Regional News

(Jamaica Observer) A plane had to make an emergency landing at Miami International Airport after the pilots reported a damaged tire.

(Trinidad Guardian) Rep­re­sen­ta­tives of three po­lit­i­cal par­ties in To­ba­go—Plat­form of Truth (PTP), To­ba­go For­wards (TF), and To­ba­go Or­gan­i­sa­tion of the Peo­ple (TOP)- vot­ed on Sun­day to de­ter­mine if one new po­lit­i­cal en­ti­ty should be formed un­der the theme “One Voice”.

(Trinidad Express) An 86 year old newlywed man has gone missing and his wife is begging for the public’s help in finding him.

(Jamaica Observer) Between 2013 and 2018, a total of 22 women were arrested for having sexual intercourse with boys under 16 years old.

(Jamaica Observer) When 15-year-old Cleon Morgan said farewell to his friends at Penwood High School yesterday, no one thought it would be his final goodbye.

(Trinidad Guardian) An in­sur­ance agent who was se­ri­ous­ly in­jured in a gas ex­plo­sion at El Pecos Grill in Mar­aval, al­most four years ago, is now su­ing the restau­rant and its fu­el sup­pli­er for com­pen­sa­tion.

(Trinidad Newsday) A TWO-year-old boy and his 12-year-old sister witnessed the brutal chopping of their mother and grandparents at the family’s Palo Seco home on Sunday.

(Trinidad Newsday) East Port of Spain residents are concerned that a demolition mishap which made part of the old Besson Street Police Station collapse could destroy their homes.

(Trinidad Express) The evidence of queen’s counsel Vincent Nelson, the State’s star witness in the corruption cases against former attorney general Anand Ramlogan and UNC Senator Gerald Ramdeen, should be death with swiftly, in the event Nelson dies.

(Trinidad Express) Career criminal Dwight Alibocas was gunned down outside his Princes Town home on Sunday night.

(Trinidad Express) Shocking footage has emerged showing a dead body fall out of a moving hearse and onto a pedestrian crossing at busy Park Street, Port-of-Spain, on Monday.

(Trinidad Express) A concoction of sexual enhancement pills, alcohol and energy drinks that was consumed by a 52-year-old man before embarking on a sex romp with a prostitute is believed to have been the cause of his death, at a guest house in Chase Village on Friday night.

(Jamaica Observer) Two Wednesdays ago, Ackaisha Green was inside the ATM at Central Police Station on East Queen Street in downtown Kingston when she stumbled upon a stash of cash suspected to be in the millions of dollars.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 29-year-old po­lice con­sta­ble, who was set on fire by her Coast Guard of­fi­cer boyfriend dur­ing an ar­gu­ment yes­ter­day, re­mained ward­ed in crit­i­cal con­di­tion in hos­pi­tal, on Sun­day.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Research commissioned by the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All Sexuals and Gays (J-FLAG) in March 2019 has concluded that between seven and 30 per cent of the population are believed to be lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender (LGBT), and a large majority of employers (68 per cent) were willing to report violence and discrimination against them.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two weeks af­ter com­ing to Trinidad seek­ing a bet­ter life for her­self and fam­i­ly, Venezue­lan mi­grant Kather­ine Di­az was stabbed to death by her lover on Sun­day.

(Barbados Nation) Consumers will pay more for gasoline, but less for kerosene and liquified petroleum products, from midnight Sunday, May 5.

(Barbados Nation) Mia Kirton thought she was having a nightmare when she got a call that her boyfriend of five years, Eton “Uncle” Lyken, was shot dead during a robbery.

(Trinidad Guardian) Gov­ern­ment will seek to push two pieces of leg­is­la­tion in the com­ing weeks to al­low the State to re­cov­er prop­er­ties and oth­er as­sets from for­mer at­tor­ney gen­er­al Anand Ram­lo­gan and UNC Sen­a­tor Ger­ald Ramdeen.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The St James Municipal Corporation is pressing ahead with plans to bulldoze a cemetery along Jimmy Cliff Boulevard in the western resort city of Montego Bay and turn it into a parking lot.