Regional News

(Trinidad Express) Wayne Chance, the founder and executive director of the non-governmental organisation Vision on Mission (VOM), has died.

LA PAZ,  (Reuters) – Interim Bolivian President Jeanine Anez agreed to withdraw the military from protest areas and repeal a law giving them broad discretion in the use of force as part of a preliminary “pacification” deal struck early yesterday with protest leaders.

(Trinidad Guardian) At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Faris Al-Rawi says ful­ly le­gal­is­ing mar­i­jua­na now will crip­ple its eco­nom­ic po­ten­tial for the small man.

(Jamaica Observer) With the debate now before Parliament to amend sections of the Sexual Offences Act to make marital rape a crime, the question of whether or not a husband can rape his wife remains a doctrinal negative in some quarters of the church community.

(Jamaica Observer) A midnight shooting rampage in Harbour Heights, St Andrew, has left three men dead after gunmen dressed in camouflage and balaclava masks sprayed bullets on scores of residents who had gathered for a party in the community, early yesterday morning.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A Jamaican man believed to be living in the United States (US) illegally has admitted, in a federal court in Florida, that he was the person behind a shipment of high-powered rifles and pistols along with thousands of bullets that were intercepted at the wharf in Kingston in 2017.

(Trinidad Express) A Cocorite resident has filed a police report alleging that Police Commissioner Gary Griffith choked him and threatened to kill him.

LIMA (Reuters) – Both chambers of Bolivia’s Congress unanimously passed legislation yesterday to annul the contested Oct.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – The son of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is under a new investigation by Rio de Janeiro state prosecutors for allegedly hiring fake employees during his time as a state lawmaker, the state prosecutor’s office said yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Three men and a woman were shot and killed in two sep­a­rate in­ci­dents be­tween Fri­day night and Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Jamaican man who admitted to posting nude pictures and videos of his ex-girlfriend, American television anchor Darieth Chisolm, has been sentenced to two years in prison and fined $1 million.

(Trinidad Newsday) Officials at the Education Ministry requested copies of leave for the past three years for local government candidate and art teacher Richard Rampersad.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A Pembroke Hall High teacher’s fate hangs in the balance after she was videotaped on Thursday hurling death threats repeatedly at a student in a tirade that drew widespread public outrage, triggering an investigation by school authorities and the Ministry of Education.

MANAGUA, (Reuters) – When Nicaraguan police pulled over his luxury SUV, businessman Jose Adan Aguerri thought it was a routine traffic stop.

(Jamaica Observer) United States Ambassador to Jamaica, Donald Tapia and Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett, along with a raft of officials welcomed the commencement of daily nonstop American Airlines service between New York’s John F Kennedy International Airport and Montego Bay’s Sangster International Airport today. 

(Jamaica Observer) Jamaican-American Dale VC Holness was on Tuesday elected mayor of Broward County in Florida.

(Trinidad Guardian) The An­gli­can Church is still in­ves­ti­gat­ing the fi­as­co sur­round­ing the Style­Week Port-of-Spain fash­ion show at the Trin­i­ty Cathe­dral.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaican males have been urged to reject subcultural norms that define manhood by promiscuity, mass paternity, and crudeness.

(Trinidad Express) Point Fortin police rescued the kidnapped wife of an offshore service contractor within minutes of her abduction on Thursday night.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaican priest Rose Hudson-Wilkin, who was consecrated on Tuesday as the first black woman bishop in the Church of England, says she will cherish this “special” moment and be true to her island heritage while defending her religious mandate.