(Trinidad Newsday) Third Exodus Assembly pastor Vinworth Dayal, who is under investigation for the source of $28 million he tried to exchange for new $100 bills on Old Year’s Day, has declared the devil is trying to “make him famous”, and with the support of heaven his church will not “scatter and fall apart.”
(Trinidad Express) The Portugese Man O’ War, a marine animal that resembles a jelly fish, continue to wash ashore in unprecedented numbers along the beaches on Trinidad east and north coasts.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Miley Cyrus’ decision to settle a US$300-million (J$40-billion) copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Jamaican songwriter Flourgon has been hailed as a “win-win” for entertainers from the land of reggae.
(Trinidad Express) The teachings of a 20th-century American Pentecostal and so-called “doomsday prophet”, who had ties to the dreaded Ku Klux Klan (KKK), are part of the sermons of Pastor Vinworth Dayal, controversial head of the Third Exodus Assembly Church in Longdenville.
(Trinidad Express) A number of explain-your-wealth orders are being prepared as a result of information gathered during the recently conducted currency changeover, as well as through the enhanced monitoring by the Board of Inland Revenue and Financial Investigations Branch (FIB), a source said yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) Pastor Glen Awong of the Transformed Life Ministries (TLM) has been granted $900,000 in bail after appearing before an Arima Magistrate on allegations of kidnapping, false imprisonment and trafficking in persons.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A total of 228 workers departed Jamaica this morning for Canada to participate in the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Programme (SAWP).
(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.
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