(Trinidad Guardian) Even as National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds has announced that police are engaged in an operation to remove an estimated 12,000 illegal firearms from the hands of criminals, one criminologist says guns and ammunition are entering through legal ports stuffed in items like bags of cement.
(Trinidad Express) A 34-year-old Carenage mother of five was stabbed to death on Monday during a fight with another woman near her home over the father of their children.
(Trinidad Express) A 34-year-old Carenage mother of five was stabbed to death yesterday during a fight with another woman near her home over the father of their children.
(Trinidad Guardian) Six houses are on the brink of collapse and 15 more families are in danger of being cut off as two major landslips deteriorate rapidly at Pluck Road, San Francique.
(Trinidad Guardian) A woman and her 12-year-old son were stabbed to death in their home in Penal this morning.
(Reuters) – Bahamian authorities said yesterday they have identified three American tourists who died under mysterious circumstances at a luxury resort on the island of Great Exuma on Friday and are still investigating cause of death.
MIAMI, (Reuters) – The United States today charged a former Haitian senator with conspiring to kill Haitian President Jovenel Moise, the third suspect to be charged by the Department of Justice as the Caribbean nation’s own probe into the murder remains stalled.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico will hire 500 Cuban doctors to work in the country to help make up for a shortage of medical professionals, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said at a regular news conference today.
(Reuters) – A group of people including at least eight Turkish missionaries has been kidnapped in Haiti after traveling by bus from the Dominican Republic, according to Haitian and Dominican media, amid a wave of gang violence in Haiti.
(Trinidad Express) The Cunupia Business Chamber said yesterday it was “saddened by the brutal killing of Darryl Dindial, an outstanding member of the Central community”.
(Barbados Nation) Moments before O’Neal ‘Mike’ Farmer was fatally stabbed in The City on Friday night, he got down on his knees to pray.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Former leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva launched his presidential bid yesterday calling on Brazilians to unite behind him to defend Brazil’s democracy from the autho-ritarian government of far right President Jair Bolsonaro.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuban rescue workers yesterday picked through rubble for bodies and possible survivors after a Havana boutique hotel was devastated by what authorities said was a gas explosion, leaving at least 26 dead.
(Trinidad Express) Two police officers have been charged with multiple misbehaviour in public office offences.
(Trinidad Guardian) Fifteen days after Western Division tactical officer PC Clarence Gilkes was killed during a police exercise in Diego Martin, three police officers have now been suspended, alongside a major shake-up in the division.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon surged to record levels for the month of April, nearly doubling the area of forest removed in that month last year — the previous April record — preliminary government data showed on Friday, alarming environmental campaigners.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – At least 100 vehicles were destroyed on highways across northern Colombia in isolated attacks by the Clan del Golfo criminal gang, which announced an “armed strike” to protest the extradition of former leader Dairo Antonio Usuga, known as Otoniel, to the United States, the government said on Friday.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – A deadly explosion hit a well-known hotel in downtown Havana today, tearing a gash several floors high in the side of the building, killing at least 22 people and injuring upwards of 70, witnesses and state media said.
(Trinidad Express) Montrose Road, Chaguanas, was blocked with burning tyres last night as residents protested the murder of businessman, Darryl Dindial, who was shot dead in a robbery.
MIAMI, (Reuters) – The British Virgin Islands yesterday swore in Natalio Wheatley as the British overseas territory’s new premier following the removal of ex-premier Andrew Fahie, who was arrested on drug charges in Miami last week.
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