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CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez declared himself fully recovered from cancer today, three months before an election in which he is seeking another six-year term.

The police this afternoon said that at about 0330h today during checks made by the parents of a 13-year-old girl at their home at Ogle, ECD, a man was found in her bedroom and has been identified as a Police Constable.

The police today said that armed robbery was up by 18% but that there was an overall decrease of 3% in serious crimes at the end of June this year in comparison to last year.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO/CASTRIES – The cooperation with Equatorial Guinea will get more concrete with a return visit by President Desi Bouterse to his colleague Teodoro Obiang Nguema of Equatorial Guinea and the signing of several agreements this week.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – India has completed the 2009 order to deliver three Dhruv helicopters for Suriname’s army.

(de Ware Tijd) ALBINA – Suriname has apprehended 57 Brazilians in a raid as a result of the deadly shooting incident in French Guiana that claimed the lives of two gendarmes.

(Barbados Nation) PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad  – The Bankers Association of Trinidad and Tobago (BATT) today told the public not to panic after banks operating here uncovered a scam involving the illegal removal of cash from their customers through the use of Automatic Teller Machines (ATM).

(Barbados Nation) At 35 years old he has earned the designation professor of law.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – The Indian government has bought thousands of letters, papers and photographs which shed light on the life of independence hero Mahatma Gandhi, days before they were to be auctioned at Sotheby’s in London, a government official said today.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russia will not deliver fighter planes or other new weapons to Syria while the situation there remains unresolved, the deputy director of a body that supervises the country’s arms trade was quoted as saying today.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The men’s 100 metres is the jewel in the Olympic crown and Yohan Blake’s surprise humanisation of Usain Bolt has ensured that next month’s showdown will be a race worthy of the Games rather than a mere time trial for the defending champion.

(Trinidad Express) The coconut industry is dead and the efforts of the Ministry of Food Production, to revive it are grossly inadequate, chairman of the St Patrick Coconut Growers Cooperative Society, Pranesh Maharaj has said.

(Jamaica Observer) A Jamaican was one of three men killed in a bloody attack in Queens during the early hours of Saturday morning.

President Donald Ramotar has not yet met with former PPP executive, Ralph Ramkarran on his resignation from the party but plans to do so soon.

(Jamaica Observer) The coming to Jamaica of police officers from the United Kingdom to bolster the island’s constabulary was a waste of time, retired senior law enforcer Reneto Adams has said.

(Jamaica Gleaner) West Indies Players’ Association’s chief executive officer Michael Hall is calling for the establishment of a regional domestic Twenty20 league that mirrors the popular Indian Premier League (IPL), Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), or the Australian Twenty20 Big Bash League.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Yet another baby – the second in two months – has mysteriously disappeared from the Victoria Jubilee Hospital (VJH), sparking renewed concerns within the administrative arm of the country’s largest maternity facility.

(Trinidad Express) Thousands of leatherback hatchlings were crushed to death at the weekend as the Ministry of Works used excavators to redirect the Grande Riviere River, at the north east coast.

(Trinidad Express) A cash reward is being offered to anyone who can assist in identifying and locating six men who can assist in the investigation into the recent spate of debit and credit card fraud to have occurred in commercial bank branches across the country.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – U.S. actor Ernest Borgnine, whose bulldog appearance made him a natural for tough-guy roles in films like “The Wild Bunch” but won an Oscar for playing a sensitive loner in “Marty,” died today at the age of 95, his longtime publicist said.