PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago brushed aside a ragged Combined Campuses and Colleges by seven wickets to register their first win and get their Caribbean Twenty20 campaign up and running here Tuesday night.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica’s former contractor general Greg Christie has been brought on board by a coalition of private sector and civil society groups in Trinidad and Tobago to advise it on draft legislative proposals now before the twin-island republic’s parliament.
(Trinidad Express) Cement prices are going up from today.
Claxton Bay producer Trinidad Cement Ltd (TCL) yesterday announced a 9.5 per cent increase in the price of its Premium Plus Cement.
(Trinidad Express) SEVERAL areas across the country will be left without a steady supply of pipe-borne water as a result of the shutdown of two major desalination plants later this month.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Barbados stumbled and stuttered before eventually marching to their second victory of the Caribbean Twenty20, with a five-wicket defeat of embattled Jamaica here Tuesday.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will miss Thursday’s scheduled swearing-in ceremony for his third term due to health problems, the government said in a letter to Congress read out today.
The police today said that the body of the man found at Mousie Backdam, Mahdia, on January 01, 2013, has been identified as Rudolph Williams, of Mabaruma, NWD.
JAMMU, India, (Reuters) – India accused old enemy Pakistan of sending troops across the heavily militarised line dividing the disputed region of Kashmir today, and said two of its soldiers were killed and one wounded in a gunfight.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – President Dilma Rousseff cut short her vacation today to deal with a budding energy crisis that could wreck her efforts to restore vitality to Brazil’s economy this year.
Two Chinese nationals accused of beating an 11-year-old girl whom they said entered their Croal Street store to steal were today admitted to bail in the sum of $80,000 each when they appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
GENEVA, (Reuters) – About one million Syrians are going short of food, most of them in conflict zones, due to government restrictions on aid distribution, the United Nations said today.
MELBOURNE, Australia, CMC- Chris Gayle emerged from a run drought to hit a record half century but the Sydney Thunder squandered his heroics and succumbed to a 13 run loss against the Melbourne Stars in the Australian Big Bash League Tuesday.
(Jamaica Observer) NEGRIL, Westmoreland — A UK national who reportedly stabbed his spouse’s son was set upon and hacked to death by an angry mob yesterday in a section of Negril known as Hermitage.
(Trinidad Express) Two murders occurred about an hour apart on Sunday night in the east Port of Spain and Laventille areas, leaving two families in anguish and bringing the year’s murder toll to three, according to an Express tally.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Jan 8, CMC – A sloppy final over from beanpole seamer Jason Holder gifted Guyana a dramatic last-ball win over Combined Campuses and Colleges in the Caribbean Twenty20 here last night.
A former nursing student accused of killing seven people – including a Guyanese woman – at a Christian college in Oakland last April was ruled mentally incompetent to stand trial, Reuters reported today.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Barbados made light work of Leeward Islands, romping to an emphatic nine-wicket win to send an early warning in the 2013 edition of the Caribbean Twenty20 here today.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama today nominated former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel as his next defense secretary and counterterrorism adviser John Brennan to head the CIA, potentially setting up at least one Senate confirmation battle and establishing a tough tone to start his second term.