Regional News

(Trinidad Express) A 16-year-old was one of two people who appeared before the Chaguanas Magistrates’ Court charged with the murder of national awardee Haseena Ali.

(Trinidad Express) The decomposing body of a man was found behind a house in Carapo yesterday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Audley Shaw, minister of industry, commerce, agriculture and fisheries, has dismissed concerns about China’s growing influence in Jamaica, describing the critics as either political or mischievous.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 24-year-old man, who ad­mit­ted to steal­ing al­most $60,000 from his em­ploy­er to pay for his wed­ding, is ex­pect­ed to be sen­tenced to­day.

(Trinidad Express) A woman was critically injured when a thief commandeered a PTSC passenger bus in Chaguanas in the pre-dawn hours of Monday, and crashed into her house.

(Jamaica Observer) Jamaica’s Ambassador to the United States Audrey Marks is urging eligible Jamaicans residing in the US to take the necessary steps to become US citizens as a means of stemming the high number of deportations to the island, particularly among young males with little or no connection to Jamaica.

(Jamaica Observer) DALTON Harris is one step closer to clinching the X Factor UK title for 2018 after the Jamaican cruised into next weekend’s semi-final of the popular televised talent show.

(Jamaica Observer) The Government of the People’s Republic of China is looking to import some US$10 trillion in goods and services from Latin America and the Caribbean over the next five years, China’s Ambassador to Jamaica Tian Qi has disclosed.

(Trinidad Express) – SUSPENDED Senior Superintendent of Police Edward Castillo was gunned down at his business place in Waterloo on Saturday afternoon.

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice have ar­rest­ed the imam of a Cara­po mosque in con­nec­tion with an al­leged as­sault, kid­nap­ping and rob­bery in­ci­dent last week.

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice are now seek­ing the pub­lic’s as­sis­tance in iden­ti­fy­ing the body of a woman found by hunters in San­ta Cruz on Sat­ur­day.

(Trinidad Guardian) A se­nior po­lice­man who was on su­pen­sion was fa­tal­ly shot at his busi­ness place at Wa­ter­loo Road, Cara­pichaima, yes­ter­day.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Students at 18 educational institutions will have to pay more for meals tomorrow as the concessionaire for their canteens, Tastee Limited, introduces higher prices.

(Trinidad Newsday) Thirteen people including officials at the Ministry of Social Development will appear in court tomorrow after they were charged by the Fraud Squad for offences relating to the distribution of grants to flood victims.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Residents of Cocoa Walk, south Manchester, are up in arms over the shooting of a man in the community yesterday by a member of a police team.

(Trinidad Guardian) Res­i­dents af­fect­ed by the dev­as­tat­ing floods a month ago are strug­gling to re­build their lives and men­tal health ex­perts are ap­peal­ing to the au­thor­i­ties to en­sure there are mech­a­nisms to pro­vide emo­tion­al and psy­cho­log­i­cal sup­port.

(Trinidad Guardian) At the end of their re­struc­tur­ing process, the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vice of T&T (TSTT) in­tends to send home 700 em­ploy­ees said Ronald Wal­cott, TSTT’s CEO.

(Jamaica Observer) Rumours have been swirling that a court case may have led to the death of 46-year-old Nadine Brown, who was executed at her home in Retreat District, St Thomas, yesterday morning.

PORT OF SPAIN, (Reuters) – Authorities in Trinidad and Tobago yesterday arrested 75 Cubans who are seeking asylum in the Caribbean island nation, after the group camped out for about three weeks outside the United Nations office in the capital, seeking humanitarian aid.

(Barbados Nation) It could have been handled differently. That’s the opinion of Queen’s Counsel Michael Lashley, when his four clients – three Colombians and a Guyanese – faced the District “C” St Matthias Magistrates’ Court yesterday.