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PIETERSEN BREAK-IN… BANDITS CART IN ENGLAND OFF SEVEN WEAPONS, $10M CASH –POLICE PLANS? HAVE FAIR IDEA WHO SUSPECTS ARE Kevin Pietersen’s involvement in the 2015 IPL hangs on a crisis meeting at Lord’s on Tuesday that will examine England’s response to a disastrous showing at the World Cup.
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Urging the electorate to judge them on their record and the PNC on its past, the PPP campaign swung into the city last evening with speakers exhorting their supporters not to repeat a “fatal mistake” and to vote at the “mother of all elections” on May 11.
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$100,000 bail for pundit on sex charges WEST DEMERARA US$46.8M HIGHWAY Pundit Harripersad Panday yesterday was granted $100,000 bail after he appeared before Chaguanas Magistrate Bramanand Dubay charged with sexually assaulting an 18-year-old twice PROJECT TAKES OFF earlier this year. See More on Page 16
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CHEDDI JAGAN DELAYED CRITICAL CARDIAC SURGERY TO SAVE $$
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FINANCE MINISTER EXPOSES GREENIDGE’S IGNORANCE – ABOUT MATTERS REGARDING IDB LOAN MECHANISMS
– had been diagnosed with congestive heart failure month before death
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The nation’s Chief Fire Officer has been ordered on immediate vacation leave which reportedly will take him straight into retirement. This means that Naya Rampersad, whose vacation leave amounts to 168 days, will be out of the service effectively after 34 years.
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