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(Trinidad Express) Regional financial institution Bank of NT Butterfield and Son Ltd yesterday announced it had reached an agreement to sell its Barbados subsidiary, Butterfield Bank (Barbados) Ltd, to State bank First Citizens.

(Trinidad Express) Senior Counsel Dana Seetahal has, with immediate effect, resigned as president of the Law Association of Trinidad and Tobago (LATT), saying she feels as if she was personally under attack.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – President Bouterse underscores that cooperation with the European Union should be based on mutual interests and not meddling in Suriname’s internal affairs.

(Trinidad Express) Contractors are paying more for cement now after local producer Trinidad Cement Ltd (TCL) increased prices again.

(Trinidad Express) Health Minister Dr Fuad Khan yesterday said the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will be re-contacted in a matter of weeks to conduct a formal accident report into the allegations of radiation overexposure at the Brian Lara Cancer Treatment Centre.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Telecommunications Company Digicel has responded to comments by Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) following Friday’s tax raid at Digicel’s New Kingston offices.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has admitted that Olint’s David Smith was one of its contributors for the 2007 election campaign.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Dancehall Hall star David ‘Mavado’ Brooks was this morning found guilty of assault occasioning bodily harm and malicious destruction of property, when the case against him concluded in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate’s Court.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Former Prime Minister of Jamaica P. J. Patterson has denied ever receiving US$1,000,000 from David Smith of Olint.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The FBI is investigating an explosive device that could have been used by a suicide bomber on an airliner, and which was seized when the United States and its partners thwarted a plot believed linked to al Qaeda, U.S.

Police say that a post-mortem examination was today performed on the body of Bryan Dickson of East Street, Georgetown, by Pathologist Dr.

China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) is drawing controversy over a number of projects in the Caribbean, including the US$138 million expansion of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri and others, which have evoked public criticism over procurement and tendering.

BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – EU nations are dithering over how to fill a multi-billion-euro fund to help tackle climate change, just as the region’s executive body hosts talks with countries likely to bear the brunt of extreme weather.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Allies of Venezuela’s ailing President Hugo Chavez insisted today he was still leading the OPEC nation despite a week of silence from the usually loquacious leader whose battle with cancer has overshadowed his reelection bid.

LISBON,  (Reuters) – Portugal’s privatisation programme – part of its push to comply with the terms of a 78-billion euro bailout from international lenders – is being managed in an opaque fashion that risks stoking already rife corruption, a report warned today.

NASSAU,  (Reuters) – Bahamians voted today in national elections as Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham seeks to keep the ruling party in power in this sparsely populated island chain dependent on tourism and offshore banking.

MONGSTAD, Norway,  (Reuters) – Norway today launched the world’s largest facility of its kind to develop carbon capture and storage (CCS), the so-far commercially unproven technology that would allow greenhouse gases from power plants to be buried safely underground.

(WICB) HOVE, England – Darren Bravo felt it was unfortunate that there was so little play in the West Indies’ tour opener against Sussex, which ended in a no-result today.

A father of three died this morning and another is in critical condition after a speeding car slammed into them on the Wales Public Road, West Bank Demerara (WBD) last night.

(Jamaica Observer) A 24-year-old song writer of a Waltham Park Kingston address has been sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labour over what has been described as “a crime of passion”.