Regional News

(Jamaica Gleaner) The extent to which the Uchence Wilson Gang infiltrated the society was brought to light in court yesterday following the revelation that a medical doctor was among the professionals on its payroll.

(Jamaica Observer) Rape charges against Capleton were dropped on Wednesday when he appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court.

(Trinidad Guardian) Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith is look­ing to clamp down on the long list of of­fi­cers serv­ing in­def­i­nite sus­pen­sions due to crim­i­nal charges not­ing the state is pay­ing some $50 mil­lion an­nu­al­ly on these of­fi­cers.

(Trinidad Express) A man will be going to court on Friday charged with stealing his wife jewelry.

(Trinidad Guardian) Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Stu­art Young is chal­leng­ing ac­tivist Yese­nia Gon­za­les and oth­er Venezue­lan na­tion­als to bring ev­i­dence they have against Im­mi­gra­tion of­fi­cers they al­lege are tak­ing bribes from Venezue­lan na­tion­als seek­ing to gain en­try in­to T&T and to stay here af­ter their time has elapsed.

(Trinidad Express) Police  inspector Christopher Fuentes appeared in the Sangre Grande Magistrates’ Court yesterday charged with abduction, false imprisonment and three sexual offences against a 16-year-old mother.

(Trinidad Guardian) The En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) has record­ed over 700 en­vi­ron­men­tal ac­ci­dents with­in the past three years.

(Trinidad Guardian) St Vin­cent and the Grenadines Prime Min­is­ter Dr Ralph Gon­za­lves has hint­ed that Lee­ward Is­lands Air Trans­port (LI­AT) could drop Trinidad and To­ba­go from its sched­ule of routes as the air­line seeks to re­struc­ture amid fi­nan­cial bur­dens.

(Jamaica Observer) THE second witness in the Uchence Wilson Gang trial testified yesterday that two of the series of robberies that he participated in were coordinated from behind bars.

(Trinidad Express) A special investigations unit has been assigned to find who killed Sheron Sukhdeo and his friends and relatives.

(Trinidad Express) A man was shot dead and a pundit injured during a Pooja (Hindu prayer service) in Hardbargain near Princes Town on Tuesday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Rel­a­tives of mur­der vic­tim Rachel Mo­hammed, 30, are now said to be fear­ful for their lives as they be­lieve they too may be­come tar­gets of al­leged gang mem­bers.

(Trinidad Guardian) A sev­en-year-0ld boy play­ing with match­es ac­ci­den­tal­ly torched his fam­i­ly’s home, leav­ing 11 peo­ple home­less.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Former executive director of Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ), Dr Carolyn Gomes, is hailing a major ruling from the United Kingdom-based Judicial Committee of the Privy Council which could place cops accused of extrajudicial killings under greater scrutiny and prompt the Police Service Commission (PSC) to investigate them before they get the all-clear signal for upward mobility in the force.

(Trinidad Express) Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith’s plans to restructure the Legal Department of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service involves contracting a team of prosecutors from the United Kingdom, who specialize in fraud and fraud-related matters.

(Barbados nation) Two fake cops were forced to flee and call the real police after Deacons, St Michael residents set upon them when they tried to confiscate a second bicycle.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Broadcaster Dorraine Samuels has died at the age of 59.

(Trinidad Express) Thirty-year-old Rachel Mohammed was ambushed and shot dead on Saturday night near her St Augustine home.

(Jamaica Observer) A father is now disgruntled after administrators of the school his child attends, instead of taking the injured student to get medical attention, called him to do so.

(Trinidad Guardian) The buck mys­tery in Gas­par­il­lo has end­ed af­ter an Amer­i­can ex­or­cist in­ter­vened and chased away the “spir­it” which Kr­ish­na Mathu­ra says was tor­ment­ing his fam­i­ly over the past sev­en months.