(Reuters) – In the not-so-distant past, TV viewers were forced to wait a week for the next installment of their favorite shows, parceled out by networks in half-hour or hour-long increments.
Leroy Richards could hardly find the words to speak as tears flowed down his face yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) Two men waiting on transportation at the Princes Town promenade were caught in the middle of a gunfight with police and a suspected car thief on Friday night.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A 54-year-old cook who has been charged for several breaches of the Dangerous Drugs Act is to appear in court on Christmas Eve.
(Trinidad Newsday) A 62-year-old Gasparillo woman is threatening to take Scotiabank to court after she alleges she was assaulted by a security guard at the Marabella branch when she went to exchange her $100 cotton-bills to the new polymer ones.
(Trinidad Guardian) Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi expects that the decriminalisation of marijuana which comes into effect today will result in a reduction in turf wars by ganja dealers.
La Paz, (Reuters) – Bolivia yesterday announced its entry into the Lima Group regional bloc that was set up to find a way out of the Venezuelan crisis.
(Jamaica Observer) If chairman and CEO of the Miss World organisation Julia Morley had her way, Jamaica would be the host of the 70th anniversary of the international beauty pageant come next year.
(Trinidad Express) The entire board of directors of State-owned television station TTT has been fired.
(Jamaica Observer) The people of Arcadia, St Thomas, say they, too, have a stake in the ‘ownership’ of Miss World 2019, Toni-Ann Singh, a native of the soil.
President Paula-Mae Weekes has declared the dangerous drugs amendment act law and it comes into effect on Monday.
(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says he is distressed and shocked following the murder of Mi4 security officer Mark Nurse.
(Trinidad Express) The fire ignited by a fallen transformer, not the collision injuries, led to the death of Michael Bradshaw, Djenne Hills-Dyer, two of the four victims of a fiery crash on Thursday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A member of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) is among four persons who died yesterday in separate motor vehicle crashes.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Reggae and gospel recording artiste, Fabian ‘Ziggy Soul’ Arnold, has died.
(Jamaica Observer) The on-going gang violence in sections of lower Mountain View Avenue in the eastern end of the city intensified yesterday with the shooting of a man close to the area known as “63”.
(Trinidad Express) The fire ignited by a fallen transformer, not the collision injuries, led to the death of Michael Bradshaw, Djenne Hills-Dyer, two of the four victims of a fiery crash on Thursday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Mexican-owned Pacific Airport Group, GAP, which operates Jamaica’s two international airports in Kingston and Montego Bay, plans to spend US$213 million over the next five years to upgrade the runways and buildings, but it will come with passengers paying more to use the facilities, according to its latest filings.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The All-Island Jamaica Cane Farmers Association (AIJCFA) has landed a deal with the Government to lease more than 3,600 acres of the land surrounding the Long Pond Sugar Factory in Trelawny to be sublet to cultivators affected by the closure of the historic facility.
(Trinidad Guardian) Relatives of bank employee, Roma La Mothe, 28, who was found dead in a drain along Demerara Road in Arima, are disputing rumours that a close relative had anything to do with her demise.
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