Regional News

(Jamaica Observer) DUNCANS, Trelawny — Forty-year-old farmer Nadeen Geddes was yesterday sentenced to 20 years in prison at hard labour in the Trelawny Circuit Court for the murder of her sister 36-year-old Tamara Geddes, who was shot in her bedroom in the Reserve community in the parish last year.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Reggae icon Bunny Wailer has died. The 73-year-old legend passed away minutes to eight yesterday morning at the Medical Associates Hospital in Kingston, his manager Maxine Stowe confirmed to The Gleaner.

(Trinidad Guardian) Opposition leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar has labelled Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh and his colleague Dr Amery Browne “deadbeats” and called on them to “do their jobs.”

(Trinidad Guardian) A family beach outing ended in tragedy after a 50-year-old truck driver was killed at the home of his relative in Penal on Sunday night.

(Jamaica Observer) The two-week ban on burials imposed by the Government as it struggles to arrest a worrying spike in positive COVID-19 cases has drawn howls of protest from funeral directors fearful that they will run out of space to store bodies.

(Jamaica Star) A Jamaican woman facing murder charges in The Bahamas appeared in court yesterday.

(Barbados Nation) Butchery, heinous, horrific and a most severe and serious attack were just some of the words Justice Randall Worrell used to describe the 45 chops Allan Alston Belle inflicted on his estranged wife Brenda Belle more than seven years ago.

 (Trinidad Guardian) Public Service Association president Watson Duke is threatening to shut down the Immigration Division’s operations at the Piarco International Airport, as he says the Government has failed the officers by not providing proper personal protective equipment (PPE).

(Trinidad Express) Disc jockey Kernell Alexander died in a vehicular accident along the Solomon Hochoy Highway on Saturday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The search for 21-year-old Isiah Thomas, who had been reported missing, ended in tragedy on Saturday night after police found his body at Lambeau Old Road.

(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad-born, stand-up comic Arthur Joseph did his home town of Point Fortin and every Trinidadian at home and in the diaspora proud when he appeared on the popular US game show, Wheel of Fortune’s Friday episode and endeared himself to a worldwide audience.

(Jamaica Star) Jamaica Labour Party Councillor for the Trafalgar Division in South East, St.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica is set to receive 50,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines from India some time next week, which will be the country’s first shipment of the drug.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley is calling on the new United States government to begin dialogue aimed at removing sanctions against Venezuela.

(Trinidad Guardian) Venezuelan nationals who were delayed on Thursday in returning home via a plane sanctioned by the United States’ Government departed T&T just after 6 pm on Friday after a successful Government outreach to the US Embassy.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley is calling on the new United States government to begin dialogue aimed at removing sanctions against Venezuela.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – One of Haiti’s most powerful gang leaders, Arnel Joseph, escaped from a prison in the outskirts of the capital Port-au-Prince during a riot on Thursday that left seven prisoners and a police officer dead, authorities told local media.

(Trinidad Guardian) Scores of Venezuelan nationals were stranded at the Piarco International Airport last night after a repatriation flight that was due to arrive in T&T from Venezuela was blocked from coming.

(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley announced yesterday that as of Wednesday  night over 25 000 people had received a coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said yesterday that the country’s state-controlled companies should fulfill a social function and any different understanding by their chief executives was unacceptable.