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(Jamaica Observer) Preparations are well underway for the introduction of hand-held mobile devices to replace the old method that traffic cops currently use to issue tickets to offending motorists.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Talk show queen Oprah  Winfrey will be doing her first-ever live chat with social  media website Facebook on Thursday, Sept 8.

By Marcelle Thomas   With the “Back to School” season at fever pitch parents will throng the main shopping centres today focusing   primarily on school  uniforms, text books,   stationery and other  essentials for their children’s new school year.

A man accused of stealing a woman’s cell phone was yesterday admitted to bail in the sum of $50,000 by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton.

(Trinidad Express) The performance of Commissioner of Police Dwayne Gibbs came under severe fire from Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley in the House of Representatives yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) State carrier Caribbean Airlines says it has transported an additional 5,000 passengers who were affected by Hurricane Irene.

(Trinidad Express) Using police statistics to buttress his case, National Security Minister John Sandy said yesterday that the majority of crimes in Trinidad and Tobago are committed by Afro-Trinidadians against other Afro-Trinidadians.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – A Chilean air force plane  disappeared near the Juan Fernandez islands in the Pacific  Ocean with 21 people aboard today and was presumed to have  crashed, authorities said.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – A criminal gang capable of  smuggling 10 tonnes of cocaine a month for Mexico’s bloody  Sinaloa cartel has been dismantled following the arrest of 36  suspects, Colombian authorities said today.

NEW ORLEANS, (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Lee  threatened the Louisiana coast today with torrential rains  and flooding and shut nearly half of U.S.

President Bharrat Jagdeo today said that his decision to appoint Henry Greene as Police Commissioner was made after the US refused to provide information on a five-year probe which it said tied Greene to drug trafficking.

(Trinidad Guardian) Acting on a tip-off, heavily-armed Crime Suppression Unit (CSU) officers went to the Gasparillo Police Station yesterday, seizing a cellphone and a quantity of cash from Selwyn “Robocop” Alexis.

(Jamaica Observer) Controversy surrounded the final Caribbean Motor Racing Championships (CMRC) race in Barbados, which started after 6:00 pm in night-time conditions, raising concerns regarding the safety of competitors.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaican swim coach Nathan Brown has been charged in connection with Saturday’s robbery of Empire Supermarket in Cross Roads, St.

DAEGU, South Korea, (Reuters) – Jamaica’s Olympic  champion Veronica Campbell-Brown held off the challenge of  American Carmelita Jeter down the home straight with a storming  finish to win the women’s world 200 metres title for the first  time today.

(Barbados Nation) Embattled Barbados football officials David Hinds and Mark “Bob” Forde are no longer in The Bahamas.

With the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) saying that Police Commissioner Henry Greene “benefited from the proceeds of drug trafficking,”  – a charge he denied – the US, UK, Canada and EU mission chiefs here urged the government against going ahead with his appointment.

(Barbados Nation) Regular flights have resumed at low cost carrier REDjet, but there is a delay today.

A twenty-one-year-old University of Guyana (UG) student was this morning murdered by bandits, who attacked him and his girlfriend as they sat in his car parked next to the seawall.

US Ambassador to Guyana Roland Bullen in 2006 considered the Guyana Government so compromised by Roger Khan that he told Washington nothing would be done about him and the envoy cited the drug lord and a former official of the government as being instrumental in the infamous phantom squad.