(Jamaica Star) After what dancehall artiste and producer Rum Blood calls an entertaining Friday evening on the streets of Los Angeles, California, on November 29, he woke up in a jail cell the next morning.
(Trinidad Guardian) The 34-year-old father who allegedly struck a Form Three student at the Marabella South Secondary School is in police custody.
(Jamaica Observer) A year after graduating from the Occupational Associate Degree programme at Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) in Kingston, scores of graduates are yet to receive the document which confirms that they have earned the qualification.
(Jamaica Observer) The United States of America’s longest federal court vacancy ended last Thursday after nearly 14 years of foot-dragging and politics as the US Senate confirmed a Jamaican-born university professor to a North Carolina trial court seat in a bipartisan vote.
(Trinidad Guardian) A High Court judge has granted an order prohibiting two Chinese nationals from disposing of close to $10 million which had been paid by a State company for the construction of a government school.
(Jamaica Observer) St Kitts-Nevis Opposition Leader Denzil Douglas has denied a report in Britain’s Daily Mail that he was detained at Gatwick International Airport when he tried to leave the country with 70,000 pounds sterling in cash.
(Jamaica Star) A popular Jamaica Union of Travellers Association (JUTA) tour bus operator who allegedly beat up a police constable last Friday has been arrested and charged.
(Trinidad Newsday) A fun hike for five young men from San Fernando turned into a frightening ordeal as they claimed to have encountered the female jaguar which was rescued and taken to the Emperor Valley Zoo.
(Trinidad Express) Women and girls in Trinidad and Tobago cannot walk the streets without being harassed by dirty men with foul mouths who brazenly make offensive comments which can range from “baby yuh sweet and sexy” to explicit remarks about female genitalia.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica-born author director, producer, and actress, Sandy Daley waited with bated breath with her family on December 3 to see if she would win one of the coveted spots in the 2020 Toronto Fringe Festival.
(Barbados Nation) Caribbean people and institutions have to stand in defence of the region against external attacks from those who don’t have its best interests at heart, says Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit.
(Trinidad Guardian) National Security Minister Stuart Young announced on Thursday that a Cabinet decision was made to remove the existing $100 bill from circulation and replace it with a new, harder to counterfeit note.
(Trinidad Express) As he realised the brakes on his truck were failing, driver Johnald Smith told his 18-year-old loader to jump out before the vehicle went over a cliff along the Lady Young Road in Morvant.
(Trinidad Express) There are 80 million $100 bills (valued at $8 billion) currently in circulation in Trinidad and Tobago, Finance Minister Colm Imbert said yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association extends deepest condolences and sympathy to the family of our former President Raymond Tim Kee following his passing on Saturday night at his home in Port-of-Spain.