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(Trinidad Express) On average, there are 1,000 admissions each year related to “self-harm or suicide” at the nation’s hospitals, the Ministry of Health has said.

(Trinidad Express) Two more men were murdered in the John John, East Port of Spain area on Sunday night, bringing to four the number of people killed in that area over the weekend, with a total of nine individuals being murdered throughout the country in the space of 48 hours.

(Trinidad Express) The Opposition is in shock over the developments involving businessmen Ishwar Galbaransingh and Steve Ferguson.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Andy Murray fought off Novak Djokovic to win an epic U.S.

The new roll-on/roll-off ferry vessel ‘MV Kanawan’ today made its long-awaited first commercial trip from Parika to Supenaam, with a total of 46 passengers, 9 trucks, 3 canters and 2 cars on board.

(Reuters) – Bahamas Petroleum Company Plc said its oil drilling permits were renewed by the newly elected government of Bahamas, ending months of speculation that they would not be extended.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s famously anti-capitalist president, Hugo Chavez, has urged rich voters to back him or face “civil war,” while his opponent sought to reassure the poor he will not abandon popular socialist welfare policies if he wins next month’s election.

KABUL, (Reuters) – The Afghan Taliban said today they were doing everything in their power to try to kidnap or kill Britain’s Prince Harry, who arrived in Afghanistan last week to fly attack helicopters.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Half of all people of South Asian, African and African Caribbean descent living in Britain will develop diabetes by age 80, scientists said on Monday in research which also points to an alarming future for rates of the disease in Africa and Asia.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Scientists have found nature’s way of creating colour that never fades, a technique they say could replace pigments used in industry with natural plant extracts in products from food colouring to security features in banknotes.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – A failure in a main transmission line in central Cuba caused a blackout that cut electricity for hours to more than half the country on Sunday night, but now power has been mostly restored, the government said today.

SIERRA DE PARIMA, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Indigenous Yanomami villagers at the center of an investigation into a possible massacre deep in the Amazon jungle have told visiting journalists and government officials that no killings took place.

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – Pakistan went from the sublime to the disastrous against Australia today, recording their lowest Twenty20 international total and suffering their heaviest defeat in the shortest form of the game.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The world’s most advanced vaccine against dengue fever, being developed by French drugmaker Sanofi SA, proved far less effective than hoped in a clinical trial in Thailand, researchers reported today.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Prominent Cuban dissident Marta Beatriz Roque began a hunger strike today along with 12 others to bring attention to what she described as the government’s persecution of its opponents.

(Jamaica Observer) WESTMORELAND, Jamaica — Rev Paul Lewis, the US-based Jamaican-born televangelist who had been on sex-related charges here, was today freed of a charge of perverting the course of justice when he appeared in the Savanna-la-Mar Resident Magistrate’s Court.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A diplomatic stand-off between Jamaica and Zimbabwe seems to be bubbling following recent comments attributed to the president of the African country, Robert Mugabe, who has been quoted as labelling Jamaican men “drunkards and perennially hooked on marijuana”.

 (Jamaica Gleaner) Opposition leader Andrew Holness says the country could collapse, if the government fails to negotiate a new agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela has dropped weapons charges against the American captain of a U.S.-flagged

(Barbados Nation) More than 2,000 jobs could be created over the next five years as a result of the Caribbean Digital Media Centre (CDMC) which was officially launched last Friday at the Harbour Industrial Estate.