Regional News

(Trinidad Express) A WOMAN who cursed a police officer, suggesting he mind his children and not her business, faced a magistrate charged with using obscene language and resisting arrest.

(Trinidad Guardian) Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith has said he is willing to meet with Darren Joseph, the husband of Ornella Greaves despite Joseph’s statements towards him on live television.

(Jamaica Star) Six months after their story was first highlighted, the Jackson family is still in a painful pursuit for answers, seeking the remains of their deceased relative Jimmy Jackson.

(Jamaica Star) Social media darling Tanesha ‘Rose’ Thellwell will be heading to the altar with her on again-off again lover, Ford Spence, on November 2.

(Jamaica Observer) AUDREY Marks, Jamaica’s ambassador to the United States and permanent representative to the Organization of American States, has announced the reopening of the Offices of the Jamaican embassy in Washington, DC, USA.

(Jamaica Observer) In an initiative with the Embassy of Jamaica in Washington DC, Community Scholar Inc — a US-based non-profit organisation — is hiring Jamaican teachers to tutor students in the United States online.

(Trinidad Guardian) As citizens went to sleep on Tuesday night uneasy and unsure of what yesterday’s dawn would bring, the country initially awoke to a sense of calm and quiet.

(Trinidad Guardian) After a violent encounter with her former close friend, mother of five Adanna Dick was on her way to the police station to make a report, but she never made it.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police have advised that all roads leading in and out of Port-of-Spain have been cleared and are now debris-free, following protest action earlier today.

(Jamaica Star) For 12 years, 67-year-old Roy Barnes says that he was unable to walk freely.

(Trinidad Express) “A well-orchestrated plan to destabilise the country” but it failed.

(Jamaica Observer) RELATIVES of Latoya Monte, the 34-year-old woman who was fatally shot during an alleged confrontation with the police moments after 6:00 pm on Monday in the Kingston 10 area, are insisting that she was murdered, contrary to information released by the constabulary.

(Jamaica Observer) Four Jamaican missionaries stranded in Río Abajo, Panama, are seeking the Government’s assistance to return to the island, as they struggle to stay afloat in the Spanish-speaking country despite support from the Jamaican consulate in Panama City.

(Trinidad Express) An Acting Senior Superintendent of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS), has been charged with malicious damage.

(Trinidad Express) A pregnant woman, who was among street protestors yesterday, was shot, and has died at hospital.

(Jamaica Gleaner) It was George Williams’ first Sunday as a free man, and his family made certain that he had a hearty dinner and experienced the warmth and togetherness of being at home in Ewarton, St Catherine.

(Trinidad Guardian) The bullet which pierced the third floor of the Attorney General and Legal Affairs’ building, “landed” when third-floor staff was all present but it may have been aimed at an office higher up in the building.

(Trinidad Guardian) Fiery protests have occurred in and around Port-of-Spain this morning, as east Port-of-Spain, Laventille, Morvant and Beetham residents call for the intervention of the National Security Minister and the Commissioner of Police following the shooting death of three men in Morvant on Saturday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police Inspector Roger Alexander has promised residents of Morvant that justice will be served and that they will be given a full account of what transpired with the shooting deaths of three men in Second Caledonia on Saturday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The number of people killed by police in the last year has risen by 86 per cent, a figure that is of concern to the Police Complaints Authority (PCA).