The La-Palm Royal Beach Hotel is set host a week-long Italian fiesta to highlight the world acclaimed culinary customs and cultures of Italy from September 10-16.  The food and cultural festival promises to be a delightful treat for taste buds and a splendid spectacle for all.

Clinton, founder of the William J. Clinton Foundation and 42nd President of the United States, will deliver an address at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston on October 25. He will be speaking on the topic which defines his current and growing international activism, 'Embracing Our Common Humanity'.

South Africa has strongly criticised Madagascar over the life sentence passed on exiled President Marc Ravalomanana last week.

Such sentences would not help end Madagascar's political turmoil, said International Relations and Cooperation Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane.

The government of Mozambique says price rises which have led to riots in the capital Maputo are "irreversible".

The comments came after an emergency cabinet meeting on the two days of unrest in which seven people have died.

Troops have been deployed to help clear up the debris while text messages are reported to have been circulating urging people to continue protesting.

A 30-year-old chipper operator of Barama Company’s veneer plant at Buckhall, in the Essequibo River, met a horrific death after he was dragged through the machine he was using and shredded to pieces.The fragmented remains of Jason Fraser were discovered early yesterday morning, three days after he disappeared while working on the machine.

South Africa is to start expelling Zimbabweans again, from 31 December, the government has announced, ending their special status.

The deportations were halted in April 2009 following an influx of those fleeing political instability and economic meltdown in Zimbabwe.

An estimated two million Zimbabweans are thought to be in South Africa.