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(Trinidad Express) Machel Montano’s “Pump Yuh Flag” was played 233 times to make him a runaway winner of the 2012 Road March, adding to his Digicel International Power Soca Monarch and Play Whe Groovy Soca Monarch triumphs.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – A packed commuter train plowed into the buffers at a Buenos Aires station during this morning rush hour, killing 49 people and injuring more than 600 in Argentina’s worst rail accident in more than 30 years, officials said.

The police say they are investigating the murder of Clive Cornelius, 23 years of Imbaimadai, which occurred at about 0840h.

Further to press release made yesterday, in relation to the murder of “Tall Man” which occurred at Konawaruk Backdam, the police say that he has been identified  as Troy Anthony Burkett, 41 years, of Bissessar Street, Prashad Nagar, Georgetown.

(Barbados Nation) Late Prime Minister David Thompson’s law firm received a whopping Bds$3.3 million in legal and retainer fees from CLICO International Life Insurance Limited (CIL), but the fees were actually destined for former CLICO executive chairman Leroy Parris.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation today said that a strike at its bagging and packaging location at Blairmont has delayed its ability to meet marketing commitments to sister Caricom states.

(Jamaica Observer) A National Security Policy to tackle the country’s ballooning crime rate with an intent to reduce murders from the current three per day to less than one over the next five years is to be made public next month, National Security Minister Peter Bunting announced yesterday.

AMMAN, (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, trying to hammer the city of Homs into submission, today killed 19 more people including two Western journalists in an onslaught that has caused an international outcry for intervention to end the bloodshed.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA) has come out in strong support of Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, who on Monday was chastised by the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) for allegedly making ill-advised statements regarding the ongoing impasse involving star batsman, Chris Gayle.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Finance Minister Dr Peter Phillips has signalled his intention to swing a J$21.6-billion axe into the national Budget.

(Jamaica Gleaner) More than 5,000 Jamaicans are set to receive short-term employment under the much-touted Jamaica Emergency Employment Programme (JEEP), which yesterday received J$4.2-billion worth of fuel to get the vehicle on the road by early March.

The Ministry of Public Works made payments totalling $156.5 million for sea defences at Abary/Profitt but when a team from the Auditor General’s office visited the site only $20.6 million worth of work had been done.

GuySuCo and government yesterday moved to get striking sugar workers back on the job as current production remains crucial to prop up the corporation’s shaky finances.

Police in E and F Division are investigating two murders that occurred on Monday, the suspects of which are still at large.

A dredge owner is missing and feared drowned after the boat he and two others were travelling in along the Mazaruni River yesterday capsized near a waterfall.

Well-known caterer and historian of the Chinese movement in Guyana, Margery Kirkpatrick, yesterday launched her second book, which is an autobiographical account of growing up in British Guiana.

A man who was hit down and killed on Monday night by the ambulance taking Bartica boat racing champion Brandon Belle to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), remained unidentified up to press time last night.

The 2012 IDEAS Energy Innovation Contest for the Caribbean was yesterday launched in Guyana at the Pegasus Hotel.

We apologise that the photograph of the Children’s Mashramani and Costume and Float Parade on page 18 of our Sunday, February 19 edition was incorrectly captioned.

Lecturers at the University of Guyana Turkeyen Campus, after being advised by the administration that they will not earn salaries and allowances if the industrial action continues, decided to hold a ‘sickout’ yesterday.