Regional News

(Jamaica Star) “Me talk to him. If you cyah hear you must feel.”

(Jamaica Gleaner) Marcia Edwards of Crooked River, Clarendon, has a sense of regret that she never pressed her husband, Earl, not to take that final trek to the United States to work at Gebbers Farms.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A coma can leave both patient and despairing family in the dark.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Six reputed members of what the police call “a very big and dangerous” criminal network were killed in an alleged fierce fight with the security forces shortly after midnight Saturday, disrupting the Bushman Gang’s reign of terror in central Jamaica.

(Barbados Nation) Carrier interCaribbean Airways is expected to touch down in Barbados tomorrow, joining several other airlines picking up the slack as the regionally-owned LIAT remains grounded with financial woes.

(Trinidad Express) The Office of the Prime Minister (Gender and Child Affairs) and the Children’s Authority of Trinidad and Tobago are currently working with the Management and Staff of the St.

BUENOS AIRES/ASUNCION/BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Argentina broke past 200,000 COVID-19 cases yesterday and Colombia set a daily record as grim milestones topple in Latin America, pushing the world’s worst affected region towards a combined 5 million cases.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s main opposition parties yesterday pledged to boycott legislative elections scheduled for Dec.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 52-year-old housewife of Cunupia will appear before a Chaguanas Magistrate on August 3rd charged with selling intoxicating liquor without a liquor license.

(Trinidad Guardian) Another primary school had to be shut down on Friday after the parent of a Standard Five pupil was confirmed to have contracted the virus.

(Trinidad Express) A police investigation has been launched into an act of alleged political violence during a rally in the Oropouche West constituency on Saturday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) “Really?” That was the reaction from the seven-year-old Kensington Primary School student after learning that her constitutional rights were not breached when the school refused her access because of her dreadlocks, two years ago.

(Jamaica Gleaner) It took 13 years and at least 94 court appearances before 10 judges and four prosecutors before a murder case against Lynford Allen was tossed for lack of evidence.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Two of Clarendon’s most wanted men 25-year-old Leon Rose, otherwise called Hitler, and 24-year-old Zemmar Nelson, alias Terminator Boy, were among six persons killed during a police-military operation in Buzz Rock, Effortville in the parish this morning.

(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Mia Mottley yesterday announced the arrival of interCaribbean Airways to Barbados, with flights expected to start from August 4.

(Jamaica Observer) Just under 300,000 Jamaicans have emigrated between 2008 and 2018 the Planning Institute of Jamaica’s Economic and Social Survey 2019 report has indicated.

(Barbados Nation) Twelve people, including nine of the nurses who recently arrived from Ghana, returned positive results from COVID-19 tests conducted on Friday by the Best Dos-Santos Public health Laboratory.

(Trinidad Guardian) First Citizens’ profit after taxation fell by 60 per cent for the three months ended June 2020 when compared to the same period last year.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Paulette Wilson, a prominent Windrush campaigner, has died. She was 64.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Sherine Virgo said she will not cut her seven-year-old daughter’s hair despite yesterday’s court ruling that Kensington Primary School did not breach her child’s constitutional rights when it denied her access in 2018 for having dreadlocks.