Regional News

(Trinidad Express) A mother of two returning home after an overnight prayer vigil was killed in a car crash early today.

(Trinidad Guardian)  “It’s a re­al sweet feel­ing. It’s a feel­ing I didn’t have for a very long time.”

(Jamaica Gleaner) Amid outrage over a spike in school violence that has gone viral, Jamaican teachers have been urged to behave professionally and to be standard-bearers for moral values.

(Trinidad Guardian) While chil­dren may be cu­ri­ous about mar­i­jua­na and its var­i­ous prod­ucts, High Court Judge Frank Seep­er­sad yes­ter­day told stu­dents of the Na­pari­ma Girls High School that bring­ing the drug to school can change their lives for the worse.

RIO DE JANEIRO/SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil’s famed Carnival kicked off in earnest on Saturday, as millions of scantily-clad revelers poured into the streets, many of whom took the opportunity to parody or otherwise comment on the nation’s deeply polarized politics.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Students sweated in the early-morning sunshine as school authorities locked out dozens of Oberlin High students who turned out in ripped jeans for Jamaica Day celebrations in Lawrence Tavern, St Andrew, yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) A rocky relationship filled with making up and breaking up ended tragically on Thursday night when Rachael Logan-Byfield was hacked to death.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. authorities arrested a former Drug Enforcement Administration agent yesterday on charges he conspired with Colombian drug traffickers to steal millions of dollars the U.S.

CARTAGENA,  (Reuters) – Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru will begin removing international roaming rates in voice and data communications as part of an initiative to boost integration and modernization between the Community of Andean Nations (CAN), the block’s secretary said Wednesday.

(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.