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The Pegasus Hotel today said that it had been left out of the Guyana delegation for this week’s Caribbean Tourism Organisation Caribbean Week event in New York.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Ray Bradbury, a giant of American literature who helped popularize science fiction with works such as “The Martian Chronicles,” died yesterday at age 91, his publisher said today.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prof Selwyn Ryan is denying Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar is paying him TT$2 million to come up with a crime plan.

(Jamaica Gleaner) It appears Contractor General, Greg Christie may have been late off the mark in relation to the barring of China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) from receiving World Bank funded contracts.

Police say that at about 0005h today ranks of a mobile police patrol stopped and searched two men who were walking along Broad Street, Charlestown.

(Trinidad Express) Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler and Opposition Leader Owen Arthur yesterday clashed on economic policy, with Arthur likening the Government’s taxing of allowances to the controversial eight per cent public servants’ pay cut of 1991.

(Trinidad Express) Senior Counsel Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj — one of the attorneys representing the CLICO United Policyholders Group — has called on Finance Minister Winston Dookeran to provide evidence that TT$9 billion has already been paid out to policyholders.

(Trinidad Express) The “Patrick” referred to by Housing Minister Dr Roodal Moonilal was Patrick Caesar, a former manager of Nipdec and not former prime minister Patrick Manning.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Drug-resistant strains of gonorrhoea have spread to countries across the world, the U.N.

(Trinidad Express) State-owned Caribbean Airlines (CAL) is in danger of being downgraded, People’s National Movement (PNM) Senator Lester Henry said yesterday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister, Portia Simpson Miller, this afternoon announced a raft of measures designed to make more Jamaicans homeowners, ranging from reduced mortgage rates to free houses.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – A superb unbeaten 96 by India A captain Cheteshwar Pujara condemned West Indies A to a heart-breaking two-wicket defeat on a tense final day of the opening four-day Test match at Kensington Oval today.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – In what U.S. officials described as major blow to al Qaeda, the group’s second-ranking leader, a militant known as Abu Yahya al-Libi, was killed in a strike by a missile fired from a U.S.-operated

Police today issued a wanted bulletin for Pooran Jaundoo for questioning in connection with the murder of US-based Guyanese Abdul Majid on April 27, 2012.

BOSTON,  (Reuters) – Herb Reed, the last of the founding members of 1950s R&B crooners The Platters, known for hits such as “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” and “The Great Pretender,” has died in Boston age 83.

(Trinidad Guardian) Senior officials of the Police Service embarked on an intensive three-day training workshop yesterday on how to communicate better during a crisis and improve media relations as they seek to enhance the image of the organisation.

Although constables at the Stabroek Market heard alarms go off at Cosmopolitan Jewellery Establishment, ½ 29 Section 3, no action was taken and the jewellery stall was cleaned out by bandits sometime last night.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A tough new elite unit within the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), with a mandate to paralyse the nerve centre of organised crime in Jamaica, has set its sights on what it describes as the “untouchables”.

(Barbados Nation) After cutting about ten per cent of its staff in Jamaica through a voluntary separation package in 2009, Digicel is expanding its offer to workers in Barbados and other parts of the region.

(Barbados Nation) Jamaican Shanique Myrie, who accused immigration officials of indecently and verbally abusing her when she tried to get into the country last year, wants Barbados to pay – in dollars and cents – for the humiliation and prejudice she said she suffered.