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A United States Grand Jury has handed down indictments for three of the ten defendants who are already before the court for the kidnapping and murder of Balram Maharaj, and one more new accused brought before the court yesterday.

Brian Lara is back as West Indies captain for a third time, after past players asked him and present players urged him to accept the position.

Lawyers for incarcerated former Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday will return before High Court Judge Anthony Carmona this morning to seek to convince him to release their client on bail pending the hearing of Panday's appeal.

The United National Congress (UNC) executive has named Siparia MP Kamla Persad-Bissessar as the new Opposition Leader, the first for a female in Trinidad and Tobago.

Former prime minister and UNC chairman Basdeo Panday spent the first night of his 41 years in public life as a convicted prisoner following his two year sentencing on corruption charges yesterday.

Guyana is calling on Canada to help investigate the vicious murders of the country's agricultural minister and two of his siblings -- all Canadian citizens who were gunned down this weekend in what Guyanese officials say was an attempt to destabilize the country before the impending election.

Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday has said that yesterday's murder of Guyana's Agricultural Minister Satyadeo Sawh proves that violence has entered Caribbean politics. "I think the politics of the Caribbean is degenerating to the level of violence from which there will probably be no return," Panday told the Sunday Express.

The anger of Matthew's ('Matches') Lane residents and surrounding areas could not be tamed, as women, children, and even grown men, wept openly at the news that their area leader, Donald 'Zekes' Phipps, was found guilty of murder of Rodney Leroy Farquharson and Dayton Williams yesterday.

Jamaican performer Beenie Man, his Ruff Cut Band and Silver Cat, did not disappoint Tobagonians, as he treated them to one-and-a-half hours of dancehall selections on Saturday night.

Trinidadian Shaun Toon who was found guilty last year on a count of manslaughter for shooting dead a 20-year-old man in Edmonton, Canada broke down in tears yesterday after he was sentenced to a total of 14 years in jail.