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Government should put in place a system for landlords to register their properties, said Shah Mohammed, president of the New Land Tenants and Ratepayers Association.

Overall market activity resulted from trading in ten securities of which two advanced, three declined and five traded firm.

Greece is already beating some of its debt-reduction targets, as figures released Wednesday show its central budget deficit for the first two months of 2012 had shrunk by more than half compared with the same period last year.

Britain’s finance minister has cut the rate of income tax for the country’s wealthiest citizens but insisted the rich will pay more through a raft of measures to prevent tax avoidance and a hefty new charge on expensive property sales.

Federal prosecutors filed criminal charges against 17 oil company executives yesterday for an oil leak in the Atlantic, legal action that has prompted debate about whether it could slow Brazil’s effort to develop its massive offshore finds.

Works and Infrastructure Minister Jack Warner says he was not aware that Caribbean Airlines (CAL) owed a large debt to National Petroleum when he was in charge of the airline nine months ago.

The Spanish-run oil company YPF has rejected an Argentine effort to assert control over its profits in the South American country, voting to recapitalise its gains rather than create a separate fund to develop new energy resources.

T&T is interested in using bunkering facilities at the Panama Canal.