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(Jamaica Gleaner) Since the start of 2012, the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) has lost more than US$30 million as a result of electricity theft.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Not only legal experts, but people from society will be asked to contribute to the amendment of the Constitution.

The police say they are investigating the murder of Yohan Hunte called `Man on the roof’, 37 years, of Laing Avenue, Georgetown, which occurred at about 1015h today Sunday on Croal Street, Georgetown.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Former Haitian prime minister Smarck Michel has died. He was 75.

AFC Region Three councillor, Harry Narine Deokinanan says that there is no opposition representative on the Region’s Tender Board and as a result contracts cannot be scrutinized at the time of the award and this has led to the “corruption” now being seen.

(Barbados Nation) The closure of the AIDS Foundation of Barbados Inc.

SEOUL,  (Reuters) – Sun Myung Moon, the founder and head of the Unification Church which has millions of followers around the world, died at a retreat near the South Korean capital Seoul today, church officials said.

ST.GEORGE’S, Grenada,  CMC-Prime Minister Tillman Thomas Saturday night announced that EC half a million dollars in Government bonds will be given to Kirani James for winning Grenada’s first Olympic gold medal.

SPA-FRANCORCHAMP, Belgium,  CMC – Lewis Hamilton fell further out of contention in the race for the Formula One title when he crashed out at the start of the Belgian Grand Prix as McLaten teammate Jenson Button won at Spa here today.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Former west Kingston strongman Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke has finally been moved from solitary confinement in a United States (US) prison. 

(Jamaica Gleaner) While the decision of Panther Corporation, the Canadian recycling firm, to set up shop in Jamaica is being welcomed there are renewed fears that the country could drown in plastic bottles.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The community of Norwich in Portland is in mourning following the murder of 44-year-old Philbert McDonald, a farmer and businessman of Ranch Hill Road shortly after 8:30 Saturday night.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A well-known medical doctor and two brothers were among four persons fatally shot on Saturday as gunmen ran riot in Spring Gardens, St James, and Central Village, St Catherine.

(Barbados Nation) Officials of the Barbados Auto Racing League (BARL) and Ralph “Bizzy” Williams, one of the main sponsors of this weekend’s Digicel/Williams Seaboard Marine International Meet, say the Jamaican drivers were not involved in the 38 pounds of illegal drugs found in a container shipped with their racing cars.

(Trinidad Express) Arouca detectives were yesterday investigating the shooting death of a 57-year-old man in his home last Friday night.

(Trinidad Express) “I just have to thank God. It was a miracle.”

(Trinidad Express) President George Maxwell Richards has proclaimed “The Administration of Justice (Indictable Proceedings) Act 2011” in a move to end preliminary enquiries in the local courts.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Hal David, a lyricist who along with composer Burt Bacharach took the pop world by storm in the 1960s with hits such as “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on my Head” and “Walk on By,” died in Los Angeles today at age 91, a representative said.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A 25-year-old pregnant woman has been killed and another female injured following a shooting incident involving a policeman in Yallahs, St Thomas, this afternoon.

Police today said that investigations are being conducted into a fire of so far unknown origin that occurred at about 1115h today which resulted in the destruction of a wooden house at Breda Street, Georgetown, and the death of a man.