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BRIDGETOWN – The death of an elderly man in the coastal town of Marigot in southern Haiti, has been attributed to flooding stemming from Tropical Storm Melissa.

GEORGETOWN _ The Guyana Defence Force’s (GDF) 60th Anniversary Medal Presentation Parade was on Wednesday marked by reverence and pride as the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Dr Mohamed Irfaan Ali, decorated Officers and Other Ranks with prestigious military medals for their distinguished, faithful, and exemplary service to the nation.

BRIDGETOWN –  The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), through its Cultural and Creative Industries Innovation Fund (CIIF), has awarded a  US$100,000 grant to NativeFoto Ltd., a Trinidad & Tobago-based creative enterprise, to develop and scale an innovative digital stock photography platform dedicated to authentic Caribbean visual content.

KINGSTON – The leader of the main opposition People’s National Party (PNP) Mark Golding, has declared that he will not back down from his position that Jamaica must become a republic at the same time it accepts the Caribbean Court of Justice, CCJ, as its final appellate court.

SPORTS

MIRPUR  – The West Indies produced yet another abysmal performance with the bat to gift Bangladesh a mammoth 179-run victory in the third and decisive One Day International, which helped them to claim the series here on Thursday.

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