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A man was chopped to death and a teenaged girl was brutally hacked at Big Creek Backdam, North West District around midnight yesterday after her lover caught her with the other man.

Police have charged Hemwattie Abdulla and an alleged accomplice with the murder of overseas-based Guyanese Abdul Majid.

(Jamaica Gleaner) It was a thinner-than-usual Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke who appeared in handcuffs in the United States Southern District Court in Lower Manhattan this morning to hear his one-time lieutenant Jermaine ‘Cowboy’ Cohen tender explosive evidence against him.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A prostitution scandal in Colombia involving U.S. Secret Service and military personnel ahead of a presidential visit has spawned a separate investigation into the behavior of Drug Enforcement Administration agents in Cartagena, officials said on Monday.

MANILA, (Reuters) – The Philippines’ top judge took the witness stand at his own impeachment trial today to deny concealing 45 properties and millions in assets and denounce a case President Benigno Aquino sees as key to rooting out corruption.

(Trinidad Guardian) Tourism Minister Dr Rupert Griffith will reappear before a Port-of-Spain magistrate on July 4 after he pleaded not guilty to using insulting language.

(Jamaica Observer) Vice-President of the Jamaica Association of Evangelicals Rev Peter Garth has urged Jamaicans not to leave the repeal of buggery laws to parliamentarians, but instead called for a referendum on this issue, which has again taken centre stage with the recent endorsement of same-sex marriage by United States President Barack Obama.

Relatives and others viewing the body of sculptor Phillip Moore today at the Square of the Revolution.

(Barbados Nation) Barbadians have rejected recent proposals for the Freundel Stuart administration to inject money in low-cost carrier REDjet.

(Trinidad Express) The illicit drug trade, trafficking in illegal guns, gang violence, human trafficking and smuggling are all challenges facing the Caribbean, said Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar as she addressed the Second Caricom-Mexico Summit in Bridgetown, Barbados, yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Two media workers — a crime reporter and a cameraman — were among four people arrested on Sunday night, minutes after they allegedly robbed an Arouca businessman of more than TT$300,000.

(Trinidad Express) The extensive network of the illegal bunkering of diesel ultimately charters a course for the high seas- where it fetches top dollar on the black market.

(WICB) LONDON – West Indies Cricket Board advised on Tuesday that fast bowler Shannon Gabriel will return home to Trinidad & Tobago from the tour of England due to a back injury.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar was yesterday admitted to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Bridgetown, Barbados.

(WICB) LONDON – Darren Sammy said West Indies continued to show signs of a competitive edge, despite losing the first Test against England by five wickets on Monday at Lord’s here.

Police say that at about 07:30 hrs yesterday, two men armed with a gun robbed a director of Church’s Restaurant, Bourda, of an undisclosed amount of money and shot a man during their escape bid.

Police today said that the wife of the man who was found dead on the Corentyne with his scalp missing has been arrested here.

The police say that Seetal Samaroo age 38 years, of Lot 279 No.2 Village, East Canje, Berbice was today arraigned before Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo at New Amsterdam Magistrates’ Court for murder committed on Karamchand Pancho called ‘Guru’ age 71 years, of Nigg Settlement, Corentyne, Berbice on May 14, 2012.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission confirmed today that the agency was investigating JPMorgan Chase & Co’s $2 billion losses tied to credit derivatives.

Pioneering the commercial cultivation of carrots and onions in Trinidad, Caribbean Chemicals says that it would be open to doing the same here.