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NAIROBI, (Reuters) – A police officer attached to  Kenya’s provincial police shot 10 people dead at several bars in  a small town northeast of Nairobi before surrendering, a police  spokesman said today.

A North West District man was allegedly hit in the head by his reputed wife during a domestic row yesterday afternoon.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Alton ‘Barry’ Chevannes, the respected sociologist and anthropologist, died yesterday at the University Hospital of the West Indies.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar was yesterday praised by St Lucian Prime Minister Dr Stephenson King for her quick response to rally to his countrymen’s assistance in the wake of the passage of Hurricane Tomas.

(Trinidad Express) Guyana national coach Leon Dover needs a favour from Trinidad and Tobago, who he describes as their “sister country.”

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Hurricane Tomas weakened  to a tropical storm today after it lashed Haiti’s crowded  camps for earthquake survivors and coastal towns, triggering  flooding and mudslides that killed at least seven people.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Hurricane Tomas soaked crowded  Haitian earthquake survivors’ camps with overnight rain as the  re-strengthened storm headed north today between Cuba and Haiti  amid fears of flooding and landslides.

(Trinidad Guardian) Guyana’s President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday told a group of ANSA McAL executives that there were huge business opportunities in his country.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – All 68 people on board an Aero  Caribbean plane were killed when it crashed in mountainous  central Cuba yesterday after issuing an emergency call, a  government website said today.

(Trinidad Guardian) Former Caribbean under-15 champion Nigel Bryan captured the junior title in the recent Cecil James Open Table Tennis Tournament, at Maloney Sports Arena.

(Trinidad Guardian) T&T Soca Warriors sealed a spot in the Digicel Caribbean Cup Finals scheduled for Martinique later this month, after a 2-0 win over Guyana in their second round Group F match at the Manny Ramjohn Stadium, Marabella last night.

An 18-year-old man was stabbed to death tonight on the seawall and another man was knifed in his abdomen.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – A plane carrying at least 68  people crashed in central Cuba after issuing an emergency call,  state-run media said today, and there were no initial  reports of survivors.

Mother Laxmi depicted this evening in the Deepavali float of the Cumberland Sri Radha Krishna Mandir.

CROIX-DES-BOUQUETS, Haiti,  (Reuters) – Angry  earthquake survivors in Haiti disrupted an attempted evacuation  today of a resettlement camp as Tropical Storm Tomas bore  down on the poor Caribbean country already reeling from a  cholera epidemic and destruction from the quake.

The police said today they are investigating an incident which occurred at about 0240h this morning at Church Street, Georgetown, during which taxi driver Tyrone Kishore, 28 years of Second Field, Cummings Lodge, ECD, was shot and injured.

The Georgetown Public Hospital today said that it is looking for a man who escaped police custody on its premises and hid himself in the ceiling of the Accident and Emergency Unit.

Police have detained a Lodge resident who stabbed and killed another man during a heated argument over a pile of missing clothing last night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Kamla Persad–Bissessar’s statements about applying conditions to any aid T&T provides in the wake of Tropical Storm Tomas has triggered an avalanche of criticisms.