(Jamaica Gleaner) A brazen daylight robbery of the Jamaica National Bank Money Shop in Whitehouse, Westmoreland, on Tuesday has raised concern among the police that they can’t distinguish hoodlums from law-abiding citizens observing coronavirus protocols.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Yet another Jamaican has tasted success in politics in the United States.
(Barbados Nation) Government will move this week to reduce travel taxes, says Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says the Caribbean is a poorer place following the passing of the former Prime Minister Owen Arthur.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – The former boss of Mexican state oil firm Pemex, Emilio Lozoya, told a court yesterday he was innocent of corruption charges and said he would denounce those responsible for his alleged crimes, in a case that could seriously embarrass Mexico’s previous rulers.
(Trinidad Express) SOCIAL distancing is a challenge in schools. This was the response yesterday from several primary school principals after two schools were closed within days of each other as a result of possible exposure to Covid-19.
Two men were charged with larceny for allegedly breaking into two vehicles and stealing a total of $55,000.
(Jamaica Star) The world renowned Dunn’s River Falls and theme park in Ocho Rios, St Ann, has been recording an uptick in patronage since being reopened to the public on July 21, following a four-month closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
(Jamaica Star) Danville Walker, the national director for the New Social Housing Programme (NSHP), has defended the $5.9 million price tag for a one-bedroom house that was recently constructed by the state entity.
(Jamaica Observer) The August Town community in St Andrew has been left baffled after 47-year-old Kenneth Grant, a former football coach, was yesterday discovered swinging from an electrical cord at his residence in what the police have since said is a suspected case of suicide.
(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.
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