Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) Another woman has been killed in a domestic violence dispute and police say her husband has confessed to the murder.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A Jamaican ex-pastor, could face deportation from the US after serving a 30-year sentence for rape. 

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition politician Leopoldo Lopez has abandoned the Spanish ambassador’s residence in Caracas to leave the country, more than a year after seeking refuge there to escape house arrest, three people familiar with his exit said.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Fifteen-year-old Saneeka Leechman, a student of The Queen’s School in Kingston, was making plans to surprise her father, 42-year-old Romeo Leechman, on his upcoming birthday, but this will never come to pass as a land slippage caused by heavy rains destroyed their frail house yesterday in Shooters Hill St Andrew, crushing and killing her father.

(Trinidad Guardian) “I didn’t eat myself to this. I am not a glutton.”

(Trinidad Express) An American executive has apologised to Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley and National Security Minister Stuart Young for comments made about them by Sacha Singh.

(Trinidad Express) A Cuban national has confessed to police he strangled his Venezuelan girlfriend.

GENEVA/ZURICH,  (Reuters) – Health officials reviewing Gilead Science Inc’s remdesivir against COVID-19 should consider all evidence, including a trial in which the medicine failed, before giving it the green light, the top WHO scientist said yesterday.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – The Brazilian Air Force yesterday unveiled the first of 36 Gripen fighter jets bought from Sweden’s Saab AB in a $4 billion deal that includes the assembly of planes in Brazil.

(Trinidad Express) Homicide detectives have been given instructions to lay a charge of murder against a 41-year-old Fyzabad man for the kill-ing of Santa Flora mother Tineil Shanice Cupid.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazil recorded 30,026 additional confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours, and 571 deaths from COVID-19, the Health Ministry said yesterday.

(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley last night rubbished rumours she had fallen ill and collapsed at Government Headquarters, on Bay Street, St Michael.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Last week, the Child Protection and Family Services Agency announced that this is a historic year for them after a record number of wards became eligible for universities.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Alessandra Korap of the Munduruku tribe in the Amazon was awarded the 2020 Robert F.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuba yesterday said the decades-old U.S. trade embargo, tightened under President Donald Trump, cost it a record total of more than $5 billion over the last financial year and hurt its ability to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.

(Trinidad Express) Police have arrested and charged PC Kevin Dattoo for four counts of sexual penetration of a minor and one count of rape.

(Jamaica Observer) Telecommunica-tions firm Digicel on Tuesday launched itself as a “digital operator” and marked the occasion by delivering a suite of eight apps and a promise of powerful digital experiences.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 38-year-old man was fatally shot by a close male relative at his home in Mt Pleasant in Arima yesterday morning during an argument.

(Jamaica Star) For 25 years, Beverly ‘Tashy’ Burry, who is blind, has been fending for herself by working as a hairdresser and craftswoman in her community of Tivoli Gardens.

(Trinidad Express) SCRAP the exams and pay pupils’ query fees. These were among the calls of parents and pupils who protested outside the Red House which houses the Parliament in Port of Spain yesterday to show their dissatisfaction with the grades of the 2020 CSEC and CAPE exams given by the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) .