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LEICESTER, England,  CMC – Guyanese left-hander Assad Fudadin says he is hoping to rekindle his love affair with England once he get a look-in during the ongoing series.

Parliament Office today said that the sittings of the National Assembly scheduled for June 6th and 7th have been postponed to June 13th and 14th.

Police say that statistics as at the end of May, 2012 reflected a 26% decrease in accidents and fatalities when compared to the same period in 2011.

Notice has been served by Parliament Office that Prime Minister Sam Hinds will move a motion seeking to have the House ensure that Members of Parliament submit annual declarations in keeping with the provisions of the Integrity Act of 1997.

The Ministry of Housing has uncovered a group of fraudsters who have so far bilked $1M from an overseas-based Guyanese while posing as officials of the ministry.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 45-year-old man was shot dead on Wednesday night while sitting behind the counter of his Chaguanas parlour.

(Trinidad Guardian) The editors-in-chief of two daily newspapers have been summoned by Justice Mark Mohammed to discuss the comments posted by readers on the newspapers’ Web sites concerning the sedition case of Jamaat al Muslimeen leader Yasin Abu Bakr.

(Jamaica Observer) Local bankers say Government’s tax policy is threatening the viability of the financial sector.

(Jamaica Observer) Trade unions which represent public sector workers yesterday signed off on a wage freeze covering 2010/2012, but indicated that this could be the last wage freeze, at least, for the time being.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Cable & Wireless Jamaica, which trades as LIME Jamaica, is now dependent on its parent for survival after hitting a new record in losses both at the telecoms and of any stock market company in the exchange’s five decades of trading.

(Barbados Nation) A day after Central Bank Governor Dr Delisle Worrell offered some positive reassurance about the performance of the Barbados economy, the international rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has sounded the warning that it is not yet out of the woods.

(Trinidad Express) The Police Service Commission (PSC) views “very seriously” the “apparent contradiction” between statements of Director of Public Prosecutions Roger Gaspard and Commissioner of Police Dwayne Gibbs on the issue of investigations into bribery allegations against Jack Warner and others at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Port of Spain, in May 2011.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Relations between Suriname and the European Union (EU) will not break down because of amnesty for President Desi Bouterse, Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Lackin and legislator Mahinder Jogi (NF/VHP) say during separate interviews with de Ware Tijd.

(Trinidad Express) Relatives of a man who allegedly committed suicide inside a police station holding cell yesterday faced off with police officers in a confrontation that descended into a fist fight.

ROME, Italy,  CMC – Jamaican Usain Bolt stormed to a world-leading 9.76 seconds to win the 100 metres at the Rome Diamond League here today.

(WICB) Leicester, England – Assad Fudadin said his first trip overseas with the West Indies team has been an eye-opening experience.

Chartered accountant and attorney-at-Law, Christopher Ram and former Guyana Auditor General, Anand Goolsarran are the Alliance For Change (AFC) nominees for the long-delayed Public Procurement Commission (PPC).

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – A pair of women’s underwear that fell out of a Brazilian legislator’s briefcase on the floor of Congress two weeks ago has been incinerated after no one stepped forward to claim them, O Globo newspaper reported today.

(Jamaica Observer) Agriculture Minister Roger Clarke yesterday accused the former Jamaica Labour Party Government (JLP) of selling the country short in the divesting of three of the five state-owned sugar estates to Chinese company Complant International two years ago, with arrangements for tax waivers lasting up to 20 years, among other concessions.

(WICB) Port of Spain, Trinidad – Sunil Narine returned home to Trinidad from India earlier this week and before he got a chance to unpack his bags, he was told to pack them again.