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Ambassador Irwin LaRocque this morning assumed the Office of Caricom Secretary-General and pledged that it will not be business as usual as it relates to the regional integration movement.

(Trinidad Express) FIFA whistle-blower Chuck Blazer is now the one in the hot seat.

(Barbados Nation) A stabbing last night at Oistins Fish Market has left one man dead.

(Barbados Nation) The police are seeking the public’s assistance in finding any information pertaining to the death of Adrian McDonald Wilkinson.

(Barbados Nation) When it comes to accepting any FIFA bribe money, count Barbados out, this country’s football chief Ronald Jones has declared.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The fuel price in Suriname is now among the highest in the region.

(Barbados Nation) Violent crime in this country is at crisis stage and, according to former Attorney General Dale Marshall, some communities are “under siege”.

(Reuters) – Libyan Interior Minister Nasser al-Mabruk  Abdullah flew to Egypt with members of his family today,  official sources at Cairo airport said, amid reports that he was  abandoning Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

Security has been beefed up at the Ogle Airport following the ramming open of a gate by a fuel tanker and several meetings are expected to address the serious civil aviation issues raised as the police continue a probe that will likely lead to charges.

Residents of the Region Seven community of Kuru-tuku are concerned that the authorities seem not to be acting on their application for land extension and say mining operations on land they consider as their own are damaging the environment.

An 11-year-old boy downed in a Friendship, East Bank Demerara canal yesterday after going into the water at the invitation of a friend.

Authorities do not believe that last Thursday’s fire which destroyed the Transport and Harbours Department (T&HD) storage bond on Urquhart Street, South Cummingsburg was electrical in origin.

Latchmin Gopal is passionate about teaching, and about helping children to tap into their potential.

A 25-year-old miner died by drowning on Friday afternoon while working in a mining pit at False Creek backdam near Port Kaituma in the North West District.

Two years after her son, Ricky Jainarine went missing following a boat collision in the Essequibo River, Salimoon Rahaman is desperate for answers and continues to cling to hope that he might be alive “I still feel that he’s alive and he’s somewhere,” she said.

A man accused of assaulting his wife and daughter was on Friday remanded to prison when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

A 32-year-old man accused of assaulting a woman and allegedly using abusive and threatening language towards her was on Friday placed on $25,000 bail when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton.

The National Toshaos Council yesterday revealed that the toshao of Muritaro, Lester Fleming had passed away after a brief illness “We, the members of The National Toshaos Council (NTC) extend our most sincere sympathies to the family and relatives of the late Toshao Lester Fleming of Muritaro Village, Region 10 and Member of the NTC Executive”, the NTC said in a statement via GINA.

Toshao of Kurutuku, Solomon Lewis is stranded in Georgetown. The leader of the remote Region Seven Amerindian settlement had left his community along the Cuyuni River on July 22 to travel to Georgetown for the National Toshaos Conference.

TRIPOLI,  (Reuters) – Libyan state television early today broadcast what it said was a live speech by Muammar Gaddafi calling on the Libyan people to arm themselves to  liberate the country from “traitors and from NATO.”