Regional News

(Trinidad Express) Police officers across three divisions were last evening searching for the men who abducted 67-year-old businesswoman Mary Ali early yesterday morning.

(Jamaica Observer) THE Ministry of Education, in the wake of complaints from students and parents regarding perceived irregularities in the just-released Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) exams, says it is investigating the concerns.

(Trinidad Express) National Security Minister Stuart Young said the investigation into the multi-million dollar pyramid scheme will be a complex one and issued a warning for persons to stay away from this fraud.

(Jamaica Observer) Mastercard today announced that it is partnering exclusively with Grammy winning reggae artiste, Koffee, as its official brand ambassador in Jamaica.

(Jamaica Star) Judith and Leighton Sharras had plans to celebrate their daughter Xanthe’s success in Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) when the portal opened last night.

(Trinidad Express) The “pyramid scheme” is crumbling. Nine people, including a member of the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force, were held yesterday morning during a police operation in La Horquetta where police seized a large quantity of money estimated to be in the millions.

(Trinidad Express) A 35-year-old female police officer was granted $250,000 bail when she appeared before Justice of the Peace Stephen Young to answer five fraud charges.

(Jamaica Observer) Investigators are hot on the heels of the adults behind a video circulating on social media, which features a child, not older than five years old, who is being encouraged to drink and smoke as part of an apparent birthday celebration.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica, and Antigua and Barbuda, have started operating the CARICOM Travel Bubble, with the hope of resuscitating the travel and tourism sectors.

(Trinidad Guardian) One woman and two men have been charged with the kidnapping of nine-month-old Sophia Rivas which occurred on September 15, 2020.

(Trinidad Express) Newlyweds Vibert Campbell and his wife Adama have much to celebrate.

(Jamaica Observer) A major manhunt is now on for a vendor whom police believe ordered the fatal shooting of two sisters in Mona Commons, St Andrew, last Thursday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Knowing the opposition from his dad which would meet his decision to purchase a motorcycle, Constable Kamal Foster waited more than a month before breaking the secret to his dad.

(Trinidad Express) Muchas gracias por sus oraciones y por todo su apoyo.

(Trinidad Express) A man not known to police was shot at a job site in Trincity yesterday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Janet Thompson*, who has recovered from COVID-19, as well as her two-year-old child, still regrets that she never did enough to protect them all from the virus.

(Barbados Nation) The Ministry of Education, Technological and Vocational Training said yesterday that all public schools are scheduled to open today Monday, September 21.

(Jamaica Observer) For nine-year-old Zoevaughn Reid the safety of his brother, aged two, took primacy as he, his mother and sister, now four, hurriedly escaped fire at their house in Hatfield near here, last Tuesday afternoon.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Attorney-at-law Sherene Golding Campbell has taken her place in the Upper House of Jamaica’s Parliament at a historic time for the legislature, which currently has the highest number of women sitting at any one time.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Mark John* is alive again. For weeks, he stared at dead skin in his darkened palms as he inched closer and closer to depression.