(Trinidad Guardian) Instead of presenting Stephon Mc Leod with a gift as the nation celebrates Father’s Day on Sunday, the family are instead mourning the death of the 40-year-old man and his toddler who were ambushed and shot on Friday night in Tunapuna.
(Trinidad Express) Police are investigating the shooting deaths of a man and his two-year-old daughter on Friday night.
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Chile yesterday increased its estimate of cases and deaths caused by the coronavirus while a labor union at state-owned Codelco, the world’s largest copper producer, confirmed that a second company employee had died in the pandemic.
(Jamaica Observer) Jamaican choreographer Dr L’Antoinette Stines is seeking in excess of US$150,000 in her suit against entertainment mogul Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter and his pop music superstar wife Beyoncé Knowles-Carter.
(Trinidad Express) A truck driver who breached a protection order and beat his wife has been sentenced to six months imprisonment with hard labour.
(Trinidad Guardian) The mother of a three-year-old, who experienced medical issues after participating in a survival swimming class, has sued the Diego Martin Swimming School.
(Trinidad Express) An 18-year-old woman is expected to appear before a Port-of-Spain Magistrate on Monday charged with knifing to death a man.
(Trinidad Guardian) Cramped together in wicker baskets and cages— baby monkeys, parrots, and a macaw were rescued by police during an exercise in south Trinidad yesterday.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Seven major European investment firms told Reuters they will divest from beef producers, grains traders and even government bonds in Brazil if they do not see progress in resolving the surging destruction of the Amazon rainforest.
LONDON/CARACAS, (Reuters) – In the vaults beneath the Bank of England, where foreign nations stash parts of their vast gold reserves, lie 1.7 billion euros ($1.9 billion) of disputed gold bars.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Approximately 3,000 Jamaicans who are beneficiaries of the Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals (DACA) breathed a sigh of relief on Thursday after the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Donald Trump administration cannot end the programme that was instituted by executive order by then President Barack Obama eight years ago.
(Trinidad Guardian) The State has been ordered to pay a little over $300,000 in compensation to a 27-year-old man from Sangre Grande, who was doused with hot water and pepper sauce during an interrogation by police in 2015.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s firebrand education minister resigned yesterday, following blunders that aggravated tense relations between the right-wing president and the country’s Supreme Court.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazilian police yesterday arrested a former aide to President Jair Bolsonaro’s eldest son in a graft investigation threatening to undermine the far-right leader and ratchet up his battle with the judiciary.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – In much of Cuba, restaurants welcomed back customers yesterday while families escaped cities for the beaches as the government started to ease the Caribbean island’s three-month-old lockdown restrictions after curbing the coronavirus outbreak there.
OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canada officially racked up 100,000 cases of the novel coronavirus yesterday and although the outbreak is slowing, health experts said major challenges remain.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Health Ministry reported new COVID-19 statistics yesterday showing the country fast approaching 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases and 50,000 deaths.
(Jamaica Observer) A Jamaican immigrant is now behind bars in New York, following his arrest yesterday for manslaughter and weapons possession in connection with the death of a Brooklyn man at a house party.
(Jamaica Star) Reggae artiste Ancient Warrior said he narrowly escaped death after he was chopped by a machete-wielding man after an argument developed over chicken at his home in Vanity Fair, Linstead, St Catherine.
(Trinidad Express) MERCY! That was the last plea that relatives of Geeta Newman heard from her.
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