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(Jamaica Gleaner) St Andrew businessman Bruce Bicknell has been charged with a second offence in the high-profile case which also involves West Portland MP Daryl Vaz and Senior Superintendent of Police James Forbes.

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, (Reuters) – Two people died during a powerful earthquake that rocked Costa Rica on Wednesday, one of them from a heart-attack, the Red Cross said.

Four of the commissioners who will be investigating the July 18 shooting to death by police of three Linden protesters were sworn-in today by President Donald Ramotar at the Office of the President.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has ruled that four charges be laid against police Corporal Dwayne Smart, who is accused of killing 27-year-old Kay-Ann Lamont last Saturday in Yallahs Square, St Thomas.

 (Jamaica Gleaner) The BBC is reporting that Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson says Jamaican Usain Bolt could play for the club in a charity match next year.

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica,  (Reuters) – A powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake rocked Costa Rica on Wednesday, rattling buildings and cutting power in some areas of the capital.

The police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of labourer Madan Ramkirat, called “Pencil”, 25 years of Grant 1805 Crabwood Creek, Corentyne.

(Barbados Nation) The much mooted gas pipeline from Trinidad to Barbados is still a “couple” of years off.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Egypt’s president, promising to put Cairo back at the heart of Arab affairs, made an impassioned appeal to Arab states today to work for an end to the bloodshed in Syria and said the time had come to change the Syrian government.

NOUAKCHOTT,  (Reuters) – Mauritania extradited Muammar Gaddafi’s former spy chief Abdullah al-Senussi to Libya today, a Mauritanian government source and the state news agency said, after months of wrangling over who would put him on trial.

MONTREAL,  (Reuters) – A masked gunman shot dead one person inside a Montreal theater where the leader of Quebec’s separatist Parti Quebecois was celebrating a narrow election win in the Canadian province, police said today.

(Barbados Nation) A man with hundreds of dollars stuffed in his pockets, apparently bled to death after breaking into Liquidation Centre on Bay Street last Sunday night.

(Barbados Nation) The Grantley Adams International Airport has been mandated by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) to do background checks on its Immigration and Customs officers.

(Barbados Nation) Three Coast Guard Men, accused of unlawfully killing a man at sea, were each released on bail when they made an afternoon appearance in the Bridgetown Traffic Court yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Every member of Parliament will be given an iPad before the end of October in a move to save paper and money and progress in terms of technology.

(Trinidad Express) Collin Partap, Member of Parliament for Cumuto/Manzanilla, yesterday broke his almost two-week-long silence and spoke out on the details that precipitated his removal as minister in the Ministry of National Security.

(Trinidad Express) A fresh set of rumblings of discontent emerged yesterday from the Congress of the People (COP) over the continued presence of National Security Minister Jack Warner in the Cabinet, as well as his intent to purchase two newspapers.

A man was today arraigned in a New York court for the murder of his Guyana born wife and held without bail.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Suzan Smith, the woman charged with the murder of her sister in Portmore, St.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Finally! After nearly eleven months of arduous and painstaking evaluations and working tirelessly to meet the requirements of the Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority (JCAA), Fly Jamaica Airways can now officially take to the skies.