(Barbados Nation) Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has sent a strong verbal message to Cricket West Indies (CWI) led by Ricky Skerritt that it should be cautious before moving swiftly to introduce a clean sweep of the top decision-makers of a sport which comes close to religion status in the English-speaking Caribbean.
(Trinidad Express) A Moruga man turned into a human fireball when he was set on fire at a lime at a village bar on Easter Monday.
(Trinidad Express) PROSECUTORS, State witnesses and others are put at risk because of the inadequacies of the physical infrastructure in the Magistrates’ Courts.
(Trinidad Guardian) Hours after armed police officers were called in to prevent gang violence from erupting at the Nelson Street, Port-of-Spain housing development, residents said they were fearful they may now become targets of the warring gangs.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – A barrage of criticism this week from the sons of Brazil’s right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro aimed at the vice president has laid bare stark divisions in his cabinet, raising serious concerns from senior members of his four-month-old government.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States yesterday imposed sanctions on Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza, saying it would pursue those in President Nicolas Maduro’s government for corruption as well as officials conducting diplomacy on his behalf.
PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – Panama’s electoral tribunal has ruled that former President Ricardo Martinelli, who is awaiting trial on wiretapping charges, cannot run in next month’s elections, but the politician vowed on Friday to retake the presidency in the following vote.
(Trinidad Guardian) T&T Coast Guard officers and fishermen were up to late yesterday assisting their Venezuelan counterparts in a massive search and rescue mission for 25 Venezuelan migrants who remained missing after their boat sank on the way to Trinidad and Tobago on Tuesday night.
(Trinidad Guardian) A 47-year-old taxi driver was killed during an apparent robbery,on Thursday.
(Trinidad Guardian) An electrical blackout at the San Fernando General Hospital left patients hungry and in tears yesterday.
(Jamaica Observer) The Government of Jamaica hopes to access US$100 million ($13.4 billion) in grant funding from China to improve the Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee line of products, and on a larger scale, the local coffee industry.
(Trinidad Express) The bullet-riddled bodies of a man and woman found in a parked car off Pashley Street, Laventille, on Easter Monday were identified yesterday as those of Devon Jones and Erin Ali.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Minister with responsibility for education Karl Samuda has expressed shock at the murder of St Joseph’s Teachers’ College lecturer Samuel Martin.
(Trinidad Express) What began as the kidnapping of a Carapichaima man and his girlfriend at the Waterloo cremation site on Tuesday night ended in his murder.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – In April 2017, a group of Mexican executives filed into the Texas governor’s mansion in Austin for a meeting they hoped would help save a trillion-dollar trade deal.
(Jamaica Observer) After months of speculation it has been confirmed that the 25th installment of the James Bond spy series will be shot in Portland and Kingston.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A family in mourning is threatening to take legal action against the Spanish Town Hospital in St Catherine after the body of a relative has been held in storage for more than a year because of a delay by the health facility to issue a burial order.
(Trinidad Express) The bullet-riddled bodies of a man and woman found in a parked car off Pashley Street, Laventille, on Easter Monday were identified yesterday as those of Devon Jones and Erin Ali.
PACARAIMA, Brazil, (Reuters) – Venezuelan military personnel are deserting to Colombia and Brazil in growing numbers, refusing to follow orders to repress protests against the government of President Nicolas Maduro, six of them told Reuters.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Come next month, Jamaica will resume exports of mangoes to the United States (US).
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