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MANAGUA (Reuters) – After clinching a third straight term by a landslide, Nicaragua’s president faces headwinds from an economic crisis in financial ally Venezuela and increasingly rocky relations with top trading partner the United States.

After enduring several hours of scheduled blackout on Sunday, residents of Georgetown can now expect a problem-free holiday season, according to the Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) as it was able to complete the maintenance.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich/SCRANTON, Pa (Reuters) – The US presidential campaign neared its end yesterday in the same angry tone it began, with Republican Donald Trump calling Democrat Hillary Clinton a “phony” and Clinton accusing him of splitting the country, as a new Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll showed Clinton with a strong chance of winning.

Fidel Collins, the bus driver accused of assaulting a differently-abled man during an incident of road rage two weeks ago, is expected to be charged next month after a schedule mix-up.

Jennifer Chapman, the Deputy Accountant General at the Ministry of Finance, yesterday testified that she handed over 23 cheques, dated from August, 2011 to March, 2015, to the police for the investigation of the alleged theft of over $600 million by former public service minister Jennifer Westford and aide Margaret Cummings.

(Reuters) – Blunt-spoken Janet Reno, who served eight years as the first woman US attorney general and authorized the deadly 1993 raid on the Branch Davidian cult compound in Texas just weeks into the job, died yesterday at age 78.

A teen, who initially admitted to stealing a gold chain, was yesterday remanded to prison after he claimed that he was only accused of the crime after he got into a fight with the accuser.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A US prosecutor yesterday told jurors that two nephews of Venezuela’s first lady sought to use a presidential airport hangar to carry out a multimillion-dollar drug deal, charges that defence lawyers said would not stand up at trial.

Cabinet last week approved the establishment of a steering committee to oversee the implementation of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) project to improve maternal and child health.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA said yestersay there had been an oil spill in central Anzoategui state and it was supplying drinking water to affected communities during an operation over a radius of 50 kilometres (31 miles).

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A woman shoved an unsuspecting traveler off a New York City subway platform into the path of an approaching train yesterday afternoon, killing the victim instantly as bystanders watched in horror, police said.

Guyana Power and Light this evening said that key maintenance work which led to lengthy blackouts in the city yesterday and elsewhere has been completed.

General Manager of the Guyana Marketing Corporation Nizam Hassan and others were today charged with fraud pertaining to payments for work done on the Guyana Marketing Corporation building.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A CBS News poll released on Monday showed Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton holding a 4-point lead over Republican Donald Trump, 45 percent to 41 percent.

The Gaming Authority today said that an application by Sleepin International Hotel and Casino Inc for casino licences was rejected as no documents on the establishment’s “financial soundness and capability” were provided as required.

(Trinidad Guardian) While police are blaming drug-related violence for the deaths of three men on Saturday, relatives of Ricardo Singh, one of the slain men, say they have no idea why he was killed. Speaking

MANAGUA,  (Reuters) – Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega powered toward his third consecutive term as president of the poor Central American country yesterday, as voters cheered years of solid growth and overlooked criticisms he is installing a family dynasty.

Former President Donald Ramotar and immediate past Attorney General Anil Nandlall yesterday defended their party’s record on constitutional reform saying that it is now up to the APNU+AFC government to fulfil their manifesto commitments and take up from where the PPP/C had left off.

A 32-year-old money-changer is in hospital after being shot yesterday afternoon inside a fast food restaurant on Water Street during a robbery.

Communities Minister Ronald Bulkan on Friday told the National Assembly that he could not give a date for the appointment of the Local Government Commission (LGC).