BRASILIA/SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil confirmed the first case of a fast-spreading new coronavirus in Latin America yesterday, diagnosing a 61-year-old man in Sao Paulo who returned recently from Italy.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Killings of women engaged in community organizing and defending human rights in Colombia increased nearly 50% in 2019 compared to the year before, the United Nations said yesterday as it urged the government to redouble protection efforts.
(Trinidad Express) Daniel Marcano, also known as Danny Boy, was shot dead in Diego Martin on Carnival Tuesday night.
(Jamaica Observer) A man who was on the police most wanted list in 2017 was acquitted of murder in the Home Circuit yesterday following a no-case submission by his attorneys Peter Champagnie, Queen’s Counsel, and Kemar Robinson.
(Jamaica Observer) A man who was on the police most wanted list in 2017 was acquitted of murder in the Home Circuit yesterday following a no-case submission by his attorneys Peter Champagnie, Queen’s Counsel, and Kemar Robinson.
(Trinidad Guardian) Despite almost being injured and even killed, masquerader Natacha Jones thanked the authorities at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital for the treatment she received on Carnival Tuesday.
(Trinidad Express) Road March King Iwer George is aware of the controversy surrounding a brief interaction with the husband of Trini-born American rapper Nicki Minaj on Carnival Tuesday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The strength and commitment of an injured unnamed policeman who was hurt in a two-vehicle smash-up at the intersection of Harbour and Pechon streets yesterday afternoon was the talking point among workers from a nearby furniture store, some of whom witnessed the crash and helped in the rescue effort of the six victims.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – A committee in Colombia’s lower house of Congress will investigate allegations by an ex-senator who fled the country that President Ivan Duque participated in vote-buying and sought to have her assassinated, the head of the panel said on Monday.
(Jamaica Observer) Mia Dailey, the one-year-old who was shot by gunmen as they slaughtered a man at West Street in downtown Kingston Sunday morning, is responding after surgery, a relative told the Jamaica Observer yesterday.“She’s
(Jamaica Gleaner) Alana McKenzie, the widow of school bus driver Rayon McKenzie who was murdered in Hanover yesterday, cried openly as the realisation sank in that her late husband would not be around to play a part in the life of the child in her womb who was due to be born in a few weeks.
(Trinidad Guardian) Tobago enjoyed relatively safe J’Ouvert celebrations as only minor incidents were reported by police.
(Trinidad Express) Trinidad-born American rapper Nicki Minaj was yesterday urged to do a soca song with soca stars Machel Montano and Neil “Iwer” George for Carnival 2021.
(Trinidad Express) Two police officers are among three people charged with trafficking in person (child) for the purpose of exploitation, under Section 18 of the Trafficking in Persons Act.
(Jamaica Observer) LUCEA, Hanover — Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday warned parents of wayward children that, if necessary, the Government will introduce legislation to have them pay for their children’s bad behaviour.
(Trinidad Guardian) A 31-year-old accountant and mother of one was shot and killed by two masked men armed with gun when they invaded her St Albans Quarry Road, Valencia yesterday morning.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Violent clashes erupted in the Haitian capital yesterday, with two Reuters witnesses observing shots being fired until late at night, as police stepped up their protest over pay and conditions.
SANTO DOMINGO, (Reuters) – Hundreds of Dominicans took to the streets on Saturday night in fresh protests after the abrupt suspension of municipal elections that unleashed a political crisis months before the Caribbean island votes for a new president.
(Trinidad Express) A mother of two returning home after an overnight prayer vigil was killed in a car crash early today.
DUBLIN, (Reuters) – A “ghost ship” abandoned by its crew has run aground on rocks on the south coast of Ireland after drifting in the Atlantic for 17 months.
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