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Guyanese entrepreneur, author, real estate developer and the founder of the famed Henry House Catering and Banquet Hall in Brooklyn, Norman Henry who died from heart failure at his Brooklyn residence is to be laid to rest today, according to the Imagenewsletter.

Heartfelt congratulations are extended to Khadine Alecia Nurse who was called to the Bar of UK and Wales through the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, England.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – The International Cricket   Council (ICC) hopes to finalise plans for their new test and   one-day international tournaments in their chief executives’   committee meeting in Dubai tomorrow.

PARIS, (Reuters) – U.S. diplomatic cables released by  online whistle-blower Wikileaks include remarks from an Iran  source in 2009 saying Supreme Leader has  terminal cancer, French daily Le Monde reported.

BRISBANE, (Reuters) – Australia and England drew   the first Ashes test today but the tourists will claim a   moral victory after Alastair Cook dominated the last two days   with an unbeaten double century to rescue a match that had   looked lost.

TEHRAN, (Reuters) – Two car bomb blasts killed one  Iranian nuclear scientist and wounded another in Tehran today, Iran’s al Alam Arabic language television reported.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Police arrested gang  members and seized large quantities of drugs and weapons in a  large Rio de Janeiro slum they occupied today, in a major  advance in the war against the city’s drug lords.

Residents of Pattensen, Turkeyen, East Coast Demerara were this afternoon startled following the grim discovery of the lifeless body of a 71-year old man, described as an alcoholic.

The Golden-Grove/ Diamond Police Youth Group was launched today, according to the Government Information Agency.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Roger Federer sent a timely  reminder to Rafael Nadal today, out-gunning the world number  one to win the ATP World Tour Finals with an irresistible  display of attacking tennis.

WICB) St John’s, Antigua – Barbadian batsman Kirk Edwards has received a maiden call up to the West Indies squad for the five match One Day International Series and T20 International against Sri Lanka.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s elections ended  in confusion today as 12 of the 18 presidential candidates  denounced “massive fraud” and called for cancellation of the  results as street protests erupted over voting irregularities.

Agriculture Minister, Robert Persaud today said that he is very pleased with the air cargo service launched recently by LIAT.

Former Queen’s College headmaster and Chief Education Officer, Frederick Morrison Telemachus `Telly’ Lowe died two weeks ago in the United States.

BRISBANE, (Reuters) – Openers Andrew Strauss and both posted centuries today to wipe out   England’s first innings deficit and bring the tourists right   back into the first Ashes test against Australia.

SEOUL, (Reuters) – The United States and South Korea  began joint military exercises in waters west of the Korean  Peninsula today that have been opposed by regional giant  China and have led to North Korea threatening “consequences”.

(Jamaica Observer) Two recent surveys have found that crime and violence are the main subject areas that get coverage from the media in the Caribbean, including Jamaica.

(Barbados Nation) Five outstanding journalists were inducted into the Barbados Association of Journalists’ (BAJ) Hall of Fame last night.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Gunmen disrupted the  final campaign rally in Haiti of a charismatic presidential  contender, stoking tensions on the eve of tomorrow’s elections in  a nation racked by cholera and political uncertainty.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain said today it would  help pay for more than 1,000 medical staff to fight a raging  cholera epidemic in Haiti.