Regional News

(Trinidad Express) A Mayaro woman who was doused with kerosene and set on fire by a relative, died on Friday.

(Jamaica Observer) Investigators probing the kidnapping of baby boy Nyear Frank in October say, while there are no leads as to the whereabouts of the child, who is now three months old, they are actively trying to find him and those responsible for his disappearance.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Emancipated! That’s how Samantha McKenzie felt as she bared her soul and body to the night sky over New Kingston’s Emancipation Park in the last minutes of Christmas on Wednesday, disrobing herself at the foot of the iconic Redemption Song monument.

(Trinidad Guardian) A mir­a­cle. That’s the on­ly way to de­scribe what oc­curred on Box­ing Day at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal (SFGH) when a 75-year-old man came back from the dead.

(Jamaica Observer) The US$452-million port modernisation project is moving towards completion in Kingston, and it is already remaking Jamaica’s major port.

(Trinidad Express) Men pretending to be police officers stormed the home of Joseph Persad at Borde Narve Village near Princes Town shortly before midnight.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Investors can buy telecommunications company Digicel bonds at roughly 30 per cent cheaper than in January this year as downgrades put pressure on prices.

(Trinidad Guardian) The 24-year-old man who was killed on Christmas Eve day in Port of Spain went to purchase a van as a Christmas gift.

(Jamaica Star) In the early hours of Christmas Eve, a Best Dressed Chicken truck carrying hundreds of chickens ready to be prepared for holiday dinners was stolen.

(Trinidad Newsday) UNC PRO Anita Haynes on Tuesday told Newsday the alleged photos of a UNC politician were now a dead issue.

(Jamaica Observer) Althea Needham, a Jamaican living in the United States (US), recently brought cheer to more than 200 children and adults in Kitson Town, St Catherine.

(Jamaica Gleaner) With road deaths totalling 426 since January 1 this year, the country has inched perilously closer to 1993’s historic figure of 434, with four days remaining in 2019.

(Trinidad Guardian) Moruga farmer Damien Mollineau planned to pamper his wife on Boxing Day yesterday by cooking for her while she rested.

(Jamaica Observer) The new 194 megawatt (MW) natural gas power plant in Old Harbour, St Catherine is now operational, Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) announced Monday night.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The pain of losing her own child has fuelled a fire that has driven Stacey-Ann Mullings to be a full-time philanthropist while employed in the hospitality sector.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaican computational biologist Camir Ricketts has been invited to attend the 12th Annual Clinton Global Initiative University (CGIU) meeting to be held at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland in April 2020.

(Trinidad Express) A Point Fortin woman says she was held against her will inside a grocery when the owner refused to let her leave after she paid for food items with an old $100 bill.

(Trinidad Express) A Chaguanas man was gunned down on Christmas night.

(Trinidad Newsday) When calls to PC Nicholas Victor’s phone went unanswered on Tuesday night, Christmas eve, relatives assumed he was busy not knowing that he had been shot dead by bandits.

A Cedros man was jailed for nine months after he admitted in court on Monday to unlawful possession of a capuchin monkey, macaws and parrots.