Regional News

(Trinidad Express) Shane Ramjattan has been charged with making a false report.

 (Trinidad Guardian) The T&T Gov­ern­ment has backed Bar­ba­dos’ po­si­tion not to send a rep­re­sen­ta­tive to to­day’s meet­ing be­ing held by US Sec­re­tary of State Mike Pom­peo with sev­er­al Caribbean lead­ers in Ja­maica.

(Jamaica Gleaner) CARICOM Chairman and Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has drawn a clear line between herself and Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness and other Caribbean leaders planning to meet with United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, criticising the sidelining of the regional bloc as an attempt at divide and rule.

(Trinidad Express) A Trinidadian couple who travelled to the United States and entered into fraudulent marriages to gain citizenship was convicted for the crime last week Thursday.

(Jamaica Star) Last November when Ayoka Lawrence checked her account balance online, she was confronted by a dismal reality – it was $387.16.

(Jamaica Star) Pastor Jeremy Arnold said he was thrown into a garbage bin at birth by doctors who thought he was dead.

(Trinidad Guardian) State-owned Na­tion­al Pe­tro­le­um Mar­ket­ing Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (NP) lost over US$500,000 in a bad deal on the sale of bunker fu­el on the in­ter­na­tion­al mar­ket.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said yesterday he looks forward to meeting with Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido on Monday in Bogota at a regional counter-terrorism conference.

 ASUNCION,  (Reuters) – At least 75 inmates, including members of Brazil’s most powerful gang, escaped from a Paraguayan prison yesterday after digging a tunnel in an operation that prison officials were believed to have been aware of, Paraguay’s government said.

TEGUCIGALPA,  (Reuters) – Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez said yesterday he was committed to battling corruption after his government ended the mandate of an anti-graft mission in the country backed by the Organization of American States (OAS).

(Barbados Nation) Barbados will not be at the table when Caribbean leaders meet with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Jamaica, on Tuesday.

(Trinidad Express) Shane Ramjattan, the missing father of two, has emerged from the forest telling an incredible story of being abducted, beaten and a trip to Venezuela.

(Jamaica Gleaner) They mostly come out in the afternoons, about five o’clock for those who bother to go home and change from their school uniforms – children as young as six years old with outstretched palms and chilling tales of misfortune.

(Trinidad Express) The shootout between police and suspected gang members on the Eastern Main Road, Laventille Wednes-day was a watershed event with criminals now operating with new sophisticated, highly organised guerilla-type tactics.

BRASÍLIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s Culture Secretary Roberto Alvim was sacked yesterday after posting a video in which he appeared to copy a speech by Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Dancehall artiste Quada, who is charged with murder and arson, was yesterday granted $500,000 bail when he appeared before the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court.

(Trinidad Express) National Security Minister Stuart Young has given the assurance that Venezuelan migrants who were given registration cards will receive “an automatic six-month extension” at the end of the expiry period.

XINGU INDIGENOUS PARK, Brazil,  (Reuters) – She is only 16 and from a remote Brazilian village on the Tapajos River in the heart of the Amazon, but her plea has been heard at the United Nations and the Vatican.

(Barbados Nation) Screams and cries of students of St Alban’s Primary School pierced the air yesterday around 8:10 a.m..

(Jamaica Observer) The Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, says it is moving forward with plans to unveil a statue of Jamaican Olympian Asafa Powell at the National Stadium in February .