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(Trinidad Express) Another Bollywood star has not been contracted to perform for a TT$2,500 concert in this country next month although it was advertised that she will be part of the star-studded cast.

(Trinidad Express) A whopping TT$638,844,310 in alleged “dirty money” transactions have reportedly passed through the country’s financial system over the past year, the 2012 Report of the Financial Intelligence Unit of Trinidad and Tobago (FIUTT) has stated.

N’DJAMENA,  (Reuters) – Chadian soldiers in Mali have killed Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the al Qaeda commander behind a bloody mass hostage-taking at an Algerian gas plant in January, Chad’s military said today.

(Reuters) – Lendl Simmons blasted six sixes as his unbeaten 63 led West Indies to a comfortable eight wicket victory over Zimbabwe in the first of two Twenty20 internationals in Antigua today.

Two New York men have been charged with murdering a Guyanese man and setting him afire in his apartment in what was reportedly an attempt by another man to have the tenants in the building killed.

The Ministry of Natural Resources this afternoon said that a team has been dispatched to probe an incident that occurred at Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc.

The Private Sector will participate in the selection process for the 10 civilians who will work in a new Strategic Management Department to oversee reforms of the police force.

SEFFNER, Fla.,  (Reuters) – Florida rescue personnel today searched for a Florida man who disappeared into a sinkhole that swallowed his whole bedroom while he was asleep in his suburban Tampa home.

(BBC) India enjoyed the better of the opening day of the second Test in Hyderabad despite another fine knock by Australia captain Michael Clarke.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s ailing President Hugo Chavez has been undergoing “tougher” new treatment for cancer including chemotherapy at the military hospital where he has been for the last two weeks, his vice-president said.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Government is considering a proposal to abolish the use of juries for blood crimes, National Security Minister Jack Warner said in a statement in the House of Representatives yesterday. Warner’s

(Trinidad Express) Acting Commissioner of Police Stephen Williams now has the difficult task of having to investigate his boss, National Security Minister Jack Warner.

(Trinidad Express) There is confusion as to whether or not Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan will be coming to Trinidad for a $2,500-a-ticket concert at the Hilton Trinidad on April 13.

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent,  CMC – Discarded West Indies off-spinner Shane Shillingford forced himself into reckoning for the Zimbabwe series when he routed Guyana to set up a four-wicket victory for Windward Islands here yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Barack Obama formally ordered broad cuts in U.S.

(Trinidad Express) Two bodies were found in a burnt out car in the Heights of Guanapo, Arima just after midnight yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Seventh Day Adventist pastor Clive Dottin said his statements about Latin American assassins operating in T&T and schooling teenage students in their deadly trade were based on his own experience.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad-born rapper Nicki Minaj compared T&T to Liberia on television on Wednesday, saying she didn’t think she would get out alive.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – British actor Richard Burton finally received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame next to that of his two-time wife, Elizabeth Taylor, on Friday, nearly 30 years after his death.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil advanced today toward its target of joining the small club of nations that have nuclear-powered submarines with the opening of a naval shipyard installation that will build French-designed submarines.