Regional News

(Barbados Nation) The alert level of the underwater volcano Kick ‘em Jenny, located near Grenada, has been raised from yellow to orange, but there is no indication of it posing any immediate danger to Barbados.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Colombia’s former FARC rebels will not field a candidate in the country’s May presidential election as its hopeful, Rodrigo Londono, battles heart problems, the group said yesterday.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados Labour Party (BLP) leader Mia Mottley has warned the Freundel Stuart administration that action will be taken if thousands of acres of land owned by CLICO, lots of it in St John, are sold between now and general elections.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cubans went to the polls yesterday in a one-party vote, the last step before a new president is selected next month, as the Communist-ruled island prepares to be led for the first time since the 1959 revolution by someone whose last name is not Castro.

(Trinidad Express) The woman who died after being robbed and shot on Friday night in Port of Spain, has been identified.

(Barbados nation) Ansley Lamar Worrell, 30, of #117, Woodbourne Park, St Philip, appeared before Magistrate Wayne Clarke in the District ‘A’ Magistrates Court yesterday.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Right-wing candidate Ivan Duque and leftist Gustavo Petro will lead their respective coalitions in Colombia’s May presidential election after winning primaries yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Anti-Gang Bill, 2018 was unanimously passed in the Lower House with a vote of 37 for and none against at 8.20 pm last night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Eighty two death row inmates, whose death sentences were commuted to life imprisonment over 14 years ago, have scored a major legal victory which will see them being resentenced to definite prison terms.

(Trinidad Express) More intrigue in the case of Chief Justice Ivor Archie yesterday, with the disclosure by Acting President Christine Kangaloo that she had convinced Archie not to leave this weekend on his disputed six-month sabbatical to Washington DC.

PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – B razil will protect two vast marine areas in a bid to help preserve its biodiversity, meaning a quarter of the country’s oceans will be safeguarded, the nation’s president said on Friday.

(Trinidad Express) As pressure mounts for Chief Justice Ivor Archie to defend himself against damning allegations or step down instead of taking a break, another judge is telling colleagues that it’s time for Archie to go.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Moravian pastor Rupert Clarke has been sentenced to eight years in prison on two counts of having sexual intercourse with a person under the age of 16 years old.

(Barbados Nation) The Freundel Stuart administration is in danger of losing control of the BD$2 to US$1 exchange rate, says former Central Bank Governor Dr DeLisle Worrell.

(Barbados Nation) Just two weeks into its lifespan, Resolution Life Assurance Company has already paid out almost $1 million to Barbadians who were policyholders with the collapsed Colonial Life Insurance Company (CLICO).

(Jamaica Observer) Jamaican businessman Michael McLean was on Tuesday convicted of murdering his girlfriend and five members of her family, including four children, 12 years ago in St Thomas.

(Jamaica Observer) Major General Antony Anderson was on Tuesday named independent Jamaica’s 17th commissioner of police and his appointment was immediately welcomed by the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) as well as former National Security Minister Derrick Smith.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — Poet Laureate Lorna Goodison was among a sterling group of writers announced by Yale University on Wednesday as being the 2018 recipients of the Windham-Campbell Prizes.

(Trinidad Express) Justice Nadia Kangaloo has ruled that the Law Association of Trinidad and Tobago (LATT) does not have the power to investigate allegations of misconduct against Chief Justice Ivor Archie.

(Trinidad Express) A man has been found guilty of the rape of a woman who died before he was convicted for the crimes.