(Jamaica Gleaner) Dramatic scenes unfolded in Mandeville, Manchester, yesterday evening as the long-standing Heaven’s FESCO petrol station there went up in flames, causing injuries to at least seven people and sending passers-by scampering for cover.
(Jamaica Star) Sick and tired of the number of killings taking place in the country, Percival LaTouche, president of the Association for the Re-settlement of Returning Residents, said it is time the Government starts hanging murderers.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Residents of 7 East, Greater Portmore, were left stunned between midnight Thursday and early Friday morning after a dramatic incident, featuring a love triangle among a soldier; his wife, a cop; and another policeman – who is now nursing a gunshot wound – unfolded in their usually quiet community.
(Trinidad Express) The seven children of a woman who died last month have petitioned the court to have another sister hand over her jewelry to them.
(Trinidad Express) On Valentine’s Day, five days before she was shot twice in the chest, woman police officer Nicolette Persad refused a marriage proposal.
(Trinidad Express) Terri Lyons is the 2020 National Calypso Monarch, having dethroned defending monarch, Ronaldo London who placed 12th.
(Trinidad Express) The criminals waited until late, until a doubles vending couple had sold most of their food, before walking in to take their money.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – An independent investigation requested by Brazilian iron ore miner Vale SA into the causes of the Brumadinho tailings dam disaster that killed 270 people a year ago found the company knew about the problem but failed to deal with it.
LA PAZ, (Reuters) – Bolivia’s electoral body said yesterday that former president Evo Morales was ineligible to run for a Senate position in a May election re-run of a voided vote late last year that sparked a political crisis and led to the leftist leader’s resignation.
(Trinidad Express) A man who relatives said was forced into to a life of crime was killed in an shootout with police on Wednesday night.
GATINEAU, Quebec, (Reuters) – Time is running out to avert a humanitarian catastrophe in Venezuela, which is gripped by a political and economic crisis, members of the Lima Group regional bloc said yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) Out of 150 people pulled aside for driving under the influence following Machel Monday, at Hasely Crawford Stadium, only five were found to be above the prescribed limit of 35 microgrammes per 100 millilitre of breath.
(Jamaica Observer) Cycling sensation Shellysha McCarthy, who was all over social media last October for her unconventional mode of transportation to and from work, and even reportedly attracted marriage proposals for her cycling prowess, is now laid up at home as a result of a mishap with a male motorcyclist.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The police are probing the shooting of a cop, allegedly by a soldier, in a reported love triangle in Greater Portmore, St Catherine last night.
(Jamaica Star) Popcaan’s lawyer, Bert Samuels, says he wants to unequivocally deny that his client, Andre Sutherland more popularly known as Popcaan, was held in possession of an illegal firearm.
(Trinidad Express) A WOMAN who was arrested and detained for several hours in 2016 after officers wrongly believed that she had failed to pay an outstanding $100 on a traffic ticket has been awarded $40,000 by the court.
(Trinidad Guardian) A police sergeant is now in police custody for allegedly shooting his common law wife, who also is a police officer.
GUARENAS, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Since President Nicolas Maduro founded the Special Action Force of Venezuela’s National Police two-and-a-half years ago, the squad has earned a fearsome reputation in poor neighbourhoods across Venezuela.
(Jamaica Observer) A man authorities say killed the mother of his children in South Burlington and then fled to Jamaica, leaving the victim’s family starving for justice, pleaded not guilty yesterday in an emotional court hearing.
(Jamaica Observer) Forty-five-year-old Christian Kampfer of an address in Germany has been reported missing since Monday, February 17.
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