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CARACAS (Reuters) – The recent wave of lootings and food riots in crisis-hit Venezuela has left three people dead in the last week, authorities and a rights group said.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Global investors have spent more than $90 billion buying agricultural lands the size of Finland in deals criticized by rights groups for displacing small farmers, according to research published today.

PARIS (Reuters) – A 42-year-old police commander was stabbed to death in front of his home last night in the Paris suburb of Magnanville and his assailant, who had barricaded himself in the policeman’s house, was later shot dead by members of an elite police unit, officials said.

ROME (Reuters) – Pope Francis yesterday condemned the use of hunger as a “weapon of war” and lamented the fact that it was easier to move weapons across borders than the aid needed to keep civilians alive.

Janiel Howard called ‘JP’, 30, is wanted by the police for questioning in relation to ‘attempting to cause explosion’ which occurred on June 06, 2016, at Saffon Street, Charlestown, Georgetown.

(IAPA) MIAMI, Florida The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today expressed concern about actions of cyberbullying against journalists in Trinidad and Tobago who have been the object of numerous attacks on their professional and personal integrity in reprisal for their news coverage.

Two persons were today charged over the discovery of cocaine in frozen fish last week at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri and a third was charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice.

Swamped Mahaicony Creek farmers pleaded with the authorities for help yesterday even as they battled floodwaters and continue to lose their cash crops, livestock and rice as water levels remain stubbornly high.

Georgetown Mayor Patricia Chase-Green says the Private Sector Commission (PSC) needs to allow City Hall the latitude to run its business accordingly.

The Prison Commission of Inquiry (CoI) has rapped the authorities for the failure to have the emergency fire pump at the Camp Street prison operational during the March 3 unrest and fire which claimed the lives of 17 inmates.

The State continues to be a menace to the citizenry and much remains to be done to eliminate corruption and autocracy, the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) has said as the party today observes the 36th anniversary of the assassination of its founder Dr Walter Rodney.

Five persons remain in custody as investigations continue into the grenade lobbing incident outside the offices of the Kaieteur News on June 3.

Georgetown yesterday maintained that the Venezuelan army had fired on employees of the mines commission traversing the Cuyuni River on May 30th and blasted Caracas for not replying to Guyana’s diplomatic note protesting the incident.

Close to a month since Lethem’s first radio station was commissioned, Maba-ruma has now followed suit with Radio Mabaruma which was commissioned on Saturday by Prime Minister, Moses Nagamootoo.

The chairman and some councillors of the Regional Democratic Council of Region Two (Pomeroon/ Supenaam) remain at loggerheads with the Regional Executive Officer (REO) over the “laid-back” approach he has taken towards the execution of projects.

Several city councillors have said they have not seen the contract reportedly inked between City Hall and National Parking Systems (NPS)/Smart City Solutions for a city parking meters project raising further questions about the controversial venture.

Fees for parking at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri are going up with effect from Friday, July 1st.

After being swamped for several weeks, floodwaters in certain parts of the West Coast Berbice are finally receding.

The Police conducted several drug eradication exercises on Saturday along the Berbice River.

ORLANDO, Fla., (Reuters) – A man armed with an assault rifle killed 50 people during a gay pride celebration at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, early yesterday in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S.