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(Trinidad Guardian) A 30-year-old mother of three has been fatally stabbed by her common-law husband in Arima, two weeks after she fled from an abusive relationship.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Thousands of Venezuelans joined  rival marches in Caracas yesterday over a controversial  education law that critics say strengthens Presi-dent Hugo  Chavez’s grip over schools and universities.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Pro-business candidates likely  will dominate the race to take over from Brazilian President  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, with his handpicked successor and  the governor of the nation’s richest state ahead of emerging  leftist rivals.

The recent imposition of direct rule by the UK in the Turks and Caicos Islands is a regrettable, forced step backwards, CARICOM has said.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Sugar officials now acknowledge it will take US$39 million to produce the 79,000 tonnes of sugar forward sold to Eridania Suisse SA from the next crop, and not US$21 million as initially announced.

…heroine pleased(Trinidad Express) The man disarmed and disabled by the woman he intended to rob, has turned out to be a dangerous criminal suspect wanted by police in connection with murder, kidnapping and robberies.

(Trinidad Express) A mother who found a gunman outside her home intent on robbing and killing, saved herself and her teenage daughters on Monday.

(Barbados Nation) One million dollars – and counting! That’s the estimate which chairman and chief executive officer Edwin Thirlwell put on the damage done by a fire raging on Tuesday night at the headquarters of BICO, the big ice-cream maker.

(Trinidad Express) Locking them out of their offices was the final straw that broke the backs of CLICO insurance sales agents.

(Jamaica Observer) A plan by the People’s National Party Youth Organisation (PNPYO) to field a candidate in next month’s by-election in North West Clarendon will result in its immediate expulsion from the party, authoritative PNP sources have told the Observer.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Hurricane Bill trekked  west-northwest over the open Atlantic yesterday and was poised  to develop into a major hurricane, but its forecast path seemed  likely to miss the U.S.

Jamaica Gleaner) After firing warning shots earlier this year, the Ministry of Finance has dispatched approximately 10,000 letters to local professionals who, it believes, have not been paying their taxes.

(Barbados Nation) Independent Senator and former business leader Sir John Stanley Goddard is dead.

(Trinidad Guardian) Government had no choice but to step in to save Clico as the insurance giant was too big to fail, says Finance Minister Karen Tesheira.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The University of the West Indies (UWI) has transformed its law faculty into a self-financing entity, which has responded by rolling back subsidised tuition for its student enrollees.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Media Association of Jamaica Ltd (MAJ) and the Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) have come out in strong support of Prime Minister Bruce Golding’s endorsement of proposed amendments to libel laws that would engender higher levels of accountability among public officials.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Even as discussions continue for Jamaica to resume a borrowing relationship with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the way has been cleared for the country to get approximately US$320 million (J$28.5 billion) from the fund by early next month.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Remittance inflows to Jamaica have already dropped close to 16 per cent since January, and a multilateral agency is predicting that money transfer markets will continue to slide and that the drop would be widespread across Latin America and the Caribbean region.

(Trinidad Express) A single phone call on Thursday from the Express corrected a 37 year-old mistake that had denied a 102-year-old man his pension payments.