Regional News

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica – Members of the public staged a protest yesterday in front of the United States Embassy in Kingston.

(Barbados Nation) Scores of protesters gathered outside the United States Embassy, Wildey, St Michael around 11 a.m.

(Trinidad Express) There has been a double murder in Les Coteaux, Tobago.

(Trinidad Guardian) A mother and her son were gunned down in their Tunapuna home last evening.

(Trinidad Guardian) Desperate to return home following the death of his mother and the condition of his seven-month pregnant wife, a T&T national in Suriname has made an urgent request to National Security Minister Stuart Young for an exemption for entry.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Walking into Andrew Nelson’s yard in Simon, Clarendon, the first sight to pull in wandering eyes is a wheelchair hoisted in a tree.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Black smoke billowed from cars set on fire and debris blocked the intersection of Waltham Park and Hagley Park roads in Kingston as residents of Cockburn Gardens protested the fatal shooting of 32-year-old Jermaine ‘Shawn‘ Ferguson yesterday morning.

(Jamaica Observer) Chief executive officer of MBJ Airports Limited, Shane Munroe, says the company, which operates the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, has implemented a raft of measures aimed at enhancing the safety of staff and travellers who will be utilising the port in just over a week.

(Trinidad Express) On Monday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in Cincinnati noticed something strange about a shipment of food products transiting through a local express consignment facility.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – A Brazilian Supreme Court minister yesterday prohibited police raids in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas during the novel coronavirus pandemic, as a grounds-well of criticism of brutal police tactics grows in Latin America’s largest nation.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A serial rapist who was ordered to serve 38 years in prison for each of the eight women he victimised over a six-week span has had his sentence slashed in half.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – President Jair Bolsonaro threatened yesterday to pull Brazil out of the World Health Organization after the U.N.

(Trinidad Express) A young mother was killed in Diego martin on Thursday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) It’s been a little more than a year since Venezuelan migrants were registered allowing them to live and work in Trinidad & Tobago.

(Jamaica Observer) Principals of high schools across the western region say all is in place to ensure a seamless start on Monday to the temporary reopening of schools to facilitate students sitting secondary level exit examinations in July.

(Trinidad Express) A man charged four times with driving under the influence of alcohol has been jailed and permanently disqualified from driving.

(Jamaica Observer) For the second time in 12 years, a family has been left distraught following the brutal killing of a mother of five children in the Heartease community here.

(Trinidad Guardian) Flashing smiles filled their faces so much that they were imprinted in the masks worn by all 29 Trinidad and Tobago nationals who finally touched home soil at the Port of Port-of-Spain yesterday, after disembarking the Carnival Fantasy cruise ship.

(Trinidad Guardian) Advertising executive Dennis Ramdeen yesterday apologised for a series of social media posts by his son, Sunil.

(Jamaica Observer) THE funeral for Jodian Fearon, the 23-year-old woman who died after being denied access to health care in April, is scheduled for tomorrow.