Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) Trinida­di­an born po­et and au­thor, Ian Williams has won Cana­da’s rich­est lit­er­ary award for fic­tion, for his nov­el Re­pro­duc­tion.

(Jamaica Star) Nicardo thought that it would just be a night of fun when he and a friend went to Waves Beach in Portmore last Thursday night.

(Trinidad Express) A St Joseph man is expected to appear before a Port of Spain Magistrate today, charged with the murder of physically challenged landlord Rudven Prout.

(Jamaica Star) A 13-year-old girl was allegedly raped by an older student at a St Catherine High School, after she refused to give him $50.

(Trinidad Newsday) Because she was scheduled to be deported after serving a prison sentence, a Venezuelan woman was kept in prison even after she had completed her jail term.

(Jamaica Observer) An admission by a Crown witness that he prefers to remain in prison rather than being released early under a plea bargain deal he signed with the State surprised many people in the Home Circuit Court on day four of the Tesha Miller trial yesterday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) With some 1.6 million Jamaican children registered between 1955 and 2017, without their fathers’ names on their birth certificates, Pastor Michael McAnuff-Jones has made a call for the Registration Act to be revised.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Amid concerns of a permissive culture of drug use among Jamaican children, there are fresh fears that easy access to marijuana-laced foods is putting students at risk of health complications in ‘high schools’.

(Trinidad Guardian) Ram­ra­jie Gob­in, 49, who was dis­cov­ered hacked to death at her home in Gol­con­da on Sun­day was de­scribed as an “An­gel.”

SAO JOSE DOS CAMPOS, Brazil, (Reuters) – Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose to its highest in over a decade this year, government data yesterday showed, confirming a sharp increase under the leadership of right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro.

(Trinidad Express) Digicel customer service employee Dillon Fraser was killed in Port of Spain this morning.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Nicaraguan police yesterday accused 16 anti-government protesters of planning to carry out terrorist attacks in the Central American country, which has been rocked by more than a year and a half of deadly protests against the government.

TORONTO,  (Reuters) – Writer Ian Williams won Canada’s top annual literary award for fiction for his book “Reproduction,” the prize’s sponsor said yesterday.

LA PAZ, (Reuters) – Thousands of Bolivian coca farmers marched yesterday to demand the resignation of interim President Jeanine Anez, who was forced to suspend a trip to her home province earlier in the day after receiving a death threat.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Fans will recognise Kevoy Burton as the lead actor in Right Girl, Wrong Address for the play’s final few weeks at Centerstage, or as the intense financial ‘coach’ on Victoria Mutual Group’s iSave campaign.

(Trinidad Express) The media have been banned from the funeral of Satnayaran Maharaj, secretary general of the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha (SDMS).

(Trinidad Newsday) The day before she was fired as Scarborough General Hospital’s Medical Chief of Staff, Dr Rufaro Celestine sent a legal letter to the Tobago Regional Health Authority (TRHA), questioning the conduct of the authority’s CEO Sheldon Cyrus in relation to an e-mail she had written, two weeks ago, expressing concern about the shortage of medical staff at the hospital.

(Jamaica Observer) A day after Alisia Beckford buried her brother and was preparing to attend church, gunmen entered her yard in Bayshore Heights, St Andrew, and sprayed her son, Justin Foster, with bullets.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two teenagers, a 15-year-old girl and 19-year-old boy, drowned at the Argyle Waterfall in Tobago yesterday, after a sudden gush of water caught them off-guard.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 26-year-old man from El Dorado was shot and killed while purchasing a meal in Curepe, early yesterday.