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CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez suffered more complications linked to a respiratory infection that hit him after his fourth cancer operation in Cuba, the vice president said in a sombre broadcast today.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was sent to the hospital today with a blood clot stemming from a concussion she suffered earlier this month and was being assessed by doctors, a State Department spokesman said.

(Barbados Nation) The calm of the densely populated community of Crab Hill St.

Sugar production to date is about 219,000 tonnes and the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) will not meet its revised 2012 production target of 236,000 tonnes, Minister of Agriculture, Dr.

PESHWAR, Pakistan,  (Reuters) – Pakistani militants, who have escalated attacks in recent weeks, killed at least 41 people in two separate incidents, officials said today, challenging assertions that military offensives have broken the back of hardline Islamist groups.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – The body of a woman, whose gang rape provoked protests and rare national debate about violence against women in India, arrived back in New Delhi today and was cremated at a private ceremony.

(Trinidad Guardian) This country’s new lead national security agency, the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), is expected to be in operational mode sometime next year.

(Jamaica Observer) Blue Caprice, a movie recalling the DC sniper murders in Maryland and Virginia 10 years ago, premieres next month at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah.

(Barbados Nation) The Barbados Workers’ Union (BWU) has called on Government to implement immediate initiatives which would stimulate business while improving Barbados’ image as a place in which to invest.

(Barbados Nation) The lawsuit by gun owners against Commissioner of Police Darwin Dottin just got bigger.

(Barbados Nation) Warehouse chain Cost-U-Less is in line for major concessions when it opens in Barbados in the New Year.

(Barbados Nation) Chief Justice Sir Marston Gibson is ready to lay down the law on court practice as he seeks to halt a spiralling backlog of cases.

(Trinidad Express) It was to be a celebration, instead, family members spent the day planning Hassim Ramjohn’s funeral, which will most likely take place on New Year’s Day.

(Trinidad Express) Despite efforts by the police to reduce violent crime in the downtown Port of Spain area, a 29-year-old Morvant man was gunned down near the police office at the corner of Independence Square South and George Street last Friday night.

(Trinidad Express) Convicted killer Darryl Charles-Bissoon was recaptured in San Juan yesterday, almost a week after he escaped from the Port of Spain prison when he and two other men scaled the walls of the complex.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A woman suspected of shoving a man to his death in front of an oncoming New York subway train was arrested on Saturday and charged with “second-degree murder as a hate crime” in the second such fatality this month for one of the world’s busiest transit systems.

(Trinidadian Guardian) A Caribbean Airlines pilot would never have shouted at passengers.

(Trinidad Guardian) Hours after yesterday’s commissioning of the San Fernando Teaching Hospital at Chancery Lane, the Government secured a TT$950 million concessional loan from the Chinese government to build a children’s hospital in Couva.

(WICB) Port-of-Spain, Trinidad –Trinidad & Tobago coach David Williams is confident that he has the right pieces in place to mount a challenge to win the Caribbean Twenty20 Tournament for an unprecedented third straight year.

(WICB) Georgetown, Guyana – Newly-appointed Guyana captain Veerasammy Permaul insisted that his team will be “at their very best” when they play in the Caribbean Twenty20 Tournament next month.