Regional News

(Jamaica Observer) The United States has fired a shot across the bow of the Jamaican Government in relation to the installation of fifth generation (5G) mobile technology infrastructure, saying that any decision to engage China or a Chinese firm poses several risks to the island, particularly to the financial sector.

MADRID,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition politician Leopoldo Lopez arrived in Madrid yesterday, Spain’s foreign ministry said, after spending the past year at the Spanish ambassador’s residence in Venezuela to escape house arrest.

(Trinidad Express) Chairman of One Caribbean Media (OCM) Faarees Hosein has requested that the Trinidad and Tobago Securities and Exchange Commission (TTSEC) investigate a number of purchases and sales of the group’s shares since the start of the year.

(Trinidad Guardian) Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA supplied this country with footage of the recent inspection done by a local team to the oil tanker Nabarima.

(Trinidad Express) A Canadian tobacco farmer has claimed that seven Trinidadian workers are stuck on his farm and efforts to get them home are meeting with no response.

(Trinidad Guardian) Joshua Noor and his wife, Rena Noor of 337 Southern Main Rd, La Romain will be celebrating a milestone this coming Thursday (October 29) – 60 years of marital bliss.

(Jamaica Gleaner) It was the afternoon of Friday, October 17, 2014 when Joan Martin was at home in the United Kingdom (UK) with a church sister and her phone rang.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has announced adjustments to the COVID-19 restrictions, including a full return of public servants to work from tomorrow, and the reopening of gyms, places of worship, cinemas and members’ clubs with some caveats.

(Trinidad Guardian) The impact of COVID-19 on the countries of the region has been likened by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to a heart attack.

(Trinidad Guardian) Another woman has been killed in a domestic violence dispute and police say her husband has confessed to the murder.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A Jamaican ex-pastor, could face deportation from the US after serving a 30-year sentence for rape. 

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition politician Leopoldo Lopez has abandoned the Spanish ambassador’s residence in Caracas to leave the country, more than a year after seeking refuge there to escape house arrest, three people familiar with his exit said.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Fifteen-year-old Saneeka Leechman, a student of The Queen’s School in Kingston, was making plans to surprise her father, 42-year-old Romeo Leechman, on his upcoming birthday, but this will never come to pass as a land slippage caused by heavy rains destroyed their frail house yesterday in Shooters Hill St Andrew, crushing and killing her father.

(Trinidad Guardian) “I didn’t eat myself to this. I am not a glutton.”

(Trinidad Express) An American executive has apologised to Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley and National Security Minister Stuart Young for comments made about them by Sacha Singh.

(Trinidad Express) A Cuban national has confessed to police he strangled his Venezuelan girlfriend.

GENEVA/ZURICH,  (Reuters) – Health officials reviewing Gilead Science Inc’s remdesivir against COVID-19 should consider all evidence, including a trial in which the medicine failed, before giving it the green light, the top WHO scientist said yesterday.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – The Brazilian Air Force yesterday unveiled the first of 36 Gripen fighter jets bought from Sweden’s Saab AB in a $4 billion deal that includes the assembly of planes in Brazil.

(Trinidad Express) Homicide detectives have been given instructions to lay a charge of murder against a 41-year-old Fyzabad man for the kill-ing of Santa Flora mother Tineil Shanice Cupid.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazil recorded 30,026 additional confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours, and 571 deaths from COVID-19, the Health Ministry said yesterday.