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(Trinidad Guardian) An In­ter­na­tion­al team of ex­perts is be­ing sought to form the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice’s (TTPS) newest unit, the Cold Cas­es and Miss­ing Per­sons Unit.

(Trinidad Guardian) A young stu­dent who won a foot­ball schol­ar­ship on­ly this year died yes­ter­day in a ve­hic­u­lar ac­ci­dent in the Unit­ed States.

(Trinidad Guardian) A High Court judge is call­ing for the en­act­ment of laws to hold par­ents and guardians re­spon­si­ble for their chil­dren’s crim­i­nal ac­tions.

(JAMAICA OBSERVER) Last week’s social media frenzy over Dancehall star Spice’s new “bleached look” spilled over into the opening of the Senate’s annual “State of the Nation Debate” on Friday, as government member, Senator Kerensia Morrison, made no bones about her support for the controversial DJ.

(JAMAICA GLEANER) A new liquid candy being marketed to the children at primary schools across the island, with a symbol that appears to be rainbow-coloured male genitalia, has sparked outrage from some parents and children advocates.

(Newsday) Trinidad & Tobago is one of the most political countries he has ever encountered, Sandals chairman Gordon “Butch” Stewart declared yesterday, as he reiterated that the only document which exists with Government is a “little MoU” and not a signed contract for the Tobago Sandals project.

(Trinidad Guardian) An In­ter­na­tion­al team of ex­perts is be­ing sought to form the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice’s (TTPS) newest unit, the Cold Cas­es and Miss­ing Per­sons Unit.

(Barbados Nation) Calling the decision to send home more than 1,000 public servants the toughest one she has had to make in public life, Prime Minister Mia Mottley on Friday apologised again for the haphazard manner in which the latest retrenchment programme had displaced some Barbadians.

(TRINIDAD GUARDIAN) A po­lice sergeant on va­ca­tion was al­leged­ly caught steal­ing women’s un­der­wear at PriceS­mart in Ch­agua­nas yes­ter­day.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police Commissioner Gary Griffith says delayed response time by officers is expected to become a thing of the past.

(Barbados Nation) The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) double dipped to help BERT.

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) The decision by the daughter of a rape convict to send a Facebook friend request to the presiding judge who is due to sentence him, was raised before the court on Friday.

(TRINIDAD NEWSDAY) International rapper Nicki Minaj has requested to meet Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley.

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) The five men shot and killed on Thursday night opened fire on police officers as they were about to execute a search warrant at a home in Trou Macaque, Laventille, Trinidad.

(JAMAICA GLEANER) The vicious murder cycle, which has become the unfortunate new norm in Westmoreland, has churned out yet another double murder, with the killing of a common-law couple in the Bethel Town community on Wednesday night.

(TRINIDAD GUARDIAN) Al­though he is promis­ing a thor­ough in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to last night’s killings of five young men in Laven­tille, Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith is warn­ing crim­i­nals not to chal­lenge the po­lice with gun­fire.

(Trinidad Express) The killing of five men by the police on Thursday night has prompted a response from Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, who called on young men to follow the right path, saying that there was no good end to bad deed.

WASHINGTON/PIJIJIAPAN, Mexico,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration may send up to 1,000 active-duty troops to the U.S.-Mexico

(Trinidad Express) A businessman who went to a bar to meet someone was shot dead in Curepe on Wednesday evening.

(TRINIDAD GUARDIAN) Screams and cries res­onat­ed from the hills of Laven­tille on Thurs­day night, af­ter po­lice shot and killed five men who opened fire on them.