Staff Editor

Renowned artist and sculptor Phillip Moore has passed away at the age of 90.

(Trinidad Guardian) Inmate Nadia Pooran has come a long way since being incarcerated at the Women’s Prison, Arouca.

(Trinidad Guardian) Chairman of the United National Congress (UNC) Jack Warner was the lone Cabinet colleague who came out in defense of Congress of the People (COP) leader Prakash Ramadhar—ensuring he was not stripped of his ministerial portfolio.

(Jamaica Observer) Pat Rousseau is still not happy with how iconic former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela was “disrespected” by batting star Brian Lara 14 years ago.

(Jamaica Observer) Lottery scammers are living high on the hog, earning millions of Jamaican dollars a week and using Champagne to wash their cars in a boastful lifestyle reflecting the ease with which they come by their ill-gotten gains, police from the Organised Crime Investigation Division (OCID) have reported.

(Barbados Nation) While Barbadian businesses gripe about how bad the economy is performing, Trinidadians are investing heavily in the country and positioning themselves for an economic turnaround they believe will come soon.

(Trinidad Express) As the United National Congress (UNC) installed its newly elected national executive yesterday, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar recognised the contributions of the party’s founder, Basdeo Panday.

(Barbados Nation) Police are investigating the apparent suicide of a 51-year-old United States Embassy security official.

(Trinidad Express) Two brothers and one of their cousins lost their lives when the vehicle they were travelling in crashed into a bar at the corner of New and Charlotte Streets, Port of Spain early yesterday.

A charge by the Guyana Human Rights Association yesterday that the PPP/C appears to be in denial over the November 28, 2011 elections results attracted the ire today of both the Office of the President and the ruling party.

(Trinidad Guardian) Jack Warner, Minister of Works and Infrastructure, quipped in response to questions about adding HIV, sexual orientation and age to the Equal Opportunities Bill: “if Obama could do it then who are we?”

(Trinidad Guardian) Police probing the death of a 90-year-old woman, who was beaten to death with a hammer on Thursday at her Warwick Lane home in Belmont, said she was killed by an outpatient from the St Ann’s Psychiatric Hospital.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Miami Heat forward LeBron James was named today as the National Basketball Association’s Most Valuable Player for the 2011-12 season, cementing his place among the game’s greatest players.

(Trinidad Guardian) Former television programme manager Bernard Pantin yesterday told the commission of enquiry into the 1990 uprising that the media’s performance today is disappointing.

(WICB) NORTHAMPTON, England – Kieran Powell said he felt West Indies could now make a push for a morale-boosting victory, following his second first-class hundred that brought the visitors back into their game against England Lions today.

The police say they are investigating the murder of Mark Ashby, 20 years of Mabaruma, NWD, which occurred yesterday at Port Kaituma, NWD.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO — Lawyers for the suspects in the December murders case have reacted shocked and disappointed over the decision by the court martial to adjourn proceedings.

(Jamaica Observer) Ten Jamaican men, who reportedly left The Bahamas for Miami by boat between late February and early March this year, have seemingly disappeared into thin air.

(Jamaica Gleaner) CHEDWIN PARK, St Catherine:In 1845, on May 12, the first set of East Indian indentured labourers landed at Old Harbour Bay, St Catherine, to fill the labour gaps left by enslaved Africans, after Emancipation in 1838.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez strode, sang and gave a rousing speech yesterday in a careful show of vigour after his latest cancer treatment in Cuba fanned rumours he was dying five months before an election.