Regional News

(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.

(Trinidad Guardian) Gov­ern­ment is seek­ing ad­vice to as­cer­tain the ef­fect on its Drag­on Field gas plan of the US Gov­ern­ment’s sanc­tions on Venezuela’s Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) oil com­pa­ny, Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Min­is­ter Stu­art Young has said.

(Trinidad Express) One of six fishermen kidnapped for a $US200,000 ransom was released without harm on Wednesday.

(Trinidad Express) A man stepped out of a store Price Street, Port of Spain on Tuesday afternoon and was shot twice by a gunman who chasing another man.

(Trinidad Guardian) Dillian Johnson, who was granted humanitarian protection, is preparing to move to Scotland after he was granted his biometric residence permit in the United Kingdom on Monday.

(Trinidad Express) A dry future may be looming for “wet-fetes” in Trinidad and Tobago.

(Trinidad Guardian) Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter An­tho­ny Gar­cia yes­ter­day scold­ed a group of school­girls who were record­ed smok­ing mar­i­jua­na in their school uni­forms, say­ing it is il­le­gal and “you will have to pay the con­se­quences for your ac­tions.”

(Jamaica Observer) Up-and-coming reggae singer Mortimer was freed of rape in the Home Circuit Court in downtown Kingston yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) As the economic crisis deepens in neighbouring Venezuela, fishermen plying their trade off the southwestern coast are fearing for their lives.

(Jamaica Observer) Assistant Superintendent Dahlia Garrick, head of the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s Corporate Communications Unit (CCU), is confirming that investigations are under way to determine whether a firearm in a video involving a popular dancehall artiste and a woman is real.

(Trinidad Express) In a fit of rage after an argument with his wife, a La Brea man committed suicide by setting himself on fire inside the family home.

(Jamaica Observer) The overall state of West Indies cricket has been a source of irritation, agony and pain for millions of West Indian fans in the Caribbean and the Diaspora, not the least of them being retired Prime Minister of Jamaica, PJ Patterson.

(Trinidad Guardian) Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nico­las Maduro says he has spo­ken to CARI­COM lead­ers and has told them that he is open to me­di­a­tion talks in “Trinidad and To­ba­go or wher­ev­er”, with the Venezue­lan op­po­si­tion.

(Trinidad Express) Congress of the People (COP) leader Carolyn Seepersad-Bachan says she thinks the Dragon Gas deal between Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela has fallen through because of the political crisis in Venezuela.

(Trinidad Express) Talk by the Opposition United National Congress that Trinidadians holding US Visas should be fearful, is being rubbished by Communications Minister Stuart Young.

(Trinidad Express) Thank you, Daryl. Those were the words mother of two, Alesha Garcia, would say to her husband if she could see him one last time.

(Trinidad Express) There are more than 200,000 Trinidad and Tobago citizens who hold United States visas and can be impacted by Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley’s “not-so-veiled attack” on the United States over its stance on Venezuela.

(Trinidad Express) The United National Congress (UNC) is strong and will be fighting the 2020 general election without a coalition, says Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The government will be using a near $2 billion loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to finance the training of Jamaicans for high-skilled jobs.

Chairman of the Carib-bean Community (CARICOM), Dr  Timothy Harris, Prime Minister of St Kitts and Nevis leads a delegation from the Community to meet with United Nations (UN) Secretary-General  Antonio Guterres this morning to discuss the crisis in Venezuela.