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(Jamaica Gleaner) West Indies star batsman Chris Gayle was moved to tears yesterday as he helped to unveil a cricket nursery named in his honour at his club, Lucas, on Preston Road in east Kingston.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) has begun airlifting relief supplies to communities in the mountainous border region between St Andrew and St Thomas which were marooned following the passage of Hurricane Sandy.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Describing as exploitative, the practice of employers to offer fixed-term contracts to workers, Government Senator Lambert Brown on Friday urged fellow legislators to join him in calling on the Government to make the necessary legislative amendments to put an end to the practice.

(Barbados Nation) The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) will not only introduce three new subjects next year, but will soon launch a project to give those who’ve left school without important qualifications – including prisoners – a second chance at education.

(Barbados Nation) A new court-approved restructuring plan for the controversial CLICO International Life Insurance Company that will see investors and policyholders not get the full value of their investments plus interest has been blasted by the policyholders’ group.

(Barbados Nation) Barbadian men, both young and old, are popping pills daily to get an erection and to enhance their sexual performance.

SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba,  (Reuters) – A day after Hurricane Sandy shattered Santiago de Cuba, retiree Rosa Maria remembered the sound of the storm as it battered her home in the city center.

(Trinidad Express) The Trinidad and Tobago Publishers and Broadcasters Association is calling on Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar to clearly state the Government’s intent on the media and press freedom.

MIAMI,  (Reuters) – Hurricane Sandy was downgraded this morning but remained highly menacing as it pulled away from the Bahamas, making a slow path toward the U.S.

(Trinidad Express) The probe to determine who leaked the witness statement of former CL Financial chairman Lawrence Duprey to Express political editor Ria Taitt was dropped at the Commission of Enquiry into the collapse of CL Financial and the Hindu Credit Union yesterday.

The police say they are investigating a fatal accident that occurred at about 1300h today at Agriculture Road, Triumph, ECD, and which resulted in the death of pedestrian Ezekiel Harris, 7 years, of South Vryheid’s Lust, ECD.

(Reuters) – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid went to a hospital after being involved in a car crash in Las Vegas, CNN reported today.

MILAN, (Reuters) – An Italian court today sentenced former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi to four years in jail for tax fraud in connection with the purchase of broadcasting rights by his Mediaset television company.

LAHORE,  (Reuters) – Pakistan will launch its Premier League Twenty20 tournament in March as it bids to lure more international cricketers back to the country.

(Reuters) – No one will replace Lance Armstrong as winner of the Tour de France from 1999-2005 after the American was stripped of the titles for doping, the International Cycling Union (UCI) said today.

NASSAU,  (Reuters) – Slow-moving Hurricane Sandy, a late season Atlantic storm unlike anything seen in more than two decades, slogged toward the U.S.

Canadian national Jean Le Blanc, who was shot and wounded during the execution of Ricardo Rodrigues two weeks ago, fell into a coma this morning and died shortly after in the High Dependency Unit of the Georgetown Hospital, a hospital official has confirmed.

Flights have resumed at Piarco after Caribbean Airlines BW300 to Caracas returned to Trinidad to make an emergency landing at the airport this morning, according to the Trinidad Guardian.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica – Police have released the names of the five men who escaped from the Portmore Police Lockup, St.

BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – Fighting in Syria killed several people today as a ceasefire brokered by international peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi to mark a holy Muslim day frayed almost before it had begun.