(Trinidad Guardian) The Secretary-General of the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha, Satnarayan Maharaj is in critical condition at the intensive care unit of the Medical Associates private hospital in St Joseph.
(Trinidad Guardian) A second long-time member of the United National Congress (UNC), Barataria MP Dr Fuad Khan, is bowing out of politics.
(Trinidad Newsday) Frustrated at the lengthy delay in settling her divorce, the estranged wife of educator and one of the central figures in the educational side of the controversial Life Sport programme, Adolphus Daniel, is suing the judge in the matter Justice Joseph Tam.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Traumatised by reports of brutal killings and assaults, several Jamaicans not connected to victims of these crimes have been showing up for counselling at the Victim Services Division (VSD) after experiencing severe anxiety and sleepless nights.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Shaggy Make a Difference Foundation has pledged to donate $100 million to the Bustamante Hospital for Children following the recent disclosure that the hospital had yet to benefit from the charity concert hosted by the artiste in January 2018 to aid the paediatric institution.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s former leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva yesterday attacked right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro for impoverishing working Brazilians and vowed to unite the left to win the 2022 elections in a speech one day after being freed from jail.
LA PAZ, (Reuters) – Bolivian President Evo Morales denounced the actions of “violent groups” early yesterday, hours after police forces were seen joining scattered protests, but the military weighed in later saying it would not “confront the people” in a standoff over a disputed election.
(Trinidad Express) A woman was among three people killed when someone opened fire outside a bar in El Socorro yesterday morning.
(Jamaica Gleaner) There has been a sharp reduction in road deaths since the start of the second half of the year, official figures have revealed.
(Jamaica Observer) In the hours when The Queen’s School student Joeith Lynch and her mother Charmaine Rattray were screaming and fighting for their lives at their house in Lauriston, St Catherine, Sanjay Ducally — who now stands accused of murder in the gruesome death of both women — says he was on his way “from a function” in the dead of night and, on hearing the shrieks, went to investigate only to get caught up in the incident which has landed him behind bars for nine years.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Earlier this week when production for the Bad Boys For Life movie came to a close, Ian and Roger Lewis of the band Inner Circle were present on set.
(Trinidad Guardian) Days after the controversial jaw-dropping fashion show at the Trinity Cathedral in Port-of-Spain, another church held a fund-raising tea and fashion show.
(Trinidad Express) Two people, one of them a woman, are dead following a shooting outside a bar in El Socorro during the early hours of yesterday morning.
(Trinidad Express) Angela Swamber, 60, is severely visually impaired but she’s a woman possessed of extraordinary grit and determination and has been taking care of her son, Aaron, 29, who suffers from cerebral palsy, all his life.
(Trinidad Newsday) A son who bludgeoned his mother to death in 2007 after she quarrelled with him for not doing enough in the house has four months and 14 days left to serve on his sentence.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A four-year-old boy braved scorching heat to run into a burning house and rescue his ailing 88-year-old grandfather in Annotto Bay on Thursday night, drawing whoops of praise from family members and residents.
BRASILIA/CURITIBA, Brazil, (Reuters) – Brazil’s leftist former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva left prison yesterday after a judge ordered his release, startling financial markets and reigniting both ends of the political spectrum with calls for demonstrations in coming days.
(Barbados Nation) Banks Holdings Limited (BHL) says its subsidiary Banks (Barbados) Breweries Ltd has not been sold.
(Trinidad Express) A Cunupia man appeared in court yesterday, charged with the murder of his girlfriend, Dolmatie Mungroo.
Two court administrators have filed a whistleblower lawsuit against a New Jersey city for alleged racial and gender discrimination.
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