Staff Editor

Police say that at about 1900h yesterday, businessman Albadar, 47 years, of Vigilance North, ECD, and his reputed wife Reshma Bisnauth had just arrived home in their motor vehicle and as they were about to exit the vehicle they were confronted by two men armed with handguns.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange used the balcony of the Ecuadorean embassy on Sunday to berate the United States for threatening freedom of expression and called on President Barack Obama to end what he called a witch-hunt against his whistle-blowing website.

(Trinidad Guardian) Legal Affairs Minister Prakash Ramadhar is being asked to refund more than TT$300,000 in legal fees to a client he represented at the Chaguanas Magistrates’ Court two years ago.

(Trinidad Guardian) Caribbean Airlines (CAL) received its third ATR 72-600 aircraft on Friday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Six San Fernando businesses were destroyed when a fire razed a two-storey commercial building on Mucurapo Street on Friday night.

(Jamaica Observer) The leadership of the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) is fuming in the wake of calls for an enquiry into whether it is to be blamed for the significant decline in pass rates for English Language and Mathematics among students throughout the Caribbean in May this year.

KHARTOUM,  (Reuters) – Up to 31 people including at least one Sudanese minister were killed when a plane taking them to an Islamic festival crashed in the south of the country, an official and state media said today.

(Trinidad Express) A woman described as a gang informer and an Arima man were killed in separate incidents between early yesterday morning and midday.

(Trinidad Express) A manpower shortage and overworked officers at the Estate Police Association (EPA) are compromising security operations at the Piarco International Airport in Trinidad and the Arthur NR Robinson Airport in Tobago.

QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa today cast the Andean country’s tensions with Britain over asylum for WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange as a menace to Latin America, warning the UK that it should think twice before trampling on the region’s sovereignty.

The National Communications Network Inc. (NCN) says it will be broadcasting a live seven-part debate series on corruption, commencing this Sunday, August 19, 2012, at 7:00pm.

(WICB) Bridgetown, Barbados — Jeremy Solozano, the Trinidad and Tobago opener, was the top batsman while Oshane Walters, Jamaica’s off-spinner, and Gudakesh Motie, Guyana’s left-arm spinner, were the leading bowlers in the just concluded West Indies Cricket Board’s Under-19 Three-day Tournament.

(AFP) ORDOS, China—China’s Yu Wenxia has been crowned 2012 Miss World.

A Guyanese man fatally stabbed his wife and stuffed her in a plastic bag under a bed in their Queens, New York home, after hearing she had cheated on him, authorities and relatives said yesterday, according to the New York Post.

BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Syria denied reports today that President Bashar al-Assad’s deputy had defected and his forces pressed an offensive against rebels, bombarding parts of Aleppo in the north and hitting an insurgent-held town in the oil-producing east.

(Reuters) – India batsman VVS Laxman announced his retirement from international cricket today, saying it was “time to move on” despite his selection for the two-test series against New Zealand.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO — In the next months Suriname’s largest timber company ever, Greenheart, will have cleared itself of the after-effects of the controversial fraud scandal in Canada.

(Trinidad Express) With the amendments to the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) bill, it can now extend the reach of its “tentacles” into any public authority, Attorney General Anand Ramlogan said yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Just after 10 p.m. on Thursday, Giselle Maloney’s one-time lover, who swore an oath to protect and serve his countrymen, made good on his promise, allegedly hacking her to death in her Manrick Street, Guaico, apartment.

(Trinidad Express) A Caribbean Airlines jet was slightly damaged after a bird struck the plane as it carried passengers from Trinidad to Georgetown, Guyana on Thursday.