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(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.

(WICB) Gros Islet, St Lucia – It is not often someone can top Chris Gayle’s awesome power in the Twenty20 format, but Chris Barnwell proved he had the formula as he played the lead role in the Christopher Show on Saturday night.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Barack Obama took the official oath for his second term today at the White House in a small, private ceremony that set a more subdued tone compared to the historic start of his presidency four years ago.

Guyanese in St Lucia celebrating Guyana’s victory over Jamaica in the CT20 semi-final on Saturday night.

Christopher Barnwell receiving his man of the match award last night in St Lucia for his swashbuckling innings which took Guyana to victory over Jamaica in the Caribbean T20.

LEICESTER, England,  CMC – Leicestershire are unnerved by Ramnaresh Sarwan’s selection to West Indies for the upcoming tour of Australia, and plans to speak to the right-hander about his availability during the upcoming English county season.

This morning, police ranks responded to a report of an abduction in Queenstown, Essequibo and managed to rescue the victim and arrest the suspect.

The police say they are investigating the murder of miner David John, 22 years, of Port Kaituma, NWD, which occurred at about 0630h yesterday at Konawaruk, Region Eight.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s government is open to improving troubled ties with Washington and is considering a U.S.

LONDON, (Reuters) – London’s Heathrow Airport cancelled a fifth of flights and airlines scrapped 40 percent of flights to Paris’s main airports as snow continued to blanket parts of Europe, with more forecast.

(Trinidad Express) The multi-million dollar Milshirv deal fattened the pockets of two families from the People’s National Movement (PNM) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has said.

(Trinidad Express) Government yesterday signed an agreement with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) for the largest loan ever granted to any country in the English-speaking Caribbean.

ALGIERS,  (Reuters) – Twenty-five bodies have been discovered by Algeria’s army in the gas facility attacked by militants in the desert, private Algerian television station Ennahar said today, adding that the operation to clear the base would last 48 hours.

ALGIERS/IN AMENAS, Algeria,  (Reuters) – The Algerian army carried out a dramatic final assault to end a siege by Islamist militants at a desert gas plant today in which 23 hostages were killed, many of them believed to be foreigners, the interior ministry said.