(Barbados Nation) Barbados will become a Republic by next year. This announcement was made by Governor General Dame Sandra Mason as she delivered the Throne Speech during the State Opening of Parliament at Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre, Two Mile Hill, St Michael yesterday.
(Barbados Nation) Deeming it a waste of both the courts’ and police’s time, Barbadians will no longer be charged for having the quantity of cannabis commonly referred to as a roach or spliff on the streets.
(Barbados Nation) Effective Saturday, September 19, everyone arriving in Barbados from a country designated as high or medium risk for novel coronavirus (COVID-19) will be required to travel with a negative COVID-19 PCR test result.
(Jamaica Star) Karen scrolls through her cell phone as she lays on her bed beside her husband, Shawn.
(Jamaica Star) Barbados has announced its intention to become a republic and remove Britain’s Queen Elizabeth as head of state by November next year.
(Trinidad Express) A 33-year-old man is expected to appear before a Sangre Grande Magistrate today charged with two counts of cruelty to two children.
(Trinidad Express) Infamous “beach boaster” Samantha Ramischand has sought legal advice.
(Jamaica Observer) A Corporate Area schoolteacher is heaping praises on members of the local medical community today after a frightening brush with what she believed was the dangerous novel coronavirus.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The fresh probe launched into the controversial death of Jamaica-born Rasheed Edwards has forced some residents of a New Jersey township to raise questions over the transparency of the police and post-mortem reports.
(Trinidad Express) Police Commissioner Gary Griffith yesterday called on Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley to retract his statements regarding the Bayside Towers incident, saying it was all about race and colour.
(Trinidad Guardian) Former government minister Jack Warner has been discharged from the Couva Hospital where he was warded as a COVID-19 patient.
(Trinidad Guardian) One of the standout hair moments in Beyoncé’s film Black is King is a 30-foot-long braided wig.
(Trinidad Guardian) Public health restrictions implemented a month ago to roll back on the reopening of the economy as the country’s COVID-19 spread worsened will be extended for another four weeks, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley announced on Saturday.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Michael Bloomberg, who spent $1 billion of his own money on a failed 2020 presidential bid, will inject at least $100 million to help Democrat Joe Biden’s campaign against President Donald Trump in Florida.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuban state media reported on Saturday interprovincial transportation would be shut down and a curfew in Havana extended until the end of the month as a surge in COVID-19 cases in the capital spreads to other areas.
(Trinidad Express) The body of a woman was found floating in the Gulf of Paria near the Hyatt Regency hotel in Port of Spain yesterday.
HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Offshore platforms and one refinery along the U.S.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Twelve-year-old twins, Jay-Myer and Jemila Auld, can be considered the proverbial ‘peas in a pod’.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Shasha-Marie Williams could have been a pregnant teen, because that was the norm in Flankers, St James, where she grew up; while Shellian Blagrove was expected to scorn her problem-plagued community of Mt Salem.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica-born Palm Beach judge Renatha Francis has withdrawn her nomination to become a member of the Florida Supreme Court after the court, in a unanimous decision on Friday, ruled that she was not constitutionally qualified to be appointed.
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