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The five volunteers who travelled to Suriname to assist in the search for the missing fishermen returned home on Friday night without being given an opportunity to assist.

Six years after they were first promised, Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) Cameras are being installed around the city.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – A popular trolley that runs through a scenic Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood overlooking downtown derailed yesterday afternoon, killing five and wounding more than 30 others, the fire department said.

India’s world famous Oddissi dancer Dr Sonal Mansingh will be performing Rabindranath Tagore’s Nayikaa at the National Cultural Centre on Wednesday evening.

MOREHEAD CITY, NC (Reuters) – Hurricane Irene charged up the US East Coast yesterday towards New York, shutting down the city, and millions of Americans sought shelter from a huge storm that halted transport and caused massive power blackouts.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Al Qaeda’s new second-in-command was killed earlier this week in Pakistan, US officials said yesterday, in a major blow to the group still reeling from the death of Osama bin Laden.

(Trinidad Express) Gangs are engaged in a public relations ploy to garner sympathy from citizens and prevent law enforcement officials from infiltrating their illegal organisations, Attorney General Anand Ramlogan has said.

CARACAS (Reuters) – President Hugo Chavez will undergo a third round of chemotherapy for cancer at home in Venezuela beginning today, he said, instead of travelling to Cuba where he had two previous rounds of treatment.

The Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG) and the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU), its largest affiliate, in a statement on the situation in Libya expressed “abhorrence at the deadly machinations of the West and its NATO forces, under the facade of assisting popular revolt(s) by the people.”

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Residents of Tripoli dug makeshift graves to bury the dead as evidence emerged of widespread summary killings during the battle for the Libyan capital.

MOREHEAD CITY, N.C.,  (Reuters) – Hurricane Irene  charged up the U.S.

In the aftermath of the murder of Minister of Agriculture Sash Sawh in 2006, the US ambassador here reported to Washington that there was indignation at the inability of the “overwhelmed” police force to solve killings and he also listed a variety of theories including possible connections of the minister to unsavoury characters.

As we said in this space yesterday, this newspaper empathises with Mr Asafa Powell who was forced to withdraw from the individual men’s 100 metres at the 13th International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) World Championships now underway in South Korea because of a groin strain.

(Barbados Nation) REDjet should have a third plane in its fleet by November.

MOREHEAD CITY, N.C.,  (Reuters) – Hurricane Irene  howled ashore in North Carolina with heavy winds, rain and surf  today on a path threatening the densely populated U.S. 

The proposals from two foreign companies to run the troubled US$200M Skeldon sugar factory is the enhancement of an existing arrangement, Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud said yesterday.

New regional airline REDjet yesterday announced the indefinite cancellation of all its flights to and from Guyana, Trinidad and Barbados, citing aircraft hydraulic problems.

A truck transporting fuel to the Air Services Limited (ASL) base was denied access to the Ogle airport yesterday, as part of an ongoing row between the domestic airline and the airport’s management.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has resuscitated its Media Monitoring Unit (MMU), in hopes that it would contribute to “the needed peace” during the upcoming elections period.

The engineering fraternity lost an invaluable member on Thursday evening when Guyana Association of Professional Engineers (GAPE) past president and executive member, Melvyn Sankies died at the Georgetown Public Hospital.