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(CMC) Chairman of CARICOM’s Prime Ministerial Sub-Committee on Cricket, Antigua and Barbuda’s Prime Minister, Baldwin Spencer, announced last evening that the year-long impasse between the embattled Jamaican and the WICB had been resolved.

The announcement by Minister of Finance Ashni Singh at the reading of the national budget last week that the electricity tariff in Linden will be increased resulted in a street protest this morning.

Notice has been served that APNU MP Carl Greenidge will move a motion in Parliament for the repeal of the controversial former presidents’ benefits act but without prejudice to the payment of benefits.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – “There is absolutely no independent and impartial judge at the December trial.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO/THE HAGUE – Yesterday, Yasser Riedewald (29), son of Harold Riedewald, one of the victims of the 1982 ‘December murders,’ left the Parliament building during the vote on amending the 1989 Amnesty Act, as he finds it difficult to swallow that in spite of fierce protests by the opposition, it seems the coalition will rush through the proposed amendment, and that his father and the fourteen other December victims are now portrayed as common criminals who wanted to topple the ‘legitimate government.’

(Trinidad Express) Cheryl Miller, the woman who was reportedly forcibly removed from her office and taken to the St Ann’s Hospital two weeks ago, was yesterday described as a “quiet, introspective” woman by co-workers.

(Trinidad Express) Sangre Grande police officers are investigating a report by the parents of a five-year-old primary school pupil who complained she was dragged into the principal’s office by an older male pupil and assaulted.

PARIS, (Reuters) – French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said today he was not optimistic that international peace mediator Kofi Annan’s plan for ending fighting in Syria would succeed and accused President Bashar al-Assad of only pretending to be committed to it.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad- Bissessar yesterday called on the Tobago House of Assembly and all other parties involved to ensure the remaining phases of the new Scarborough Hospital are completed as soon as possible.

(Trinidad Express) A 64-year-old man along with four teenaged boys are expected to appear before a Chaguanas magistrate next week charged with buggering a five-year-old boy several times for over a year.

(Trinidad Express) Controversial chairman of Caribbean Airlines (CAL) George Nicholas has resigned from the cash-strapped national carrier.

PARAMARIBO,  (Reuters) – Lawmakers in Suriname granted amnesty today to the killers of 15 opponents of President Desi Bouterse 30 years ago in a move that is certain to draw fresh criticism of the South American leader.

Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda and Chairman of CARICOM Prime Ministerial Sub-Committee on Cricket today announced that the year-long impasse between the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and Jamaican batsman Chris Gayle has been resolved.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The suspect who was arrested last week in the murder of Burnett Thomas in St.

(Barbados Nation) A former Coast Guard member has been taken into custody after drugs were found off Carlisle Bay, St Michael early this morning.

(Barbados Nation) One man is dead following a shooting which involved the police last night in Cheapside, in the City.

(Barbados Nation) Bridgetown, Barbados — The West Indies Cricket Board’s Selection Panel has called up allrounder Narsingh Deonarine to the 13-man squad to face Australia in the First Digicel Test at Kensington Oval, starting Saturday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Attorney Veera Bhajan, who was born without arms, walked away from her job at the Office of the Attorney General last November after just five days.

(Trinidad Express) Visitor arrivals to Tobago continue to rise and are expected to cross the one-million mark this year for the first time in history, the Tobago House of Assembly Airlift Committee headed by former tourism and transportation secretary Neil Wilson has said.

(Trinidad Express) Government Minister Verna St Rose Greaves yesterday said she was sorry an employee from her ministry was forcibly taken to the St Ann’s Hospital.