Regional News

(Trinidad Express)  A 27-year-old woman was shot nine times about the body in Malabar on Sunday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) A third police officer has been detained for allegedly helping criminal gangs.

(Trinidad Express) A 27-year-old woman was shot nine times about the body in Malabar on Sunday night.

(Jamaica Observer) Jamaica’s distance runner Kemoy Campbell says doctors have been unable to diagnose his heart condition and will be inserting an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) in the left side of his ribs tomorrow.

(Jamaica Observer) Four policemen have been detained in connection with a robbery in Hellshire, St Catherine, last week when thieves made off with $17 million worth of jewellery, US$5,500 in cash, and other items.

(Trinidad Guardian) The State has ac­cept­ed li­a­bil­i­ty in a ma­li­cious pros­e­cu­tion law­suit in which a pun­dit com­plained that the po­lice fab­ri­cat­ed crim­i­nal charges against him.

(St Lucia Times) One suspect is assisting police with investigations into the fatal stabbing yesterday morning of Guyanese national, Michael Pooran at Bagatelle, Castries.

(Jamaica Observer) After 100 years of operating Texaco gas stations in Jamaica, GB Energy says it is on track to become the dominant player in the fuel industry pending the roll out of a number of initiatives over the next two years.

(Trinidad Guardian) The ar­rival of two Russ­ian car­go air­planes at Pi­ar­co over the last month is in keep­ing with cus­tom­ary pro­ce­dures, ac­cord­ing to the Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (AATT).

(Trinidad Express) The body found on the beach at Fullerton Village in Cedros last Thursday is that of Pandroutee Sinanan, the 55 year old Tunapuna woman who had been reported missing.

(Jamaica Observer) In his sermon 30-minute sermon centered on the story of Cain and Able, Reverend Dayne Grant called for justice for slain People’s National Party (PNP) Member of Parliament Dr Lynvale Bloomfield, who was yesterday laid to rest in Port Antonio, Portland.

(Jamaica Observer) A journalist’s plan to interview convicted drug dealer Owen “Father Fowl, or Roy Fowl” Clarke was shattered by a defining bullet from the gun of one of two men who attacked the businessman along Grove Road in St Andrew East Central, minutes after midnight on Saturday.

(Trinidad Express) Several pupils attending the San Fernando A.S.J.A Girls’ College fell ill after eating a barbecued chicken meal at a school fund raiser on Friday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Mona Law Society at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, has come under fire from at least one senior member of the law fraternity for the posting of photographs of some female law students in skimpy clothing on its Instagram social media page.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two Russ­ian car­go aero­planes, one of which ar­rived at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port on Thurs­day and the oth­er here for al­most a month, have raised con­cerns among im­mi­gra­tion and air­port of­fi­cials.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Western Jamaica lost one of its iconic residents yesterday with the passing of legendary businessman, politician, and philanthropist Owen ‘Hurry Hurry’ Sinclair.

(Trinidad Guardian) A dis­pute over land is sus­pect­ed to be the mo­tive be­hind the mur­der of a Coalmine, San­gre Grande gar­den­er on Friday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Some 14 stu­dents of the San Fer­nan­do AS­JA Girls’ High School were tak­en to hos­pi­tal af­ter they fell ill fol­low­ing the school’s an­nu­al fund-rais­ing bar­be­cue on Friday.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) has issued 29 licences to 23 people since the authority’s inception.  

(Jamaica Observer) Jamaican High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Seth George Ramocan, has called for a suspension of deportations to the island until the investigation into the Windrush scandal is published by Home Office and other issues surrounding immigration are resolved.