US presses Jamaica to plug gun pipeline
(Jamaica Gleaner) The top American diplomat in Jamaica has questioned why local authorities have not been able to stem the flow of illegal guns coming into the island.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The top American diplomat in Jamaica has questioned why local authorities have not been able to stem the flow of illegal guns coming into the island.
(Trinidad Guardian) Minister of National Security Stuart Young says he is very concerned about the information brought to light in Christopher Wylie’s book about how the UNC sanctioned a breach of citizens’ privacy.
(Trinidad Express) Months of investigations by the Special Operations Response Team (SORT), Fraud Squad and Anti-Corruption Investigation Bureau into a multi million dollar racket at the Licensing Department culminated on Tuesday night with a series of raids on homes around the country.
(Jamaica Star) Twenty-two-year-old Chanel Brown of Kemps Hill in Clarendon is a finalist in the Mr and Miss West Indies United Kingdom (UK) pageant.
(Jamaica Observer) Reggae artiste Shaggy is still basking in the success of The Little Mermaid Live, which aired on the American television network ABC last Tuesday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A Jamaican man died in immigration detention in the United Kingdom after medical staff “dismissed” signs that he was having a stroke because they wrongly presumed that he had taken the synthetic drug known as spice, an inquest has concluded.
(Trinidad Express) A nine-year-old boy has died after he had a seizure at the Guaico Government Primary School.
(Trinidad Guardian) Hours after a 29-year-old man surrendered to the police for allegedly kidnapping his landlord and throwing him over a precipice, the 41-year-old landlord succumbed to injuries at the hospital.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaican sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has been named as one of five finalists for the World Athletics Female World Athlete of the Year Award.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Jair Bolsonaro’s repeated bashing of China on the campaign trail last year left diplomats on both sides worried he might take a wrecking ball to one of the world’s biggest trading partnerships.
(Trinidad Guardian) Relatives of father of two Derick Valentine, who was killed in the presence of his two children on Sunday night, said they believe they will get justice.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro will quit his fractious right-wing Social Liberal Party (PSL) and start a new one by March 2020, PSL lawmakers Daniel Silveira and Bia Kicis said yesterday after meeting with the president.
(Trinidad Guardian) Two and a half weeks after 15-year-old Andron Jaggan went missing while on an errand to purchase bread and sausages, he was found in an abandoned house in Penal.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Senate approved yesterday the ratification of an agreement signed earlier this year to safeguard U.S.
(Trinidad Express) A twenty-nine year-old San man was in police custody last night after he turned himself in after he kidnapped his one legged landlord and threw him down a precipice off the North Coast Road last week.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A psychiatric evaluation has been ordered for the St James woman who was recently charged in connection with the deaths of her two sons, in a fire which destroyed their home in Paradise, Norwood, on November 1.
(Trinidad Newsday) Murdered Water and Sewage Authority (WASA) worker Ganesh Leroy Codjoe is being hailed a hero by relatives.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Consultant psychiatrist and government senator Dr Saphire Longmore has turned the spotlight on the treatment of mentally ill persons by their families and the wider society, charging that the stigma and discrimination against this group was “very unfortunate”.
The Bustamante Hospital for Children is to benefit from a new three-storey, 150-bed ward, set to cost $150 million, using the majority of the funds coming from the Shaggy & Friends concert staged in 2018.
The former Head of Antigua’s Financial Services Regulatory Commission, Leroy King was extradited to the United States on Friday in connection with the Ponzi scheme that brought down US billionaire R.
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