Regional News

(JAMAICA OBSERVER) The police are reporting that three males were taken into custody yesterday in relation to the murder of 14-year-old Raven Wilson.

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) THE University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre has recorded another earthquake.

(TRINIDAD GUARDIAN) Po­lice were put on alert yes­ter­day af­ter­noon, af­ter re­ports that groups of men pos­ing as vol­un­teers of­fer­ing to re­move dam­aged house­hold items in Green­vale, La Hor­quet­ta, were in fact im­posters who were steal­ing from the flood-hit res­i­dents.

(JAMAICA GLEANER) A traffic accident along the Long Hill main road in St James on Wednesday left hundreds of motorists and commuters, including students and visitors to the island, stranded for several hours.

(Barbados Nation) Former cabinet minister Donville Inniss will stand trial on money-laundering charges in a Brooklyn federal court from June 24 next year.

(Trinidad Guardian) Pim, pom, pi, di, pom, pom…The ‘Bass Man’ is gone!

(Jamaica Gleaner) Deep Blue Cable Limited, the start-up enterprise planning to create a new fibre-optic ring across the region, says it will partner with Digicel Group on a multi-government contract in the Caribbean.

(JAMAICA OBSERVER) THERE was chaos yesterday in Jamaica’s capital city, Kingston, after approximately two hours of heavy rain turned several roads in into waterways and leaving hundreds of motorists stranded for hours.

(Trinidad Guardian) Pim, pom, pi, di, pom, pom…The ‘Bass Man’ is gone!

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – The man who will likely be Brazil’s next Defence Minister greeted two reporters waiting outside the door, then politely sent them packing.

(Trinidad Express) TWO men were shot dead in Claxton Bay early Tuesday.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago was shaken by another earthquake late Monday night.

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) MORUGA grandfather Earl Teesdale said he is lucky to be alive after his house collapsed after torrential rainfall over the weekend.

(TRINIDAD GUARDIAN) On­ly sev­en per cent of schools across Trinidad were af­fect­ed by last week­end’s dev­as­tat­ing floods.

(Barbados Nation) American Airlines has announced that effective October 22, the airline will be going cashless at Grantley Adams International Airport (BGI).

(Trinidad Express) Regional leaders have reached out to flood devastated Trinidad and Tobago to offer help.

(JAMAICA GLEANER) Three men, said to be gangsters, were killed during a shootout with the police in Trelawny, on Monday.

Dr Rohit Dass appeared before the Chaguanas Magistrates’ Court charged with assaulting his wife.

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) POLICE officers have been given more time to investigate the source of more than $100,000 seized from murdered businessman Sheron Sukhdeo.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Urban Development Corporation (UDC) says construction of the state-of-the-art beach park at the Closed Harbour Beach in St James will begin in January 2019.