Regional News

(Jamaica Gleaner) For the past three years Marlene* has been living like a fugitive.

A United States citi­zen was one of two men killed in separate shooting incidents between Friday night and yesterday ­morning.

(Trinidad Express) Oropouche East MP Dr Roodal Moonilal and two UNC deputy political leaders, one of whom is a senator and another who used to be managing director of the Housing Development Corporation, have been named in evidence given to the Joint Select Committee on National Security as having connections with known criminal gang leaders.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil’s Health Ministry yesterday confirmed the country’s second case of the fast-spreading new coronavirus, diagnosed in a 32-year-old patient in São Paulo who had recently visited Italy and arrived on Thursday.

QUITO (Reuters) – Ecuador has confirmed the first case of a fast-spreading new coronavirus in the Andean country, its health minister said yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The man who mur­dered three peo­ple in a house at Guapo on Thurs­day be­fore setting it ablaze with gaso­line may have used a cut­lass and a hoe to ex­e­cute his bru­tal at­tack, po­lice said.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The baby who was rescued from a pit latrine in October last year in Cox Piece, St Mary, and subsequently dubbed ‘Baby Moses’ by residents is out of hospital and has found a new home in St James.

(Jamaica Observer) The body of 16-year-old William Knibb Memorial High School grade 11 student Jonathan Eccleston was yesterday removed from a river here, a day after he fell into the water while fishing with friends.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Italians aboard the Costa Luminosa cruise ship were restricted from disembarking on Jamaican soil when the ship docked at the Ocho Rios terminal in St Ann yesterday.

QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuador has confirmed the first case of a fast-spreading new coronavirus in the Andean country, its health minister said on Saturday.

(Trinidad Guardian) A shal­low mag­ni­tude 4.8 earth­quake struck 113 kilo­me­tres west of Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and To­ba­go at a depth of 10 kilo­me­tres at 10.25 pm Fri­day.

(Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court yesterday blocked one of President Donald Trump’s signature immigration policies that has helped to sharply curb a migration surge on the southern border and forced tens of thousands of mi-grants to wait in Mexico.

SAN JOSE,  (Reuters) – Prosecutors raided the headquarters of Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado yesterday as part of an investigation into possible data privacy violations by the government, the public ministry said.

(Trinidad Express) Gunmen attempted to kill a woman at her workplace in Fyzabad on Friday.

(Trinidad Express) A Guyanese national is expected to appear before a Tunapuna Magistrate today charged with the February 23 murder of Nicole Hackshaw.

(Trinidad Express) A fight over a woman during ‘las lap’ Carnival celebrations has led to the death of a Chaguanas man.

(Trinidad Guardian) For just about 30 min­utes yes­ter­day, Trinidad born rap­per Nic­ki Mi­naj spent time bond­ing with stu­dents of the St Jude’s Home for Girls in Bel­mont.

(Jamaica Observer) The death of former Reggae Boy Irvino English has hit home hard among the football fraternity, especially at Waterhouse Football Club where he was considered a legend.

(Trinidad Express) The Jamaican security guard who hacked to death Rachel Logan was a demon who pretended to be a saint.

(Jamaica Star) Maxfield Park resident Nadine Brown rested her head in her arms and cried her eyes out as the thought of being homeless flashed across her mind.