Regional News

(Trinidad Express) A father of five was shot dead and his two sons wounded when masked men entered their home and opened fire on Sunday night.

(Trinidad Express) The Anti-Bullying Association of Trinidad and Tobago (ABATT) is calling on local fast food restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) to immediately remove an advertisement for one of its newest sandwiches that depicts a “love triangle”, in the wake of the murder of a teenage boy by a schoolmate allegedly under similar circumstances.

(Trinidad Express) Embarrassing! This was the reaction yesterday of former diplomat and head of the Public Service Reginald Dumas to what he described as “particularly glaring protocol lapses” which occurred during the three-day visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping and First Lady Peng Liyuan.

(Trinidad Express) Jamaica’s Prime Minister, Portia Simpson-Miller, has said the relationship between Caribbean Airlines Ltd (CAL) and the carrier it acquired in 2011, Air Jamaica, is a “great cause of concern for the Jamaican people”.

(Daily Mail) A Jamaican father of three has been jailed for six years after he smuggled £160,000 worth of cocaine into the United Kingdom in patties.

LIMA (Reuters) – Two 400-year-old warships that sank in the Pacific Ocean after being attacked by a Dutch admiral and pirates may once again see land if researchers in Peru successfully raise them.

(Trinidad Express) Former People’s National Movement government minister Rennie Dumas was yesterday sentenced to pay fines totalling $18,500, after being convicted on two charges of assault in the Scarborough Magis-trate’s Court.

(Jamaica Observer) When former Senate President Stanley Redwood landed in Canada on May 20, he joined more than 21,000 Jamaicans who have left the island’s warm shores since 2002 to legally take up residency in the North American country where temperatures below zero are not uncommon.

(Trinidad Express) Caribbean Community (Caricom) countries that support the People’s Republic of China’s One China policy, including Trinidad and Tobago, are to benefit from US$3 billion in concessional loans from that country.

(Trinidad Guardian) Finance Minister Larry Howai says approximately TT$1 billion is to be expended on vulnerable young people. The

(Trinidad Express) Jamaica’s Prime Minister, Portia Simpson-Miller, has said the relationship between Caribbean Airlines Ltd (CAL) and the carrier it acquired in 2011, Air Jamaica, is a “great cause of concern for the Jamaican people”.

(Barbados Nation) A man was in police custody last night after reportedly admitting he was responsible for the death of 12-year-old Rashida Bascombe, who went missing 11 years ago.

(Jamaica Observer) SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland – An American man who unwittingly walked into a robbery at a garment store in Westmoreland last night, was shot and killed during an ensuing gun battle between the police and robbers.

(Trinidad Express) The ties between Trinidad and Tobago and China are set to get stronger as State-owned asphalt production company, Lake Asphalt, yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Chinese firm Beijing Oriental Yuhong Waterproofing Technology Co Ltd.

(Trinidad Express) The Borough of Arima is to benefit from Trinidad and Tobago’s relations with the People’s Republic of China.

(Trinidad Express) Home Construction Ltd (HCL), a subsidiary of  cash-strapped CL Financial Ltd (CLF) has sold two of its malls-Atlantic Plaza and Valpark Shopping Plaza.

(Jamaica Observer) Two men were on Friday stabbed to death in what police theorise is a reprisal for the death of eight-year-old Tamera Laing, whose body was found in a pit toilet in March Pen, Spanish Town, on Thursday.

(Trinidad Express)  The Commonwealth Short Story judging panel on Friday showed their interest in local author Sharon Millar’s short story, The Whale House, by naming her co-winner of the 2013 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.

(Trinidad Guardian) President of the National Council of Indian Culture Deokienanan Sharma says Indians need to get their act together.

(Trinidad Guardian) President of the National Council of Indian Culture Deokienanan Sharma says Indians need to get their act together.