Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith yesterday de­fend­ed his de­ci­sion to ap­pear on stage dur­ing Bu­ju Ban­ton’s “I am Leg­end” con­cert, stat­ing if he had not done so, it would have re­sult­ed in a strained re­la­tion­ship be­tween T&T and Ja­maica.

(Trinidad Guardian) De­spite a po­lice-en­forced Red Alert and a man­date for in­creased po­lice vis­i­bil­i­ty, there were nine mur­ders over the long East­er week­end.

(Trinidad Express) The woman whose husband was killed by police officers during a domestic dispute in Chaguanas on Friday was chopped almost a dozen times by her spouse.

(Trinidad Guardian) Hours af­ter de­fend­ing his of­fi­cers’ de­ci­sion to search the ho­tel room of Bu­ju Banton, Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith met with the Ja­maican reg­gae artiste to as­sure him of­fi­cers will not in­ter­fere with him or mem­bers of his en­tourage again.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaicans are fast falling out of love with marriage, as weddings have plunged almost 23 per cent in the nine years up to 2018.

(Trinidad Express) “I never heard a thing. I have been good…” This is the response of newly Cabinet appointed Industrial Court judge Nizam Khan when contacted for comment on sexual harassment claims against him.

(Trinidad Guardian) Hours af­ter de­fend­ing his of­fi­cers’ de­ci­sion to search the ho­tel room of Bu­ju Ban­ton, Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith met with the Ja­maican reg­gae artiste to as­sure him of­fi­cers will not in­ter­fere with him or mem­bers of his en­tourage again.

(Trinidad Guardian) There are re­ports of T&T ports be­ing used by Venezuela’s state oil com­pa­ny, Petróleos de Venezuela, SA (PDVSA), to avoid US sanc­tions.

(Trinidad Express) Police officers shot and killed a man who was chopping his wife to death in Chaguanas on Friday.

(Trinidad Guardian) An act­ing po­lice su­per­in­ten­dent with over 35 years of ser­vice has been ar­rest­ed and charged for un­law­ful­ly caus­ing the re­lease of a po­lice con­sta­ble with­out him be­ing pros­e­cut­ed for the of­fence of neg­li­gence in breach of the Firearm Act.

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith yes­ter­day de­nied that po­lice of­fi­cers raid­ed the of­fices of Jaagri­ti TV.

(Trinidad Guardian) Three men ac­cused of hold­ing four Venezue­lan women cap­tive and sex­u­al­ly as­sault­ing two of them have been de­nied bail af­ter ap­pear­ing in court.

(Trinidad Express) Officers of the Special Investigations Unit have executed a search warrant at Radio Jaagriti for evidence in relation to an alleged audio-visual clip, which aired on Tuesday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty (AATT) has an­nounced that the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port has topped the re­gion as the Best Air­port in the Caribbean, as de­clared by the Sky­trax 2019 World Air­port Awards.

A co­caine ship­ment with an es­ti­mat­ed street val­ue close to TT$40 mil­lion, which was des­tined for Trinidad and To­ba­go, was in­ter­cept­ed by mem­bers of the Cuer­po de In­ves­ti­ga­ciones Ci­en­tifi­cas Pe­nales Y Crim­i­nal­is­tics (CI­CPC) in Venezuela yes­ter­day.

(Trinidad Guardian) Ja­maican dance­hall artiste Bu­ju Ban­ton has been grant­ed per­mis­sion to en­ter T&T this week­end for the “I am Leg­end” con­cert.

(Trinidad Express) The worst fears of the family of a missing Penal farmer came true when he was discovered murdered yesterday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Sterling Castle St Andrew residents, angered by the murder of eight-year-old Shantae Skyers, yesterday afternoon set fire to a man killing him.

(Jamaica Gleaner) PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Police are continuing their search for 30-plus-year-old Jamaica-born businessman, Yohan Chin, who was abducted from his home in south Trinidad on Sunday by men pretending to be cops.

Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) President Howard Mitchell is calling for the abolition of the current foreign-exchange management programme and for the Jamaican dollar to be pegged to the US currency.