(Trinidad Express) Police and soldiers launched a five month anti-crime exercise yesterday, with Police Commissioner Gary Griffith calling on citizens to help with information to find the criminals.
(Jamaica Gleaner) An expert witness yesterday testified that two audio recordings of conversations said to be between the female foreman and Livingston Cain, the juror accused of attempting to bribe the jury in the 2014 trial of dancehall artiste Vybz Kartel, were tampered with.
(Jamaica Observer) The father of the baby who was snatched from Victoria Jubilee Hospital on January 9, 2019, Sinclair Hutton, is dissatisfied with the sentence handed down to the perpetrator yesterday.
(Jamaica Observer) Member of Parliament for St Andrew Eastern Fayval Williams has been hit hard by a series of tragedies which impacted her constituents over the past week, while she was overseas.
(Trinidad Newsday) Housing Development Corporation chairman Newman George yesterday insisted fired managing director Jearlean John was “disrespectful” to the board at a meeting, and this led to her being summarily terminated the next day.
(Trinidad Guardian) The century-old Claxton Bay Junior Anglican School has been shut down because of unsafe conditions, leaving over 170 pupils displaced.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Law Association has filed its lawsuit against Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley over his decision to reject its investigation into misconduct allegations levelled against embattled Chief Justice Ivor Archie.
TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez said yesterday he had never intervened to protect anybody, after his brother was accused of smuggling tons of cocaine into the United States for years under Hernandez’s protection.
QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno declared a state of emergency on Thursday as protesters hurled stones and erected burning barricades after the end of decades-old fuel subsidies as part of a $2 billion government fiscal reform package.
(Trinidad Express) Musical prostitution. This is how 31-year-old aspiring artiste Sancha Samara Scipio has described her experience trying to break into the soca music industry, after being told by a popular radio DJ that she needs to “post more sexy pictures” and “show more skin” to get recognition.
(Trinidad Guardian) A woman and her daughter had to be rescued yesterday by officers from the Guard and Emergency Branch, Special Operations response Team (SORT) and the Northern Division after a two-hour ordeal where they were held hostage by the woman’s husband.
(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.