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(Trinidad Guardian) Chief of Defence Staff Brigadier Rodney Smart said yesterday’s attempt by two discharged Special Forces soldiers to allegedly burn a house in Princes Town was part of yet another attempt by the criminal element to destabilise the country.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Hurricane Matthew has killed at least 39 people, the death toll in struggling Haiti alone rising to 35, local officials said, as the storm headed northward on Thursday battering the Bahamas en route to Florida.

(Reuters) – The fiercest Caribbean storm in nearly a decade slammed into the Bahamas early on Thursday, intensifying as it barreled towards the southeast U.S.

Guyana has registered its concerns to United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon following escalating claims by Venezuela over the Essequibo, the latest being reported overflights for the completing of an atlas and digital mapping, Minister of Foreign Affairs Carl Greenidge says.

Major General (ret’d) Joe Singh will investigate the allegations of misconduct made by broadcaster Kenwin Charles against members of the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) Board, the Ministry of the Presidency yesterday announced.

Eight workers from Demerara Timbers Limited (DTL) at Mabura Hills, Region 10 have been dismissed for protesting outside the company’s head office in Georgetown on Monday to press for salary increases.

Months after refusing to make public an analysis of students’ performance at this year’s National Grade Six examination, government yesterday announced that cabinet as a matter of “extreme urgency and grave national importance” is examining the mathematics results which it is perturbed about.

Stabroek News photographer Keno George and three other persons were yesterday held at gunpoint and robbed of valuables worth over $1 million while they were doing a fashion shoot in D’Urban Backlands.

A man is in a critical condition at a city hospital, four days after he was shot and robbed of a gold chain in full view of his brother outside the Dynasty Sports Club, Aubrey Barker Road, South Ruimveldt.

The Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) has appealed the decision which saw Barry Dataram being convicted of cocaine trafficking but his three alleged accomplices being freed, the unit’s Head James Singh said yesterday even as the police say the search continues for the missing convict who apparently fled Guyana days before the verdict was handed down.

A man has been arrested in connection with the robbery/murder of taxi driver Rolun Jodmie, who was shot once to his chest and robbed of a quantity of valuables allegedly by persons who posed as passengers.

The city’s demolition of dozens of derelict buildings has been put on hold by the City Engineer’s Department for further consultations with occupants and owners.

The trial of Sharlene Oxley, the Pattensen businesswoman who is accused of trafficking a young woman, commenced yesterday in the court room of Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan.

Retired CANU special prosecutor Oswald Massiah was yesterday morning found dead in his car which was parked at the Parika Stelling, East Bank Essequibo.

Some 450 student teachers will each receive a laptop under the government’s One Laptop Per Teacher (OLPT) initiative, which was launched yesterday.

Almost three months after she tragically lost her two sons in a fire at the Drop-in Centre, Sonia George is frustrated since the system that is supposed to help her family continues to fail and all she wants is to have her three remaining children returned to her care.

The Mayor and City Council is spending over $19 million on repair and rehabilitation of bridges in the city.

A Hadfield Street resident was placed on remand when he appeared before the chief magistrate yesterday, to answer to two counts of gun, and one count of ammunition, possession charges.

The family of Jean Rodrigues, the mother of eight who was shot while a policeman was chasing an alleged robber is concerned about the sloth in the investigation.

The family of Anmanie Deonarine, who died after she was struck down by a senior police officer along the Vreed-en-Hoop Public Road, West Coast Demerara (WCD) on Tuesday is calling for justice.