Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) While Trinidad and To­ba­go re­cent­ly made head­way in the US on Venezuela, Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley is most up­set with the British Broad­cast­ing Cor­po­ra­tion’s (BBC’s) re­cent doc­u­men­tary on T&T’s Venezue­lan amnesty reg­is­tra­tion ex­er­cise – and he’s writ­ing to the British Gov­ern­ment on it.

(Trinidad Guardian) Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie has opened the new law term with a scold­ing for the me­dia for what he con­tends is the ab­di­ca­tion of its du­ty to act re­spon­si­bly.

(Trindiad Guardian) In her fea­ture ad­dress cen­tred around ju­di­cial re­form dur­ing the church ser­vice for the cer­e­mo­ni­al open­ing of the 2019-2020 Law Term, Dean of the Law Fac­ul­ty at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) Pro­fes­sor Rose-Marie Belle An­toine said that, in her opin­ion, lawyer fees in the coun­try “are too high”.

(Trinidad Express) A Valsayn woman who claimed she stole over $3,000 in clothing to give to the poor, has been arrested.

(Trinidad Guardian) Sur­viv­ing Hur­ri­cane Do­ri­an for six Trinida­di­an na­tion­als in The Grand Ba­hama is­lands in Freeport al­most two weeks ao is on­ly half their night­mare.

(Jamaica Observer) Two public passenger vehicle operators were on Friday arrested by members of the Public Safety and Traffic Enforcement Branch (PSTEB), after checks revealed that the two had a combined total of more than 1,000 outstanding traffic tickets.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A Government senator has nudged the Andrew Holness administration to make changes to the law that will allow Jamaica to resume hanging, but that suggestion was quickly shot down by Justice Minister Delroy Chuck.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Ju­di­cia­ry of T&T has col­lect­ed $170.9 mil­lion in fines paid by er­rant and delin­quent dri­vers who com­mit­ted traf­fic of­fences and vi­o­la­tions be­tween 2011 and 2015 on the na­tion’s roads.

 (Reuters) – Humberto, which gained hurricane strength late Sunday, is expected to drop another 2 inches of rain on the storm-ravaged northwestern Bahamas as it crawls away from the U.S.

By Frank Seepersad (Trinidad Guardian) One year ago, I broke with tra­di­tion and spoke di­rect­ly to the me­dia about my views in re­la­tion to the open­ing of the 2018/2019 Law term.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago Special Olympics athlete Sean Gibson, 34, has been found dead.

(Jamaica Observer) While the brutal killing of promising young attorney-at-law Sashakay Fairclough has shocked, in particular, the parishes of St Ann and St James where she practises mainly, the police have no leads yet into the murder, nor has a motive been established.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados has produced only 7 800 tonnes of sugar from about 93 600 tonnes of cane this year, one of the most disappointing harvests in the last decade.

 (Trinidad Guardian) The rel­a­tives of To­ba­go gy­ro ven­dor Elias Dab­bourah, 30, are de­mand­ing jus­tice fol­low­ing his death on Sat­ur­day.

NASSAU,  (Reuters) – As rescuers search for bodies amid mountains of debris and the stench of death on the Bahamas island of Abaco, life on most of the archipelago’s 700 isles is little changed.

(Trinidad Guardian) The rel­a­tives of To­ba­go gy­ro ven­dor Elias Dab­bourah, 30, are de­mand­ing jus­tice fol­low­ing his death on Sat­ur­day.

NASSAU (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Humberto lashed already devastated parts of the Bahamas with heavy rain and strong winds before crawling northwest yesterday, and forecasters said it was likely to become a hurricane before the end of the weekend.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – A group of Brazilian anthropologists and environmentalists has put forward Chief Raoni Metuktire of the Kayapó tribe as a candidate for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for a lifetime of work protecting the Amazon rainforest.

(Trinidad Express) There are cases of babies under one year old being raped in Trinidad and Tobago and there are also hundreds of alleged rapists walking around and not registered on a sexual offenders registry.

(Barbados Nation) The Ministry of Health and Wellness has warned Barbadians about the dangers of vaping, particularly on the heels of reports of an outbreak of severe respiratory illnesses associated with the practice in the United States.