South Trinidad residents hit hard by flooding
(Trinidad Express) It is two weeks before Christmas and the people living in flood-ravaged South Trinidad are facing a financial disaster.
(Trinidad Express) It is two weeks before Christmas and the people living in flood-ravaged South Trinidad are facing a financial disaster.
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Bolivian ex-President Evo Morales arrived in Argentina yesterday seeking refuge under the country’s new leftist government after he left his homeland last month following a disputed election.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaican public relations practitioner and media relations specialist Lyndon Taylor is one of the recipients of this year’s Impact Awards in New York, presented by Caribbean Life and Schneps Media for outstanding contribution to the Caribbean diaspora community.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Some of the major armed robberies that have occurred across sections of Jamaica in recent months have been driven by criminals seeking to secure funds to pay legal fees for their cronies nabbed by the police.
(Jamaica Observer) Pauline Smith’s heart is heavy. She believes that if she had related a disturbing dream she had a week ago to her daughter, 42-year-old Patricia King, she would likely have made King more aware of her mortality.
(Trinidad Express) A man who often wore a lot of gold jewelry, was shot, killed, and robbed of it on Wednesday night.
(Trinidad Express) Minister of Rural Development and Local Government Kazim Hosein says his team is on the ground and responding to flood victims throughout the county.
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Norway, Germany and Britain said yesterday they would spend up to $366 million over the next five years to help Colombia reduce deforestation in its vast Amazon rainforest.
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – The Chilean Air Force said yesterday it had located debris believed to be from a military cargo plane that crashed this week with 38 people aboard over a remote stretch of frigid sea between South America and the Antarctic.
(Jamaica Star) The Unites States Embassy has revoked the diplomatic visa that it issued to East Portland Member of Parliament Ann-Marie Vaz, and has also turned down her request a visitors’ visa.
(Trinidad Guardian) Friday December 13th 2019 is the last day the US Embassy in Port of Spain will accept the old TT$100 bills for some services.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Gunmen went on a rampage last night in over Dover District in Kitson Town, St Catherine shooting eight persons, four fatally.
(Trinidad Express) The Judiciary says that one of its Court security officers was arrested by a police officer who refused to subject himself to the scanner before being allowed into the Mayaro Magistrates’ Court on Monday.
(Jamaica Star) Months after being wrongly accused of having sexual intercourse with a person under 16 sometime last year, John Doe*, 20, was freed last Friday of the charges when he made his first appearance in court.
(Trinidad Guardian) A mad rush across the country yesterday as citizens defied the advice of the Central Bank Governor Alvin Hilaire and rushed to banks across the country to change their old hundred dollar bills to the new Polymer hundred dollar note.
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Chile’s Air Force yesterday said one of its cargo planes had crashed with 38 people on board after going missing in an isolated area between South America and the Antarctic, with the chance of finding survivors looking “difficult.”
(Jamaica Star) After what dancehall artiste and producer Rum Blood calls an entertaining Friday evening on the streets of Los Angeles, California, on November 29, he woke up in a jail cell the next morning.
(Trinidad Newsday) A St Helena couple has 28 days to explain their wealth after a High Court judge granted the police an order under new legislation.
(Trinidad Express) San Fernando is expected to get a new mayor when the City Corporation meets on Thursday.
(Trinidad Guardian) The 34-year-old father who allegedly struck a Form Three student at the Marabella South Secondary School is in police custody.
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