Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) Vashist Persad, 28, is a national scholarship winner who is among thousands of T&T nationals stranded abroad.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haitian President Jovenel Moise has appointed nine members to a provisional electoral council tasked with preparing a constitutional referendum and organizing local, municipal, legislative and presidential elections in the Caribbean country.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo yesterday thanked Colombian President Ivan Duque for his stance against Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro and pledged continued assistance to help fight drug trafficking.

(Trinidad Guardian) A prison officer was ambushed and killed at his Chaguanas home on Friday night, in what some of his colleagues speculate may have been a hit called from inside the Golden Grove Prison due to an ongoing hunger strike by prisoners.

(Trinidad Express) A 29-year-old man of Second Street, Simeon Road, Petit Valley, appeared virtually in the Port-of-Spain Magistrates’ Court charged with three counts of shooting with intent, possession of a firearm, possession of ammunition, possession of a firearm to endanger life and possession of ammunition to endanger life.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo today thanked Colombian President Ivan Duque for his stance against Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro and pledged continued assistance to help fight drug trafficking.

(Trinidad Guardian) A prison officer was ambushed and killed at his Chaguanas home last night, in what some of his colleagues speculate may have been a hit called from inside the Golden Grove Prison due to an ongoing hunger strike by prisoners.

(Trinidad Guardian) A video of underaged children who appeared to be drinking alcohol during school hours has caught the attention of Education Minister Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly.

(Trinidad Guardian) Finance Minister Colm Imbert has revealed that after a decade and multiple assessments, that the government’s bailout of CL Financial and CLICO has cost taxpayers TT$30 billion.

(Barbados Nation) Accused Andrew Harclyde Pollard could not remember the day or month he started “talking to” Onicka Gulliver and he denied going to her house on the night she disappeared six years ago.

(Trinidad Express) The murder toll for 2020 has hit the 300 mark.

CASTRIES, St Lucia, (Reuters) – An explosion of steam and gas in the mountains of the remote, jungle-clad Caribbean island of Dominica has shaken residents, who are fearful it is a harbinger for renewed seismic activity in a nation that is home to nine volcanoes.

(Jamaica Star) A contract killer on Monday detailed how he lured Tonia McDonald, wife of popular Portland businessman Everton ‘Beachy Stout’ McDonald to a deserted roadway in the parish and watched as the man he sub-contracted stabbed her repeatedly.

(Jamaica Observer) Thirty-two-year-old Richard Scott was charged with housebreaking and larceny following an incident at a home on DeCarteret Road in Mandeville last Friday.

(Trinidad Express) Police are investigating the death of a two-year-old girl.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Fifty-eight-year old deaf-mute Patrick Duncan lives in an abandoned car in a section of Arnett Gardens known as Mexico, a situation that residents are appealing for Jamaicans to open their hearts to and help change.

LA PAZ,  (Reuters) – Bolivia’s conservative interim president, Jeanine Anez, pulled out of next month’s general election yesterday, a move that should strengthen other candidates running against the front-running socialist party of ex-leader Evo Morales.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro yesterday said it would be “impossible” to delay parliamentary elections planned for Dec.

BOGOTA,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The toppling of a statue of a Spanish conqueror by indigenous people in Colombia this week has opened up debate over how the historic arrival and rule by Western Europeans and the suffering of native people should be remembered.Members

(Jamaica Star) A St Thomas man who accused police of stealing $200,000 from his home after they searched his property, was proven wrong after he found the money in the same drawer he had been keeping it in.