Regional News

(Trinidad Express) How could a fisherman raise “overnight” US currency of $20,000 to pay as a ransom, National Security Minister Stuart Young asked yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) A thief with a firearm ripped a gold chain off the neck of a woman holding a baby in South Oropouche on Tuesday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Residents of Mountain View are fearful that yesterday’s daring daylight murder of a reputed lieutenant of an eastern St Andrew crime lord could trigger a series of reprisals in the violence-plagued community.

(Trinidad Newsday) It was anything but a happy birthday for a Tunapuna man accused of sexually assaulting a teen couple on October 14.

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice and fire­fight­ers had to break in­to a se­nior cit­i­zen’s home in South Trinidad yes­ter­day af­ter staff locked the gate and re­fused a woman ac­cess to her aunt.

(Jamaica Observer) Chairman of the Guardsman Group, Kenneth ‘Kenny’ Benjamin, today offered condolences to the family and friends of Paul Bruce, a security officer of the company who was killed in St Lucia last Friday, October 18.

LA PAZ,  (Reuters) – Bolivian leader Evo Morales yesterday repeated his claim of victory in a presidential election and accused the opposition of trying to orchestrate a coup, after mass opposition-led protests since the Sunday vote that claimed the counting was rigged.

SANTIAGO,  (Reuters) – Students and trade unionists led marches through Santiago yesterday in the first formally organised demonstration against social inequality since Chilean President Sebastian Pinera pledged social reforms to try to quell days of rioting.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuador’s indigenous movement said yesterday that it paused talks with President Lenin Moreno because of the government’s “persecution” of the group’s leaders since a halt to violent anti-austerity protests.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Kingston Mayor Delroy Williams has indicated that due process was followed to allow American artiste Kanye West and his 120-strong gospel choir the right to stage last Friday’s Sunday Service concert at Emancipation Park in New Kingston.

(Trinidad Express) A husband and his wife who were both found driving the same car under the influence of alcohol mere moments apart on the same day, appeared before the court.

(Trinidad Guardian) In an un­usu­al feat, a now con­firmed tor­na­do touched down in parts of Wood­brook and In­vaders Bay this af­ter­noon, leav­ing be­hind a trail of de­struc­tion.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Lawmakers who attended a crisis summit with Chilean President Sebastian Pinera’s ruling coalition called yesterday for reforms to tackle inequality in response to countrywide riots that sowed chaos in the South Ameri-can nation and led to 15 deaths and the arrest of more than 2,600 people.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – As Haiti entered a sixth week of violent anti-government protests over corruption and economic woes, Catholic leaders held a rare march yesterday calling for a resolution to the crisis that has paralyzed the country and sweeping political reform.

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A judge with the U.S. Court of International Trade has struck down the Trump administration’s 2017 revisions to a sugar trade pact with Mexico that limited imports of refined sugar into the United States, ruling that the changes were “unlawful.”

(Jamaica Observer) Eight-time Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt, along with Glenford Christian, founder and chairman of Cari-Med Group of Companies, will be bestowed with the 2019 International Humanitarian Award this Friday, October 25 in New York City.

(Trinidad Express) Danah Alleyne witnessed the autopsy of her companion Keone Paryag who was killed from a gunshot wound to the leg in a stand-off with police on Friday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Despite seven of 19 Jamaican police divisions being under a state of emergency (SOE), murders and shootings are still higher as at October 19 this year than for the corresponding period in 2018.

(Trinidad Guardian) Pas­tor Dave Neaves ap­peared in court yes­ter­day for al­leged­ly sex­u­al­ly as­sault­ing a 13-year-old girl.

(Jamaica Observer) They never got the chance to finish their last conversation due to a faulty phone.