Regional News

(Trinidad Express) Machel Montano is now a married man. The King of Soca wedded his long-time girlfriend, Renee Butcher, at the Red House in Port-of-Spain on Friday.

(Trinidad Express) I don’t want to die. This from Chaguanas businesswoman Rachael Sukhdeo, woman who broke her silence yesterday on the carnage that has surrounded her since the killing of her husband, Sheron Sukdeo almost two years ago.

(Trinidad Guardian) It’s a moth­er’s worst night­mare to wake up to trag­ic news of her daugh­ter be­ing killed and her grand­daugh­ter shot and wound­ed and in a crit­i­cal con­di­tion at hos­pi­tal.

 (Trinidad Guardian) The son of a re­tired po­lice su­per­in­ten­dent was shot dead while ly­ing on the ground next to his fa­ther, in a hold-up in Freeport Wednes­day night.

(Trinidad Guardian) While homi­cide in­ves­ti­ga­tors are prob­ing a drug link in Tues­day’s quadru­ple mur­der in Ran­cho Que­ma­do, some in­for­ma­tion point to a hit or­dered on the life of one of the vic­tims, An­to­nio Alexan­der.

(BBC) The British government has suspended its funding of the Common-wealth Secretariat, the body that runs the international organisation from London, the BBC has learned.

(Jamaica Star) Many persons, including his past students, were shocked when they learnt that Troy Chambers, a drama teacher, had been impersonating a policeman for years.

THE family of Neera Ramnath, who was fatally shot on Sunday, in what was believed a failed hit on Rachael Sukhdeo, the widow of a slain Chaguanas car dealer, has declined to comment on her death.

(Trinidad Express) An appeal filed by a former police officer who was sentenced to 17 years’ imprisonment in 2017 after he was found guilty of raping a 17-year-old girl at the San Fernando Police Station in 2001, has been dismissed.

(Jamaica Gleaner) “They know what they were doing. I will be all right”, was all one man, the first to walk out of the Harman Barracks processing centre in Kingston, had to say before he was warmly embraced by his crying mother, Ann-Marie Williams.

(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, will be in Barba-dos for the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).

(Jamaica Gleaner) There were brisk movements in the precincts of Harman Barracks police outfit yesterday afternoon as 17 deportees were escorted there for processing.

(Trinidad Express) Four men were shot and killed in a vehicle at Rancho Quemado Village on Trinidad’s south coast on Tuesday afternoon.

(Trinidad Express) Michael Maynard, the man who killed his eight-year-old daughter then died by suicide was also an accused rapist out on bail.

(Trinidad Guardian) Eight-year-old Makeisha May­nard’s life end­ed when she was planassed to death by her fa­ther for a bed­wet­ting in­ci­dent.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaican health authorities are reporting that a patient who was being quarantined after returning home from China is now showing a “progression of symptoms” of the Coronavirus.

(Jamaica Star) A man who police confirm was accused of being involved in last Wednesday’s shooting death of taxi operator Karl Senior, was shot and killed by armed men at his home in Duncans, last Saturday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Ef­forts are be­ing made to re­turn a whale, which was found strand­ed at La Lune beach in Moru­ga, back out to the sea.

(Trinidad Express) Police were called to the San Fernando hospital on Monday after a newborn baby boy was brought in unresponsive after a home delivery in Debe.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The UK government has received a blow to its plans to deport about 50 people to Jamaica after one of two legal actions to try to halt the scheduled flight succeeded.