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NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – The death of John Ashe, a former United Nations General Assembly president accused by U.S.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain has voted to leave the European Union, results from Thursday’s landmark referendum showed, an outcome that sets the country on an uncertain path and deals the largest setback to European efforts to forge greater unity since World War Two.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Distinguished former West Indies captain, Clive Lloyd, has been axed as chairman of selectors after just two years in charge, and replaced by Courtney Browne.

The three men who were last Friday found guilty in the robbery of Land Court Judge Nicola Pierre and her husband Mohamed Chan were today each sentenced to 16 years in prison, by Magistrate Zamilla Ally-Seepaul.

The Mayor and Councillors of the City of Georgetown today said that it would be conducting a massive cleanup exercise on Sunday 25, June 2016 commencing at 7:00am, in the Central Business District.

Minister of Business Dominic Gaskin sought to address concerns about a sluggish economy when he addressed the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association annual Business Luncheon held at the Pegasus Hotel today.

(Trinidad Guardian) Deficiency in the Central Bank’s regulatory control of the insurance industry and the respective “visions” of CL Financial chairman Lawrence Duprey and Hindu Credit Union chairman Harry Harnarine have come in for criticism by chairman of the Clico/HCU commission of enquiry, Sir Anthony Colman.

The APNU+AFC government yesterday formally proposed differentiated increases for public servants rather than the customary across-the-board hike and the GPSU has agreed to “explore” this.

Government yesterday announced that it had ordered a review of the contract for the city’s parking meters, to ascertain if it contained any illegalities.

More than five years after he hacked his three children to death as they lay asleep in their Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara home, John Blanchard yesterday received a life sentence after pleading to the lesser count of manslaughter.

The 23-year-old driver who was involved in a two-vehicle smash-up at Coverden, East Bank Demerara (EBD) was yesterday charged with two counts of causing death by dangerous driving and was placed on $400,000 bail.

-insists full council discusses project   Deputy Mayor of Georgetown Sherod Duncan yesterday maintained that the controversial parking meters project should be taken to the full council for approval and he said he will be seeking legal advice on the way forward.

Water levels at Moraikobai and along the Mahaicony Creek in Region Five are rising again.

Even as the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) moves to implement paid parking in the city, a pilot project on East Street has been deemed unsuccessful with some of the blame being laid on City Hall.

After over seven years on remand for the murder of a reputedly mentally ill man, Omar Bacchus yesterday pleaded guilty to the lesser count of manslaughter, when he appeared at the Berbice Assizes before Justice Brassington Reynolds.

STARR Computer yesterday launched its Business Centre on the second floor of its 59 Brickdam premises.

Police Constable Tito Benons, who was charged in April with unlicensed firearm possession, led his defence yesterday at a city court, where he maintained that he was on his way to the police station to lodge the firearm when he was intercepted by police.

While the lights and median will be completed, the extension of the northern side of Carifesta Avenue will be postponed until after Caricom Day, Supervising Engineer Sherod Parkinson said yesterday.

Residents of West Berbice were yesterday relieved that stagnant floodwater had started to recede after government deployed more pumps in the affected villages but said they were still being inconvenienced.

Nestlé is continuing a nationwide campaign aimed at promoting not only doing some good, but also giving persons a ‘feel good’ boost, a release from the company said.