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The police say they are investigating a fatal accident that occurred at about 2245h.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – U.S. law enforcement officials on Tuesday said 24 suspected hackers had been arrested in a sting operation spanning four continents that targeted online financial fraud of stolen credit card and bank information.

(Trinidad Express) Justice Minister Herbert Volney says Trinidad and Tobago may, in time, do away with criminal trials involving juries.

(Trinidad Express)The murder rate has to come down, National Security Minister Jack Warner pledged yesterday.

Government has announced plans to establish a temporary child support assistance fund.

(Barbados Nation) Police are investigating the death of Elvin Adolphus Thomas, 59, of Lower Estate, St.

The Congress of the International Press Institute today heard how the Guyana Government had discriminated against Stabroek News in the placement of advertisements and the newspaper’s Editor-in-Chief Anand Persaud called for state ads to be handled by a professional advertising agency.

(Trinidad Express) A single mother of four, who admitted in court yesterday to burning the hand of her eight-year-old daughter, was sent to prison for three years.

(Trinidad Express) Responding to concerns about the expansion of her Government as a result of last Friday’s Cabinet reshuffle, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said yesterday: “It is all well and good to talk about numbers and size.

(Jamaica Observer) Buju Banton’s failure last week to have an appellate court in the United States overturn his 2011 drug conviction and 10 year prison sentence has resurrected speculation that there may be an effort to go after the Grammy-winning reggae artiste’s assets.

(Jamaica Observer) Seven years after Government spent more than J$143 million to acquire the Goodyear factory in St Thomas with the stated intention of opening a call centre, the run-down facility lies idle, providing shelter for goats.

(Jamaica Observer) The work ethic encouraged by Chinese contractor China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) is the reason the company is able to keep all of its current projects within budget and on schedule, Jamaican workers on the bridge building projects in St Mary and Portland say.

(Jamaica Gleaner) With approximately 10 persons killed in separate incidents on the weekend, National Security Minister Peter Bunting has assured the nation that the security forces are continuing their relentless efforts to fight crime.

(Reuters) – Alex Hales fell one short of beoming the first England player to score a century in a Twenty20 international on Sunday as England beat West Indies by seven wickets on his home ground of Trent Bridge in Nottingham.

This year is shaping up to be the deadliest ever for journalists with 72 killed so far for 2012, the opening of the International Press Institute (IPI) Congress was told today in Trinidad.

(Trinidad Guardian)Former prime minister Basdeo Panday says Trinidad and Tobago now has “the biggest Cabinet in the world, per capita.”

(Trinidad Guardian) National Security Minister Jack Warner has promised to crack down on crime and return Trinidad and Tobago to a level of normalcy, even if it means bringing back the flying squad and other measures that worked in the past.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica’s tough-talking Education Minister Ronald Thwaites has urged non-performing public school teachers to leave the education system.

(Barbados Nation) It will take more than an apology and a promise of change from Trinidad and Tobago to appease Banks Holdings Limited (BHL) and other local manufacturers which have been victim to the twin-island republic’s stonewalling of Barbadian goods.

(Trinidad Express) A bar in Cunupia, central Trinidad, was shut down last Friday night after violating the Noise Pollution Control Rules (NPCR) set by the Environmental Management Authority (EMA).