Staff Editor

GROS ISLET, St Lucia,  CMC – Defending champions Trinidad and Tobago cruised into the final of the Caribbean Twenty20 after nonchalantly dismissing a timid challenge from Barbados here last night.

(Barbados Nation) Thirty-three-year-old Kari Cumberbatch, a line chef at the upscale CinCin By The Sea Restaurant at Prospect, St James, was gunned down yesterday morning in the restaurant’s car park while dropping off his girlfriend to work.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Human rights watchdog Amnesty International has described as unacceptable the protracted delays by the Public Defender, Earl Witter, to present the report into the 2010 operations into Tivoli Gardens, West Kingston.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Barack Obama proposed a new assault weapons ban and mandatory background checks for all gun buyers today as he tried to channel national outrage over the Newtown school massacre into the biggest U.S.

ALGIERS,  (Reuters) – Islamist militants attacked a gas field in Algeria today, claiming to have kidnapped up to 41 foreigners including seven Americans in a dawn raid in retaliation for France’s intervention in Mali, according to regional media reports.

An Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam woman was this morning murdered, allegedly by her lover of seven years.

(Trinidad Guardian) Criticisms are mounting over plans by National Security Minister Jack Warner to set up five army bases around T&T, immediately after granting powers of arrest to 1,000 precepted soldiers.

(WICB) Castries, St Lucia – Ramnaresh Sarwan is eagerly looking forward to his return to the West Indies for the upcoming limited-overs tour of Australia.

(Barbados Nation) The Barbados economy had a dismal performance in 2012, registering no growth, and the Central Bank is predicting hardly any increased economic activity in the country this year.

Former GuySuCo Director John Bart A.A. has passed away at the age of 79.

Police say that at about 1930h last night, a police rank was walking along Canterbury Walk, Beterverwagting, ECD, when he was attacked by a man who is alleged to be mentally unstable and who was armed with a cutlass and a knife.

ZURICH,  (Reuters) – Organised criminal gangs are targeting around 50 national soccer leagues for possible match-fixing and any country is vulnerable regardless of its record on corruption, according to FIFA head of security Ralf Mutschke.

(Trinidad Express) Tobago’s north coast received a severe pounding from the wee hours of Monday morning, but Toco, Balandra, Sans Souci and Grande Riviere on Trinidad’s north-east coast got their share as well that afternoon and night with powerful waves destroying fishermen’s nets and even claiming a house.

(Trinidad Express) The Equal Opportunity Commission (EOC) has begun a probe of People’s National Movement (PNM) member Hilton Sandy’s controversial “Calcutta” statement and has issued a preliminary report on the issue.

LONDON, (Reuters) – A helicopter crashed into a crane on top of one of Europe’s tallest residential blocks in central London today, killing two people as it burst into flames and threw plumes of smoke into the foggy air.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago defeated Windward Islands by eight wickets in the 15th game of the Caribbean Twenty20 at the Beausejour Cricket Stadium here Tuesday.

(Barbados Nation) A national strike over the way LIME went about the retrenchment of 97 workers has been averted for the time being following the intervention of Prime Minister Freundel Stuart.

(WICB) St John’s, Antigua – The West Indies Cricket Board’s Selection Panel today named the 15-man squad for the upcoming limited-overs tour of Australia.

This evening’s high tide saw robust waves pouring over the East Coast sea defence between the Kitty Byways and Turkeyen.

(Reuters) – Cycling could be dumped from the Olympic program if Lance Armstrong implicated the sport’s governing body of covering up a widespread doping scheme, International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Dick Pound told Reuters today.