Regional News

(Barbados Nation) Barbados is moving ahead with advancing elements of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy, including free access to public schools for CARICOM students.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The 2019-2020 sugar crop year got off to an early start when Chinese producers Pan Caribbean Sugar Company (PCSC) started production on November 28.

(Trinidad Newsday) Port of Spain mayor Joel Martinez, on Tuesday, called on citizens and members of the public to desist from feeding the homeless in the city.

(Trinidad Express) A Freeport woman has vanished on her drive home from her mother’s house.

(Jamaica Observer) Miss World 2019 Toni-Ann Singh has musical roots embedded in her native St Thomas.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Crime has sparked a plunge in the school population of Bull Bay Infant and Primary by almost 70 per cent as families have fled outbreaks of violence that have rocked the eastern Jamaica community.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A Canadian man who was arrested by the Narcotics Police on Sunday, December 8 is to appear in the St James Parish Court on Wednesday to answer to several charges related to the seizure of $1.5 million dollars worth of cocaine.

(Trinidad Express) If you plan on making a generous offering of old $100 bills at Old Year’s mass this year think again.

(Trinidad Guardian) Five men were sen­tenced to death by hang­ing yesterday af­ter a ju­ry found them guilty, af­ter lengthy de­lib­er­a­tion, of the kid­nap­ping and mur­der of Dr Ed­ward Khoury.

CARACAS/MIAMI,  (Reuters) – While U.S. President Donald Trump wants to drive Venezuela’s socialist ruler out of power with economic sanctions, there has in fact been a burgeoning influx of American-bought goods from Nutella spread to Oreo cookies.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados has passed its latest International Monetary Fund (IMF) test with flying colours, in the process impressing the directors of the fund, and opening up for itself access to almost $100 million from the Washington-based institution.

(Barbados Nation) The anguished wails and screams of Stacie Howard filled the air at Welches, Christ Church Sunday evening after she identified the bodies of her daughter and grandson who died in an apparent drowning.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Talented Jamaican celebrity chef Alton Henry has died in New Jersey, United States, on Saturday evening after suffering what appeared to be a heart attack while catering at an event.

(Jamaica Star) Oneil Stewart, 34, fainted when his common-law wife, Sashae Gooden, told him that she was HIV-positive, and it’s a high possibility that she had passed the virus to him.

(Trinidad Express) Police detained two men yesterday afternoon when they were caught using a card-skimming device at a Scotiabank automated teller machine (ATM) in Trincity Mall.

(Trinidad Guardian) Less than one week af­ter com­mer­cial banks start­ed ex­chang­ing the ex­ist­ing $100 cot­ton bills for the new $100 poly­mer notes, crim­i­nals have be­gun to pro­duce coun­ter­feit $100 pa­per bills.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Colombia’s special justice tribunal has begun to exhume bodies from a grave in the country’s northwest as part of an investigation into as many as 50 possible extrajudicial killings allegedly committed by the army.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The addition of 15 automated immigration kiosks at the Sangster International Airport (SIA) in Montego Bay, St James will take Jamaica closer to becoming a smart destination, says Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett.

Jamaican sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce walked away with the Best Female Athlete award at the first ever Panam Sports Awards in Fort Lauderdale on Friday. 

(Jamaica Gleaner) It’s been 26 years in the making, but on Saturday night in London, England, Toni-Ann Singh would not be denied the title of Miss World.