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A mother is pleading for the public’s help to find her mentally-ill son, who she has been unable to find since August.

(Reuters) – Exxon Mobil Corp is negotiating with Chad over a record $74 billion fine the U.S.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The number of people with high blood pressure has almost doubled in 40 years to over 1.1 billion worldwide, scientists said yesterday, with the burden of the condition shifting from the rich to the poor.

 (Reuters) – The mayor of a tiny West Virginia town resigned on Tuesday after her comment on a Facebook post that called first lady Michelle Obama an “ape in heels” drew international attention, local media reported.

Patraj Singh, the father who reportedly wounded his stepson on Sunday night on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway, says he cannot remember the events that landed them both in the hospital.

OKLAHOMA CITY, (Reuters) – The man suspected in the fatal shooting of a Southwest Airlines employee at Oklahoma City’s main airport yesterday was found dead inside a vehicle hours after flights were halted and a shelter in place order was issued, police said.

President David Granger yesterday committed Guyana to honouring the terms of  the Paris Agreement on climate change and said his government would pursue the establishment of a Green State.

DENVER, (Reuters) – A Denver man who spent 28 years in prison for rape after he was convicted in part because the victim said his name came to her in a dream was found not guilty at his retrial on Monday.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba said on Tuesday it was granting pardons to 787 convicts in response to Pope Francis’ Holy Year call to all heads of state for acts of clemency.

At the continuation of the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder charge against Clifton Gibson, Linton Eastman and Stancy Rodney, the men accused of killing Rubis accountant Jason Cort, the aunt of the deceased yesterday testified.

A 52-ft statue of Hindu deity Lord Hanuman was unveiled on the Essequibo River island of Leguan on November 6.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Multinational companies are selling their Venezuelan operations at hefty discounts – or even giving them away – as they to seek to escape the OPEC nation’s soaring inflation and chronic supply shortages.

On November 9, 2016 eighteen specially selected commercial customers of Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited graduated from training on business management skills and other areas A release from Republic Bank said that the programme forms part of the Bank’s annual initiatives targeted towards Small and Medium Enterprises and is done in collaboration with the University of West Indies’ Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business.

An unidentified male who drew a loaded firearm at police ranks responding to a report of larceny of sheep, was fatally shot by one of the ranks with a service revolver, about 0620h.

The sugar union GAWU today said it opposes divestment of the Skeldon sugar estate.

MARRAKESH, Morocco,  (Reuters) – France and the United Nations today stepped up warnings to U.S.

(Trinidad Express) Illegal immigrants have already been making their way back to Trinidad from the United States on chartered planes and, given President-elect Donald Trump’s immigration policy, the rate will increase and this country is not ready for this.

The Mayor and Councillors of the Georgetown last evening voted to ask the central government for a $600 million “bailout” to pay creditors and meet expenses.

A businesswoman and her lover are now dead after they brutally stabbed each other during an argument on Sunday evening at Ekereku Hill Top, Kamarang.

Three men, including an ex-police officer, were yesterday held with a pistol after they led police on a brief high speed chase in a vehicle outfitted with a fake licence plate.