Regional News

(Trinidad Express) FOOTBALL coach Shakeem Darius appeared before the court charged after he allegedly French kissed a 14-year-old girl.

(Trinidad Express) After shooting six and killing one in Sealots, Port of Spain on Sunday night, a killer came back early today and killed another.

(Trinidad Express) A 16-year-old girl from Wallerfield committed suicide by poisoning after her mother took away her cellphone on Saturday.

(Jamaica Observer) Family members and members of the legal fraternity were yesterday left inconsolable following the retrieval of a decomposed body, strongly believed to be that of 65-year-old attorney-at-law William Hines, in a sinkhole on his farm here yesterday afternoon.

(Jamaica Gleaner) “I can understand that the death of a well-loved person, especially a political representative, whose life was snuffed out by criminal(s), can be heart-rending and a bitter pill to swallow, “commented Williams.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Director of Tourism Donovan White was at pains to reassure a Canada-based reporter that Jamaicans harboured no open hostility towards gay visitors during a press conference at Caribbean Travel Marketplace in Montego Bay last week.

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice of­fi­cers moon­light­ing as “es­corts” and us­ing of­fi­cial ve­hi­cles to trans­port peo­ple from the pop­u­lar Soa­ka fete at O2 Park have come un­der fire from Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) Gary Grif­fith.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Shock waves reverberated around the local political fraternity yesterday as news spread of the killing of Member of Parliament Dr Lynvale Bloomfield.

(Trinidad Guardian) Sex­u­al preda­tors, ban­dits, and tres­passers are cre­at­ing fear among fe­male se­cu­ri­ty guards of the Na­tion­al Main­te­nance Train­ing and Se­cu­ri­ty Com­pa­ny (MTS).

(Trinidad Guardian) A 17-year-old sec­ondary school stu­dent who is on sus­pen­sion has been gunned down by an un­known gun­man.

(Trinidad Guardian) Ten­sions over the po­lit­i­cal col­lapse of Venezuela are con­tin­u­ing to rise af­ter the coun­tries of the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) dis­tanced them­selves from the Or­gan­i­sa­tion of Amer­i­can States (OAS) Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Luis Leonar­do Al­ma­gro and his sup­port of Venezue­lan Op­po­si­tion Leader Juan Guaidó.

(Jamaica Observer) The body believed to be that of missing attorney-at-law William Hines, 65, was found in a sink hole on his farm in St James yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Cana­di­an busi­ness­man has warned his coun­try­men to be care­ful when trav­el­ling to Trinidad af­ter he was ar­rest­ed for pos­ses­sion of three emp­ty bul­let shell cas­ings and kept for a week at the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison (MSP.)

(Trinidad Guardian) Even po­lit­i­cal par­ties must find in­no­v­a­tive ways to raise funds to sus­tain op­er­a­tions.

(Jamaica Observer) Senior sleuths from the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s Major Investigation Division remained clueless up to last night about the circumstances that led to the death of Member of Parliament (MP) for Portland Eastern, Dr Lynvale Bloomfield yesterday morning.

(Trinidad Guardian) Leav­ing their loved ones be­hind in a coun­try torn by vi­o­lence, star­va­tion and po­lit­i­cal per­se­cu­tion, hun­dreds of Venezue­lans con­tin­ue to risk their lives to come to Trinidad in search of a bet­ter life.

(Barbados Nation) The perceived level of public sector corruption in Barbados has not declined, but it is the lowest in the Caribbean.

(Jamaica Observer) The 53rd annual Grammy Awards was held on Sunday, February 13, 2011 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, in the United States.

ST. AUGUSTINE, Trinidad and Tobago,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – At home in the United States, Kerrie Springer takes pride in being environmentally conscious.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Member of Parliament for East Portland Dr Lynvale Bloomfield has been found stabbed to death at his home in Passley Gardens.