Regional News

(Trinidad Express) After more than 40 years, Basdeo Panday has been evicted from his office at the Rienzi Complex, Couva.

(Trinidad Express) A Point Fortin man jumped into an oil well and rescued his two sinking stepsons on Wednesday afternoon.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The public will soon have to receive special instructions on how to dispose of discarded electrical and electronic devices, or e-waste.

(Trinidad Guardian) A chut­ney/ca­lyp­so artiste has a mes­sage for Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith which he penned in a song ti­tled Fix It Mr Grif­fith, Fix It.

(Barbados Nation) Three Green Monkeys caused a power outage in The City yesterday morning.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Jamaican economy experienced real gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 1.8 per cent for the 2018 calendar year, according to Dr Wayne Henry, director general of the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ).

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has said over-in­flat­ed en­gi­neer es­ti­mates at gov­ern­ment min­istries have cost this coun­try mil­lions of dol­lars over the years.

(Trinidad Guardian) Crim­i­nals are shift­ing from the use of hand­guns to com­mit crimes to more so­phis­ti­cat­ed mil­i­tary-type ri­fles.

(Trinidad Express) Gunmen opened fire on a car along Hubert Rance Street, San Fernando, killing one of the occupants yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) She had no idea this was going to happen. Analysts Keshala Mahabir and Ishan Gosine will tie the knot this year after Gosine got down on one knee and proposed to his sweetheart, Mahabir last night at 519 Restaurant at the C-3 Mall, San Fernando.

(Trinidad Express) A 24-year-old man has been charged with murdering Parliament clerk Mariana Moonisar and the wounding her father.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Moru­ga man who climbed a 200-foot cell tow­er, singing so­ca and per­form­ing ac­ro­bat­ics has been tak­en to hos­pi­tal for ob­ser­va­tion.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Five persons, including two children, were seriously injured yesterday morning in a three-vehicle collision along the Montpelier main road, which also left several other persons nursing minor injuries.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The social media pages of Jamaican athlete Asafa Powell have been overflowing with congratulatory messages following his weekend marriage to Canadian model, Alyshia Miller.

(Trinidad Guardian) Pop­u­lar dou­bles ven­dor Dhroop Jages­sar was chopped to death at his busi­ness place on Mon­day night.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 70-year-old Mara­bel­la manm ac­cused of com­mit­ing two sex crimes against a 12-year-old girl, has been grant­ed $100,000 ap­proval bail.

(Jamaica Observer) FOUR months after the Jamaica Observer highlighted his plight of not having a birth certificate, Raheem Powell is finally a registered Jamaican citizen.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The market value of Jamaica’s sole oil refinery Petrojam has dropped by nearly US$100 million in the past 12 years, newly appointed Energy Minister Fayval Williams has revealed According to Williams, a valuation conducted in 2006 by an international firm using globally accepted standards placed the value of the 55 year-old refinery at US$126 million.

(Trinidad Guardian) The inability of the police to quickly find foreign language translators has led to the temporary release of three Chinese men suspected of child prostitution.

(Barbados Nation) Businessman George Reginald Ivan Parris has been remanded to HMP Dodds.