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(Jamaica Observer) Santa Cruz, Jamaica — Police are probing the circumstances surrounding the shooting death of a 16 year-old boy, said to be a student of Newell High School while he slept at his home in Slipe, SW St Elizabeth in the early hours of Saturday morning.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) officials this afternoon confirmed reports that its leader and former prime minister, Bruce Golding left the island this morning to seek medical treatment for a back problem.

BAYFIELD, Barbados,  CMC – Guyana snatched first innings points and were batting themselves into a strong position against Leeward Islands, at stumps on the penultimate day of the opening round of the WICB Under-19 three-day Championship here Sunday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Sprinter Tameka Williams has been withdrawn from the Olympics after admitting to using a banned substance, her St.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – World champion Yohan Blake was a popular man when an international panel of athletes was asked today to pick the Olympic 100 metres winner.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua,  CMC – Kemar Roach put the chains in motion before Chris Gayle coolly navigated West Indies to a nine-wicket victory over New Zealand in the first Test on Sunday here.

(Trinidad Guardian) Opposition Senator Fitzgerald Hinds says National Security Minister Jack Warner’s refusal to respond to questions and concerns about an alleged US bank account in his name is a threat to the country’s democracy.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua,  CMC – Kemar Roach grabbed two wickets before lunch to keep the balance of power with West Indies in the first Digicel Test against New Zealand on Sunday here.

Police say that at about 1630h yesterday, a woman who was in the company of a man at a liquor bar at Arakaka, NWD, approached a policeman in civilian clothing who was walking along the roadway at the time, and after a conversation went back into the bar.

BUDAPEST, Hungary,  CMC – McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton led from start to finish to win the Hungarian Grand Prix and pick up his second win of the Formula One season here today.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The planned September timeline for the completion of the Palisadoes rehabilitation work is going to be missed, but the National Works Agency (NWA) insists this will not increase the just over US$65 million budgeted for the project.

LONDON, (Reuters) – A cacophony of boos from the crowd helped force a reviewing jury to take the unprecedented step of overturning the decision of a referee and his two judges in the Olympic judo yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Olympic organisers scrambled today to quell a scandal over depressing TV images of half-empty stands at the London Olympics as a government minister said an urgent inquiry had been launched to identify just who had failed to show up, and why.

Early this morning, the police and army accompanied by the water cannon swooped down on the Kara Kara bridge and other blockades and removed them but residents who have been protesting over power tariffs since July 18 have begun barricading the road again.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has defended her right to own a new, high-end luxury vehicle and yesterday dismissed any suggestion that it was a gift.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police Commissioner Dwayne Gibbs and his deputy Jack Ewatski are reportedly under the gun.

(Reuters) – Brendon McCullum and Martin Guptill put on a 123-run partnership to help New Zealand end the fourth day of the first test on 199 for three today, but two late wickets will give the West Indies hope of securing a victory.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Olympic 100m champion Usain Bolt will lose his crown to compatriot Yohan Blake unless he quickly fixes technical problems with his race, former world record holder Maurice Greene told Reuters today.

NAIROBI,  (Reuters) – Rwanda’s foreign minister accused Western governments today of using aid to treat African states like children, after four countries cut or delayed aid to Kigali because of its policy in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) notes the increasing amount of misinformation being circulated by a few disgruntled persons in the mining sector, about the plans, policies and actions of the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment and the GGMC.