(Jamaica Gleaner) A Jamaican man died in immigration detention in the United Kingdom after medical staff “dismissed” signs that he was having a stroke because they wrongly presumed that he had taken the synthetic drug known as spice, an inquest has concluded.
(Trinidad Express) A nine-year-old boy has died after he had a seizure at the Guaico Government Primary School.
(Trinidad Guardian) Hours after a 29-year-old man surrendered to the police for allegedly kidnapping his landlord and throwing him over a precipice, the 41-year-old landlord succumbed to injuries at the hospital.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaican sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has been named as one of five finalists for the World Athletics Female World Athlete of the Year Award.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Jair Bolsonaro’s repeated bashing of China on the campaign trail last year left diplomats on both sides worried he might take a wrecking ball to one of the world’s biggest trading partnerships.
(Trinidad Guardian) Relatives of father of two Derick Valentine, who was killed in the presence of his two children on Sunday night, said they believe they will get justice.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro will quit his fractious right-wing Social Liberal Party (PSL) and start a new one by March 2020, PSL lawmakers Daniel Silveira and Bia Kicis said yesterday after meeting with the president.
(Trinidad Guardian) Two and a half weeks after 15-year-old Andron Jaggan went missing while on an errand to purchase bread and sausages, he was found in an abandoned house in Penal.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Senate approved yesterday the ratification of an agreement signed earlier this year to safeguard U.S.
(Trinidad Express) A twenty-nine year-old San man was in police custody last night after he turned himself in after he kidnapped his one legged landlord and threw him down a precipice off the North Coast Road last week.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A psychiatric evaluation has been ordered for the St James woman who was recently charged in connection with the deaths of her two sons, in a fire which destroyed their home in Paradise, Norwood, on November 1.
(Trinidad Newsday) Murdered Water and Sewage Authority (WASA) worker Ganesh Leroy Codjoe is being hailed a hero by relatives.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Consultant psychiatrist and government senator Dr Saphire Longmore has turned the spotlight on the treatment of mentally ill persons by their families and the wider society, charging that the stigma and discrimination against this group was “very unfortunate”.
The Bustamante Hospital for Children is to benefit from a new three-storey, 150-bed ward, set to cost $150 million, using the majority of the funds coming from the Shaggy & Friends concert staged in 2018.
The former Head of Antigua’s Financial Services Regulatory Commission, Leroy King was extradited to the United States on Friday in connection with the Ponzi scheme that brought down US billionaire R.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition leaders looking to oust their country’s socialist government can perhaps take some hope from the resignation of its leftist ally in Bolivia, President Evo Morales, on Sunday after weeks of street protests.
(Trinidad Newsday) A police officer will know on November 27 the sentence a judge will impose on him for adding a zero to a sick-leave certificate for six days, thus turning it into 60.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A clash between People’s National Party Councillor Kari Douglas and a medical doctor at the Bustamante Hospital for Children exploded into an expletive-laden tirade and near-brawl, triggering a shutdown of the Accident and Emergency (A&E) unit for two hours.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Amid speculation over the visa revocations of two senior parliamentarians, Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has blamed the People’s National Party (PNP) for the country’s travel troubles.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica will not be accepting any new loans from China, Prime Minister Andrew Holness disclosed at the end of his official visit to the Asian industrial powerhouse yesterday.
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