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(Jamaica Gleaner) West Indies fast-bowling legend Michael Holding says the team’s current crop of players need to balance the need to make money with the call of representing the region.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Chairman of China Communications Construction Company – the parent company of China Harbour Engineering Company – is due in Jamaica next week to sign what Transport, Works and Housing Minister Dr Omar Davies has called a significant agreement.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Digicel has lost its bid to challenge the decision by the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) to set call rates.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Legislator Carl Breeveld (DOE) tells de Ware Tijd there is little transparency surrounding the government’s plans to partly privatize Staatsolie.

(Trinidad Express) It is time permanent secretaries start doing their jobs and stand up to Government ministers, Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley said on Tuesday night.

(Trinidad Express) Bail was again denied to former Express crime reporter Akile Simon when he reappeared in the Tunapuna Magistrates’ Court yesterday charged with possession of arms and ammunition.

(Trinidad Express)Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday “respectfully” disagreed with President George Maxwell Richards.

Police say that a post-mortem was today performed on the body of Bhim Narine Ramanand of Garden of Eden, EBD, by Pathologist Dr.

Police say that a post-mortem was today performed on the body of Khemraj Dass of Bella Dam, Klien Pouderoyen, WBD, by Pathologist Dr.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts,  CMC – Talismanic opener Chris Gayle failed for the first time in five innings, triggering a miserable West Indies batting slide that culminated in a disappointing 88-run loss in the third One-Day International, as New Zealand clawed their way back into the series with a gutsy performance here today.

City Councillor and GAWU stalwart Premchand Dass has passed away. In a statement this afternoon, the Mayor and Councillors expressed sadness at the passing of Dass, on July, 6 2012.

The police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of security guard Notoam Ifee Holodar, 54 years, of Cinema Street, Diamond, EBD, which occurred at about 0130h today at New Hope, EBD.

Anger and frustration boiled over again today along the East Bank Berbice road corridor as trucks transporting sugar workers and belonging to the Guyana Sugar Corporation became stuck in the huge craters along the roadway.

(Trinidad Guardian) Security has been increased around Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Roger Gaspard after he reportedly received death threats last week.

(Jamaica Observer) Minister of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining Phillip Paulwell confirmed in Parliament yesterday that Russian firm UC Rusal will be closing its Ewarton (Windalco) plant by October, threatening the jobs of some 600 employees.

(Jamaica Observer) Four hostage takers were collared by the police last evening after they held three women captive in an apartment inside the Haining Mews housing development in New Kingston.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller yesterday demanded that the “utterly offensive episode” which unfolded in the House of Representatives last week, must never happen again.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO/CASTRIES – Suriname has changed its stance on small-scale commercial whaling.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaican athletes Simoya Campbell and Javon Gallimore this morning collapsed and had been taken to hospital to receive medical attention.

(Barbados Nation) Barbadians don’t want a devaluation of their currency and Governor of the Central Bank Dr DeLisle Worrell says he has delivered that blunt message to international rating agencies and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).