(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley yesterday accepted, on behalf of her regional colleagues, space in an ultra-modern business complex in Nairobi, Kenya, to be the home of a joint diplomatic mission.
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Two indigenous men, members of the Guajajara tribe in northeastern Brazil, were shot dead yesterday, and two others were hurt, not far from where a prominent tribesman who defended the Amazon rainforest was also killed last month, authorities said.
(Jamaica Observer) Jamaica’s national costume for the 2019 staging of the Miss Universe pageant has left social media users divided over the theme chosen for the design.
(Trinidad Guardian) In an attempt to escape the gridlock traffic which snarled all routes into and out of the capital city on Saturday, a delivery driver lost his life after he attempted to use an alternative route.
(Trinidad Guardian) Dana Peruza last saw and spoke with her son Keyon “Geno” Gill around 7 pm on Thursday as she ordered KFC for dinner.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The complete rupture of a recently discovered fault line in the Kingston Harbour could generate a 5.8 to 6.9 magnitude earthquake, potentially having serious implications for the capital city located less than five kilometres away, according to a recent study.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A Grants Pen woman is lucky to be alive following a case of attempted suicide which was thwarted after she was cut loose from a rope by a relative who found her hanging from a tree.
(Trinidad Guardian) Rage and outrage after a 15-year-old Form Three student of the Marabella South Secondary School had to be hospitalised after being beaten by a parent on the school compound on Wednesday.
(Barbados Nation) In his election victory speech last night, Prime Minister and leader of the Dominica Labour Party (DLP) Roosevelt Skerrit called for restraint, respect and calm in the country.
(Trinidad Guardian) The 2019 murder toll is now officially over 500.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian police launched an operation yesterday to break up a smuggling ring that it said had exported 1.2 tonnes of illegal gold bought since 2017 from wildcat miners in the frontier region between Brazil and Venezuela.
WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said yesterday he will temporarily hold off designating Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations at the request of Mexico’s president.
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentine President-elect Alberto Fernandez unveiled his cabinet and new central bank chief last evening, laying out his core team days before the center-left leader takes office facing a stalled economy, rising debt fears and painful inflation.
(Trinidad Express) The husband of Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar is currently hospitalised and was carded to undergo a medical procedure.
(Jamaica Star) In August, Latoya Hogarth, 28, had a brain aneurysm.
(Trinidad Express) A woman described as an avid church member appeared in the San Fernando Magistrates Court on Thursday charged with armed robbery at a gas station in August.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaican expatriates have generally reacted with dismay to Democratic candidate Senator Kamala Harris’ decision to pull the plug on her presidential election race, but some believe that the pragmatism of money in politics and her failure to energise black voters ultimately cost her the campaign.
(Trinidad Newsday) A gunman who shot at and missed his intended target in the streets of San Fernando on Thursday morning fled police by running into an all-girls’ school.
(Jamaica Observer) Regional telecommunications giant, Digicel is currently evaluating its refinancing options over part of its debt pile, which currently stands at around US$7 billion (€6.35bn).
The Chair of the Commonwealth Observer Group (COG), is encouraging ‘peaceful elections’ in Dominica today.
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