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(Trinidad Express) Acting Commissioner of Police Stephen Williams now has the difficult task of having to investigate his boss, National Security Minister Jack Warner.

(Trinidad Express) There is confusion as to whether or not Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan will be coming to Trinidad for a $2,500-a-ticket concert at the Hilton Trinidad on April 13.

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent,  CMC – Discarded West Indies off-spinner Shane Shillingford forced himself into reckoning for the Zimbabwe series when he routed Guyana to set up a four-wicket victory for Windward Islands here yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Barack Obama formally ordered broad cuts in U.S.

(Trinidad Express) Two bodies were found in a burnt out car in the Heights of Guanapo, Arima just after midnight yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Seventh Day Adventist pastor Clive Dottin said his statements about Latin American assassins operating in T&T and schooling teenage students in their deadly trade were based on his own experience.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad-born rapper Nicki Minaj compared T&T to Liberia on television on Wednesday, saying she didn’t think she would get out alive.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – British actor Richard Burton finally received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame next to that of his two-time wife, Elizabeth Taylor, on Friday, nearly 30 years after his death.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil advanced today toward its target of joining the small club of nations that have nuclear-powered submarines with the opening of a naval shipyard installation that will build French-designed submarines.

“We believe that the police were responsible for the shooting to death of the three persons” at Linden on July 18, 2012 is the verdict of the Commission of Inquiry into the bloody events in the mining town sparked by a government plan to raise electricity tariffs.

Police say that at about 1940h today, the body of Lucian Agard, 30 years, was found on the roadway in front of his residence at No.59 Village, Corentyne, with a suspected bullet wound to the head.

The Guyana Defence Force today expressed regret at the attempts last month by its ranks to make an arrest in a University of Guyana classroom.

(Jamaica Gleaner) National Commercial Bank (NCB) Jamaica’s decision to shun dealings with foreign-exchange dealers has already began to affect the non-cambio operations of mainstream customers, among them persons doing business with Sterling Asset Management.

(Barbados Nation) Five months after the expiration of the last contract between the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and its principal sponsor Digicel, the two parties are yet to agree terms on a new deal.

(Barbados Nation) Barbadians are reported to be flocking to a private sex club on the island where they must have a costume, a mask and a password to gain admittance.

(Trinidad Express) Lawrence Duprey and Andre Monteil, the two main players in CL Financial, will both have to testify at the ongoing commission of enquiry into the conglomerate’s failure, Sir Anthony Colman ordered yesterday.

JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – Israel’s prime minister accused his Turkish counterpart on Thursday of making a “dark and false” statement by calling Zionism a crime against humanity – a comment likely to hit efforts to repair ties between the two former allies.

(Trinidad Express) Plans announced recently by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and National Security Minister Jack Warner to give similar powers to the Defence Force as those of police officers are set to go a step further today.

VATICAN CITY,  (Reuters) – With Pope Benedict XVI now officially in retirement, Catholic cardinals from around the world begin on Friday the complex, cryptic and uncertain process of picking the next leader of the world’s largest church.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier appeared in court today for the first time to face charges he was responsible for corruption and serious human rights violations during his 15-year rule.