Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) Days af­ter the con­tro­ver­sial jaw-drop­ping fash­ion show at the Trin­i­ty Cathe­dral in Port-of-Spain, an­oth­er church held a fund-rais­ing tea and fash­ion show.

(Trinidad Express) Two people, one of them a woman, are dead following a shooting outside a bar in El Socorro during the early hours of yesterday morning.

(Trinidad Express) Angela Swamber, 60, is ­severely visually impaired but she’s a woman possessed of ­extraordinary grit and determination and has been taking care of her son, Aaron, 29, who suffers from cerebral palsy, all his life.

(Trinidad Newsday) A son who bludgeoned his mother to death in 2007 after she quarrelled with him for not doing enough in the house has four months and 14 days left to serve on his sentence.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A four-year-old boy braved scorching heat to run into a burning house and rescue his ailing 88-year-old grandfather in Annotto Bay on Thursday night, drawing whoops of praise from family members and residents.

BRASILIA/CURITIBA, Brazil,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s leftist former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva left prison yesterday after a judge ordered his release, startling financial markets and reigniting both ends of the political spectrum with calls for demonstrations in coming days.

(Barbados Nation) Banks Holdings Limited (BHL) says its subsidiary Banks (Barbados) Breweries Ltd has not been sold.

(Trinidad Express) A Cunupia man appeared in court yesterday, charged with the murder of his girlfriend, Dolmatie Mungroo.

Two court administrators have filed a whistleblower lawsuit against a New Jersey city for alleged racial and gender discrimination.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The woman who allegedly dumped her newborn into a pit latrine in Esson Castle district in St Ann last week Wednesday has been charged.

(Trinidad Express) Arima police are probing an incident where a man was chopped several times about the body.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Major global oil firms snubbed a second Brazilian oil auction in a row yesterday, passing up offshore blocks and forcing officials to reconsider a bidding system that gives a privileged position to state-run Petroleo Brasileiro SA.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Couva man was hot dead at his home at Basta Hall yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Caribbean Air­lines will not be adding the Boe­ing Max 8 to its fleet next month.

(Jamaica Observer) Vaughn Benjamin, charismatic founder and singer of the Midnite band, died on November 4 in Port St Lucie, Florida.

(Trinidad Express) Be careful of what you post to social media.

(Jamaica Observer) All cases that were set to be heard today at the Manchester Parish Court have been adjourned following an early morning fire that damaged a section of the building.

(Barbados Nation) Parents of students at Alexandra School are expressing concern after a video circulating on social media showed a large number of cockroaches on the school’s compound.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica will “very shortly” change a law that will allow spouses, including those who are married, to be charged for raping their partners.

(Trinidad Express) Fake police officers driving a fake squad car were arrested by real police officers in San Juan this morning.