Regional News

(Barbados Nation) Businessman George Reginald Ivan Parris has been remanded to HMP Dodds.

(Trinidad Express) A fire officer has filed a lawsuit against a doctor and a medical institution after his wife became pregnant with twin girls months shortly after the officer underwent a vasectomy.

(Jamaica Observer) A young man accused of stealing a large quantity of medical supplies from the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) was remanded in custody after the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court was informed that a voice note was found on his phone in which he was reportedly heard giving instruction for a policeman to be killed.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley says if he acts un­fair­ly against in­di­vid­u­als who have not been con­vict­ed of crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty he will be in breach of his oath of of­fice.

(Trinidad Express) The first judge alone trial in Trinidad yesterday morning ended with a not guilty verdict.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Bureau of Standards of Jamaica (BSJ) and the National Compliance and Regulatory Authority say they will be increasing their monitoring of the petroleum industry amid increased fear about another possible ‘bad gas’ episode in the retail trade.

(Jamaica Observer) The Government has allocated $35.872 million to a project aimed at increasing Jamaica Post’s ability to control and improve mail processing and handling.

(Trinidad Express) Students who think they can get away “unscathed” when their fights move out of the school compound and into public spaces may need to think again.

(Jamaica Observer) A British woman was arrested and charged in connection with the seizure of eight pounds of cocaine at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, St James last Thursday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Peta-gaye Ffrench, the woman charged with stealing a day-old baby from the Victoria Jubilee Hospital in Kingston, is to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.

(Trinidad Express) A man who lost his left leg due to diabetes and decided to grow and use marijuana for the medical condition, begged the court to “pretty please” have mercy on him.

(Barbados Nation) Reports reaching the NATION indicate that the Louis Lynch stand, commonly referred to as the VIP stand, at the National Stadium is on fire.

Police in Jamaica say a Delaware native was murdered in Jamaica saturday night, according to a report on CBS Philly.

(Trinidad Guardian) Con­tro­ver­sial ca­lyp­son­ian Cro Cro (We­st­on Rawl­ins) has failed to make in­to the se­mi-fi­nals of this year’s Ca­lyp­so Monarch com­pe­ti­tion.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Despite denials from Petrojam that its supplies are compromised, a source who has intimate knowledge of operational deficiencies at Jamaica’s sole oil refinery has explained the source of the smelly gas, and is warning that it undermines vehicle performance and threatens long-term damage.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Four persons are now dead and another four, up to yesterday afternoon, remained in hospital following their involvements in two separate road accidents along sections of the Holland Bamboo main road in St Elizabeth, on Friday night into Saturday morning.

(Jamaica Observer) A security guard, who held up a woman in downtown Kingston with a knife and stole her phone and then tried to blackmail her for sex with videos that he found on the phones, was remanded for sentencing when he appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court last week.

(Trinidad Express) The Special Operations Response Unit (SORT) used drone technology in the arrest of 20 persons and the seizure of firearms and quantities of ammunition and narcotics and a police jacket in the Southern Division.

(Trinidad Express) One of Trinidad and Tobago’s most wanted men has been arrested by police.

(Trinidad Guardian) The European Union has provided funding to the T&T Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (TTEITI) and the T&T Transparency Institute (TTTI) to implement a 12-month national public awareness and sensitization campaign on Beneficial Ownership Disclosure (BOD).