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(Trinidad Express) The Integrity Commission will be examining the procedure and practices at ministries, State agencies, regional corporations and all public bodies in a bid to fight corruption and improve ethical conduct.

(Trinidad Express) Energy Minister Kevin Ramnarine and his Grenadian counterpart, Nazim Burke, have met and discussed maritime boundary issues between Trinidad and Tobago and Grenada.

(Trinidad Express) Congress of the People (COP) Leader Prakash Ramadhar has apparently yielded to the principle of collective Cabinet responsibility.

(Reuters) – Flamboyant opener Chris Gayle has scrapped his deal with English county Somerset to make himself available for West Indies after ending his year-long dispute with the cricket board.

(Trinidad Express) There are still elements in the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) who do not want Chris Gayle to return to the regional team.

(Barbados Nation) The man accused of killing his estranged wife will spend his first 28 days on remand after he appeared in the District “A” Magistrates’ Court today.

GILBERT, Ariz.,  (Reuters) – A gunman, identified by local media as a prominent border militia leader and a reputed neo-Nazi, shot dead four people including a toddler girl in Arizona today before apparently committing suicide, police said.

A Partnership for National Unity has scheduled a series of meetings in Georgetown.

Former police commissioner, Henry Greene has been hospitalized after he took ill earlier this morning, his lawyer Neil Boston confirmed this afternoon.

Following the gruelling budget tussle, Parliament is to reconvene on Thursday May 10th when a series of opposition motions will come up for debate including one in the name of APNU MP Carl Greenidge to have the Former President’s (Benefits and Other Facilities) Act 2009 repealed.

(Jamaica Observer) Opposition spokesperson on foreign affairs, foreign trade and investment, Senator Christopher Tufton says the Government must justify its reasons for recalling several foreign mission heads in the four months since it took office in January this year, some of them ahead of their contracts expiring.

(Jamaica Observer) Parliament yesterday sanctioned amendments to the 11-year-old Telecoms Act, signalling the end to any possibility of monopoly in the telecoms market and paving the way for “a massive decline in rates locally and internationally”, according to Technology Minister Phillip Paulwell.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – President Desi Bouterse will swear in five new Ministers and two deputy Ministers tomorrow at noon.

The body of a missing Guyanese woman and her stillborn baby were discovered in the bathtub of a Pennsylvania home, the Pocono Record reported on Tuesday.

(Trinidad Express) Republic Bank temporarily closed a number of branches yesterday after staff members stayed away from work.

(Trinidad Express) More than 300 relatives, friends and schoolmates of Nikita Ramischand took cover below tents amid pouring rain yesterday to say their goodbyes to the 18-year-old who was killed almost a week ago.

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar,  (Reuters) – Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi took a historic oath today to join a parliamentary system crafted by the generals who locked her away for much of her long struggle against dictatorship, ushering in a dramatic new political era.

(Trinidad Express) Calder Hart says he’s not guilty of accusations made against him in the face of a multi-million dollar lawsuit.

(Barbados Nation) A 35-year-old Christ Church man has been charged in connection with the gruesome killing of Nicole Harrison-Watson.

CHICAGO, (Reuters) – American Muslims grew in number over the past decade, outnumbering Jews for the first time in most of the Midwest and part of the South, while most mainline churches lost adherents, according to a census of American religions released today.