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President Ramotar to attend Chavez funeral

President Donald Ramotar will be departing Guyana for Caracas, Venezuela in the company of a delegation to attend the funeral of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez who died yesterday, the Government Information Agency said this evening.

Twenty-year-old charged with causing death by dangerous driving

Police say that Mahase Persaud, 20 years, of Enmore, ECD has been charged with Causing Death by Dangerous Driving, Dangerous Driving and Driving under the Influence of alcohol following investigations into a fatal accident that occurred on March 03, 2013, at Nabaclis, ECD, and which resulted in the death of Patrick Lester of Golden Grove, ECD.

Parika businesswoman robbed of $2M

The police say they are investigating an armed robbery committed on businesswoman Coo-Hua-Nuan, 47 years of Parika, EBE, that occurred at about 0100h today by three men, one of whom was armed with a handgun and another with a knife.

Seaman dies after beating

The police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of seaman Antonio Isles, 40 years, of Pike Street, Kitty.

Blake to start campaign in Doha

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC-Jamaica’s Yohan Blake, the World 100 metres champion, will open his 2013 Samsung Diamond League campaign at the Doha 2013 meeting on Friday 10 May.

Supporters of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez react to the announcement of his death in Caracas, March 5, 2013. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins

Venezuelans grieve for Chavez, prepare for election

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Shattered supporters of Hugo Chavez paraded his coffin through the streets of Caracas today in a flood of emotion allies hope will help his deputy win an election due in the coming weeks and keep his self-styled revolution alive.

Mohamed Mursi

Egypt court throws election timetable up in the air

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – An Egyptian court threw the timetable for parliamentary elections into confusion today, ordering the cancellation of President Mohamed Mursi’s decree calling the vote and forcing a likely delay to polls due to start in April.

No trial by ambush, CCJ judge tells Bajan attorney in Myrie case

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica – Lead attorney for the Barbados government Roger Forde was this morning sharply reprimanded by head judge Sir Dennis Byron as Shanique Myrie’s case against the eastern Caribbean island continues in the Caribbean Court of Justice at the Jamaica Conference Centre in Kingston.

Pavel Dmitrichenko

Bolshoi dancer who played villains admits acid attack

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – A dancer at Russia’s Bolshoi ballet who made his name playing villains has confessed to ordering the acid attack that nearly blinded its director, angry that his lover was being kept out of leading roles.

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