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Chinese wood processing company Bai Shan Lin Forest Development Inc which is looking to move ahead on its large-scale industrial plans has advertised for 700 Guyanese workers.

(Trinidad Guardian) Detectives are investigating two separate incidents of attempted fraud against high-profile clients at RBC Royal Bank (RBC). Sources

(Reuters) – Roughly 18,000 defrauded investors in Allen Stanford’s US$7 billion Ponzi scheme would receive an initial payment of US$55 million for their claims, according to a plan submitted by a court appointed receiver on Friday.

(Jamaica observer) Crime is on the decrease in the island’s deadliest police divisions, but popular culture continues to hamper government’s efforts.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Six fatal shootings by the police in the past 24 hours have pushed the number of police killings since the start of this year to 18.

(Trinidad Express) Two men who were believed to have gunned down a rival gang member last week met a similar fate early yesterday morning when they were ambushed and shot dead by two gunmen.

(Trinidad Express) A man described by the police as a gang leader was gunned down early yesterday morning moments after he and his girlfriend got to his Carenage home after a fete.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – An Egyptian court accepted an appeal by ousted former president Hosni Mubarak and his former interior minister today, allowing him to be retried over the killings of protesters in the 2011 uprising.

MIRANSHAH, Pakistan,  (Reuters) – A roadside bomb killed as many as 14 Pakistani soldiers in the northern border region of North Waziristan today, military officials said, a day after the Pakistani Taliban leader called for attacks on the military in the area to stop.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Windward Islands eliminated Leeward Islands from the Caribbean Twenty20 when they dealt the struggling side their fourth straight defeat here today.

(Jamaica Observer) MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica – An eight year old girl, Imani Green, was shot and killed in Duncans, Trelawny Friday night.

The Guyana Prison Service this evening said that a murder accused was found hanging in the New Amsterdam Prison this afternoon.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s cancer-stricken President Hugo Chavez is recovering in Cuba and is not in a coma as some have rumored a month after surgery, his brother, Adan Chavez, said after a visit to Havana.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica – Three men were shot and killed by the police along Acadia Drive in St Andrew mid-morning Saturday.

Amid increasing demand for byproducts, the Ministry of Agriculture is to hold a conference for the coconut industry on Monday.

HOBART, Tasmania,  CMC – Kemar Roach’s Brisbane Heat booked their spot in the Australian Big Bash semi-finals on Saturday with a crushing eight-wicket win over Hobart Hurricanes.

PARIS, (Reuters) – France will pursue operations in Mali to prepare a subsequent African-led intervention to oust Islamist rebels and will step up anti-terrorist security measures on its own territory, President Francois Hollande said on Saturday.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – A spectacular Derone Davis hat-trick triggered yet another humiliating Barbados batting meltdown as Combined Campuses and Colleges hauled themselves off the bottom of the Caribbean Twenty20 standings with a sensational win here Friday night.

OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper agreed in a meeting with native leaders on Friday to pay more attention to their demands, trying to mollify an aboriginal protest movement that has threatened to blockade roads and railways across the country.

(Jamaica Observer) Attorney General Patrick Atkinson says that uncontrolled media releases from the Office of the Contractor General (OCG) will only serve to hurt Jamaica’s reputation internationally.