(Jamaica Gleaner) Hotelier Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart has died. Stewart was founder of Sandals Resorts, Beaches Resorts, and their parent company Sandals Resorts International, as well as The ATL Group and The Jamaica Observer.
(Jamaica Star) Family members of 14-year-old Yuhembi Brydson, who was allegedly shot and killed by members of a joint police/military patrol in Dexter Street, Westmoreland, on New Year’s Day, are demanding justice.
They have been living under a bridge longer than even they can remember.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Jamaican government is not ruling out looking to China for supplies of the coronavirus vaccine.
(Trinidad Express) Bandits made off with an estimated $1.3 million sometime between Friday night and yesterday morning after they hammered their way through the wall of the RBC Royal Bank Maraval branch ATM room and vandalised the machines.
(Trinidad Guardian) Photos of dozens of people in an apparent party on No Man’s Land in Tobago has attracted the attention of the police, for possible breaches of the Public Health Regulations regarding COVID-19.
(Jamaica Gleaner) In what has been tagged an unduly harsh sentencing, a Jamaican man has been imprisoned for six months in Barbados for breaking quarantine; while influential tourists flouting the COVID-19 protocols, when caught are reportedly given time to pay fines instead of imprisonment.
(Trinidad Guardian) The new year, 2021, got off to a bloody start as two men were chopped to death in separate incidents in Morvant and Macoya on January 1.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – With her arms full of $11.87 worth of bananas, red peppers and onions, an elderly woman at a produce stand in western Caracas approaches vendor Walquiria Garcia and offers to pay with a $10 or $20 bill.
(Jamaica Observer) BEENIE Man is scheduled to appear in the St Elizabeth Parish Court on February 10 for breaches of the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA) and the Noise Abatement Act.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton is reporting that Jamaica has confirmed four cases of the new strain of COVID-19.
(Trinidad Express) A MAN who claimed he was charged by the police for failing to properly wear his mask at a police station although he was following instructions from an officer, has taken his issue to social media, seeking advice.
(Jamaica Star ) What was intended to be a romantic holiday getaway for an American couple, Izzy and Muawea Rawshdeh, quickly turned sour after Izzy was allegedly attacked and injured by another female visitor at a resort on Jamaica’s south coast.
(Trinidad Express) Police arrested four women and a man following a store break in incident in Port-of-Spain on Thursday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Dean of the Law Faculty of the University of the West Indies (UWI) and president of the Family Planning Association of T&T (FPATT), Professor Rose-Marie Belle Antoine has been hospitalised after a vehicular accident on Thursday.
(Trinidad Guardian) While several families ushered in the New Year with jubilation, the family and friends of Natalia Cooper were in tears following her murder.
(Jamaica Observer) The Barbados health ministry yesterday issued a public apology to Sandals Barbados, saying that three people detained by the police for alleged breaches of COVID-19 protocols had no connection with the resort chain.
(Trinidad Express) A gunman who decided to show off his weapon on social media on Wednesday, on Thursday had to give it to the police who saw the video and paid him a visit.
(Barbados Nation) Effective yesterday to January 14, Barbados will be under curfew from midnight until 5 a.m.
ZURICH, (Reuters) – The World Health Organization yesterday listed Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, in a move seeking to speed access in the developing world.
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