Regional News

(Jamaica Observer) St Kitts-Nevis Opposition Leader Denzil Douglas has denied a report in Britain’s Daily Mail that he was detained at Gatwick International Airport when he tried to leave the country with 70,000 pounds sterling in cash.

(Trinidad Express) Small business owners are being asked to be wary of counterfeit $100 notes.

(Jamaica Star) A popular Jamaica Union of Travellers Association (JUTA) tour bus operator who allegedly beat up a police constable last Friday has been arrested and charged.

(Trinidad Newsday) A fun hike for five young men from San Fernando turned into a frightening ordeal as they claimed to have encountered the female jaguar which was rescued and taken to the Emperor Valley Zoo.

(Trinidad Express) Women and girls in Trinidad and Tobago cannot walk the streets without being harassed by dirty men with foul mouths who brazenly make offensive comments which can range from “baby yuh sweet and sexy” to explicit remarks about female genitalia.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica-born author director, producer, and actress, Sandy Daley waited with bated breath with her family on December 3 to see if she would win one of the coveted spots in the 2020 Toronto Fringe Festival.

(Barbados Nation) Caribbean people and institutions have to stand in defence of the region against external attacks from those who don’t have its best interests at heart, says Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit.

(Trinidad Guardian) National Security Minister Stuart Young announced on Thursday that a Cabinet decision was made to remove the existing $100 bill from circulation and replace it with a new, harder to counterfeit note.

(Trinidad Express) As he realised the brakes on his truck were failing, driver Johnald Smith told his 18-year-old loader to jump out before the vehicle went over a cliff along the Lady Young Road in Morvant.

(Trinidad Express) There are 80 million $100 bills (valued at $8 billion) currently in circulation in Trinidad and Tobago, Finance Minister Colm Imbert said yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Trinidad and To­ba­go Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion ex­tends deep­est con­do­lences and sym­pa­thy to the fam­i­ly of our for­mer Pres­i­dent Ray­mond Tim Kee fol­low­ing his pass­ing on Sat­ur­day night at his home in Port-of-Spain.

(Jamaica Observer) Flight, the short film by local directors Kia Moses and Adrian McDonald,continues to rake in awards on the international film festival circuit.

(Jamaica Observer) When Ade Ellis, now 29 years old, emigrated to Florida 14 years ago, he had already made up his mind that cooking would be his career path.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Despite solemn promises given six years ago by the previous administration to wipe from the books a section of the Child Care and Protection Act, which allows judges in the Family Court to deem a child uncontrollable and commit them to the custody of the Department of Correctional Services, the law still remains.

(Trinidad Guardian) The new poly­mer $100 ban­knotes have been print­ed and are ready for dis­tri­b­u­tion, Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert has an­nounced.

(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley yesterday accepted, on behalf of her regional colleagues, space in an ultra-modern business complex in Nairobi, Kenya, to be the home of a joint diplomatic mission.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Two indigenous men, members of the Guajajara tribe in northeastern Brazil, were shot dead yesterday, and two others were hurt, not far from where a prominent tribesman who defended the Amazon rainforest was also killed last month, authorities said.

(Jamaica Observer) Jamaica’s national costume for the 2019 staging of the Miss Universe pageant has left social media users divided over the theme chosen for the design.

(Trinidad Guardian) In an at­tempt to es­cape the grid­lock traf­fic which snarled all routes in­to and out of the cap­i­tal city on Sat­ur­day, a de­liv­ery dri­ver lost his life af­ter he at­tempt­ed to use an al­ter­na­tive route.

(Trinidad Guardian) Dana Pe­ruza last saw and spoke with her son Key­on “Geno” Gill around 7 pm on Thurs­day as she or­dered KFC for din­ner.