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CLEVELAND,  (Reuters) – Thirteen months after launching an improbable bid for the White House, Donald Trump captured the 2016 Republican presidential nomination yesterday, having vanquished 16 party rivals, warred with much of its establishment and provoked controversy at every turn.

Mark Prince, 36,  ‘aka Fine man’ is wanted by the police for questioning in relation to ‘robbery under arms’, the police say.

ROME, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Indigenous people are better than governments at preventing forests from being cut and should be seen as a solution, not a barrier to protecting them, the U.N.

ISTANBUL/ANKARA,  (Reuters) – Turkey vowed to root out allies of the U.S.-based

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Colombia wants a permanent opening of its border with Venezuela and will not allow further temporary crossings, the foreign minister said, after tens of thousands of Venezuelans streamed in during the weekend to buy items scarce in their own country.

A young miner is now dead after the ATV he was travelling on was involved in an accident over the weekend in the Mazaruni region.

MANILA, (Reuters) – The Philippines’ Supreme Court yesterday dismissed a plunder case against influential former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and ordered her immediate release after five years under hospital arrest.

(Trinidad Guardian) Selwyn “Robocop” Alexis, 51, was murdered because he had pledged to expose the operations of the Unruly Isis gang, their affiliation and close networking with some members of two of the country’s major law enforcement agencies, the T&T Police Service and the T&T Defence Force.

A Guyanese man Ravindranauth `Ravi’ Roopnarine was on Thursday jailed in a Florida, USA court for just for 21 years following conviction in a US$50m mortgage fraud scam.

CLEVELAND, (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s wife Melania, in her first major political speech on Monday, portrayed her husband as a talented, compassionate and unrelenting leader who would unify rather than divide the country if elected to the White House.

After more than six hours of debate that ended late last night, the long-awaited telecommunications reform legislation was passed in the National Assembly and although opposition speakers expressed support for it, they also tried without success to have it sent to a special select committee to correct what they said was its deficiencies.

Although the country’s two largest ethnic groups, East Indian and African-Guyanese, continued to decline in their numbers between 2002 and 2012, the drop was offset by continued growth in the mixed race and Amerindian populations, according to the last census.

After a police background check barred the top candidate, Scotia Bank Manager Matthew Edward Hugh Langevine, the second in line, was given the nod by the Parliamentary Committee of Appoint-ments to be the next Director of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU).

Businesses operating in the city owe the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) over $16.2 billion in outstanding rates and the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) has called upon them to honour their civic obligation.

Former Anglican Bishop of Guyana Randolph Oswald George passed away yesterday at his home in Republic Park.

A Guyanese woman yesterday became St Lucia’s latest road fatality after the car she was driving plunged into the harbour in the wee hours of the morning.

A Guyanese woman was killed and her nine-year-old daughter injured in Queens, New York on Sunday when a drunken driver in a BMW plowed through a stop sign at more than 50 mph, hitting their car in the process.

Chartered accountant Godfrey Statia is set to take up the position of Commissioner-General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), a reliable source has confirmed.

No case has been made out against Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo and Minister of Natural Re-sources Raphael Trotman for a breach of privilege, House Speaker Barton Scotland ruled yesterday.

Police on the Essequibo Coast are investigating the death of a three-month-old child of Jacklow, Pomeroon River, who was found dead in his bed hours after he was fed by his mother.