(Jamaica Observer) Ninety-five year-old Nora Johnson, a resident of Mendez district in Point Hill, St Catherine, is the latest recipient of a new home under the Government’s Indigent Housing Programme, which is expected to significantly improve her standard of living.
(Trinidad Guardian) Venezuelan pirates who operate out of Patos Island, one of Venezuela’s small uninhabited island, have reportedly kidnapped three Icacos fishermen for ransom.
(Trinidad Guardian) In 2020 the T&T Police Service (TTPS) will create a centre with the capacity to monitor and analyse social media activity via the use of surveillance systems, and the TTPS will also get the Armoured Personnel Carriers which Police Commissioner Gary Griffith had advocated since he was the National Security Minister under the People’s Partnership regime.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Government Senator Robert Morgan has “unequivocally” withdrawn a controversial tweet he posted on Monday with which the Opposition has taken issue.
(Jamaica Observer) Residents of Twickenham Park housing scheme in St Catherine are enraged.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman tried to give $1 million to Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez’s election campaign after being promised protection for his cocaine shipments, a witness at Hernandez’s criminal trial in New York said yesterday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica has been given the go-ahead to list the first-ever Caribbean green bond on the stock market, which will be used to raise money to fund environment-friendly projects.
(Trinidad Express) Moruga labourer Christopher Moore was having an argument with a man over a cellphone when he was gunned down on Saturday.
(Trinidad Newsday) The Prime Minister took the witness stand on Tuesday in an assessment for damages before a High Court master in which he is seeking compensation for defamatory statements made against him by former chairman of the Caribbean New Media Group (CNMG), Brian Stone.
(Jamaica Observer) Opposition Senator Dr Andre Haughton this morning issued an apology for his “love breast” comment, which was made in Parliament on Friday, causing public uproar.
(Trinidad Express) From 2020 travellers will have shorter waiting times at the airports.
(Trinidad Express) Senior Geoscientist at Touchstone Exploration, Xavier Moonan, says the Piparo mud volcano would be closely monitored in the coming weeks as fractures continue to widen.
(Trinidad Express) Criminals are now using aerial drones to smuggle drugs, cellphones and other contraband to inmates at prisons in Trinidad.
(Trinidad Guardian) Several times a year, increased concentrations of Saharan dust move across our region, turning our typically blue skies into a dusty and hazy mess.
(Trinidad Guardian) Finance Minister Colm Imbert read the 2020 Budget in the House of Representatives yesterday.
QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuadoran state-run oil company Petroamazonas EP suspended operations at three oil fields in the Amazon region yesterday, the country’s energy ministry said, as protests against austerity measures convulsed the country.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Divers from the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) are expected to join the search for an educator who went missing on the weekend after he allegedly jumped off a bridge into the Rio Grande at St Margaret’s Bay in Portland.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazil plans to restart domestic uranium mining in 2019 for the first time in five years, the mines and energy minister told a newspaper in an interview published yesterday.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s federal police said yesterday it had launched an operation in the mid-west state of Mato Grosso to stop illegal mining, environmental crimes and a rise in violence.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaican journalist Carol Rose has been made editor for the Florida-based Palm Beach Daily News.
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