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The Guyana Post Office Corporation says it wishes to advise the public that for ease of comfort there will be changes to the usual time for pension payments at its various offices.

(Barbados Nation) The Board of LIAT has announced the resignation of acting Chief Executive Officer Brian Challenger from June 30.

PPP executive Ralph Ramkarran today said that the PPP had opposed the cut-off of state advertisements to Stabroek News in 2006 but was ignored by the government of former President Bharrat Jagdeo.

The police say that at about 1915h yesterday, mechanic Sasenarine Persaud called “Suraj”, 17 years of No.

A taxi driver was gunned down execution-style early this morning and his relatives are baffled as to what sparked his brutal death.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The plea-bargaining law, which is intended to allow certain offenders to provide information on masterminds in exchange for reduced sentences, has not been working.

(Trinidad Express) The Royal Barbados Police Force is stepping up its fight against jewellery theft.

(Trinidad Express) Former US ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago, Sally Cowal, has been praised for her role in opening up local markets 20 years ago, when she advocated the creation of the local American Chamber of Commerce.

(de Ware Tijd) LONDON – The conviction of former Liberian President Charles Taylor by the Sierra Leone tribunal is a warning sign for anyone who has committed heinous crimes against humanity, including Desi Bouterse, says Ruth Wijdenbosch, chairperson of the organization Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA) and deputy Speaker of Suriname’s Parliament.

(Trinidad Express) Grenadian Prime Minister Tillman Thomas yesterday confirmed his government has been engaged in talks with Trinidad and Tobago about maritime boundary issues.

(Trinidad Express) A former police sergeant was last night killed as he made his way home to his family.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Minister of National Security Peter Bunting says the country’s murder rate has declined by 30 per cent since the start of the year.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister of Belize Dean Barrow has met with officials from civil society groups to outline his administration’s plans for dealing with the recent increase in gang-related crime in the country.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A leading expert at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has warned the Caribbean to be prepared for a tsunami.

The ruling PPP/C says that it will continue to educate Guyanese about the “anti-development acts” of the combined opposition and will act to ensure that Guyana is not held to ransom by the “tyrannical” action of the joint opposition in the National Assembly.

(ICC) West Indies batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul has regained the number-one ranking in the Reliance ICC Player Rankings for Test batsmen after hitting two half-centuries in the Dominica Test which Australia won by 75 runs to claim the series 2-0.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two years after former executive chairman of the Urban Development Corporation of T&T (Udecott) resigned from the state agency—civil proceedings are set to be initiated against Calder Hart in relation to the controversial Brian Lara Cricket Academy this week.

(Jamaica Observer) A teacher who was convicted and sentenced for indecent (sexual) assault against an eighth grader at a high school in Kingston is still working there, as no disciplinary action was ever taken against him by the school board.

(Trinidad Express) Education Minister Dr Tim Gopeesingh yesterday promised to make this country the first nation to achieve universal early childhood care by 2015.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidadian novelist Earl Lovelace last night won the OCM Bocas prize for Caribbean Literature.