(Jamaica Observer) A parish judge could not hide her shock when she learned that an elderly woman accused of stealing $25,000 from the pocket of a woman in downtown, Kingston, had 22 previous convictions across the country.
(Trinidad Express) he Ministries of Education (MOE) and Youth Development have both distanced themselves from a visit to a secondary school in Central Trinidad by a social media personality.
(Trinidad Express) Activist and businessman Inshan Ishmael has been granted permission from the High Court to file judicial review proceedings against the Office of the Commissioner of Police.
QUITO, (Reuters) – An Ecuadorian judge approved on Sunday prosecutors’ request to charge former President Lenin Moreno with bribery over a contract for a Chinese-built hydroelectric plant in the South American nation.
(Trinidad Guardian) National scholarship winner Jilisse Roberts hit a stumbling block during her studies at Naparima Girls’ High School after her mother, Lystra, suffered kidney failure.
QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuador’s National Assembly yesterday voted in favor of a report which recommends opening an impeachment process against President Guillermo Lasso, accusing him of corruption over dealings in public companies.
(Trinidad Guardian) A St Augustine mother of three was fatally shot in front of her mother, sister and children as she knelt before her two killers begging for mercy.
(Trinidad Express) As debate continues to rage about human trafficking and prostitution in Trinidad and Tobago, an official list of convicted sex offenders has been made public for the first time via an online sex offenders registry.
(Jamaica Gleaner) San Juan, Puerto Rico (AP) — Paul Pierrilus was deported two years ago from the United States to Haiti where he has been trying to survive in a chaotic and violent country where he wasn’t born and had never lived.
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro on Saturday denied committing “illegal acts” after a report that jewelry allegedly gifted by Saudi Arabia to him and his wife was brought into the South American nation without being declared to authorities.
MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines said on Saturday it had spotted a Chinese navy ship and dozens of militia vessels around a contested Philippine-occupied island in the South China Sea, as territorial tensions mount in the area.
LIMA (Reuters) – Andean communities in Peru will resume a blockade of a crucial highway used by major copper producers next week, two local leaders said on Saturday, following a truce that had allowed mining companies to restart production.
(Trinidad Guardian) Having arrived in Trinidad and Tobago before the COVID-19 pandemic in search of a better life, Marcia Jimson (not her real name), 17, was sold for $10,000 to a trafficker who then put her to work as a prostitute in an upscale Chaguanas home.
(Barbados Advocate) The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has started a new phase of its public procurement reform programme, which is helping Eastern Caribbean countries to increase efficiency and effectiveness in govern- ment procurement.
(Trinidad Express) DNA samples from the parents of Ste Madeleine mother Danette Pierre have confirmed that the burnt remains found in a vehicle in Claxton Bay were hers.
(Trinidad Express) Commissioner of Police Erla Harewood-Christopher has ordered an investigation into allegations that “senior Government officials” are involved in human trafficking.
(Jamaica Observer) Eight of the 26 men on trial for alleged Klansman gang crimes may have mistakenly killed and set a St Catherine couple on fire in 2017 while looking for a rival gangster by the name of “Bobo Sparks”, but on Wednesday Chief Justice Bryan Sykes declared that it does not absolve them from punishment.