(Trinidad Guardian) The award of million-dollar contracts to three companies owned by a serving police officer is now the subject of an audit initiated by State-owned Angostura Ltd and has been linked to the absence of the company’s chief executive officer from work.
(Trinidad Express) Prepare, don’t panic. This was the advice from seismologist Dr Joan Latchman on what to do when earthquakes occur, especially with the expected “big one”.
(Trinidad Guardian) Caribbean Airlines may have achieved a Parliamentary Committee’s expectation: it moved from losses into operating profit.
(Barbados Nation) Central Bank Governor Cleviston Haynes accepts Government’s “strong” austerity measures will be “tough” for Barbadians over the next two years.
(Trinidad Guardian) Power 102.1FM talk show host Garth Christopher has been pulled off the air over “offensive comments” he allegedly made towards Police Commissioner Gary Griffith in relation to the recent police killing of five Laventille youths.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s environment and agriculture ministers yesterday criticized President-elect Jair Bolsonaro’s plans to merge their departments, saying it would hurt the country’s agenda on both fronts.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Two Venezuelan firefighters who were jailed last month after mocking unpopular President Nicolas Maduro in a viral video portraying him as a donkey were freed yesterday, two human rights groups said.
(Barbados Nation) Appeal Court Judge Andrew Burgess is set to become the first Barbadian to be appointed to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).
(JAMAICA GLEANER) Jamaica’s tourism sector has been left with the difficult task of trying to cauterise serious damage being done to its reputation, following an investigative story published in the international media, which outlined terrifying incidents of sexual assault on several United States tourists at some of the country’s leading resorts.
(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) Caribbean Airlines is confirming reports that an emergency evacuation of flight BW 1526 took place at the Piarco International Airport, Trinidad on Tuesday.
(JAMAICA OBSERVER) MINISTER without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation Daryl Vaz says several additional State assets have been identified and shortlisted for privatisation by the Government.
(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) A man is in police custody after he attempted to sexually assault a woman at the Scarborough Library in Tobago shortly before noon yesterday.
(JAMAICA OBSERVER) A man was shot dead and another left nursing injuries after they were pounced on by armed men while playing dominoes at a shop in Three Miles River district, Westmoreland last night.
(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) A YELLOW alert is now in effect as adverse weather conditions are expected to last from today through Friday.
(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) A socially displaced man appeared before the San Fernando Magistrates’ Court on Monday, after being charged with attacking another socially displaced man who was awaiting a complimentary meal from a church.
(JAMAICA OBSERVER) The police are reporting that a man was arrested and charged on Monday after he turned up at a medical facility in Falmouth, Trelawny where a pound of cocaine was extracted from his stomach in an emergency operation.
(TRINIDAD GUARDIAN) A Princes Town man is due to appear before a Siparia Magistrate today, charged with the possession of a firearm after being arrested by officers of the South Western Division Task Force (SWDTF) during an anti-crime exercise in Penal yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) “I wish he was here to see how much people loved him,” said Sharlan Bailey, as he delivered the eulogy for his father Dr Winston “Mighty Shadow” Bailey, in front of a mass of white-clad well-wishers at the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port-of-Spain, yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) One of the country’s largest commercial bank was targeted by skimmers over the weekend.
(Trinidad Express) A security guard was shot and killed outside Anand Low Price Supermarket in Debe yesterday afternoon.
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