Regional News

 (Trinidad Guardian) The in­tro­duc­tion of ju­ry-less tri­als will not, on its own, make a dent on chron­ic back­logs with­in the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem.

(Trinidad Guardian) A new colour-cod­ed threat alert sys­tem and train­ing for po­lice of­fi­cers to pros­e­cute cas­es are some of the im­me­di­ate out­comes of a week-long vis­it to the Unit­ed King­dom by Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith.

(Trinidad Guardian) A month af­ter he was kid­napped, po­lice be­lieve they have fi­nal­ly found the body of car deal­er Shel­don Sukhdeo.

(Trinidad Guardian) The fam­i­ly of a 28-year-old con­struc­tion work­er is fear­ful he may have been kid­napped by pi­rates while fish­ing off the coast of Ce­dros al­most a week ago.

(Jamaica Observer) Government Representatives, as well as other dignitaries, are celebrating the appointment of Jamaican-born, Dr Rosemary Moodie, to the Canadian Senate.

(Trinidad Express) Four years in jail will be served by a husband who breached a protection order and beat his wife.

(Trinidad Guardian) An 82-year-old woman was killed in­stant­ly af­ter a col­li­sion with a car and a Reg­i­ment truck at the in­ter­sec­tion of the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route and Pasea Main Road, Tu­na­puna, on Mon­day.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Kamala Harris, a first-term senator and former California attorney general known for her rigorous questioning of United States President Donald Trump’s nominees, entered the Democratic presidential race on Monday.

(Trinidad Express) Two Trinidadian children kidnapped and taken to Syria by their ISIS fighter father in 2014 have been reunited with their Trinidadian mother.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s government said yesterday it had suppressed a military revolt after a group of officers stole weapons and kidnapped several officials, as a video posted online showed a sergeant demanding the removal of President Nicolas Maduro.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuador will ask Venezuelan migrants to present their criminal records upon entering, the country’s vice president said yesterday, following the murder of a pregnant Ecuadorean woman by a Venezuelan man that triggered protests and acts of violence.

(Trinidad Guardian) Al­most a year af­ter the sea swal­lowed three homes and a por­tion of the road near the coast in Ce­dros, vil­lagers are still fear­ful that more hous­es will col­lapse in­to the sea.

(Trinidad Newsday) There have been calls for a boycott and overwhelming condemnation on social media of a “dub plate” sung by soca artiste Denise “Saucy Wow” Belfon, in which she calls for the killing of a “b—-r” and a “batty bwoy.”

(Trinidad Guardian) The mas fra­ter­ni­ty has been plunged in­to mourn­ing fol­low­ing the death of vet­er­an mas man Roland St George, 73, at around 4 am yes­ter­day.

(Jamaica Observer) Even as the country accounts for one of the highest rates of lupus worldwide, according to noted rheumatologist Dr Desiree Tulloch-Reid, Jamaican doctors are not equipped to properly diagnose the autoimmune disease because of the unavailability of a particular type of testing equipment on the island.

(Trinidad Guardian) As the longest-ever gov­ern­ment shut­down in Unit­ed States his­to­ry con­tin­ues, there are warn­ings that T&T and oth­er coun­tries in the Caribbean could be af­fect­ed.

(Trinidad Guardian) Rel­a­tives of Jamel Woods, 24, who was killed in a po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing in Wa­ter­hole, Co­corite, on Sat­ur­day claim he was ex­e­cut­ed and are call­ing for a full in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to his death.

(Barbados Nation) The boots of the Barbados Defence Force (BDF) will be hitting the streets alongside those of the Royal Barbados Police Force (RBPF) in a step to reduce crime and gun violence.

(Jamaica Observer) Leading Jamaican architect Evan Williams is bemoaning the demise of the Jamaican construction and architectural industry as a result of major projects being awarded to Chinese firms.

(Barbados Nation) The long arm of the law will be reaching those business people who are behind the importation of illegal weapons through the Bridgetown Port.