Regional News

(Jamaica Observer) The legendary American actor Kirk Douglas, who died on February 5 at age 103, was popular with Jamaican movie-goers for over 50 years.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The estranged husband who killed his wife last Friday afternoon before committing suicide by drinking a poisonous substance was possessed with anger and bewilderment after his partner called time on the relationship, a family member has said.

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice be­lieve the at­tempt­ed as­sas­si­na­tion of a Rachael Sukhdeo, the wid­ow of slain Ch­agua­nas busi­ness­man Sheron Sukhdeo, led to the mur­ders of a US cit­i­zen and woman in Princes Town yes­ter­day.

(Trinidad Guardian) An Aranguez fam­i­ly was in full praise of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice yes­ter­day af­ter of­fi­cers foiled a rob­bery at their home in the wee hours of Sun­day morn­ing, shoot­ing dead four ban­dits and ar­rest­ing two oth­ers.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police are searching for two suspects in connection with what they have described as the “brutal” rape and murder of a 61-year-old woman who was found at her Turure Road, Sangre Grande home yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Police say that Rachael Sukhdeo, the widowed wife of murdered used car and real estate dealer Sheron Sukhdeo, was the intended target of an attack that ended in the shooting deaths of two people at a nature resort in Princes Town yesterday afternoon.

(Trinidad Express) A man dressed in all black and wearing black gloves, was shot and killed in St James on Saturday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Luxurious cruise ship Caribbean Princess which was scheduled to dock in Port-of-Spain yesterday has been debarred from doing so due to dozens of sick passengers and crew on board the vessel.

(Trinidad Express) When fire fighters extinguished the fire at a house off Bagatelle Road, Diego Martin on Friday night, they came upon a horrific scene.

(Trinidad Express) A man who police say was beating a woman with a gun, turned the gun on an approaching police officer who shot and killed him.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The head of a United Kingdom (UK) pressure group is urging the Andrew Holness administration to deny landing rights to a charter flight from Britain with 50 Jamaicans to be deported to the island next Tuesday, after one of the detainees attempted to end his life.

(Trinidad Express) A man who was employed as a watchman at a church has been sentenced to time in prison after he stole from $40,000 and jewellery from an office on the property.

(Jamaica Observer) The Government, accepting professional advice, will not be repatriating Jamaicans from Wuhan, China, the epicentre of the deadly novel coronavirus.

(Trinidad Express) A widower has been jailed after he was found drunk and driving in the wrong direction along the Solomon Hochoy Highway.

(Trinidad Guardian) Over 15 years af­ter Mala Mo­hammed, the wife of busi­ness­man Khalid “Un­cle Khalid” Mo­hammed was ex­e­cut­ed at her home, two men ac­cused of the crime have walked free.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Brazil’s indigenous people have endured a week of “attacks” as a former missionary was appointed to manage the country’s uncontacted forest tribes and a push to open protected land for development moved ahead, indigenous campaigners said.

(Jamaica Observer)  “Guyana is a real opportunity,” according to Keith Duncan, co-chair of the Economic Programme Oversight Committee (EPOC).

(Jamaica Star) Baby Nyyear Frank, the infant who was snatched from his mother’s arms as she walked in a section of Kingston last October, was allegedly the subject of a $500,000 contract.

(Trinidad Guardian) Phar­ma­cies around the coun­try are re­port­ing an in­crease in sales of sur­gi­cal masks, as lo­cals take mea­sures to safe­guard against the coro­n­avirus.

(Trinidad Express) An early morning accident in San Fernando has left three people injured.