(Trinidad Express) Sometime around midnight, Police Commissioner Gary Griffith went to his Facebook account to comment on the arrest of Transformed Life Ministries pastor Glen Awong who goes court today charged with offences linked to a raid at his compound in Arouca three months ago.
(Trinidad Express) Police officers swooped down on Gulf View and searched the residence of the children of pastor Vinworth Anthony Dayal yesterday afternoon.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Residents of Catadupa District in St James are challenging claims by the police that 19-year-old Daveen Powell, a labourer from the same community, was killed in a shoot-out with lawmen yesterday morning.
(Jamaica Star) Perhaps in the next couple of decades, when entertainment industry players gather to regale each other with anecdotes from their musical crypt, one will probably say, “Remember the December when Gussie los’ him $170,000 and a security guard find it and gi him back?”
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States imposed sanctions yesterday on Cuba’s defense minister, accusing him of human rights violations and supporting socialist Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement.
(Trinidad Newsday) This year’s first murder victim, Renaldo “Naldo” Chinapoo, 38, was on his way to buy a phone card on Wednesday evening when a man shot and killed him at California in Couva.
(Trinidad Guardian) Investigations are continuing into the shooting death of a Maloney man just minutes into 2020.
(Trinidad Express) An autopsy on six months pregnant Zahra Ali found that she died of natural causes.
(Trinidad Express) Lisa Melville and her partner Shackiba St Louis yesterday welcomed their baby daughter, Miracle, into the world.
(Jamaica Star) Who can forget the story of Errol Samuels, the 63-year-old man who is engaged in a relentless search to for his girlfriend, Dolly, whom he last saw 45 years ago.
(Trinidad Newsday) Minutes before the deadline for changing old $100 bills, a 65-year-old pastor from Chaguanas tried to change $29 million in cash.
(Trinidad Guardian) Four young students have done the country proud by excelling in an international mental mathematics competition in Cambodia, claiming first, second and third places in their respective categories.
(Jamaica Observer) MANDEVILLE, Manchester — Alton Whyte, father of 24-year-old Shantel Whyte, who was murdered on New Year’s Eve, says he probably wouldn’t be in Jamaica “alive and walking around” had it not been for his daughter.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A 15-year-old high-school student successfully underwent surgery at Falmouth Hospital in Trelawny yesterday to remove a bullet from her forehead after she was believed to have been shot by men involved in a gun salute as part of New Year’s celebrations in Mount Salem, St James.
(Trinidad Express) Chief Executive Officer of the Trinidad and Tobago Hospitality Institute (TTHTI) Brian Frontin is just one of many people that has rushed to assist Shania Moonsammy, the owner of the online cake store Oh Yum Yumm.
(Trinidad Guardian) Caribbean islanders will be asked to participate in a clinical study on four drugs that are hoped to be potential treatments for COVID-19.
(Trinidad Express) Police shot four gunmen yesterday afternoon, killing two, minutes after they killed a woman and shot several people including a five-year-old boy.
(Trinidad Guardian) Rogue police officers who may have been involved in a plot to “bring down” Police Commissioner Gary Griffith will be under scrutiny as part of the investigation into the murder of purported gang leader Cecil ‘Squeeze’ Skeete.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Restaurants of Jamaica, the operators of KFC in Jamaica, says disciplinary action is to be taken against a worker who used a local homophobic slur against a male customer.
(Jamaica Gleaner) On a normal day, residents of Kiora, George’s Valley, would have awakened to the cool Manchester breeze and the coos of native birds.
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