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(Trinidad Guardian) FIFA will take legal steps to recover the ownership of the US$25.5 million Joao Havelange Centre of Excellence, which the football’s world governing body claims to have funded.

A woman was discovered murdered in her D’Urban Street home this morning and it is suspected that she was stabbed to death during an argument with her reputed husband.

(Jamaica Observer) The Caribbean will soon have more options for satisfying its sweet tooth, with a Guyanese company and an American creamery pairing up to open ice-cream stores across the region.

(Jamaica Observer) Police are now hunting for a man who brutally stabbed a teenager to death for laughing at him when he fell from his bicycle.

(Trinidad Express) Appeal Court Judge, Justice Wendell Kangaloo was yesterday flown to Baltimore, Maryland in the United States where his care is expected to continue at the world-renowned Johns Hopkins Memorial Hospital.

(Trinidad Express) United National Congress (UNC) deputy political leader, Roodal Moonilal, has alleged that Calder Hart used taxpayers’ money to purchase a multi-million-dollar villa in Tobago, while he was executive chairman at the Urban Development Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago (UDeCOTT).

(Barbados Nation) This island’s top prosecutor wants the salaries and perks of top-flight company executives approved by shareholders and not just the boards of directors.

VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – Vatican magistrates today formally charged Pope Benedict’s butler with illegal possession of secret documents and said a wider investigation would take place to see if he had any accomplices who helped him leak them.

NOTTINGHAM, England,  (Reuters) – England talisman Tim Bresnan blew away West Indies’ main resistance with three key wickets on the second day of the second test at Trent Bridge today.

NOTTINGHAM, England,  CMC – Marlon Samuels stroked a high class, unbeaten century while captain Darren Sammy was on the verge of another in a career-best innings, as West Indies flirted with disaster before staging a brilliant recovery, to make a strong finish to the opening day of the second Test against England here today.

VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – Pope Benedict’s butler was arrested today in connection with an investigation into leaks of confidential documents, some alleging cronyism and corruption in Vatican contracts, a senior Vatican source said.

(Trinidad Guardian) Corruption has become so pervasive in T&T that citizens appear to be undergoing a process of being desensitised as to what corruption is, says Queen’s Counsel Karl Hudson-Phillips.

Parliament office today said that sittings of the National Assembly scheduled for May 30th and May 31st have been postponed to June 6th and June 7th.

Amid a public outcry, the Ministry of Natural Resources today issued a statement saying that Minister Robert Persaud had apologized to the Commissioner of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission, Karen Livan over his statement and tone at a meeting with Brazilian miners on May 16.

(Jamaica Observer) The Government of Canada yesterday donated J$62 million (CAD$705,000) to Jamaica as part of ongoing initiatives to bolster the island’s anti-crime and anticorruption programmes.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Telecoms provider Digicel this week announced what appears to be the first digital merchant payment system which does not require the use of a bank account, credit card, nor a smart phone.

(de Ware Tijd) THE HAGUE – New facts and changed circumstances mean that the European Parliament (EP) is only now making attempts to prevent the upcoming ACP/EU JPA meeting scheduled for this November from being held in Suriname.

BUDAPEST,  (Reuters) – FIFA President Sepp Blatter has called on Germany’s World Cup winner Franz Beckenbauer and his panel of soccer experts to try to come up with an alternative to penalty shootouts to settle drawn matches.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Finance and Planning Minister Dr Peter Phillips says the country has made substantial progress towards a full re-engagement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), signalling that the new agreement will extend over three years.

(Barbados Nation) The University of the West Indies (UWI) is looking to develop a closer relationship with the region’s private sector as part of its 2012 to 2017 strategic plan.