(JAMAICA OBSERVER) THE police say the caretaker of the Church Of God of Prophecy on Old Harbour Road in Spanish Town, St Catherine, has been held in connection with last month’s murder of pastor James Johnson.
(JAMAICA GLEANER) Sections of the island were rattled by a minor tremor around 9.28 p.m.
(Reuters) An earthquake hit northern Haiti late on Saturday, killing at least 14 people and sparking a scramble by rescue agencies to help residents of the worst-hit towns in the impoverished Caribbean country.
(Sunday Express) Police officers are asking eye-witnesses to come forward and identify a red band maxi taxi and its driver, which left the scene of a road traffic accident which claimed the life of a 64-year-old El Dorado man on Saturday afternoon.
(Sunday Express) Three Colombian women who were “pimping out” girls in Trinidad and Tobago have been captured, Colombia’s state prosecutor’s office said in a statement on Wednesday.
(Reuters) – Right-wing Congressman Jair Bolsonaro took a commanding lead in Brazil’s presidential election yesterday, but the race headed for a second round of voting between him and leftist former Sao Paulo Mayor Fernando Haddad, according to exit polls and partial results.
(TRINIDAD GUARDIAN) The son of a former deputy commissioner of police was gunned down in Chaguanas a short while ago.
(JAMAICA OBSERVER) Comedienne and media personality Elva Ruddock died at the Kingston Public Hospital yesterday morning following what is being described as a brief illness.
(TRINIDAD GUARDIAN) Member of Parliament for Laventille East/Morvant Adrian Leonce says his wife who suffered serious injuries to her face after falling at home is recovering after three “extensive surgeries.”
(JAMAICA OBSERVER) WHEN Kerrian Powell Simpson took her daughter Adrianna Davis to be vaccinated on June 14, 2017, the mother of five thought it would have been just another regular day.
(JAMAICA GLEANER) Government Senator Kerensia Morrison has urged Jamaicans overseas to help stem the murder rate in their homeland by stopping the shipping of guns into the country.
(JAMAICA GLEANER) Several Jamaicans are forging doctors’ signatures to secure strong pain-relieving drugs such as morphine and pethidine, raising fear among pharmacists that the country could be facing a growing abuse of prescription narcotics.
(Trinidad Express) The Sankat family has expressed thanks to those who offered support and prayers to their son, Nishal Sankat.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A team from the Ministry of Labour and Social Security is to investigate complaints by Jamaican workers employed with China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) Limited about poor working conditions.
At least six people are reported to have died after a 5.9 magnitude earthquake hit Caribbean neighbours Haiti on Saturday evening.
(JAMAICA OBSERVER) A Jamaican man has been sentenced to eight years in prison in Connecticut for beating his wife unconscious with a lamp.
(TRINIDAD NEWSDAY) A 32-year-old woman is dead and her male passenger fighting for his life after an early morning accident along the Uriah Butler Highway.
(TRINIDAD NEWSDAY) A HIT-and-run accident is what claimed the life of Ken “Professor” Philmore contrary to earlier reports.
(JAMAICA GLEANER) The Manchester police expect that very soon, Demar Scott, the man held by the St James police in connection with the alleged rape of two guests at a resort there, will face identification parades in relation to six rape cases in Mandeville last year.
(TRINIDAD GUARDIAN) Police are investigating an incident in which a prison officer’s Tacarigua home was firebombed early yesterday.
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