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(Trinidad Express) The coconut industry is dead and the efforts of the Ministry of Food Production, to revive it are grossly inadequate, chairman of the St Patrick Coconut Growers Cooperative Society, Pranesh Maharaj has said.

(Jamaica Observer) A Jamaican was one of three men killed in a bloody attack in Queens during the early hours of Saturday morning.

President Donald Ramotar has not yet met with former PPP executive, Ralph Ramkarran on his resignation from the party but plans to do so soon.

(Jamaica Observer) The coming to Jamaica of police officers from the United Kingdom to bolster the island’s constabulary was a waste of time, retired senior law enforcer Reneto Adams has said.

(Jamaica Gleaner) West Indies Players’ Association’s chief executive officer Michael Hall is calling for the establishment of a regional domestic Twenty20 league that mirrors the popular Indian Premier League (IPL), Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), or the Australian Twenty20 Big Bash League.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Yet another baby – the second in two months – has mysteriously disappeared from the Victoria Jubilee Hospital (VJH), sparking renewed concerns within the administrative arm of the country’s largest maternity facility.

(Trinidad Express) Thousands of leatherback hatchlings were crushed to death at the weekend as the Ministry of Works used excavators to redirect the Grande Riviere River, at the north east coast.

(Trinidad Express) A cash reward is being offered to anyone who can assist in identifying and locating six men who can assist in the investigation into the recent spate of debit and credit card fraud to have occurred in commercial bank branches across the country.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – U.S. actor Ernest Borgnine, whose bulldog appearance made him a natural for tough-guy roles in films like “The Wild Bunch” but won an Oscar for playing a sensitive loner in “Marty,” died today at the age of 95, his longtime publicist said.

JOS, Nigeria,  (Reuters) – A Nigerian senator and several others were killed today when gunmen attacked a mass burial for 63 victims of violence the previous day in volatile, ethnically mixed Plateau state, a government official said.

The police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of farmer Bhim Narine Ramanand, 61 years of Garden of Eden, EBD, whose body was found in his yard at about 0930h today with the hands tied and suspected stab wounds.

The police are investigating the suspected murder of Khemraj Dass called “Lakeram” 47 years of Bella Dam, Klien Pouderoyen, WBD, which occurred last night aboard a tug that was moored alongside a wharf at Friendship, EBD.

KABUL,  (Reuters) – Six NATO soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan today, after an insurgent attack in the south killed one foreign soldier, coalition statements said.

(Press Trust of India) Yesteryear superstar Rajesh Khanna, who had been admitted to a private hospital over a fortnight ago, has been discharged today, hospital sources said.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Roger Federer beat Andy Murray 4-6 7-5 6-3 6-4 today to win a record-equalling seventh Wimbledon title and 17th grand slam crown.

EZjet has announced that flights to Toronto, Canada will begin on July 17, 2012.

(Jamaica Gleaner) While Minister of Finance Dr Peter Phillips has presented the country with an austerity Budget to reflect the choppy waters the economy is sailing through, it appears that members of the Cabinet are facing no such restraints.

(BBC) The BBC has learned that a patient has been diagnosed with cholera in the Cuban capital, Havana, days after three people died in a rare outbreak in the south-eastern town of Manzanillo.

(Barbados Nation) The Rum Shop, an institution of culture and communities in Barbados, is under threat, with scores of them having closed their doors in the last year.

(Trinidad Express) Conmen from outside of the country are involved in the debit and credit card fraud that affected commercial banks’ Automatic Teller Machines (ATMs) in the country last week, banking sources said yesterday.