Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) Sup­ple­men­tal Po­lice un­cov­ered and re­moved a fake ATM pan­elling de­vice that was hid­ing a cell­phone used to cap­ture im­ages of cus­tomers’ pin num­bers at Sco­tia­bank’s Freeport ATM unit.

(Jamaica Observer) British actor Aml Ameen is among the celebrities in Kingston for tomorrow’s Long Walk To Freedom concert featuring Buju Banton at the National Stadium.

(Trinidad Guardian) Caribbean Airlines will seek legal advice concerning the lease agreement it has in place for a batch of Boeing 737 Max-8 planes to boost its fleet in December.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 34-year-old man is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear in a Scar­bor­ough Mag­is­trate’s Court to­day charged with the kid­nap­ping, rob­bery and sex­u­al as­sault of two Unit­ed King­dom tourists.

(Trinidad Guardian) The daugh­ter of slain To­ba­go busi­ness­man and re­tired po­lice sergeant Don­ald Parks has bro­ken her si­lence mere days af­ter the in­ci­dent, call­ing for swift jus­tice in his case.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago nationals seeking to renew US visas will no longer have to to go through an interview process, once they do it within a year.

(Jamaica Observer) The police are reporting that a licensed firearm holder fatally shot three men during an attempted a robbery at his home in Portmore, St Catherine last night.

(Trinidad Express) Relatives of 17-year-old Shania Ramjitsingh are pleading for the public’s assistance in finding her.

(Trinidad Guardian) For­mer Health Min­is­ter Dr Fuad Khan has apol­o­gised to mas­quer­ad­er Can­dice San­tana for his of­fen­sive tone and com­ments, but she is not ac­cept­ing it.

(Trinidad Guardian) Scores of peo­ple hop­ing to get to Mi­a­mi from Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port were get­ting ready to board their flight around 3 pm yes­ter­day when they were turned back and told to leave the de­par­ture gate.

SUZANO, Brazil, (Reuters) – Two gunmen wearing face masks entered a Brazilian school yesterday and shot dead at least five teenagers as well as two school officials, before fatally turning their gun on themselves, police said.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley is a re­lieved man af­ter his car­di­ol­o­gist de­liv­ered good news say­ing that there is no need for heart surgery.

(Trinidad Express) Police have little to go on except CCTV footage that captured the murders of two men in Couva on Carnival Friday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Jamaica Customs Agency says it has sent to the finance ministry recommendations from travellers for an increase in the duty-free limit.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados has been blacklisted by the European Union (EU), and faces the threat of “sanctions”, including reduced funding.

(Trinidad Guardian) High Court judge Maria Wil­son has or­dered that Osama Bin Laden’s son, Hamza Bin Laden, be named a ter­ror­ist in this coun­try, and have all his as­sets frozen.

(Trinidad Guardian) Net­flix has snapped up the tele­vi­sion rights for the as yet to be pub­lished de­but nov­el of T&T na­tion­al Car­o­line MacKen­zie, which tells the tale of a Venezue­lan fam­i­ly liv­ing in this coun­try il­le­gal­ly.

(Trinidad Guardian) Mi­grants will re­ceive the same free health care as na­tion­als, par­tic­u­lar­ly in re­la­tion to sex­u­al­ly trans­mit­ted dis­eases, Min­is­ter of Health Ter­rance Deyals­ingh said on Monday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Even as dozens of coun­tries around the world im­posed re­stric­tions on the Boe­ing 737 Max 8, Amer­i­can Air­lines con­tin­ues to op­er­ate the air­craft on its routes be­tween T&T and the Unit­ed States on Tues­day.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Broadcasting Commission has urged the Holness administration to increase its oversight responsibility beyond free-to-air electronic media to policing social media platforms such as Facebook and YouTube.