Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) No further layoffs are expected at National Flours Mills Limited (NFM) following a restructuring exercise in which some senior management positions were made redundant.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The banning from priestly ministry of former Bishop of Mandeville Gordon Bennett for sexual harassment has come as a shocker for the local Catholic Church, but Archbishop Emeritus of Kingston, the Reverend Charles Dufour, has questioned whether ill-health might have contributed to his actions.

(Jamaica Observer) Exactly one month after sharing her story in the Sunday Observer, Kerry-Ann Anderson, the mother of five sets of twins, has since been employed full-time on the ancillary staff at the Hydel Group of Schools in St Catherine.

(Barbados Nation) A subcontractor’s first day on the job at Portvale Sugar Factory ended tragically on Saturday afternoon when he fell 70 feet to his death.

(Jamaica Observer) An ex-member of the Uchence Wilson gang on Friday sought to paint himself as a “modern-day Robin Hood,” after surprising the court with the disclosure that he had given away some of the goods he had stolen from a female gang member to the poor.

(Trinidad Guardian) Pres­i­dent of the Is­lam­ic Mis­sion­ar­ies Guild, Imti­az Mo­hammed, says T&T can­not rule out the pos­si­bil­i­ty of ter­ror at­tacks sim­i­lar to what hap­pened in New Zealand on Fri­day tak­ing place in this coun­try.

(Jamaica Gleaner) It was a prayerful Buju Banton who graced the stage at the National Stadium in Kingson on Saturday night asking, “have mercy on me”.

(Trinidad Newsday) Mental disorders affects people from adolescence to adulthood, mental health manager at the Ministry of Health, Ashvini Nath said yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) A pas­tor has been award­ed more than $430,000 by the High Court for the dam­ages he suf­fered as a re­sult of sev­er­al defam­a­to­ry Face­book posts by a for­mer mem­ber of the church.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 34-year-old Arou­ca man on Friday ap­peared in the Scar­bor­ough Mag­is­trates’ Court fac­ing sev­er­al charges in con­nec­tion with an at­tack on two fe­male British tourists.

(Trinidad Express) An off-duty police officer shot two men who attempted to rob him of his vehicle on Friday night.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Prince Charles and his wife Camilla embark on a Caribbean tour today during which they will become the first British royals to visit Communist-run Cuba, even as the island faces rising hostility from Britain’s closest ally, the United States.

(Trinidad Express) The Prison Service today responded to photographs circulating on social media showing an inmate posing with what appears to be a firearm in a cell.

(Trinidad Express) A woman who said she was treated in a discriminatory manner after she went to the renew her identification card at the Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) in Tunapuna yesterday took to social media to share herordeal.

(Trinidad Guardian) Trinida­di­an-born Archye Lea­cock, 65, is run­ning for an elect­ed City Coun­cil 9th Dis­trict Seat in Philadel­phia, Penn­syl­va­nia, USA, on May 21, 2019.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Forty-eight hours before Buju Banton hit the stage for his first performance after being released from a United States prison, Markus Myrie launched a tirade against his celebrated father on Instagram.

(Trinidad Guardian) He mi­grat­ed from this coun­try at a young age and has been dom­i­nat­ing head­lines in the Unit­ed States af­ter he was ac­cept­ed in­to not one, not two…not even three but 17 uni­ver­si­ties.

(Jamaica Observer) Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday said payments from the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) have been discontinued in the wake of accusation from the Opposition People’s National Party that State resources were being used to “buy votes” ahead of the April 4 by-election in Portland Eastern.

(Trinidad Guardian) Women are not al­ways the vic­tim in sex­u­al ha­rass­ment is­sues since some can en­tice em­ploy­ers with promised sex­u­al at­ten­tion to get favourable treat­ment, says Joint Se­lect Com­mit­tee mem­ber Hazel Thomp­son-Ahye.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Inter-American Development Bank yesterday voted to replace the representative of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro with an economist backed by opposition leader Juan Guaido, in a major setback for the Maduro government.