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Amid ongoing concerns about environmental safeguards for offshore oil drilling, the Ministry of Natural Resources says measures are in place including compensation for the affected party.

ABC San Francisco affiliate KGO-TV is reporting that the children of one of the victims of the Oikos University shootings, Guyanese Judith Seymour, are struggling to fulfill their mother’s last wishes.

(Jamaica Observer) Jamaica’s National Senior Men’s team, the Reggae Boyz, will play next in Jamaica against the National team of Guyana, the Golden Jaguars, on Friday, May 18 at 8:00 pm at the Catherine Hall Stadium in Montego Bay.

(Jamaica Observer) Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller says her administration will be pursuing more stringent measures in dealing with the sexual abuse of children, including harsher penalties for parents and guardians.

(Barbados Nation) Greater access to condoms and more openness about sex is needed in Barbados and the region, says a top ranking United Nations official.

ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – An avalanche slammed into a Pakistani military camp near the mountainous border with rival India early today, burying more than 100 soldiers, the army said, adding that casualties were expected.

(Trinidad Express) Cheryl Miller is now back at her Belmont home.

(Trinidad Express) Rev Anthony Clarke of the Shouter Baptist faith said yesterday a drift from spiritual values has led to a breakdown in society and the blurring of lines between genders.

Three months later, the Tax Review Committee that President Donald Ramotar established is still to meet and start its work of revamping the country’s tax system and reports are rife that one of the persons on it might have expressed reservations in light of the many criticisms of it.

APNU MP Carl Greenidge has served notice of parliamentary motions aimed at securing the independence and autonomy of the Courts, the Office of the Auditor General and the service commissions by ensuring that they are funded by a direct charge on the Consolidated Fund rather than by an allocation from the government.

APNU MP Carl Greenidge is to move a motion in parliament calling for Hansard (the official record of parliamentary proceedings) for the years 1985 to 1992 to be made available.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Bells rang from Roman Catholic churches throughout Havana today to remember the death of Jesus Christ as Cubans celebrated a holiday on Good Friday for the first time in more than half a century.

(WICB) BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Feisty West Indies leg-spinner Devendra Bishoo said he was ready for what he believes could be a career-defining battle against Australia’s batsmen in the Digicel three-Test Series.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Every day, around 1,600 U.S. citizens of Latin American extraction are reaching 18 years of age – voting age – and adding to the fastest-growing segment of the American electorate.

(WICB) BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Narsingh Deonarine said he has returned to the West Indies team a different man from the one who left two years.

Twelve CARIFORUM (CARICOM plus the Dominican Republic) firms will have the opportunity to pitch their business ideas to prospective investors, distributors and retailers in London during the upcoming Olympics.

In letters in today’s newspaper Help and Shelter joined others calling for the immediate removal of Police Commissioner Henry Greene from office and activist Karen de Souza pointed out that there had been no response to complaints about him to the Police Service Commission and the Police Complaints Authority.

(Reuters) – A New Jersey man who survived accidentally shooting a 4-inch ( 10-cm) n ail into his heart while trying to clear a jammed nail gun said today he feels like he won the lottery.

NEW YORK/MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer caught in an undercover sting by U.S.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – Five people in southern China have been charged with intentional injury in the case of a Chinese teenager who sold a kidney so he could buy an iPhone and an iPad, the government-run Xinhua News Agency said today.