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(Trinidad Express) State telecoms provider TSTT will be unrolling a $500 million network upgrade programme which will see customers benefitting from a 4G ready network, wireless hotspots in popular areas, and wireless TV.

(Trinidad Express) The Trinidad and Tobago Automobile Dealers Association (TTADA) supports the decision by Transport Minister Devant Maharaj to request a probe into a racket at the Licensing Office.

(Trinidad Express) West Indies and Guyana batsman Narsingh Deonarine started the Digicel Test series with question marks over his fitness and his ability to bat for long periods, but he has answered his critics and has been hailed by West Indies coach Ottis Gibson for the mature innings he played on the third day of the second Test, at the Queen’s Park Oval in Port of Spain.

(Jamaica Observer) Shanique Myrie, the Jamaican woman who claimed she was finger-raped by Barbados immigration and security officials and then thrown out of the Caribbean country, was yesterday granted leave by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) to take her case to a full sitting of the court in a landmark case against Barbados.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Minister of Youth and Culture Lisa Hanna on Tuesday proposed that any parliamentary deliberation of reparation from Britain be delayed.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Government has revealed it has no intention of continuing to bring in senior police officers from the United Kingdom (UK), as it has done in recent years, to assist their Jamaican counterparts in crime-fighting and other law-enforcement endeavours.

(Barbados Nation) A medical practitioner and his wife were each granted bail when they appeared in court yesterday charged with the theft of over Bds$1/2 million.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India test-fired a long range missile capable of reaching deep inside China and Europe today, television stations showed, thrusting the emerging Asian power into an elite club of nations with intercontinental nuclear defence capabilities.

PORT OF SPAIN, (Reuters) – Australia were confident they could still win the second test against West Indies despite losing most of the fourth day today to rain.

(Barbados Nation) The Caribbean Court of Justice has granted Jamaican Shanique Myrie leave to bring her case against the Barbados Government.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – “American Bandstand” host Dick Clark, whose long-running television dance show helped rock ‘n’ roll win acceptance in mainstream America, died today at age 82, a spokesman said.

(Barbados Nation) Dr Charles Grant, age 50, and his 52-year-old wife, Carole-Ann have been arrested and charged with the theft of over Bds$500,000 from the Sandy Crest Medical Centre in St.

The old age pension will now be $10,000 per month from May 1st, 2012 following talks today at the Office of the President between a government team and the opposition.

Police say that at about 0805h yesterday, Lloyd Prince, 18 years of Port Kaituma, NWD, was sitting on top of the cab of a motor lorry that was ascending a hill, when the vehicle stalled.

Several hundred public servants today turned out to protest what they called ‘AFC thieving’ of their jobs in response to a motion by AFC MP Khemraj Ramjattan for cuts to some ministries’ contract jobs.

(Trinidad Express) A Rio Claro money lender was gunned down on Tuesday night during a financial transaction that went sour, police believe.

(Jamaica Observer) Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn said the decision to charge broadcaster Wayne Whyte with wounding with intent and illegal possession of firearm, instead of attempted murder in the shooting of his co-worker Jody Ann Gray, was made in the interest of justice.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Haiti’s President Michel Martelly was being treated for a blood clot in his lung caused by an earlier surgery, a presidential adviser said yesterday.

The Caribbean Media Corporation is reporting that police have arrested and charged Newspaper Editor, George Worme for stealing sand.

Just over a year after giving Barbados a failing grade for not fully complying with international tax standards, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) now says the country is up to scratch.