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HAVANA,  (Reuters) – The first group of Americans to  tour Cuba under new, more liberal U.S.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has contracted the dreaded dengue disease.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The FBI is examining  documents charting more than $500,000 in payments made by a  Caribbean soccer group to a top U.S.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Opposing lawyers disputed the  meaning of a medical report that said “rape” caused injuries  sustained by the woman who has accused former IMF chief  Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault.

The Guyana Power and Light Inc  today said that lightning affected one of the two transmission lines linking the Garden of Eden power station on the East Bank and Sophia causing a complete 50Hz system shutdown in the Demerara Interconnected System (DIS).

(WICB) St John’s, Antigua – Fifteen year old Barbadian school girl Shaquana Quintyne has won a call up to the West Indies Women squad to face Pakistan in the Caribbean. Quintyne

Bollywood star Shammi Kapoor was yesterday cremated at  the Banganga crematorium in Mumbai, according to the Hindustan Times.

Brazilian diamond dealer Sergio Mattos was early this morning abducted in front of his girlfriend’s home in Georgetown, but his captors later released him without a ransom payment after learning that police had been notified.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Phone hacking was widely known  about at Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World, according to a  reporter blamed as the sole culprit, contradicting repeated  denials by senior executives and dragging Britain’s prime  minister back into the scandal.

(Trinidad Guardian) Both Minister of Communication Dr Suruj Rambachan and Education Minister Dr Tim Gopeesingh yesterday declined to comment on recent reports that the National Security Council, headed by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, had met with Digicel to get assistance in tapping cellphones.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – In the coming four years, the United Nations (UN) will provide considerably less financial assistance to Suriname.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Police arrested India’s  leading anti-corruption campaigner today, just hours before  he was due to fast to the death, as the beleaguered government  cracked down on a self-styled Gandhian activist agitating for a  new “freedom” struggle.

Ambassador Irwin LaRocque yesterday morning became CARICOM’s seventh Secretary-General and identified the reformation of “the architecture and governance of our integration arrangements” as key if the Secretariat is to be more effective in its mandate.

The dismembered body of a man, believed to be that of a missing Corentyne cattle farmer, was found last night in a canal at Black Bush Polder.

Police were yesterday forced to release miner Gavin Joseph on station bail, after his wife, who he allegedly shot twice in the shoulder last Friday, refused to give investigators a statement about the incident.

Preliminary figures compiled by Transport and Harbours Department (T&HD) officials indicate more than $700M in losses from last Thursday’s fire, Minister of Transport and Hydraulics, Robeson Benn says.

One man is dead while another is wounded after they were both allegedly shot by a businessman yesterday at Powis Backdam, Five Star, North West District.

-cites domination by Correia Group A fuel supply row which saw a tanker ramming a gate at Ogle Airport on Thursday deepened yesterday with Air Services Limited (ASL) calling for an inquiry into operations there and charging that domination of the facility by a competitor was the root of the problem.

The promised return of the radio serial Merundoi to the airwaves of the National Communication Network (NCN) yesterday did not materialise and no one seems to know what the future holds for the popular drama.

Guyanese Dr. Cary F. Fraser, a historian of international relations, has been appointed the new president of the University of Belize, a release from the university said.