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(Trinidad Guardian) Caribbean Airlines’ chairman George Nicholas has tendered his resignation from the state-owned national carrier. Minister

A mason accused of stealing a woman’s gold chain was on Tuesday admitted to bail in the sum of $65,000 when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Despite the fact that the public service minimum wage is $32,207, sweepers/cleaners of schools across Guyana only receive $15,800 per month and they are not paid during any of the school holiday breaks.

(Trinidad Express) Farmer Terry Bahal was shot dead as he attempted to escape bandits who ambushed him as he drove into his garage on Tuesday night.

Police today issued a bulletin for Kwame Crosse saying he is wanted by the police for questioning in relation to trafficking in narcotics.

(Jamaica Observer) Joel Chin of VP Records was shot and killed Tuesday night at his home in Stony Hill.

Several members of the police force hierarchy are under investigation as a result of allegations of ties between them and the drug trade and police this afternoon confirmed that a junior officer has tendered his resignation after being transferred following questioning.

A prisoner was early this morning stabbed by another inmate at the Camp Street jail and had to be rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) where he was admitted.

TAMPA, Fla., (Reuters) – Florida police today  said they had thwarted a plot by a 17-year-old to attack his  former school in Tampa after arresting him and discovering  bomb-making material at his home.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo  Chavez said today he plans to nationalize the gold  sector, including extraction and processing, and use the  production to boost the country’s international reserves.

The battered body of a 64-year-old security guard was this morning found at his work site located opposite Mines Services Limited at Providence.

(Trinidad Guardian) Caribbean Airlines’ chairman George Nicholas has tendered his resignation from the state-owned national carrier. Minister

(Jamaica Observer) Students throughout the Caribbean region continue to perform dismally in mathematics with a mere 32 per cent of entries achieved acceptable grades in the June 2011 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations.

(Jamaica Observer) The quietness of Frankfield, a community in the central parish of Clarendon, was shaken yesterday morning when men armed with machetes invaded a house and attacked its three male occupants as they slept, hacking them to death.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Caribbean Cement Company Limited made a loss of J$608 million in the second quarter, even while cement sales appeared to have stabilised in the period.

(Barbados Nation) Government will construct a centre for the performing arts, and has called on radio stations to play no less than 60 per cent of local music, while it pledged Bds$50 million to promote, market and distribute local entertainers’ products and services from next year.

A fire this morning razed several homes on Lombard Street leaving many homeless.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – In Jamaica, 65 kilos of cocaine were intercepted that were allegedly from Suriname.

Acting on a tip-off, a team of police officers yesterday afternoon swooped on a house at the Haslington New Scheme, on the East Coast of Demerara (ECD), where they discovered more than 100 kilos (200 lbs) of cocaine stashed in Hindu religious items being prepared for shipment to Canada.

The once busy town of New Amsterdam (NA) which used to be a draw for persons travelling from West Berbice and Corentyne has not been the same businesswise following the opening of the Berbice River Bridge in 2008.