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PROGRESS PARK, St.Andrew’s,  CMC-Recalled West Indies batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan, seeking a return to form, stroked 90 but it was not enough as Zimbabwe posted a comfortable 77 run victory over a UWI Vice Chancellor’s X1 here today.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC-Ashley Nurse spun a web around Guyana to set up a comfortable five wicket victory for Barbados in their second round Super50 match at Kensington Oval here today.

The Guyana Revenue Authority today hailed the role of its officers in what is said was the largest ever drug bust in the country’s history – 792 lbs of cocaine secreted in timber at a Soesdyke lumberyard for export to Holland.

AMRITSAR, India,  (Reuters) – David Cameron today became the first serving British prime minister to voice regret about one of the bloodiest episodes in colonial India, a massacre of unarmed civilians in the city of Amritsar in 1919.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Former U.S. congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., the son of a civil rights leader and a one-time rising star in Democratic politics, pleaded guilty today to misusing about $750,000 in campaign money.

(Jamaica Observer) Jamaica is not too far away from seeing money remitted from overseas being sent to mobile phones.

The US Coast Guard intercepted 1,400 pounds of cocaine with an estimated wholesale value of more than US$17 million from a go-fast vessel in the southwest Caribbean Sea on Jan.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The government will neither nominate nor support Albert Ramdin for Secretary-General of the Organization of American States (OAS) in 2015.

PRETORIA,  (Reuters) – Witnesses heard “non-stop shouting” in the home of Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius shortly before his girlfriend was shot dead, the lead detective in the murder investigation said today.

(Trinidad Express) THE cutlass he used to chase two intruders out of his home was the weapon used to chop and kill farmer Soorace Sooklal yesterday.

( Trinidad Express) MOMENTS after attending the funeral service of murder victim Kerry Thomas, who was killed on Carnival Tuesday night, an Arouca man also lost his life after he was shot in D’Abadie yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) AS head of the National Security Council, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar must clear the air on claims that there is a “New Flying Squad Investigation Unit” (NFSIU) in operation in the country, Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley has said.

The main opposition New National Party (NNP) was on the verge of repeating the results of the 1999 general election when it won all 15 seats, the Caribbean Media Corporation reported last night.

Rob Morrison, a news anchor for WCBS-TV, was arrested on Sunday on charges of choking his wife during a domestic dispute at their Connecticut home, the police said on Monday.

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada,  CMC – Out-of-touch West Indies batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan has been included in the UWI Vice Chancellor’s XI for their one-day tour match against Zimbabwe which bowls off here today.

(Reuters) – A federal commission today said the U.S. education system had “thoroughly stacked the odds” against impoverished students and warned that an aggressive reform agenda embraced by both Democrats and Republicans had not done enough to improve public schools.

MIRPUR, Bangladesh,  CMC – West Indies big hitter Kieron Pollard failed but his Dhaka Gladiators captured the Bangladesh Premier League here Tuesday when they beat Chittagong Kings by 43 runs in the grand final at the Shere Bangla National Stadium.

In another stinging rebuke for the government, the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG) has come out against the shutout of Guyanese workers from the construction of the Marriott Hotel.

The PPP is keeping its cards close to its chest about possibly calling snap elections, despite its continued concerns about the actions of the opposition parties in the National Assembly.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – If there is one sure bet in this roller coaster movie awards season, it is that Daniel Day-Lewis will take home the Best Actor statuette at the Oscars on Sunday.