Sunday Editor

(Trinidad Express) In the face of questions about the propriety of the arrangement, former permanent secretary in the ministry of works, Cheryl Blackman, maintained yesterday she broke no rules when she allowed her minister, Jack Warner, to pay for the expenses for herself and other members of staff to travel to Jamaica.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A five-member panel of the Court of Appeal yesterday handed down a decision that a single judge of the Court of Appeal was not empowered under the Constitution to hear a procedural appeal.

Police are investigating an armed robbery at Anchorville, Port Mourant, Corentyne which took place last night during which a woman was shot and injured.

A Drysdale Street, Charlestown, fire has left four persons dead, including three children, and another critical at the Georgetown Public Hospital after it gutted the upper flat of a house around 6am yesterday.

Three persons lost their lives tragically this morning when the car they were travelling in crashed into a sand truck at Relief, East Bank Demerara around 11am.

Former Police Commissioner Wilfred Henry Greene, DSS, DSM, was Sunday honoured by colleagues, relatives, friends and the government for his service to the nation as he was laid to rest following his death on September 7.

(Jamaica Observer) Olympic Games double sprint silver medallist Yohan Blake says his time to take over the helm as the world’s leading sprinter from current sprint king Usain Bolt is not far away and he anxiously awaits the day.

DUBLIN (Reuters) – An Irish tabloid newspaper broke ranks with its British and Irish rivals to publish topless pictures of the wife of Prince William today, angering its British co-owners and risking legal action from the royal family.

DUBAI (Reuters) – The Yemen-based branch of al Qaeda urged Muslims today to step up protests and kill US diplomats in Muslim countries over a film denigrating the Prophet Mohammad which it said was another chapter in the “crusader wars” against Islam.

KHARTOUM  (Reuters) – Sudan has rejected a US request to send a platoon of Marines to bolster security at the US embassy outside Khartoum, the state news agency SUNA said today.

An eight-year-old boy is now dead after he was fatally struck down by a car that was allegedly speeding around 15:40 hrs yesterday as he was walking along the No  56 Public Road, Corentyne, Berbice.

A 17-year-old Agricola teen was earlier today shot dead by police and another is said to be in a critical condition at the Georgetown Hospital.

Regional Chairman Sharma Solomon this morning told Stabroek News that he was unaware of the Head of State’s visit to the mining town.

There was free ingress and egress in and out of Linden as far as Mackenzie as a result of the Joint Services’ operation in the town this morning.

ALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) – Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad won a pledge of support on Tuesday from regional ally Iran as his forces tried to choke off rebels in the northern city of Aleppo.

(Reuters) – The psychiatrist who treated suspected movie-theater shooter James Holmes contacted a University of Colorado police officer to express concerns about Holmes’s behavior several weeks before his alleged rampage, ABC News reported, citing unnamed sources.

LONDON (Reuters) – Usain Bolt, the world’s fastest man, plans to smuggle the skipping rope he uses to train into the Olympic stadium after an official took it off him on his way in to Sunday’s 100 metres final.

LONDON (Reuters) – A former Lloyds Banking Group anti-fraud chief on Tuesday admitted cheating the bank of 2.5 million pounds ($3.9 million) in what prosecutors called a “huge breach of trust” against her employer.

The living quarters for Cadet Officers at the army’s Camp Stephenson at Timehri were destroyed by fire early this morning.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Western Union International has ordered its operators in St James to close their businesses until they implement security measures capable of combating the multibillion-dollar lottery scamming industry.