Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad and To­ba­go will not open a refugee camp for Venezue­lans, Prime Min­is­ter Dr.

(Trinidad Guardian) Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar has described The Civil Assets Recovery and Management and Unexplained Wealth Bill as dangerous and warned that she will challenge it in court if it is passed in its current form.

(Trinidad Guardian) Wide­ly shared so­cial me­dia posts blam­ing im­port­ed fu­el for at least six in­ci­dents in re­cent months in which cars caught fire have been dis­pelled by me­chan­ics who be­lieve poor main­te­nance and shod­dy mod­i­fi­ca­tions were done to the ve­hi­cles were like­ly the cause of the fires.

(Jamaica Observer) Calabar High School is yet again facing questions of improper administration of discipline following the expulsion of a grade 11 student in February of this year.

(Trinidad Express) A SIXTEEN-year-old boy who walked out his grandmother’s home to get bread and sausages for dinner was gunned down near his Laventille home on Friday night and his $1,500 cellphone ta­ken.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Eighteen years ago, Shereen Hamilton said that she went into the labour room of the Mandeville Regional Hospital (MRH) expecting to have twins, but came out with only one baby boy and a message that her second child did not survive.

(Trinidad Express) A MAN reportedly abducted by Venezuelan pirates while fishing off Moruga three months ago was killed after being injured in an explosion during an operation involving Venezuelan security forces.

(Trinidad Guardian) The dead­liest stretch of road­way in Trinidad & Tobago is a 700-me­tre por­tion of the M2 Ring Road in Debe, where at least sev­en peo­ple have been killed as a re­sult of five fa­tal road traf­fic ac­ci­dents be­tween 2013 and 2017.

(Trinidad Guardian) Just a week af­ter pur­chas­ing a sports util­i­ty ve­hi­cle, Re­on Ra­goobir lost his life af­ter he was thrown from the van dur­ing an ear­ly morn­ing ac­ci­dent near Gas­par­il­lo yes­ter­day.

(Jamaica Observer) An ex-inmate who spent 21 years in prison for murder has come forward with the grappling story of having met an 11-year-old girl in a chat room while in prison, and secretly mentoring the child from his cellular phone.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Tension is brewing between a St Andrew church and an elderly couple living on a neighbouring property, which they both claim the deceased owner left to them, as a legal battle looms on the horizon.

(Jamaica Observer) Toast, the smash hit by singer Koffee, has entered the UK Official Singles Chart at number 84.

(Trinidad Guardian) If in­no­cent cit­i­zens have noth­ing to fear or hide, the Civ­il As­set Re­cov­ery Un­ex­plained Wealth Bill should not scare them.

(Trinidad Guardian) A “hit­man” is be­lieved to have shot his own boss as he at­tempt­ed to shoot and kill his in­tend­ed vic­tim yes­ter­day at a pre-arranged “meet­ing place” along El So­cor­ro Road South in San Juan.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Belize has approved a plan to set aside nearly 12 percent of its territorial waters as a protected area, more than doubling the size of existing reserves in the world’s second largest barrier reef.

HOUSTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence yesterday stepped up efforts to force Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from office by imposing new sanctions on its oil shipments, and promising “stronger action” against Cuba for helping to keep the regime afloat.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Even though more than 7,000 native or descended Jamaicans may be beneficiaries of a portion of the £200 million Windrush Compensation Scheme, the British high commissioner here has urged against focusing on monetising the trauma of the thousands of people who have suffered from the United Kingdom’s (UK) tough immigration laws.

(Trinidad Express) A 20-year-old student has more than ten million reasons to be happy.

(Trinidad Guardian) A fe­male Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice (SRP) has won her law­suit over her sus­pen­sion by for­mer po­lice com­mis­sion­er Stephen Williams, af­ter a provoca­tive pho­to­graph of her in uni­form was shared on so­cial me­dia two years ago.

(Jamaica Observer) Ann-Marie Vaz proved the pollsters right, but her victory in the Portland Eastern parliamentary by-election was closer than anyone projected.