Regional News

(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.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Bank of Jamaica, BOJ, plans to test a digital currency as an alternative to cash later this year.

Former Bahamian Prime Minister Perry Christie has described the late, former Barbadian Prime Minister Owen Arthur as an “extraordinary” man of CARICOM and  a vibrant political source for the regional integration project.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has announced a change in the number of people who can congregate in groups, from 25 to 10.

(Barbados Nation) The Ghanaian nurses are here. The contingent of 49 female and 46 male nurses was warmly greeted by a delegation of health and tourism officials shortly after arrival at Grantley Adams International Airport on Thursday evening aboard a chartered Azores Airlines flight.

(Trinidad Guardian) Having been together with the father of her children for 15 years and having gone through years of severe abuse to a point where she sustained broken bones in the process, 26-year-old Vera Golabie refused help from the police to be placed in a safe house.

(Trinidad Guardian) Despite an increase in locally spread COVID-19 cases, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says the August 10 General Election will go on.

(Trinidad Express) A 14-year-old boy is in serious condition at hospital after his lip was bitten almost half off during an argument with a close female relative early Friday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Two American sisters who were charged by the police following the seized of a quantity of cocaine valued at $1.3 million were each offered $100,000 bail when they appeared before the St James Parish Court on Friday.

(Trinidad Express) The Ministry of Health is reporting five more Covid-19 cases this morning.

(Trinidad Guardian) With the growing perception that Venezuelans are responsible for T&T’s second wave of COVID-19 spread, human rights activists say landlords are now evicting migrants over the fear of prosecution by the State.