Staff Editor

The rebuilding of the Sacred Heart Church which was gutted on Christmas Day in 2004 is set to begin later this month, according to today’s edition of the Catholic Standard.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Australia ended England’s  record eight-match winning streak today with a four-run  victory in the second Twenty20 international which was again  decided on the final ball.

Parasurama Rabindranauth, the 28-year-old Guyanese man on trial in Connecticut, US for murdering another Guyanese man said he was in fear for his life when he fired the shot that killed Michael Sembhudyal.

(De Ware Tijd) — The government is working on making the visa policy more lenient.

VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – The late Pope John Paul II  was moved a major step closer to sainthood in the Roman Catholic  Church today when his successor approved a decree  attributing a miracle to him.

(Barbados Nation) The Barbados government says merchants are ripping off consumers with food prices and has vowed to increase the number of inspectors monitoring price movements.

Days after President Bharrat Jagdeo instructed GECOM’s Chairman Dr Steve Surujbally to resign as Chairman of the Guyana Livestock Development Authority, the AFC has added its voice to the issue stating that the latter appointment was unconstitutional.

Guyanese Yashoda Ramlal last week told a Connecticut, US court that she heard a “pop” and saw her ex-fiance and murder accused Parasurama `Andrew’ Rabindranauth stuffing a gun into his sweatshirt.

(BBC) Jamaica has named a new international airport for private jets and small commercial aircraft after the British thriller writer who invented James Bond, the literary and cinematic super spy.

(De Ware Tijd)  – Since the registration of those involved in the small-scale gold sector started on Monday, more than 2700 people have registered at the different posts.

(De Ware Tijd)  – Suriname will soon recognize the Palestinian state.

DURBAN, South Africa, (Reuters) – Lonwabo Tsotsobe  received the man of the match award after his four wickets led  South Africa to a crushing 135-run win over India in the first  one-day international at Kingsmead today.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The second major snow storm of  the winter blanketed the U.S.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Floods and landslides  devastated mountain towns near Rio de Janeiro and killed    dozens, bringing the death toll yesterday from heavy rains  in Brazil’s south to at least 257.

At about 3pm yesterday, ranks of a police mobile patrol  responded to a report of larceny of a gold chain at Republic Park, EBD, committed on Ingrid Brown, 60 years, an overseas-based Guyanese, residing at Phase 1, Republic Park.

BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Ministers from Hezbollah and its  allies resigned today, toppling the Lebanese government  of Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri before expected indictments  against the Shi’ite group over the killing of Hariri’s father.

ADELAIDE, Australia,  (Reuters) – Chris Woakes struck  the winning runs off the last ball to lift England to a dramatic  one-wicket victory over Australia in a Twenty20 international today.

The PNCR today announced a series of meetings to introduce to the public the five persons vying to be its presidential candidate this year.

Four persons, including a sixty-four-year-old crippled grandmother, who was on her way to the airport, are now in police custody following the discovery of over nine kilos of cocaine in a wheelchair in the car transporting the woman.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – A suicide bomber rammed his   explosive-laden vehicle into a mosque in northwest Pakistan today, killing 17 paramilitary soldiers and policemen,   police said.