(Jamaica Gleaner) The United States Government has moved a motion for the court to dismiss the suit by four Jamaican fishermen who have accused the US Coast Guard (USCG) of holding them captive in inhumane conditions for over a month.
(Jamaica Observer) One Jamaican student studying in Canada is encouraging her countrymen to consider a similar option, a move she says would bring valuable results.
(Trinidad Newsday) A 33-year-old husband and his wife appeared yesterday in the San Fernando magistrates’ court on charges relating to rape of a 13-year-old girl.
(Trinidad Guardian) A High Court judge has ordered Unicomer (Trinidad) Limited to pay more than $255,000 in compensation to a Freeport pensioner who was inconvenienced by the company’s construction of its headquarters and distribution centre in 2017.
(Trinidad Express) A 31 year old mother of four allegedly drank a poisonous substance while with her children at Palmiste Park, San Fernando on Wednesday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) is reporting that the Haile Selassie student who was struck by lightning at an ISSA/Manning Cup match yesterday is recovering from his ordeal.
(Jamaica Observer) A 37-year-old father, Oral Grey, was yesterday morning shot dead as he walked back to his motor vehicle just minutes after escorting his daughter into the Care Bear Early Childhood Development School in St Andrew Southern.
(Trinidad Newsday) Leiselle Morton-Taylor, the mother of a 15-year-old St Stephen’s College student who was warned about her natural hairstyles by the school, is awaiting word from authorities.
(Trinidad Guardian) The parents of a 17-year-old girl who ran away from home two weeks before her wedding day are pleading with their daughter to return home.
(Trinidad Guardian) Fifty-two elderly people aged 60 years and over have been murdered in Trinidad and Tobago between the start of 2018 and now, with the first nine months of 2019 accounting for 32 of them.
(Jamaica Observer) Louie Rankin’s Jamaica manager, Lexxi, has confirmed that the dancehall deejay/actor died Monday evening as a result of injuries sustained in a motor vehicle crash in Canada.
(Trinidad Express) There have been no arrests for the murder of Richard Chan-Attong, 43 who was abducted from his Belmont home on September 16 and found dead in Santa Cruz days later.
BOGOTA, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Police in the Dominican Republic have rescued dozens of women from forced sex work in bars and nightclubs across the Caribbean island in its biggest anti-trafficking operation this year, authorities said yesterday.
QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuador, one of the smallest members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), said yesterday it will leave the 14-nation bloc from Jan.
(Trinidad Express) The Central Bank on Monday afternoon announced the long-delayed sale of the traditional insurance portfolios of CLICO and British American Trinidad (BAT) choosing its preferred bidder Sagicor Life, a subsidiary of Sagicor Financial Corporation.
(Jamaica Observer) People’s National Party (PNP) President Peter Phillips is expressing sadness at the death of former west central St James Member of Parliament (MP) Patrick Rosegreen.