Regional News

(Trinidad Express) A man who often wore a lot of gold jewelry, was shot, killed, and robbed of it on Wednesday night.

(Trinidad Express) Minister of Rural Development and Local Government Kazim Hosein says his team is on the ground and responding to flood victims throughout the county.

BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Norway, Germany and Britain said yesterday they would spend up to $366 million over the next five years to help Colombia reduce deforestation in its vast Amazon rainforest.

SANTIAGO (Reuters) – The Chilean Air Force said yesterday it had located debris believed to be from a military cargo plane that crashed this week with 38 people aboard over a remote stretch of frigid sea between South America and the Antarctic.

(Jamaica Star) The Unites States Embassy has revoked the diplomatic visa that it issued to East Portland Member of Parliament Ann-Marie Vaz, and has also turned down her request a visitors’ visa.

(Trinidad Guardian) Fri­day De­cem­ber 13th 2019 is the last day the US Em­bassy in Port of Spain will ac­cept the old TT$100 bills for some ser­vices.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Gunmen went on a rampage last night in over Dover District in Kitson Town, St Catherine shooting eight persons, four fatally.

(Trinidad Express) The Judiciary says that one of its Court security officers was arrested by a police officer who refused to subject himself to the scanner before being allowed into the Mayaro Magistrates’ Court on Monday.

(Jamaica Star) Months after being wrongly accused of having sexual intercourse with a person under 16 sometime last year, John Doe*, 20, was freed last Friday of the charges when he made his first appearance in court.

(Trinidad Guardian) A mad rush across the coun­try yes­ter­day as cit­i­zens de­fied the ad­vice of the Cen­tral Bank Gov­er­nor Alvin Hi­laire and rushed to banks across the coun­try to change their old hun­dred dol­lar bills to the new Poly­mer hun­dred dol­lar note.

SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Chile’s Air Force yesterday said one of its cargo planes had crashed with 38 people on board after going missing in an isolated area between South America and the Antarctic, with the chance of finding survivors looking “difficult.”

(Jamaica Star) After what dancehall artiste and producer Rum Blood calls an entertaining Friday evening on the streets of Los Angeles, California, on November 29, he woke up in a jail cell the next morning.

(Trinidad Newsday) A St Helena couple has 28 days to explain their wealth after a High Court judge granted the police an order under new legislation.

(Trinidad Express) San Fernando is expected to get a new mayor when the City Corporation meets on Thursday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The 34-year-old fa­ther who al­leged­ly struck a Form Three stu­dent at the Mara­bel­la South Sec­ondary School is in po­lice cus­tody.

(Jamaica Observer) A year after graduating from the Occupational Associate Degree programme at Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) in Kingston, scores of graduates are yet to receive the document which confirms that they have earned the qualification.

(Jamaica Observer) The United States of America’s longest federal court vacancy ended last Thursday after nearly 14 years of foot-dragging and politics as the US Senate confirmed a Jamaican-born university professor to a North Carolina trial court seat in a bipartisan vote.

(Jamaica Star) Two persons have died as a result of injuries sustained in a motor car after a collision on Chesterfield Drive in St Andrew on Monday.

(Trinidad Guardian) A High Court judge has grant­ed an or­der pro­hibit­ing two Chi­nese na­tion­als from dispos­ing of close to $10 mil­lion which had been paid by a State com­pa­ny for the con­struc­tion of a govern­ment school.

(Trinidad Express) A Los Iros fisherman, who intervened in an argument between his sister and another man, was stabbed to death on Sunday night.