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Lack of support, including access to funding, marginalisation, and bias are just some of the challenges that hinder women’s participation in politics, according to several parliamentarians.

UENOS AIRES, (Reu-ters) – Conservative opposition candidate Mauricio Macri won Argentina’s presidential election yesterday after promising business-friendly reforms to spur investment in the struggling economy.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition said yesterday shots were fired at one of its candidates’ campaign caravan in a poor neighborhood of Caracas amid rising national tensions over next month’s parliamentary election.

(Reuters) – At least 16 people were hospitalized after a shooting at a playground in New Orleans, a local TV station reported yesterday, citing police.

(Reuters) – Next week, in the waning days of what is set to be the hottest year on record, world leaders meet on the outskirts of Paris for a summit that seeks nothing less than to steer the global economy away from its ever-growing reliance on fossil fuels.

PARIS (Reuters) – There were multiple chances to stop the men who attacked Paris.

The Ministry of Tourism today said that when the Kaieteur Falls is reopened to visitors following a suicide there yesterday there will be restricted access until further notice.

Cabinet has given its no-objection to some $2.9 billion in contracts, the majority of which is for the rehabilitation of community roads and State Minister Joseph Harmon has urged that labour within those communities be utilised for the work.

(Trinidad Express) Low energy prices have forced the National Gas Company (NGC) to freeze all salaries and benefits to staff for the rest of 2015 and 2016.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) will continue to maintain its individual identity and its leader Khemraj Ramjattan says he would rather resign than have the party merge with APNU.

Farm on the East Bank Demerara is nothing like its name, unless you count the little kitchen gardens here and there.

Several large foreign investment projects which had been championed by former president Bharrat Jagdeo are now languishing despite earlier pledges that they would take off.

A woman yesterday reported to the police that she was drugged and gang raped by Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) employees at the entity’s Mahdia location last Friday and her upset relatives have expressed concern at the manner in which the complaint is being dealt with.

Veteran journalist Mohamed Rachid Osman died suddenly yesterday morning at his Bent Street, Wortmanville home.

A four-year-old child, of Plaisance, East Coast Demerara, was yesterday morning rushed to the Accident and Emergency Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after she was attacked by a pit bull owned by her family.

To mark its 21st anniversary, Demerara Bank Limited (DBL) yesterday opened its new head office and corporate banking branch at Camp Street, North Cummingsburg.

A young woman jumped off the Kaieteur Falls yesterday morning in an apparent suicide.

UNICEF has again called for an end to institutionalized violence in schools by abolishing corporal punishment and scaling up strategies for alternative forms of discipline, which do not include corporal punishment in any of its many forms.

Minister of State Joseph Harmon on Friday dispelled recent reports of new overseas diplomatic postings, while saying that there are no recommendations for any such positions engaging the attention of Cabinet.

A January 1974 US diplomatic cable highlighted the dire economic circumstances facing the country and stated that it was soon expected to run out of foreign reserves and that stringent import restrictions were likely.