(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.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Come June, travellers to Jamaica will have the option to go paperless through immigration and customs at the airports in Kingston and Montego Bay.
(Barbados Nation) Parkland Fuel Corporation is now calling the shots at SOL and management has signalled changes are coming to the Caribbean fuel company.
(Trinidad Express) The Opposition United National Congress is urging government to ban airlines using the Boeing 737 Max 8 from touching down at the Piarco International Airport.
(Trinidad Express) A MAN charged with harassment after he allegedly posted a video on the internet, was ordered, as a condition of his bail, to have no contact with the alleged victim on social media.
(Jamaica Observer) Jamaican film-maker Kia Moses was a winner at last weekend’s Black Women Film Network Summit held at the Atlanta Technical College in the United States.
(Barbados Nation) The Royal Barbados Police Force and the Child Care Board are currently investigating an incident which began circulating on social media last Sunday of a child tied up with rope.
(Trinidad Guardian) Police Commissioner Gary Griffith says within the next two weeks over 140 police officers who work on the borders of the southwestern peninsula will undergo polygraph (lie detector) tests.
(Trinidad Express) The lifestyle of gunman Jamarrie John, 31, caught up with him early Sunday morning when he and Onika Crafton, 34, were shot dead as they slept at her home in Guaico, Sangre Grande.
(Trinidad Express) Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh says he is concerned that the nation’s men are not taking responsibility and getting tested for HIV.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Nineteen-year-old Davina Scott overcame poverty in her native Jamaica and the embarrassment of not being able to read and write to rise to become one of 10 students who have received a New York Times College Scholarship.
(Trinidad Express) Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith is responding to a report in today’s Express in which a former Commissioner of Police said that police officers were breaking the law by wearing camouflage.
(Jamaica Observer) A security guard and a driver were gunned down in a dramatic, suspected multi million-dollar heist by heavily armed men who intercepted the marked security company vehicle they were using to escort a minibus here yesterday morning.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Furious Venezuelans lined up to buy water and fuel yesterday as the country endured a fourth day of a nationwide blackout that has left already-scarce food rotting in shops, homes suffering for lack of water and cell phones without reception.
(Trinidad Express) A motion calling on the Prime Minister to take action against Chief Justice Ivor Archie is to be debated in the House of Represen-tatives.
(Trinidad Guardian) Former Health Minister Dr Fuad Khan is standing behind the message he communicated to plus-sized masquerader Candice Santana on Friday when he called her out for being obese and overweight, as he again urged her to get fit and healthy.
(Trinidad Guardian) United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) assistant resident representative Sharifa Ali-Abdullah says cultural beliefs contribute to the sexual abuse and battering of women and children in T&T.