Sunday Editor

(Trinidad Guardian) A Business Improvement District (BID) fund is being proposed by the Downtown Owners and Merchants Association (Doma) to assist in upgrading Port-of-Spain.

PASADENA, Calif. (Reuters) – NASA’s Mars science rover Curiosity landed safely late yesterday after hurtling through the pink Martian skies at the start of a two-year quest for signs the Red Planet once hosted key ingredients for life.

DUBAI (Reuters) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will attend a summit of Muslim leaders in Saudi Arabia expected to focus on Syria, Iranian media said today, as tensions between Tehran and Riyadh run high over their opposing stances on regional uprisings.

AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian Prime Minister Riyad Hijab has defected to Jordan, a Jordanian official source said today, prompting Syria to announce he had been sacked and replaced by a caretaker premier.

  (Barbados Nation} Police are reporting success in catching criminals red-handed as a result of surveillance cameras installed in high-traffic areas and, in a few weeks, those eyes will be constantly watching over the entire City.

The high level policemen implicated in the $16M boat scam should be subject to criminal sanctions and not just be allowed to repay the stolen sum, member of the AFC Nigel Hughes says while concluding that the Ministry of Home Affairs has made a mockery of all efforts to stamp out corruption.

Two men died on Saturday afternoon at a mining camp in the Waiamu Backdam, Region 7 after they were crushed by a falling tree even as they attempted to run to safety.

Senior member of the PNCR Lance Carberry says nominations for the position of leader of the party are in and are being processed and the party will make an announcement in one week as to the persons nominated.

MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) – Uruguay’s government plans to start growing marijuana soon after a law legalizing sales of the drug passes Congress, but a ban on selling to foreigners will stop the country becoming a drug tourism hot-spot, officials say.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Islamist Mohamed Morsy was declared Egypt’s first freely elected president on Sunday, sparking joy among his Muslim Brotherhood supporters on the streets who vowed to continue a struggle to take power from the generals who retain ultimate control.

At least one person is listed as critical following an accident at 58 Miles Mabura Road involving a No 72 minibus and a pick-up.

Trinidad Express JAMAAT-AL-MUSLIMEEN leader Imam Yasin Abu Bakr, in an interview with police officers seven years ago, said his sermon on the collection and distribution of Zakaat during Eid-ul-Fitr celebrations in 2005 was based on theology.

Trinidad Express Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar last night described Jack Warner as a man of action and expressed confidence that as the new National Security minister, he would be the best crime-buster.

A 60 year old man was found tied up with his throat slashed early this morning at an Enmore shop where he was employed as a security guard.

There will no elephant for the zoo just yet. And it will be expensive to modernize the facility.

The Transparency Institute of Guyana Inc (TIGI) has condemned the conduct of Police Commissioner Henry Greene who has admitted sexual relations with a potential criminal defendant and called on him to resign saying that he was unfit to hold public office.

The Caribbean Community (Caricom) is at risk of being “brought down quickly” if the international financial situation worsens, according to recent review that also warns of the real possibility that member states could walk away over the movement’s slow progress.

BEIRUT (Reuters) – At least 31 Syrian civilians and soldiers were killed today in fighting over Syria’s future that coincided with a vote on a new constitution that could keep President Bashar al-Assad in power until 2028.

BEIRUT (Reuters) – The Syrian military took its bombardment of the rebel-held Baba Amro district of Homs into a fourth week  today as the Red Cross tried to evacuate more distressed civilians from the city.

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea threatened today to wage a “sacred war” in response to joint military exercises planned by its arch-rival South Korea and the United States, saying it was determined to keep Washington from imposing its political will on it.