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US Ambassador Perry Holloway recently met with Guyanese entrepreneur, Triston Thompson who recently participated in the Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI) in the United States.

PANAMA CITY,  (Reuters) – Panama said yesterday it would form an independent commission to review the country’s financial practices following the leak of information from a local law firm that has embarrassed a clutch of world leaders.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff moved closer to impeachment when a key member of a Congressional committee said yesterday there were grounds for the Senate to put her on trial for manipulating budget accounts in 2014 to boost her reelection prospects.

The draft National Tourism Policy (NTP) which is being perused by the relevant stakeholders will soon become a public document.

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s Republican rivals were invigorated yesterday by the front-runner’s loss in the Wisconsin primary and moved quickly to bolster efforts to block the New York billionaire from capturing the party’s presidential nomination.

SAN JUAN,  (Reuters) – Puerto Rico’s governor yesterday signed an emergency bill allowing the government to halt payments on its debt, throwing into doubt broader restructuring plans to stave off a financial collapse of the U.S.

A business relationship that deteriorated has resulted in a Haslington resident being slapped with a damage to property charge.

BEIRUT/RIYADH,  (Reuters) – The waspish cartoon in a Saudi-owned newspaper summed up the anger behind Riyadh’s decision to cancel billions of dollars in military aid and suspend decades of engagement in Lebanon’s fraught politics.

CHICAGO,  (Reuters) – Brain scans of 23 Brazilian infants with the birth defect microcephaly showed widespread and severe abnormalities suggesting that Zika may invade fetal nerve cells and disrupt brain development.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs today announced that approval was received from the United States for the appointment of Dr Riyad Insanally as Guyana’s new Ambassador.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Sir Viv Richards, one of cricket’s finest ever captains, has thrown his support behind Twenty20 skipper Darren Sammy in his decision to slam the West Indies Cricket Board for their lack of support for the squad during the recent Twenty20 World Cup in India.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, has urged the West Indies Cricket Board to implement the most crucial reform aspect of the Patterson Report.

(Trinidad Guardian) ArcelorMittal Point Lisas Limited owes US$315 million to creditors, a figure that is four times its assets of US$70 million.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) yesterday seized two vehicles belonging to the Chinese company, Baishanlin from its Providence, East Bank Demerara office.

A Providence man was yesterday charged with murdering a Cuban national who was killed a short while after disembarking a ship that docked in the country.

Goldsmith Richard Ramjit, who had over $4M in jewellery seized from him at the Cheddi Jagan airport, Timehri in January, was yesterday charged with exporting gold without a licence and falsifying a declaration form.

  Two more Camp Street prisoners yesterday pointed fingers at Deputy Prisons Director Gladwin Samuels as being culpable for the deaths of 17 inmates who perished after the fire at the prison last month.

A prisoner, who was hit with pellets in both eyes during unrest last month at the Camp Street Prison, is now blind and his mother is pleading for assistance to foot his medical bills.

Three men, who were charged last December with illegal possession of guns and ammunition, were freed of the charges yesterday by a city magistrate due to insufficient evidence.

There is at least one connection to Guyana in the leaked ‘Panama Papers’ which details the offshore holdings of world political leaders and elite businessmen and celebrities, among others.