Regional News

(Trinidad Express) A Debe woman was killed and her husband chopped on Saturday night.

(Trinidad Express) `Huegla de Melandro Ismael’, which translates to ‘Strike by criminal Ismael’, was on a sign found next to the body of a man who had been buried recently, then dug up, doused with a flammable liquid and burnt sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning in Sangre Grande.

(Trinidad Express) Pan Trinbago’s headquarters will be constructed at the old post office site on Wrightson Road in Port of Spain, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has confirmed.

(Trinidad Express) The action to repossess the MovieTowne cineplex in Port of Spain was an act of thuggery that caused great embarrassment and loss of money, said chairman of Trinbago Commercial Development Company Ltd (TCDC) Derek Chin.

(Barbados Nation) The Democratic Labour Party’s 69th Annual General Conference took a chaotic turn on its second day, leading to police intervention to restore order.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The financial performance of telecoms Digicel Group has stabilised, with its operations generating over US$14 million in cash for the year, leading to a rating upgrade by Moody’s.

(Trinidad Guardian) Lawrence Duprey, the former chairman of CL Financial (CLF) and the Colonial Life Insurance Company of Trinidad and Tobago (Clico), has died at 89.

(Trinidad Guardian) The owners of the MovieTowne complex at Invader’s Bay, Mucurapo, and the management of the Port-of-Spain Infrastructure Company (POSINCO) and the Port Authority of T&T (PATT) seem heading for a showdown.

(Trinidad Guardian) The owners of the MovieTowne complex at Invader’s Bay, Mucurapo, and the management of the Port-of-Spain Infrastructure Company (POSINCO) and the Port Authority of T&T (PATT) seem heading for a showdown.

(Trinidad Express) “ZOË, YOU’RE TRENDING!” That’s the all-caps message flooding British travel vlogger Zoë Reeve’s mobile phone after the jaw-dropping release of her music video collaboration with local dancehall artiste Big P, titled “Come Big P”.

(Trinidad Express) A gang-related killing has upped Tobago’s murder toll to a record high of 20.

(Jamaican Observer) A soldier has died as a result of injuries sustained during a shooting incident along Charles Street and Chestnut Lane in Kingston early yesterday morning.

(Trinidad Guardian) Six months after wreaking environmental havoc on Tobago’s Windward coast, the mysterious Gulfstream barge is in Port-of-Spain and undergoing preparation for storage.

(Trinidad Express) The men who came to kill mini mart owner Enrico Guerra would have seen his five-year-old daughter next to him.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – The proposed reform of Mexico’s judiciary threatens the country’s democracy and its vital trade relationship with the United States, the top U.S.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s Supreme Justice Tribunal today ratified President Nicolas Maduro’s victory in the July 28 presidential election, sealing institutional backing for the ruling party as the disputed contest fades from international headlines.

MANAUS, (Reuters) – A team of biologists, vets and fishermen captured rare freshwater dolphins this week on a lake in the Amazon to study their health in the hopes of avoiding hundreds of deaths of the mammals due to a severe drought last year.

…More than last year’s 36 (Trinidad Express) Fifty-four students were caught cheating in the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations in the region this year.

(Trinidad Express) A 24-year-old woman died in a crash in Debe on Tuesday.

(Trinidad Express) Infant Anika Guerra was shot five times, including in the head, by the gunmen who chased her father into his mini mart in Moruga while shooting at him.