Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice are ques­tion­ing a 36-year-old Guapo sales clerk about the dis­cov­ery of a ba­by’s body in a shal­low grave at the back of her home.

(Trinidad Guardian) Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter An­tho­ny Gar­cia said he was dis­turbed about a video on In­sta­gram which showed sus­pend­ed Diego Mar­tin North Sec­ondary a stu­dents boast­ing about their deeds.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley yes­ter­day ac­cused the Op­po­si­tion of try­ing to un­der­mine Gov­ern­ment’s ef­forts at med­i­ta­tion in Venezuela’s on­go­ing po­lit­i­cal cri­sis.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) has moved to explain the significant fall in the value of the local currency against the benchmark United States dollar in the recent weeks. 

(Trinidad Guardian) Cit­i­zens have racked up US$1.205 bil­lion in cred­it card trans­ac­tions for 2018 which is now en­gag­ing the at­ten­tion of the Min­istry of Fi­nance.

(Jamaica Observer) Two-year-old twin girls Naieelia and Nihailia Pinnock perished last night in a blaze in the Grants Pen, St Andrew.

(Trinidad Guardian) To­ba­go po­lice are prob­ing the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the killing of An­der­son Ba­boo­nanan.

(Jamaica Gleaner) “So, now that you’re rich, is there anyone you’re going to make sure you never talk to again?”

(Jamaica Observer) Donique Anderson is finally a police officer. The Trewlawny native who was the only woman among the 196 recruits is the epitome of triumph over struggle.

(Trinidad Guardian) Rel­a­tives of the kid­napped Morne Di­a­blo fish­er­man are re­fus­ing to com­ment on the mat­ter as they claim me­dia cov­er­age is jeop­ar­dis­ing the safe­ty of the men One of the fish­er­men, Jer­ry O’Brien, 36, was re­leased by his cap­tors on Wednes­day but his broth­er Ja­son O’Brien, 38, Bran­don Ar­joon, 28, Lin­ton Manohar, 36, Jagdesh Jaikaran, 16 and Ricky Ramb­harose,35, are still in the hands of their ab­duc­tors The men left the Morne Di­a­blo beach at around 4 pm on Mon­day to fish.

(Trinidad Guardian) There must be a con­cert­ed ef­fort to get il­le­gal firearms off the streets and some kind of com­mu­ni­ty pro­gramme must be im­ple­ment­ed to re­duce crim­i­nal vi­o­lence.

(Trinidad Guardian) The State has been or­dered to pay more than $450,000 to six sug­ar cane farm­ers, who claimed they were owed mon­ey un­der a com­pen­sa­tion scheme for tran­si­tion­ing out of the in­dus­try.

(Barbados Nation) Triple murder accused, eighteen-year-old Ramario Roach, of River Bay, St Lucy, has been charged with three counts of murder.

(Barbados Nation) Government has partnered with Caribbean LED lighting to replace most of the public street lights in Barbados.

(Trinidad Guardian) Homicide investigators say they are still piecing toget-her clues in Wednesday’s tragic death of Siparia gardener Angela McKenzie.

(Trinidad Express) Police responding to a report of a car crash found more than a kilogramme of marijuana in the vehicle.

(Jamaica Observer) Christopher Townsend, attorney-at-law representing Elephant Man, said his client will be at an undisclosed location today for “talks” with members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force.

(Trinidad Guardian) “Mol­ly” which is a new ad­dic­tive drug has hit the na­tion’s schools and of­fi­cials of the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion are cur­rent­ly “scram­bling” to get more on it and its ef­fects so that they can deal with the fright­en­ing is­sue.

(Trinidad Express) Homicide detectives are investigating the shooting death of an 18-year-old man outside a building complex in Embacadere in San Fernando yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) In a bid to pro­tect T&T’s mar­itime bor­ders from il­le­gal mi­grants, pira­cy, kid­nap­ping, and smug­gling of guns and drugs in­to T&T the Po­lice Ser­vice in­tends to es­tab­lish an elite air unit from to­mor­row.