(Jamaica Gleaner) A justice of the peace (JP), who is also a cop, is to face the Parish Court and possible disciplinary actions within the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) for alleged breaches of the Disaster Risk Management Act recently.
(Jamaica Star) Acts of goodwill almost cost a good Samaritan his manhood on Wednesday.
(Trinidad Guardian) A 23-year-old man was wounded in a police-involved shooting incident today, after he ran into the La Brea Police Station after another man who had gone there seeking help, and tried to attack him with a hayfork.
Lyndon “Dracula” Mohammed, also known as Jason Aguillera, was shot and killed during a police-involved shooting in Cocorite, on Thursday.
(Trinidad Express) Digicel has asked all employees, including managers, to take a temporary salary reduction due to the financial losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
(Trinidad Guardian) Any nation that assists Venezuela in avoiding embargoes will face sweeping sanctions imposed by the United States.
The World Bank yesterday announced that Saint Lucia will benefit from US$10.5 million activated from World Bank projects to bolster the country’s COVID-19 response.
(Barbados Nation) With the Government of Barbados set to lose more than $450 million in revenue over the next year, Prime Minister Mia Mottley announced a $2 billion plan designed to stimulate business and provide relief for the most vulnerable over the next two years.
(Jamaica Gleaner) “Mi foot dead! Mi foot dead!” were the reported cries of a 16-year-old schoolboy to his cousin after he was allegedly attacked by a group of Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) soldiers in his Majesty Gardens, St Andrew, community on Sunday.
(Jamaica Star) A trip for revelling and ‘palancing’ in Trinidad and Tobago turned into one of distress for a Jamaican mother as she is currently stuck in the twin-island republic due to the novel coronavirus that has been lashing the country, causing all ports to be closed.
(Trinidad Guardian) Government is proposing to slash by half the penalties of 80,000 unpaid traffic tickets that are before the courts.
(Trinidad Express) Nine people were detained by police on Monday night for gathering in a group that exceeded five.
MANAUS, Brazil, (Reuters) – Deaths from the coronavirus outbreak have piled up so fast in the Amazon rainforest’s biggest city that the main cemetery is burying five coffins at a time in collective graves.
SAO PAULO/BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil plans to deploy its armed forces to fight deforestation and fires in the Amazon jungle, Vice President Hamilton Mourão said yesterday, in an effort protect the world’s largest rainforest where destruction has surged since last year.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department, the Treasury Department and the U.S.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia will offer individuals who leave crime gangs and rebel dissident groups legal benefits including reduced sentences in an effort to weaken illegal armed groups, the Andean country’s high peace commissioner said yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) The T&T Registered Nurses’ Association (TTRNA) is asking the Government to consider a $1 million payout in the event any nurse loses their life during the COVID-19 pandemic.
(Trinidad Guardian) Dean Walters of Tobago and Donna Lisa Phillips-Walters of Trinidad got married in Chaguaramas and left for Curaçao on March 16.
(Jamaica Star) Prime Minister Andrew Holness was blunt. “The possibility is that all of us, at some point in time, will get it,” he said about the coronavirus, which has had a crippling economy on the country since the first case was discovered on March 10.
(Trinidad Express) Trinidad-born healthcare worker Mahadaye “Mary” Jagroop passed away last week at the Birmingham Heartlands Hospital in England after contracting COVID-19.
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