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(Barbados Nation) Stamping out smoking will take more than a legal ban on cigarette advertisements.

SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – Nearly a decade after a spike in global food prices sent shockwaves around the world, Asia’s top rice producers are suffering from a blistering drought that threatens to cut output and boost prices of a staple for half the world’s population.

DHAKA,  (Reuters) – Three assailants sped up to a Bangladeshi tailor’s shop by motorcycle on Saturday, dragged out the Hindu owner and hacked him to death, police said, in an attack claimed by Islamic State.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombian police have captured alleged Peruvian drug kingpin Gerson Aldair Galvez Calle, known by his alias ‘Caracol,’ Colombia’s defense minister, Luis Carlos Villegas, said yesterday.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – A Brazilian judge yesterday ratified the settlement Samarco and its owners, BHP Billiton and Vale SA, signed with the Brazilian government in March to cover damages for a deadly dam spill last year, Vale said in a statement.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad-born Tamika Gibson has won the 2016 Canadian Organization for Development through Education (CODE) Burt Award for Caribbean literature.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Almost half of the world’s top 500 investors are doing nothing to address climate change through their investments, a study showed yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Caribbean Premier League organisers say they are close to striking a deal with the Barbados government, for the support of the embattled franchise Barbados Tridents.

A businessman of Parika Outfall, East Bank Essequibo was gunned down around 9:45 pm on Saturday; the lone shooter escaped with four gold chains but relatives believe robbery was not the motive.

(Trinidad Guardian) In a dramatic turn of events, T&T may well get a chance to host the 2016 finals of the Hero Caribbean Premier League T20 tournament, as officials failed to announce Guyana as the hosts yesterday. The

A security guard attached to the Ramada Princess Hotel’s Casino is the second suspect to be arrested by the police in relation to Friday morning’s robbery and he has since admitted to being one of the two persons who plotted the crime.

Good Hope is a tiny village on the East Bank Essequibo pressed between Greenwich Park and Ruby.

Bugs were found in the mattresses that prisoners at the Camp Street jail slept on, according to a former member of that prison’s visiting committee who said that aside from this, the penitentiary appeared livable.

Three men armed with guns and knives pounced on a Rose Hall family early yesterday morning robbery yesterday and shot a worker, who unmasked one of them during a scuffle.

All transactions engaged in by Baishanlin should be reviewed before any takeover by a new firm and the investment agreement should not automatically be allocated to the successor company, attorney Christopher Ram says.

The Tocuma Indigenous Restaurant, a family owned and operated Amerindian cuisine eatery, was yesterday launched at the Amerindian Village of the Sophia Exhibition Centre.

President David Granger says the “March disturbances” at the Camp Street Prison which led to the deaths of 17 prisoners was a result of the previous administration’s negligence.

The findings of the Board of Inquiry (BoI) set up to investigate claims by self-confessed drug trafficker Barry Dataram about the alleged involvement of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) in the drug trade and corruption could be publicly available as soon as this week.

The Steering Committee on Constitutional Reform (SCCR) yesterday handed over its final report to Prime Minister Moses Nagamotooo, who will spend the next few days perusing it before it is taken to Cabinet for review.

Although there has been persistent rainfall over the past two weeks, the Rupununi is not out of the woods as yet, Regional Executive Officer Carl Parker said yesterday.