Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) “It af­fects me every sin­gle time there is a homi­cide in this coun­try, so I have been af­fect­ed 500-plus times this year.

MADRID,  (Reuters) – Mexico should stay out of Bolivian domestic affairs after the collapse last month of former leader Evo Morales’s Socialist government, Bolivia’s acting foreign minister Karen Longaric was quoted saying in an interview published yesterday.

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

LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru´s government on Friday night announced measures to strengthen penalties for companies found responsible for workplace accidents, days after two McDonald´s franchisee workers died in one of its restaurants.

Three Trinidadian showbusiness figures and a film director with Trinidad roots have been recognised by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth in her 2020 New Year’s Honours List.

(Jamaica Observer) DAVINEE Smith, like most Jamaican children, enjoyed his Christmas meal on Wednesday, played with toys, and posed for photos with family members and friends – making use of the time off from school.

(Jamaica Gleaner) For 35 days between October and earlier this month, Clayon Elliot made the 149-kilometre trek from his home in York Town, Clarendon, to the Grandiosa Hotel, in Montego Bay, St James to attend classes in event production.

(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.