

Taking all of the figures supplied by the government, the cost to date of the controversial D’Urban Park project is $1.37b and this doesn’t include goods and services that state institutions might have provided, according to former Auditor General, Anand Goolsarran, In his accountability column in Wednesday’s Stabroek News, Goolsarran also flayed the government for stating it would not be meeting the full cost of services provided by contractors for this state facility.