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(Trinidad Express) Local scrap iron dealers are questioning the criteria which has allowed a foreign national a licence to operate a scrap metal business in Trinidad.

(BBC) India dismissed any chance of a famous England escape by wrapping up a nine-wicket win on day five of the first Test in Ahmedabad.

(Trinidad Express) Point Fortin police officers retrieved a shotgun, five pistols and 1,230 rounds of .38 special ammunition on Saturday evening after being alerted of an illegal transaction by a caller to the Point Fortin Police Station.

KHULNA, Bangladesh,  (Reuters) – Paceman Kemar Roach has been included in the West Indies squad for the limited overs series against Bangladesh after successfully recovering from a hamstring injury, the country’s cricket board (WICB) said on Monday.

(Barbados Nation) Stop with all the talking. Let the court decide!

 (Jamaica Gleaner) The police have now confirmed that leader of the infamous Banton Gang was fatally shot this morning in August Town, St Andrew.

AUSTIN, Texas,  (Reuters) – The Formula One title battle between Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel and Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso will go down to the wire in Brazil after McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton won the U.S.

LONDON, (Reuters) – James Bond actor Daniel Craig surprised British troops in Afghanistan today by turning up at Camp Bastion in Helmand Province to introduce the latest 007 movie “Skyfall” as 800 soldiers sat down to watch it.

DHAKA, Bangladesh,  CMC – International Cricket Council president, Alan Isaac has described West Indies’ victory over Bangladesh in the just concluded first Test as a great advert for the game.

KADUNA, Nigeria,  (Reuters) – A video obtained by Reuters shows Nigerian troops shooting unarmed captives in broad daylight by the roadside in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, the bastion of an Islamist insurgency.

The doctor at the Mabaruma Hospital in Region One should be congratulated for the way he handled the stabbing of a Kumaka schoolgirl who later succumbed to her injuries, Health Minister Dr Bheri Ramsaran said yesterday, noting that he made efforts to find a medivac pilot and was in contact with his seniors in Georgetown throughout the night.

A Queens, NY teenager who crashed his car on a Long Island highway last month, killing four of his friends, faces 25 years in jail after testing positive for marijuana, the New York Daily News reported on Friday.

(Trinidad Guardian) By the end of 2015, widespread flooding in Port-of-Spain will be a thing of the past.

(Trinidad Guardian) The sweet potato fries deal struck between government agency T&T Agri-Business Association (TTABA) and the KFC fast food outlet in T&T has turned sour.

(Jamaica Observer) Of the 15,000 qualified students applying to study Medicine at the University of the West Indies, Mona campus each year, only 15 per cent are accepted because of space constraints, but this is set to change with the completion of a new $3.5-billion medical faculty building.

(Barbados Nation) After battling nearly five years of economic drag, the Barbados Chamber of Commerce & Industry (BCCI) is asking Government to take a chance on a “moderate economic stimulus”.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – “Do your job the way we know you can and you will get the government’s support,” President Desi Bouterse promised Humphrey Tjin Liep Shie, who was installed as the new police chief yesterday.

KHULNA, Bangladesh – The West Indies Cricket Board today advised of the West Indies 15-member squad for five One-day Internationals and a Twenty20 International on the tour of Bangladesh between November 30 and December 10.

(Trinidad Express) Government is seeking to purchase six naval vessels from the Colombian government because that country has been most successful in fighting crime, said Minister of National Security Jack Warner.

(Trinidad Express) A shortened version of the globally popular Kalishnikov (AK-47) assault rifle, along with 359 rounds of ammunition, were found in a Bon Air Gardens, Arouca, house where a 36-year-old man and his 89-year-old grandmother were arrested yesterday.