Regional News

(Trinidad Express) A sex doll that was seized by Customs officers in December of 2018 after it was imported into this country is to be returned to its rightful owner.

MANAGUA,  (Reuters) – About 80 armed men killed six indigenous people on an isolated Nicaraguan nature reserve in an attack linked to raging land disputes, the indigenous Mayagna community said yesterday, with 10 other Mayagnas kidnapped in the raid.

PORT OF SPAIN,  (Reuters) – Trinidad and Tobago has imposed 14-day restrictions on travelers from China to prevent the spread of a new strain of coronavirus on the Caribbean island nation, Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh said today.

(Trinidad Guardian) De­spite a 45 per cent in­crease in the last two years, the Child Pro­tec­tion Unit (CPU) of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has made 29 ar­rests and laid 44 charges for this year so far.

(Trinidad Guardian) With a general election months away, newly appointed chairman of the Housing Development Corporation Noel Garcia is promising record-breaking housing allocations for applicants in 2020.

(Trinidad Express) A La Romaine man was shot dead at his home on Tuesday night.

(Trinidad Express) Naiee Singh was murdered by the man she once loved but her voice will not be silenced, says her best friend, Christa Prevatt.

 (Trinidad Express) School teacher Ashram Boodram would be laid to rest on Thursday, as investigators appeal for help in finding the gunman who ended his life.

(Trinidad Guardian) The In­ter­na­tion­al Women’s Re­source Net­work (IR­WN) says that if re­ports of ha­rass­ment were made against Roger Singh, he should have been ar­rest­ed be­fore he was able to mur­der his es­tranged wife, Naiee Singh on Mon­day.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 43-year-old De­fence Force Cor­po­ral, ac­cused of kid­nap­ping and rap­ing three school­boys over two years, has failed in his third at­tempt to ob­tain bail. 

 (Trinidad Guardian) Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has giv­en the as­sur­ance that his Gov­ern­ment will do every­thing pos­si­ble to pro­tect T&T’s cit­i­zens from the dead­ly Coro­n­avirus.

(Trinidad Express) There was a murder-suicide in Couva on Monday morning.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra took a gamble last year when he shuttered Congress after a bruising battle over a corruption crackdown with opposition lawmakers allied to the powerful Fujimori political dynasty.

(Jamaica Star) Koffee has become the first solo female to cop the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album at the 62nd ceremony for the coveted music awards.

(Jamaica Observer) Tree of Knowledge Internation-al Corp, which trades under the name TOKI, will become the first company to be cross-listed between the Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE) and the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE).

(Trinidad Express) The second suspect in the killing of medical practioner Dr Rudradeva Sharma has been released from hospital.

MADRID,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaido joined thousands of supporters at a demonstration in Madrid yesterday after arriving in Spain on the last leg of a European tour.

(Trinidad Express) Two men were shot and killed in Laventille early yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) The body of a man found in a shallow grave in Petit Valley yesterday has been identified as 29-year-old Christian Harewood.

 (Trinidad Express) A court-appointed forensic psychologist from the Federal Bureau of Prisons in the United States has deemed Rondell Henry medically unfit to stand trial.