Regional News

(Jamaica Gleaner) The St Catherine South police have launched an investigation into the death of a Portmore woman.

(Barbados Nation) From humble beginnings in St Peter, Owen Seymour Arthur, who passed away yesterday,  rose to lead Barbados during one of its most turbulent times, serving as Prime Minister from 1994 to 2008.

Former Barbadian Prime Minister Owen Seymour Arthur passed away this morning at age 70.

(Trinidad Express) Health Minister Terrence Deyal­singh’s daughter and son-in-law have been infected with Covid-19.

(Trinidad Express) The son of calypsonian Michael “Sugar Aloes” Osuna was fatally near a church in Brooklyn, USA on Friday.

(Trinidad Express) If election observers do not arrive in Trinidad and Tobago today, there would be no observers for the August 10 general election.

(Jamaica Gleaner) When Teri Nichols’ cell phone lit up two weeks ago with a message from a police detective in Jamaica, she immediately thought “more bad news”.

(Jamaica Observer) Need coffee? Take me to the cashier. This note to shoppers is placed on empty bottles of Jamaica Mountain Peak (JMP) coffee in some supermarkets.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Jamaican Bar Association has chastised Attorney General Marlene Malahoo Forte over comments she made in the wake of a court ruling attributed to Justice Bertram Morrison but she has hit back at her critics.

(Barbados nation) Government is planning to build a $320 million, 25 megawatt waste-to-energy plant at Vaucluse, St Thomas.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Bogue Heights community on the outskirts of Montego Bay, St James, was plunged into mourning on Wednesday afternoon when a popular accountant was shot and killed by armed men when he made a valiant attempt to stop them from abducting his daughter.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Tropical Storm Warning for Tobago has been discontinued as Tropical Storm Gonzalo has been downgraded to a Tropical Depression.

(Jamaica Observer) MINISTER of Local Government and Community Development Desmond McKenzie says citizens who refuse to wear masks in public could soon face prosecution under the Disaster Risk Management Act.

(Jamaica Observer) A Clarendon man has been charged in connection with the 2019 murder of British national, 17-year-old Stefica Smith, who resided in Four Paths in the parish.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Bogue Heights community on the outskirts of Montego Bay, St James, was plunged into mourning on Wednesday afternoon when a popular accountant was shot and killed by armed men when he made a valiant attempt to stop them from abducting his daughter.

(Jamaica Star) Scores of Jamaicans have been reportedly making requests to join the Montego Bay-based Zion Society spiritual group, in hopes of attaining spells that grant them great wealth and health.

BUENOS AIRES,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Argentina plans to put into orbit a satellite with new precision technology in the coming days, to monitor felling of its native forests round the clock and accurately measure forest carbon stocks in a bid to help curb climate change, scientists said.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Lawyers for Venezuela’s central bank (BCV) said yesterday they have won the right to appeal a ruling by the English High Court which recognised Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaido as the country’s president.

(Barbados Nation) The statute of Lord Horatio Nelson is to be moved from Heroes Square.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazil registered an additional 1,156 deaths attributable to the novel coronavirus over the last 24 hours and another 55,891 confirmed cases, the health ministry said yesterday.