Trinidad Top Cop says going after ‘big fish’
(Trinidad Guardian) Police Commissioner Gary Griffith says in the coming months he will be forming a division to tackle white collar crime.
(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.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru’s former police chief Raul Becerra and a dozen others have been arrested for allegedly trafficking babies, the public prosecutor’s office said yesterday.
(Jamaica Observer) After living in the United States of America for 52 years, Jamaican born 84-year-old nurse, Murlin Hampton, was determined to independently use her stroller to get to Clark County in Nevada, to cast her vote during the 2018 Midterm Elections on November 6.
(Trinidad Express) When a mother’s heart is stopped her unborn child does not die instantly.
UPDATE: Michael Joseph, the 30-year-old punch vendor who went missing two days ago, has been found.
(Trinidad Guardian) Scratch bomb and fireworks play for children in the Mc Bean, Couva community on Divali night ended up in tragedy for three families after two of their houses burst into flames destroying everything.
(Trinidad Guardian) Danielle Yearwood was almost nine months pregnant when she, her unborn son and the child’s father were murdered in Wallerfield on Monday afternoon.
The ePaper edition, on the Web & in stores for Android, iPhone & iPad.
Included free with your web subscription. Learn more.