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A prominent Belizean lawyer, who was trained in Guyana, and his wife were murdered early this morning in Belize as they were about to enter their home.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation this afternoon said it was “extremely alarmed” at a threat made in the name of an official of the sugar union, GAWU for workers to go on an industry-wide strike from tomorrow.

Police on the Essequibo Coast are investigating the murder of a 40-year-old woman who was found in a pool of blood.

A 21-year-old woman was this morning treated at the Diamond Health Centre for a graze from a bullet during a robbery at Kaneville, East Bank Demerara.

Police today said that two UK-based brothers were last evening robbed of jewellery and cellular phones at Creen Street, North Cummingsburg.

The third suspect in last Friday’s robbery at Port Kaituma during which millions were stolen, a pregnant woman brutalized and a policeman shot, was this morning apprehended while sitting on a swing in the compound of a hotel.

(Jamaica Observer) Prime Minister Golding’s agreement to a commission of enquiry into the Christopher “Dudus” Coke/Manatt, Phelps and Phillips affair signals an imminent change of leadership, political commentators say.

(Barbados Nation) The die appears cast on Mia Mottley’s leadership of the Barbados Labour Party [BLP].

(Trinidad Express) Drama unfolded in Tunapuna yesterday as two women, identified as robbery suspects, were shot and killed by a policewoman assigned to the Tunapuna/Piarco Regional Corporation Municipal Police.

(Jamaica Gleaner)  Tagging Jamaicans as “ingenious advanced thinkers”, Chilean Ambassador Alfredo García said Jamaica’s gesture to host the 33 miners who were trapped, their spouses, and rescue workers for a vacation here is fantastic.

The police this evening announced that they had apologized to Michelle Baldeo, the owner of a building at Farm, East Bank Demerara that they had searched and ransacked on Monday while she was not at home.

Police ranks searching for bandits who committed a daring multi-million dollar robbery on a gold buyer at Port Kaituma, North West came under gunfire this afternoon resulting in detective constable Emrit Winter being wounded.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russia agreed yesterday to help  build Venezuela’s first nuclear power plant, sell it tanks and  buy $1.6 billion of oil assets, reinforcing ties with President  Hugo Chavez who shares Russian opposition to US global dominance Chavez presided over the deals at a Kremlin ceremony with  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who said the two countries  shared a “strategic partnership” and a vision of a world free of  overwhelming U.S.

After originally winning the bronze, Guyana’s track and field star Aliann Pompey has been awarded the silver medal in the women’s 400 meters at the recently completed Commonwealth Games, which were held in Delhi, India. 

COPIAPO, Chile, (Reuters) – Amid the relief and  euphoria over the rescue of Chile’s trapped miners, the grim  details of the men’s darkest days underground are coming to  light.

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company today said that the outage to its Emagine Broadband system this morning was due to a problem with one of its servers.

The Government of Suriname on Tuesday invested CARICOM Secretary-General, Edwin Carrington, with the Republic’s highest national award – the Grand Officer in the Order of the Yellow Star.

PNCR-1G MP Winston Murray has officially declared his interest in the presidential candidacy.

Barama Company Limited has confirmed the lay-off of  274 workers following a boiler explosion at the company’s plywood factory at Land of Canaan on the east Bank of Demerara.

The National Assembly unanimously passed legislation tonight which allows non-capital punishment for various categories of convicted murderers, but the death penalty remains on the books.