Staff Editor

(Trinidad Express) The Peoples’s National Movement (PNM) won all 12 seats in yesterday’s Tobago House of Assembly (THA) election.

(Trinidad Express) The People’s Partnership administration played right into the hands of the People’s National Movement (PNM).

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad Cement Ltd (TCL) cannot just keep raising prices every year, ANSA McAL’s chief operating officer Gerry Brooks has said.

ALGIERS, (Reuters) – Algeria said on Monday it had confirmed the deaths of at least 38 workers, all but one foreign, at the Sahara gas plant its forces stormed two days ago and said the Islamist gunmen had been led by a man with Canadian citizenship.

(Jamaica Information Service) Jamaica’s Ambassador to the United States Stephen Vasciannie has renewed calls for Jamaican migrants to abide of US law in an effort to reduce the deportation rate.

(Barbados Nation) Forty two year-old Dave Henderson Powers is expected in court tomorrow morning on five charges including that of murdering Kari Cumberbatch in an attack outside CinCin By the Sea Restaurant in Prospect, St James last Wednesday.

The Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development says it will aggressively pursue relocation of roadside vendors this year to market tarmacs that were handed over last year and will resort to police help if necessary.

MELBOURNE, Australia,  CMC-West Indies middle order batsman Marlon Samuels has escaped punishment for his role in an ugly clash with Shane Warne, captain of the Melbourne Stars during a match of the Australian Big Bash League.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia,  CMC – Captain Denesh Ramdin has attributed team work as the main reason behind Trinidad and Tobago’s historic milestone after they blew away Guyana to win the Caribbean T20 title for a third consecutive year.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Barack Obama urged Americans today to reject political “absolutism” and partisan rancor, as he kicked off his second term with an impassioned call for collective action and established a more assertive tone for the challenges he faces over the next four years.

The police say they are investigating an armed robbery which occurred at about 1900h last night  during which Seelochanie Budhoo of Hanam Street, Ruimzigt, WCD, was attacked and robbed by four men, one of whom was armed with a handgun.

The police are investigating a fatal accident that occurred at about 2030h last night at Long Creek Public Road, Soesdyke/Linden Highway, and which resulted in the death of driver Saphraz Ali, 33 years, of Sarah Johanna, EBD, and passenger Joel Mohamed, 50 years, of Dora, Soesdyke/Linden Highway.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Roger Federer delivered another stinging lesson to the next generation of men’s tennis at the Australian Open today, mauling Canadian Milos Raonic in straight sets to extend his record to a 35th consecutive grand slam quarter-final.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Suriname’s educational system must see to it that the country becomes the best in the region both qualitatively and technically.

(Barbados Nation) THE CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL (CXC) is taking steps to reduce incidents of fraud.

KABUL,  (Reuters) – Suicide bombers and gunmen launched an eight-hour assault on the headquarters of the Kabul traffic police today, Afghan officials said, in the second coordinated attack on a government building in less than a week.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia,  CMC – Mighty Trinidad and Tobago reduced the Caribbean Twenty20 final to a no-contest as they crushed out-of-sorts Guyana in a authoritative performance to march to their third consecutive title here Sunday night.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Defending champion Novak Djokovic survived an early onslaught and a late fightback from Stanislas Wawrinka in a pulsating fourth-round clash to advance to the quarter-finals of the Australian Open early on Monday.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – A DNA investigation of bloodstained clothes and body swabs has linked all five men and a juvenile accused of the gang rape and murder of a woman in New Delhi to the crime, providing evidence the prosecution claims will be enough to convict them.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Belize Prime Minister Dean Barrow has insisted that his administration did not negotiate with known gang leaders following last week’s murder of four people whose bodies were found in an apartment building.