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Gruesome: A body is removed from the home after the shootings (WALL STREET JOURNAL).-An off-duty New York Police Department officer apparently shot and killed her 1-year-old son and the boy’s father before fatally shooting herself inside her apartment in Brooklyn on Monday morning, a law enforcement official said.

Several media personalities protest opposite Office of the President, Shiv Chanderpaul Drive. Even as President Donald Ramotar and opposition negotiators were Monday morning meeting on a range of issues inside the President’s Office, several media owners protested the unfair allocation of radio frequencies.

The 25-year old woman, who allegedly killed her eight month old son,  was Monday arraigned on a charge of muder.

Orin Joseph (Stabroek News photo) President of the Georgetown Domino Association, Orin Joseph was shot dead by a gunman outside his home in South Ruimveldt, a relative confirmed.

(CARICOM NEWS NETWORK).- CARACAS, Venezuela, Monday April 15, 2013 – Caribbean heads of government breathed a collective sigh of relief on Sunday night as Venezuelans voted to honor Hugo Chavez’s dying wish for  Nicolas Maduro to continue his socialist revolution.

On the eve of talks between President Donald Ramotar and senior representatives of the opposition to avert a GUY$38 billion cut in the 2013 national budget, the Private Sector Commission (PSC) Sunday night made a last ditch appeal for good reason to prevail.

The mangled Recreational Vehicle in which the German couple was travelling. A German man was Sunday killed and his wife injured in a mishap on the Lethem road, according to well-placed sources.

One of the plane’s engines being placed in a truck The two engines from the ill-fated Piper Aztec aircraft have been removed from the crash-site and would be sent to the United States (US) as part of efforts to determine the cause of the incident, a senior official said Sunday.

A suspected robber, already before the court for armed robbery, was Sunday shot and killed when he attacked a senior police officer with a machete and a knife in New Amsterdam, authorities said.

Angered by what they claimed was unfair granting of logging concessions to persons outside Ituni, loggers on Sunday blocked the main road for several hours. Natural Resources Minister, Robert Persaud said the concession granted to one logger has been suspended pending an investigation.