Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) The man charged with the mur­der of school teacher Ashram Boodram has pend­ing mat­ters for at­tempt­ed mur­der and armed rob­bery.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The police are reporting that the man suspected of murdering two women as they slept at a house on Knowles Road, Mandeville, Manchester this morning was caught in a dragnet a short while ago.

(Jamaica Star) Although the World Health Organisation declared the coronavirus as a global emergency last week, Sean, a Jamaican teacher living in China, says he is not worried because the government there is handling the situation the best way it knows how.

RIO DE JANEIRO/HOUSTON, (Reuters) – A former trader at oil firm Petrobras has signed a plea bargain agreement with Brazilian prosecutors investigating bribery allegations, defense lawyers and prosecutors said, a potential breakthrough in a case involving some of the world’s top commodity trading houses.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – At least half a dozen Venezuelan banks have begun storing in vaults millions of dollars and euros accumulated in cash by businesses during an unexpected economic liberalization by President Nicolas Maduro, according to sources.

(Trinidad Express) A man who allegedly raped and molested his child, and his wife who failed to report the alleged crimes, have been arrested.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela have rescinded the agreement to jointly develop 10 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in the Loran-Manatee field.

(Trinidad Guardian) From Jan­u­ary 31, this year, in­for­ma­tion on sex­u­al of­fend­ers can be shown on an on­line web­site for the pub­lic to ac­cess their names, ad­dress­es, pho­tographs and of­fences com­mit­ted.

(Trinidad Express) A payroll manager was one of three people who faced the court yesterday accused of fraudulently transferring $7.4 million from a shipping company in Point Lisas.

(Trinidad Express) Police are not doing enough to protect Venezuelan migrants from exploitation.

(Jamaica Observer) There is no case of the novel coronavirus in Jamaica, but some Chinese restaurants are feeling the heat from the disease which has forced major fast-food chains and retailers in China to shut their doors as the death toll from the virus rises.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaicans occupy more places in Canadian prisons than any other nationals from the English-speaking Caribbean.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Pres­by­ter­ian min­is­ter has de­scribed the spate of do­mes­tic vi­o­lence mur­ders in this coun­try as a cri­sis more dead­ly than the coro­n­avirus.

(Jamaica Observer) Nineteen Chinese nationals who landed in Jamaica on Friday night were denied entry, quarantined and put back on an aeroplane on Saturday morning as the country enforced its travel ban in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.

(Trinidad Guardian) Three days af­ter Health Min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh an­nounced a 14-day trav­el re­stric­tion on ar­riv­ing pas­sen­gers from Chi­na, a lo­cal stu­dent has re­turned home and was re­unit­ed with her fam­i­ly af­ter she says she was screened and cleared by im­mi­gra­tion.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica— One hundred and ten people were murdered across the island in January, a slight uptick on the 104 killed in January 2019. 

(Jamaica Gleaner) The case against Keron Watson, the St James man who was arrested and charged with breaches of the Trafficking in Persons Act in 2017, has been set for a plea and case-management hearing to take place in the St James Circuit Court on April 23.

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith be­lieves that the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem and politi­cians who con­tin­ue to give crim­i­nal gangs state con­tracts are con­tribut­ing to the coun­try’s grow­ing mur­der rate and it must stop.

(Trinidad Guardian) On the day that the world’s largest methanol producer announced that it had agreed to a two-month extension of its natural gas contract with the National Gas Company, President and CEO of Methanex, John Floren made it clear that the Canadian giant is prepared to shut down its plant rather than sign a bad deal with the NGC.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica has imposed a ban on travel to and from China with immediate effect and there are jitters that the local tourist industry could be hurt by the snowballing coronavirus outbreak if it reaches these shores.