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PROVIDENCIALES (CMC): Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague has taken Rufus Ewing, the premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI), to task following a recent speech to Caribbean Community (CARICOM) heads of government.

PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC): The Police Service and Welfare Association will be holding candlelight vigils as a form of protest against the proposed legislation to grant soldiers the power of arrest.

TORONTO (CMC): Scotiabank has pledged CDN$1million, through its global philanthropic programme, Bright Future, to support the Caribbean-SickKids Paediatric Cancer and Blood Disorders Project.In a statement...

WELLINGTON (AP):New Zealand lawmakers voted overwhelmingly in favour of a bill allowing same-sex marriage yesterday, all but assuring that it will soon become law.Lawmakers supported the bill 77 to 44 in the second of three votes needed for a bill to be...

MICHIGAN (AP): A man accused of growing more than 8,000 marijuana plants in rural Lane County has pleaded guilty in federal court.

NORTH CAROLINA (AP): Federal investigators have unraveled a massive scheme among dozens of insurance agents, claims adjusters, brokers and farmers in eastern North Carolina to steal at least $100 million from the government-backed programme that insures crops.

NORTH CAROLINA (CMC):The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) says the family of an elderly woman has received a US$45,000 cheque as part of the US$200,000 stolen from her by Jamaican scammers operating an illegal lottery scheme....

Black smoke rising from a chimney above the Sistine Chapel indicated that their ballot had been unsuccessful.

TOKYO (AP):Amid growing dissatisfaction with the slow pace of recovery, Japan marked the second anniversary yesterday of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that left nearly 19,000 people dead or missing and has...

JOHANNESBURG (AP): The building that houses South Africa's highest court, made partly with bricks from an apartheid-era prison, symbolises what Nelson Mandela hoped his country would become, a haven of tolerance, wiser for the nation's past anguish...

TIMOTHY BASWELL Donaldson, 79, a true Bahamian patriot, visionary, and statesman died last week at his home in Winton after fighting a long battle with cancer.At his bedside at the time of his death were his...