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(Barbados Nation) Not one iota of thought is being given to putting the country under any International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme or devaluing the Barbados dollar.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – England batsman Kevin Pietersen has conceded he needs to control his behaviour following his demotion from the test team for sending South Africa players text messages criticising his team mates and staff.

(Trinidad Express) A day after Patrick Parris murdered his estranged wife, he was found dead, hanging by the neck from a tree at the back of his house yesterday.

(WICB) Bridgetown, Barbados — Barbados bowled exceptionally well to take all 10 Guyana wickets on the first day of the fifth and final round of matches in the West Indies Cricket Board’s Under-19 Three-day Tournament on Tuesday.

Promotion group Hits and Jams this evening announced that it was postponing its Master’s Cup Tournament after a row between local cricket administrators and the West Indies Board flared up today.

The New York Post today said that the Guyanese man convicted of masterminding a plot to blow up fuel pipelines at JFK Airport plotted from behind bars to kill key witnesses against him, according to newly unsealed court documents.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — West Indies all-rounder, Jamaican Stafanie Taylor is the first woman to be nominated for the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Cricketer of the Year award.

The police today said that Superintendent Errol Watts had not been ordered out or pulled from operations as reported in the media.

Police say that the following persons have been charged after the unrest in Linden and appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court today before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton.

Police say that at about 1045h today, two accounts clerks attached to the Farm Supply and General Equipment Ltd.

OSLO,  (Reuters) – Norway’s prime minister came under pressure to resign today after an official report said police could have prevented a murder spree by far right militant Anders Behring Breivik last year that killed 77 people.

KABUL,  (Reuters) – Three suicide bombers killed at least 28 people and wounded more than 70 today when they blew themselves up outside a hospital and within a busy city market in southwest Afghanistan.

The West Indies Cricket Board has written to territorial boards warning that the Hits and Jams tournament planned here has not been approved and warning that players who participate may face possible sanctions.

The body of Gewan Jagdeo, 63 years, of Bonasika, Essequibo River, was found at about 1830h.

(Trinidad Express) The domestic violence protection order granted to Rio Claro mother Julie Parris earlier this year proved worthless yesterday, when she was chopped and stabbed to death by the man whom she tried to escape.

(Jamaica Observer) The Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCo) yesterday rubbished a claim by International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Dick Pound that it is difficult to test Jamaican athletes because they are hard find.

(de Ware Tijd) THE HAGUE – Suriname and the Caribbean are unable to optimally use development aid from the European Union (EU).

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Dissension in the army has reached a boiling point.

AMMAN,  (Reuters) – Former Syrian Prime Minister Riyad Hijab said today President Bashar al-Assad’s government is falling apart and only controls 30 percent of the country, in his first public appearance since defecting to the opposition.

(Trinidad Express) It was a day of rewards at Piarco International Airport yesterday as Olympic champion Keshorn Walcott returned home after a stunning gold medal performance at the London games.