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(Jamaica Observer) Jamaican Grammy-winning reggae artiste Shabba Ranks arrived in the island yesterday to a rousing welcome from adoring fans at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston.

(Barbados Nation) Four Barbadian nationals are now on remand at Her Majesty’s Prison in St Vincent after Coast Guard officials intercepted their vessel at Fancy Point on the north of mainland St Vincent last Friday.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The state plans to collect more revenues from gold miners by increasing the so-called royalty from one to three percent of the price per gram of gold.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Corrupt policemen in Guyana seem to have targeted Surinamese drivers.

(Trinidad Express) Two men charged in connection with the Automated Teller Machine (ATM) skimming scam were remanded into prison custody following their appearance in the Port of Spain Magistrates’ Court yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Tobago’s 369 fishing boats are being fitted with GPS (Geographic Positioning System) and wireless radio sets free of charge by the Tobago House of Assembly (THA).

ANKARA,  (Reuters) – A Syrian brigadier-general and several other defected military officers were among 1,280 Syrians to have fled from Syria to Turkey overnight, a Turkish official said today.

(Trinidad Express) Thirty-five murders have been committed since Jack Warner assumed the portfolio of National Security Minister, according to an Express count.

(Trinidad Express) The murder toll climbed to 229 last night with a murder in Marabella.

Despite heated protests by residents in May against government’s plan to replace the Kwakwani Neighbourhood Democratic Council the Local Government Ministry went ahead with it today.

(WICB) Basseterre, St Kitts — Ottis Gibson is pleased with the performances of his team, following their recent dominance over New Zealand in the Digicel Twenty20 and One-Day International Series.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A “pervasively polluted” culture at HSBC Holdings Plc allowed the bank to act as financier to clients seeking to route shadowy funds from the world’s most dangerous and secretive corners, including Mexico, Iran, the Cayman Islands, Saudi Arabia and Syria, according to a scathing U.S.

(Reuters) – The Asian Football Confederation have suspended former President Mohamed Bin Hammam after a lengthy audit of their accounts revealed fresh allegations of financial wrongdoing, the body said in a statement on Tuesday.

The Ministry of Home Affairs today lambasted the Kaieteur News over its claim that a whistleblower had provided it with information on an alleged scam surrounding the auctioning of police vehicles.

Head of APNU David Granger has called again on the government to implement a comprehensive economic recovery plan for Region 10 and to cancel the power tariff hike which has been implemented as of July.

(Jamaica Observer) Gangsters in the St Andrew North Police division appear to again be at each other’s throats, having killed three persons and injuring three others in a bloody trail of events over the weekend.

(Jamaica Observer) Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller unveiled a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in the Inspiration Garden of the Faculty of Education and Humanities at the University of the West Indies, Mona on Sunday.

CGX and its partners today announced that its six-month drilling operation for the Jaguar-1 well here was brought to an end without any commercial oil discovery because it wasn’t safe to go deeper.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Flow is the latest telecommunications provider to announce a reduction in telephone rates resulting from the recent decision by the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) to establish a cap of J$5 per minute for mobile termination rates for incoming domestic and international telephone calls, which took effect yesterday.

(Barbados Nation) Virtually every single home  in this country was without electricity for near three hours yesterday afternoon.