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May 7th, 2011
Jagdeo demitting office with “deep sense of satisfaction”

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, DEMERARA WAVES – “I’m leaving later this year, the presidency, but with a deep sense of satisfaction that we have done quite a few of the things that we have promised. I do so because we have kept faith with our promises.”

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May 6th, 2011
West Indies defeats Pakistan by 10 wickets

CRAIG COZIER, Associated Press

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Pacer Ravi Rampaul claimed 4-45 and Lendl Simmons followed with an unbeaten 77 as West Indies strode to a 10-wicket victory over Pakistan in the cricket one-day international series finale at National Stadium on Thursday.

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May 6th, 2011
Coast Guard rescues 4 sailors off Puerto Rico

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The Coast Guard says three Canadians and a U.S. citizen were apparently stricken with food poisoning aboard a sailboat off Puerto Rico’s northern coast and had to be rushed to a hospital.

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May 5th, 2011
Son arrested for shooting death of father

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, DEMERARA WAVES – A man has been arrested in connection with the shooting death of his father with an improvised shotgun.

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May 4th, 2011
5 dead, 9 missing in Mexican coal mine explosion

OSCAR VILLALBA, Associated Press

SAN JUAN DE SABINAS, Mexico (AP) — Mexican officials who had hoped to call in Chilean experts to help rescue 14 miners trapped in a coal mine instead have had to break the tragic news to relatives that five bodies have already been found and there is little hope the nine others have survived.

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May 4th, 2011
Venezuela’s inflation slips to 22.9 percent

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela says its annual inflation has declined in the past month and stands at 22.9 percent.

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May 4th, 2011
ACLU: Puerto Rico has pattern of police brutality

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A celebrity-enhanced ACLU delegation criticized Puerto Rico’s government Tuesday for using police to keep the island’s main university system open during a strike over a new fee, with members saying they found clear evidence in which officers abused students during the protests.

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May 3rd, 2011
21-year-old jockey killed after fall

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — A jockey has been thrown from his horse and killed during a race in the Dominican Republic.

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May 2nd, 2011
Venezuela’s Chavez condemns death of Gadhafi’s son

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is condemning the killing of one of Moammar Gadhafi’s sons and three of his grandchildren in a NATO airstrike in Libya.

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May 2nd, 2011
Cubans mark May Day, await details of change

ANDREA RODRIGUEZ, Associated Press
PETER ORSI, Associated Press

HAVANA (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched through Havana and other cities on Sunday to mark May Day in a demonstration touted as a vast show of support for economic changes recently approved by the Communist Party — even though the people holding placards and shouting slogans haven’t seen the details yet.

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