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CaribbeanHerald.com Friday 27th January 2012 Volume 27/10
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"Listen, there are people that are coming down the pilot ladder of the prow. You go up that pilot ladder, get on that ship and tell me how many people are still on board. And what they need. Is that clear? You need to tell me if there are children, women or people in need of assistance. And tell me the exact number of each of these categories. Is that clear? Listen Schettino, that you saved yourself from the sea, but I am going to... I'm going to make sure you get in trouble. ...I am going to make you pay for this. Go on board."
Captain Gregorio De Falco
Captain De Falco of the Livorno Port Authority demanding the captain of the stricken cruise ship Costa Concordia to return on board where hundreds of passengers were still trapped.

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India to help develop Trinidad as ICT hub
Port-of-Spain, Jan 27(IANS) India's Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) programme will facilitate the advancement of Trinidad and Tobago' s objective of becoming the ICT hub of the Caribbean...

Christie: FNM should seek forgiveness
Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Leader Perry Christie yesterday said the Ingraham adminstration should "be asking for forgiveness, instead of asking for votes" as the next general election...
Girl struck by jitney remembered
On the driveway of See Saw Christian Academy yesterday, a simple message was written in colored chalk: 'R.I.P Karis Thompson - We love you. We miss you.' The four-year-old girl was struck...
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Car bomb blast in Baghdad takes toll of 28 livesCar bomb blast in Baghdad takes toll of 28 lives
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SEOUL - The United States and South Korea are to hold annual military exercises on the Korean peninsula soon, the first since the recent change of leadership in North Korea.

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Cuba has carried out nearly 5,000 kidney transplants since the beginning of the programme in the 1970s, Prensa Latina news agency reported.

This was a great achievement for Cuba's health sector, said Alexander Marmol Sonora, a senior official of the ministry of health's National Transplant Organisation.

The majority of kidneys used for a total of 4,489 transplants came from deceased donors and 383 from living donors, Marmol told the Granma newspaper.

He said there needs to be an increase in kidney donations 'as the only way to guarantee the systematicity of the programme' given that four people could be saved by every donor.


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