Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) Com­plete strangers have built a new home for an ail­ing sin­gle moth­er of nine who had been liv­ing in a di­lap­i­dat­ed shack in Cara­pichaima.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A six-month-old baby has become the 96th murder victim in St James this year, following a shooting rampage that also left three other persons injured after gunmen struck in Norwood, St James, on Saturday night.

(Jamaica Observer) The United States (US) Supreme Court is to make a decision in the case of Jamaican-born Lee Boyd Malvo, who at age 17 was sentenced to life without parole for his part in the infamous DC (District of Columbia) sniper case that claimed the lives of 10 people.

(Trinidad Guardian)  “Worried and concerned about Port-of-Spain South.” That’s how PNM Port-of-Spain South MP Marlene McDonald said she is feeling about Thursday’s announcement regarding the cancellation of a contract to a Chinese firm for the planned housing unit construction in her constituency.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Twenty-six persons died in motor vehicle crashes in August, marking the first time this year that Jamaica recorded less than 30 road deaths in a single month.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Indigenist Maxciel Pereira dos Santos was murdered execution-style before members of his family in the Amazon town of Tabatinga, according to INA, a union group representing workers at Brazil’s indigenous protection agency FUNAI, yesterday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) An undocumented Jamaican man who helped United States (US) authorities convict drug kingpin Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke is now fighting to remain in the US, according to a report in the New York Daily News.

MARSH HARBOUR/NASSAU, Bahamas,  (Reuters) – Days after fleeing their crumbling home and breaking into a vacant apartment to take shelter while Hurricane Dorian rampaged over the Bahamas’ Great Abaco Island, Samuel Cornish and his family caught a rescue flight to Nassau.

(Trinidad Guardian) One of the coun­try’s most “Want­ed” and “Dan­ger­ous” man was gunned down sev­er­al feet away from the Freeport Po­lice Sta­tion sec­onds af­ter he walked out from the charge room on Sat­ur­day night.

(Barbados Nation) Miss Universe Barbados 2019 is Shanel Ifill. The statuesque beauty was crowned moments ago before a packed house at the Barbados Hilton Resort, Needhams Points, St Michael.

(Jamaica Observer) A businessman found himself in trouble with the law after he damaged a Toyota Prado motor vehicle that his ex-lover and her new friend were travelling in during an incident in July.

(Trinidad Newsday) The cousin of murdered fisherman and suspected gang leader Vaugh­an ‘Sand­man’ Mieres has been shot dead.

NASSAU, Bahamas, (Reuters) – Thousands of displaced people are living in “rapidly deteriorating” conditions in the worst-hit parts of the Bahamas six days after Hurricane Dorian made landfall, the United Nations World Food Programme warned yesterday.

(Trinidad Newsday) Relatives of murdered man, Ricky Mohammed, 54 believe land dispute may be the reason why he was shot yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) A woman and a child died in a road traffic accident this morning involving a truck.

NASSAU, Bahamas,(Reuters) – Thousands of displaced people are living in “rapidly deteriorating” conditions in the worst-hit parts of the Bahamas six days after Hurricane Dorian made landfall, the United Nations World Food Programme warned today.

(Trinidad Guardian) Over the past week, about 15 cus­tomers of Sco­tia­bank’s San­gre Grande branch had thou­sands of dol­lars stolen from their ac­counts af­ter their cards were skimmed.

(Trinidad Guardian) The de­bate over a ban on fire­works raged yes­ter­day af­ter a young male Red Kan­ga­roo at the Em­per­or Val­ley Zoo died from “trau­ma and stress” it ex­pe­ri­enced af­ter the In­de­pen­dence Day fire­works in the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah.

(Jamaica Gleaner) He left Savanna-la-Mar in Westmoreland for a visit to The Bahamas in 1990, but his stay was made permanent, having met his now wife there.

MARSH HARBOUR, Bahamas,  (Reuters) – The smell of death hung over parts of Great Abaco Island in the northern Bahamas yesterday, as relief workers sifted through the debris of shattered homes and buildings in a search expected to dramatically drive up the death toll from Hurricane Dorian.