Authorities in Suriname have condemned a quantity of milk powder recently imported from China, after it was proven to contain the toxic industrial chemical melamine.

Samples of the tainted milk, seized on Monday, were sent to the Netherlands for testing and the results were positive.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries said the milk has been deemed unfit for human consumption and would be destroyed.

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In St Kitts Nevis, the Opposition People’s Action Movement, PAM, has called for a full-scale public inquiry into a recent electricity outage that plunged the island into darkness.

Opposition leader Lindsay Grant made the call in a national address today in which he also urged citizens to demand answers from the government.

He charged that the recent island wide power outage had come about as a result of irresponsible spending by the Denzil Douglas administration.

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