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Lakeram Samaroo, the only passenger to escape with minor injuries
Lakeram Samaroo, the only passenger to escape with minor injuries

Five dead, seven injured in minibus crash

Five persons died and seven others were seriously injured, when a minibus travelling to Berbice smashed into the rear of a sand truck at Mahaica last night.

Carjackers leave victim locked in trunk

A man endured a harrowing experience late Friday night when he was locked in the truck of his car by carjackers, who later abandoned the vehicle near the Ogle sea wall after they stripped it of all valuables.

Chinese storeowner fights alleged shoplifters

Chaos broke out in a section of Wellington Street yesterday after a fuming Chinese national who operates a store accused two women of shoplifting, kicking one and tearing the top of another and receiving     a few slaps to her face.

Nigel Harris

Central role is forging more integrated region

– UWI VC tells law symposium Professor Nigel Harris, Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies, told a high-level law symposium in Trinidad and Tobago recently that steps to promote a sense of regionalism and a wish for integration will not succeed without participants seeing the profound value in becoming one entity.

Leelkumarie Mangal

Kidney transplant recipients march on road to recovery

After completing successful kidney transplant operations, patients and their donors are making significant progress on the road to recovery while transmitting messages of hope to others who have been diagnosed with kidney ailments and are awaiting surgeries.

Healthcare bill poised to pass US Senate test

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A broad healthcare overhaul  was poised to clear its first US Senate hurdle yesterday as  the last wavering senators said they would vote to begin debate  on the legislation, giving Democrats the 60 votes they need.

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