Regional News

(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.

(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.