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(Jamaica Observer) Two Senators from either side of the upper chamber are planning on a joint motion seeking the decriminalisation of the practise of obeah in Jamaica.

(Trinidad Express) A thief shot himself in the head while robbing passengers in a taxi he hijacked in Chaguanas yesterday afternoon.

BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – Robbers dressed as police and armed with machineguns have stolen 120 parcels of diamonds worth millions of dollars from the runway of Brussels Airport in one of the biggest heists the industry has seen.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – North Korea threatened South Korea with “final destruction” during a debate at the U.N

(Trinidad Express) President-elect Anthony Thomas Aquinas Carmona yesterday pledged to serve as President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago with “clarity, objectivity, fairness and due process”.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – After Hugo Chavez spent two months out of the public eye for cancer surgery in Cuba, the Venezuelan government hailed his homecoming on Monday and said the president had achieved another milestone – 4 million followers on Twitter.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago loses more than TT$200 million in tourism revenue a year because of crime, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said yesterday.

PRETORIA,  (Reuters) – “Blade Runner” Oscar Pistorius put on his artificial legs and walked across his bedroom before firing four handgun rounds into the locked bathroom door, killing his cowering girlfriend in cold blood, prosecutors said today.

(Trinidad Express) A Guyanese national appeared in the Siparia Magistrates Court yesterday charged with the murder of mother of three, Stella Rampersad.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Purposeful bowling trumped half-centuries from Zaheer Mohammed and Steve Jacobs, propelling Barbados to a 93-run victory over Guyana in the Regional 4-Day Tournament today here.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – United Nations investigators said today that Syrian leaders they had identified as suspected war criminals should face the International Criminal Court (ICC).

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)      The former Director-General of the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (CRNM), Ambassador Henry S.

Police say that investigations are being conducted into a fire of so far unknown origin which occurred at about 0140h today at the Moleson Creek Police Outpost.

Under withering criticism and questioning over how China Central TV (CCTV) has been broadcasting here, Prime Minister Sam Hinds today said that it had no licence to transmit but that its signal is simply being relayed by the state-owned NCN.

(Trinidad Guardian)  “I was tortured at the hospital. I will never have another baby there again.” These

(Jamaica Observer) The Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) is calling on the Government to immediately review and make changes to aspects of its new tax regime, which it said could do more harm than good to the economy.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – South Africa are set to pocket $450,000 after they guaranteed the number one position in the ICC Test Championship beyond the April 1 cut-off date for prize money to be awarded in 2013.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made a surprise return from Cuba today more than two months after surgery for cancer that has jeopardized his 14-year rule of the South American OPEC member.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – Respected anti-apartheid activist Mamphela Ramphele launched a new political party today to challenge South Africa’s ruling ANC, saying self-interested and corrupt leaders were threatening the continent’s biggest economy.

(Trinidad Express) Killers went on a rampage last weekend, snuffing out the lives of seven men between Friday night and late yesterday evening.