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Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh presented a 15-seater bus to the Ptolemy Reid Rehabilitation Centre last week Friday to boost its operations.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – One of Cuba’s leading dissidents, Oscar Elias Biscet, testified by telephone from Cuba on Thursday to the US Congress and said the international community did not seem to understand that human rights violations continued there.

(Trinidad Express) The strike is off. The Oilfields Workers Trade Union (OWTU) and Petrotrin this morning settled a bitter wage dispute, a day before workers planned to walk off the job.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Embattled entertainer dancehall Vybz Kartel was again remanded when he appeared in the Home Circuit Court in relation to the murder of Clive ‘Lizard’ Williams.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A student of the Spanish Town High School in St.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A Moroccan man was arrested near the U.S.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Former top Pakistan cricketer Danish Kaneria has been named in court as a go-between in a spot-fixing scandal which led to former English county player Mervyn Westfield being jailed for four months today.

Guyana and Suriname today agreed to a joint approach to the Inter-American Development Bank to discuss financing modalities for the proposed bridge across the Corentyne River.

The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority says it has installed new navigational equipment under a Government of Guyana project to modernize the Air Navigation Services.

The police say they are investigating an armed robbery that occurred at about 1300h today at Rose Hall, Corentyne, during which goldsmith Vishwanauth Seeram, 39 years of Grant 2767, Crabwood Creek, Corentyne, was attacked and robbed by three men, one of whom was armed with a shotgun.

The police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Ryan Singh, 27 years of Campbell Street, Williamsburg, Corentyne, who was a prisoner in the lock-ups at the Rose Hall Police Outpost, and was found hanging in his cell at about 1530h today.

The police are investigating the murder of fisherman Richard Sanchara, 31 years of Montrose, ECD, which occurred at about 1930h last night at Mon Repos, ECD.

Mechanic Marlon Welcome died this morning after being attacked by a man who broke into his Sophia home.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Police Service Commission has found no grounds to either remove or initiate disciplinary action against Police Commissioner Dwayne Gibbs and his foreign counterpart, Deputy Commissioner Jack Ewatski.

(Trinidad Express) Minister of Works and former Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation special adviser Jack Warner announced yesterday that he has “initiated legal proceedings to sue Trinidadian journalist Lasana Liburd, who resorted to completely unacceptable defamation and libel” in reporting on funds intended for the Haiti Football Association in the wake of the devastating earthquake in 2010.

(Trinidad Express) The fuel shortage caused by panic buying ahead of a threatened strike tomorrow by Petrotrin workers is beginning to hurt taxi-drivers, commuters and businesses that require transportation for delivery of goods and services.

(Jamaica Observer) The Greater Portmore police are investigating the brazen murder of a woman yesterday.

(Jamaica Observer) NEW HAVEN, USA — A Jamaican man is set to be deported after pleading guilty to the robbery of a delivery person in 2008 according to a report in the New Haven Register.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The case brought by Jamaican Shanique Myrie against the Barbadian government had its first hearing yesterday in the Caribbean Court of Justice.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Nine couples exchanged marital vows in the nude at Hedonism II in Negril, Westmoreland on Valentine’s Day.