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(Trinidad Express) The brother of the 24-year-old man whose car slammed into a Caura bar and killed five people on Tuesday said last night that his brother was not drunk as he only had one beer that morning.

(Trinidad Express) Police are investigating reports of several mysterious fires at the home of a millionaire Central businessman.

AMMAN,  (Reuters) – The pilot of a Syrian MiG 21 fighter jet who flew his plane to Jordan today asked for political asylum on landing, Jordanian Minister of State for Information Samih al-Maaytah said.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A 24-year-old man who chopped his brother to death and injured two other family members has turned himself in to the Greater Portmore police this afternoon.

Chief Executive Officer of COPS Security and former army Lieutenant Colonel, Gregory Gaskin, died earlier today after suffering internal injuries when he fell from his motorcycle at the South Dakota Circuit, Timehri.

Speaker of the National Assembly and Leader of the Alliance For Change, Raphael Trotman tonight announced that the mantle of party leadership will be transferred to MP Khemraj Ramjattan who currently holds the position of Chairman.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A U.S. congressional panel voted today to charge Attorney General Eric Holder with contempt of Congress after the Obama administration invoked executive privilege for the first time since coming to office, withholding some documents related to a failed gun-running investigation.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Ministry of National Security has signed a Military Cooperation Agreement with China.

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation and the Ministry of Health today announced that the hospital performed its first Haemodialysis treatment today on a patient with renal failure.

(WICB) Port-of-Spain, Trinidad — The West Indies Cricket Board Selection Panel today named the West Indies A Team 13-man squad to face India A in two T20 matches.

(Trinidad Guardian) Planning and the Economy Minister Dr Bhoe Tewarie is confident that this country’s music industry can prove to be a very lucrative export if packaged properly.

Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman today issued a statement condemning a report in the June 17 edition of the Sunday Chronicle and called for a retraction and  for the newspaper to lift the standard of its reporting.

(Jamaica Observer) Dancehall act Busy Signal was yesterday extradited to the United States to face trial for jumping bail shortly before the start of his cocaine-trafficking trial a decade ago.

The police today said that at about 2210h last night, two men armed with firearms entered the Popeye’s Restaurant at Vlissengen Road and Duncan Street, Georgetown, and held up the three female cashiers and two customers.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Bank of Jamaica, Ministry of Finance and Planning, and the Attorney General’s Department will be collaborating to handle the risks, costs and impact on Jamaican law of local financial institutions’ compliance with United States legislation aimed at catching tax cheats under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).

(Barbados Nation) Barbadians are weak-willed and too afraid to stand up for their rights, says Christine Eli, who is at the forefront of protest action by aggrieved REDjet ticket holders.

KADUNA/ABUJA,  (Reuters) – At least 80 people have been killed since Monday in clashes in two northern Nigerian cities triggered by Islamists waging an insurgency against the government, figures from police and the Red Cross showed on Wednesday.

(Trinidad Express) It was a bloody Labour Day holiday yesterday as six people were killed on the nation’s roads, with a drunk driver being responsible for five of the fatalities.

(Trinidad Express) Jamaican detectives disclosed yesterday that the burnt body found in a cane field in Montego Bay last week Monday is that of school teacher Michelle Coudray, the daughter of San Fernando Mayor Marlene Coudray.

Former president Bharrat Jagdeo has abandoned a lawsuit that he brought against Stabroek News over eight years ago.