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PORT OF SPAIN,  (Reuters) – Trinidad and Tobago Transparency Institute, an independent non-profit group, has slammed the appointment of former FIFA Vice President Jack Warner as the country’s acting prime minister, saying serious allegations against him in the football organization remain unresolved.

(Trinidad Express) The criminal retrial against former prime minister Basdeo Panday who is charged with failing to declare a London-based bank account to the Integrity Commission for three consecutive years is expected to be decided tomorrow.

(Jamaica Observer) A repentant Beenie Man has issued an emotional apology to the international gay community. Beenie

A US-based man is in a serious condition after being shot and chopped today in a robbery at Bloomfield, Corentyne.

Police today said the post-mortem result on the mother of six who was found outside a Waiakabra shop showed that she died of hypertension.

(Jamaica Observer) A Jamaican-born British couple say they have been told they can’t foster a 16th child in their Derby County home, because as Christians they don’t believe homosexuality is right.

(de Ware Tijd) THE HAGUE – The Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) has tightened controls at importers of fruit and vegetables from Suriname because spot-checks carried out in 2010 and 2011 show that products from Suriname and many other countries contain too many residues and pesticides that carry a health risk.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Despite facing the perils of prison if convicted for harbouring a fugitive and attempting to pervert the course of justice, the Reverend Al Miller says he would transport Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke if he were confronted with the situation again.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The war on guns is going high tech as Columbus Business Solutions (CBS), in collaboration with the Jamaica Constabulary Force and the Ministry of National Security, fights to find funding for a technology capable of preventing gun crimes.

MIAMI (Reuters) – A mother shot and killed her four children before turning a gun on herself in a small town in Florida yesterday, authorities said.

(Barbados Nation) The Barbados Bar Association is throwing its full weight behind a recent call made by attorney at law and political activist David Comissiong for foreign investigators to be brought in to probe all police killings.

(Trinidad Guardian) Detectives investigating the deaths of two men in separate incidents in San Juan on Monday afternoon believe they were both executed.

(Barbados Nation) A licensed gun dealer, who spent a day and a half in jail after being charged with illegal storing of firearms, has filed lawsuits against Commissioner of Police Darwin Dottin.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Telecommunications firm Digicel has indicated that it will be appealing against a Supreme Court ruling that was handed down this morning.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Currently Suriname has a population of 534,000 people, 498,000 of whom are Surinamers and 36,000 foreigners.

Khemraj Ramjattan, parliamentarian of the Alliance For Change (AFC), says that he does not want to have a debate with Head of the Privatisation Unit and CEO of National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) Winston Brassington, but wants to interrogate and cross-examine him in a parliamentary committee on the question of improprieties.

Councillor Gwendolyn McGowan has been banned from making contact with officers within the Mayor and City Council on the instructions of Mayor Hamilton Green, but the reason for his action was not made clear.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Shivnarine Chanderpaul’s limpet-like batting and the express pace of Kemar Roach and Fidel Edwards will make West Indies dangerous opponents for strong favourites England in the three-test series starting on Thursday.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has filed a $1 million countersuit against the hotel maid who accused him of sexual assault, costing him his job and any chance of being elected president of France.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Despite strong opposition from the governors of two major United States cities and immigrant groups, the Obama administration says it will extend a controversial fingerprinting programme that identifies Caribbean and other illegal immigrants.