Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) Fe­male Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice (SRP) of­fi­cer, Sharon Roop, 39, yes­ter­day won the right to wear her hi­jab while in uni­form.

A Trinidadian was among the 118 aboard a Fly Jamaica aircraft that crash landed in Guyana on Friday morning.

This is what police have found in central Trinidad. Officers raided at house at Monroe Road, Cunupia before daybreak on Friday.

(Trinidad Newsday) A TWO-MONTH-OLD baby boy who was sold to a Trincity couple for US$20,000 one month ago was rescued from a house in Trincity on Wednesday morning and is now in the care of the Children’s Authority.

(Trinidad Newsday) SHELDON and Lystra Jackson, the parents of sick baby Sheenece Jackson, are racing against time to shed over 100 pounds to save their only daughter.

(Jamaica Observer) Three brothers and one of their spouses were killed after they were pinned inside three houses and peppered with bullets by a group of marauding gunmen during a pre-dawn attack yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith says in the com­ing months he will be form­ing a di­vi­sion to tack­le white col­lar crime.

(Jamaica Observer) Regional  Heads of Government who have not yet given the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) the green light will be in deep contemplation, former Prime Minister Bruce Golding is suggesting, after both Grenada and Antigua and Barbuda, by way of a referendum, voted to retain the London-based Privy Council as their final court.

SAN SALVADOR,  (Reuters) – China will give El Salvador $150 million to spur development of social and technological projects, the Salvadoran president said yesterday, the latest sign of deepening ties between the countries that has alarmed the United States.

(Trinidad Guardian) After 36 years in existence, the T&T Mirror and Sunday Punch newspapers are no more.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A Canadian man was sentenced to two years imprisonment and fined $3 million after he was convicted on drug related charges in the St James Parish Court on Tuesday.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley’s condemnation last week of Trinidad and Tobago’s “cancer of corruption” has been labelled “farcical” by watchdog group, FIXIN’ T&T.

(Barbados Nation) Some cancer patients in Barbados are having difficulty sourcing vital chemotherapy drugs.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A 45-year-old female taxi driver was shot and killed Wednesday afternoon along the Tollgate main road in Clarendon.

(Jamaica Observer) The Road Safety Unit (RSU) in the transport ministry is reporting that 299 people have been killed in 264 crashes since the start of the year.

(Trinidad Guardian) Ce­dros coun­cil­lor Shankar Teelucks­ingh es­ti­mates that up to 75 per cent of fe­male im­mi­grants who en­ter the Trinidad and To­ba­go il­le­gal­ly end up be­ing sex work­ers.

(Trinidad Guardian) The par­ents of a group of chil­dren yes­ter­day ques­tioned why they were be­ing ac­cused of throw­ing a scratch bomb in­to an up­hol­stery work­shop, lead­ing to a fire which left 11 Cou­va res­i­dents home­less on Di­vali night.

(Jamaica Observer) THE National Identification System (NIDS) will be providing birth certificates, free of cost, to Jamaicans who are not or partially registered ahead of the roll-out of the national identification programme next year.

(Jamaica Observer) For a third time, a decision on accepting Digicel’s offer to defer US$3 billion in payments to bondholders has been postponed.

Grenada and Antigua and Barbuda have voted against the move to have the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as their highest appellate court.