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One week after a sex-tape scandal involving him made headlines across the country and region, self-proclaimed pope Philbert London yesterday used his church’s pulpit to break his silence on the issue, apologising to his congregation while asking that he be allowed to continue to minister to them.

One person is dead after two cars collided on the Parfait Harmonie New Road last night.

Disputing reports of the deplorable state of the Skeldon Estate, former President Donald Ramotar yesterday charged that the Guyana Sugar Corporation’s (GuySuCo) reported plan to either sell or diversify it was just part of the APNU+AFC government’s plan to shut down the sugar industry.

Declaring it a disturbing trend among political leaders, Transparency Institute Guyana Inc (TIGI) yesterday called for a moratorium on the politicising of crime and urged political leaders to band together to fight criminality.

Mourning the death of a relative, a Planters Hall, East Coast Demerara family was brutalised and robbed by three armed bandits early yesterday morning.

Fallen men and women of the armed forces were yesterday honoured at the 2016 Remembrance Day ceremony.

A week after Dennis Bissoon, of Plantation Hope, East Coast Demerara (ECD) was struck down on the Cove and John ECD public road, he remains in a semi-conscious state at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

The Ministry of Natural Resources is working with the New Petroleum Producers Group to host a seminar on “Governance of the Petroleum Sector: Preparing for First Oil”.

The preliminary inquiry into the charges against Alfie Garraway, Janiel Howard and Leroy Williams, the three men accused of throwing a grenade at Kaieteur News, continued last week with the testimony of a Kaieteur News security guard.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump yesterday picked Reince Priebus, a Washington insider who heads the Republican National Committee, as White House chief of staff, signaling a willingness to work with Congress to advance his agenda when he takes office in January.

MARRAKESH, Morocco, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The United States would become “a kind of rogue country” if it pulls out of an international agreement to combat global warming, leaving the world more vulnerable to droughts and other climate extremes, warned Mary Robinson, a former Irish president and human rights advocate.

WELLINGTON,  (Reuters) – A powerful earthquake rocked New Zealand yesterday killing at least two people, damaging roads and buildings, and prompting a tsunami warning that sent thousands fleeing to higher ground.

(Trinidad Guardian) Conditions in the labour market continue to worsen due to economic challenges, the Central Bank has said in its latest Monetary Policy Report.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Rum company J. Wray and Nephew Limited (JWN) is plunking down nearly $1 billion on a total makeover of its world-famous Appleton Rum Tour.

SOFIA, (Reuters) – Bulgarian Socialist ally Rumen Radev, a Russia-friendly newcomer to politics, won yesterday’s presidential election by a wide margin, exit polls showed, prompting centre-right Prime Minister Boiko Borisov to pledge to resign.

A twenty-eight-year old Chinese chef who was minutes after midnight shot and robbed as he was in the process of entering his Bonasika Street, Section ‘K’ Campbellville home, is hospitalised at a private hospital, in a stable condition, the police say.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump backed away from his promise to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexican

(Trinidad Express) Expect deportations of undocumented Caribbean immigrants under United States president-elect Donald Trump.

(Trinidad Express) A Sangre Chiquito PH driver and father of one was chopped to death on Friday evening when he and a friend argued over the friend’s refusal to move a car out of the victim’s yard.

The deplorable state of the Skeldon Estate and the expenses it is incurring have pushed the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) Board to look at the options of either selling or diversifying it.