Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) Less than 24 hours af­ter the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Re­sponse Team (SORT) is­sued a con­fi­den­tial re­port in­di­cat­ing that pris­ons of­fi­cers were the tar­get of death threats, their of­fi­cers in­ter­cept­ed a “hit­man” on his way to al­leged­ly kill a first di­vi­sion pris­ons of­fi­cer in East Trinidad on Wednes­day night.

(Trinidad Express) Nobody is happy with the foreign exchange (forex) situation in T&T, said the head of the local operations of Scotiabank, at the bank’s launch of its digital banking platform at the Hyatt Regency on Wrightson Road in Port of Spain on Wednesday evening.

(Trinidad Guardian) The hunt is on for a Mara­bel­la man who stole a po­lice ve­hi­cle from the same of­fi­cers who were chas­ing him.

(Jamaica Observer) Law enforcement authorities in the United States have captured a Jamaican man they say used a machete to kill his wife and daughter.

(Trinidad Guardian) A young man who was pre­vi­ous­ly dis­qual­i­fied from hold­ing a dri­ver’s per­mit but took a chance to dri­ve a car to im­press a girl has been jailed for three months.

(Jamaica Observer) As Grange Hill High School tries to come to grips with the stabbing death of their beloved security guard, 44-year-old Clifton Lumley, school principal Errol Stewart has revealed that discussions are already in train for the school to honour his memory inlight of his sterling contribution to the institution.

(Jamaica Information Service) KINGSTON, Jamaica — The British Government has established a scheme to compensate members of the Windrush Generation who were unable to prove their right to live in the United Kingdom (UK).

(Trinidad Express) The Ministry of Health continues its recruitment drive of medical professionals from Cuba with the recent intake of 58 specialist healthcare professionals.

(Trinidad Guardian) A plot by prisoners to kill five prison officers has been uncovered by the Special Operations Response Team.

(Barbados Nation) Government’s amendment to the Bail Act has received some approval from the court of public opinion.

(Trinidad Newsday) A Felicity mechanic who allegedly tried to steal two cars from murdered kidnap victim Sheldon Sukhdeo has appeared before a Chaguanas magistrate charged with two counts of uttering a forged document.

(Trinidad Express) PRISONER Matthew Woods has been sentenced to three months’ hard labour after his failed escape attempt from custody on Monday morning at the Scarborough Port.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Superintendent Vernon Ellis, commanding officer for the St James Police Division, says his team is not singling out Chinese business operators for special protection, albeit that members of the Chinese business community in Montego Bay have been targeted in several recent robberies.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Defence attorneys are this morning expected to carry out their cross-examination of the Crown’s second witness, who is said to be a former member of the Uchence Wilson Gang which allegedly carried out several robberies and other crimes across at least seven parishes.

(Trinidad Express) What at first seemed like an All Fool’s Day prank, turned out to be a robbery at a store in Princes Town on Monday.

(Trinidad Guardian) A plot by pris­on­ers to kill five prison of­fi­cers has been un­cov­ered by the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Re­sponse Team.

(Trinidad Guardian) A loud round of ap­plause and cheers of prais­es and grat­i­tude erupt­ed from the bas­ket­ball court at the Im­mi­gra­tion De­ten­tion Cen­tre (IDC) in Aripo yes­ter­day when Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Stu­art Young shared a ray of hope to the Venezue­lan de­tainees telling them that they may soon be freed and al­lowed to work in T&T for one year soon.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two more sus­pects in a mul­ti-na­tion­al pros­ti­tu­tion ring in west Trinidad, which was bust­ed by po­lice two months ago, have ap­peared in court for hu­man traf­fick­ing.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russia has opened a training centre in Venezuela to help the country’s pilots fly Russian-made military helicopters, Russian state-owned industrial conglomerate Rostec said on Monday, Moscow’s latest gesture of support for President Nicolas Maduro.

(Trinidad Guardian) The pro­pos­al for the lease of the Jean De La Valette (JDLV) as a tem­po­rary in­ter-is­land fer­ry to ease up the seabridge woes is al­ready be­fore Cab­i­net.