Regional News

(Jamaica Gleaner) The woman who allegedly dumped her newborn into a pit latrine in Esson Castle district in St Ann last week Wednesday has been charged.

(Trinidad Express) Arima police are probing an incident where a man was chopped several times about the body.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Major global oil firms snubbed a second Brazilian oil auction in a row yesterday, passing up offshore blocks and forcing officials to reconsider a bidding system that gives a privileged position to state-run Petroleo Brasileiro SA.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Couva man was hot dead at his home at Basta Hall yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Caribbean Air­lines will not be adding the Boe­ing Max 8 to its fleet next month.

(Jamaica Observer) Vaughn Benjamin, charismatic founder and singer of the Midnite band, died on November 4 in Port St Lucie, Florida.

(Trinidad Express) Be careful of what you post to social media.

(Jamaica Observer) All cases that were set to be heard today at the Manchester Parish Court have been adjourned following an early morning fire that damaged a section of the building.

(Barbados Nation) Parents of students at Alexandra School are expressing concern after a video circulating on social media showed a large number of cockroaches on the school’s compound.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica will “very shortly” change a law that will allow spouses, including those who are married, to be charged for raping their partners.

(Trinidad Express) Fake police officers driving a fake squad car were arrested by real police officers in San Juan this morning.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Michael Fray , a two-time individual Olympic finalist, died on Wednesday morning in Kingston in an apparent suicide.

(Trinidad Guardian) Pre­lim­i­nary find­ings by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) have all but cleared Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley of any wrong­do­ing in re­la­tion to al­le­ga­tions of fi­nan­cial im­pro­pri­ety.

(Trinidad Guardian) To­ba­go po­lice and Ed­u­ca­tion Di­vi­sion of­fi­cials have launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to a man’s in­volve­ment in a school fight that took place in Rox­bor­ough, To­ba­go.

LA PAZ, (Reuters) – A Bolivian protest leader who has become a figurehead for opposition to President Evo Morales arrived yesterday in capital La Paz, where he plans to formally demand the leftist leader step down after a contentious election last month.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil has canceled a 10-year-old ban on sugarcane cultivation in its Amazon rainforest and central wetlands, the government gazette said yesterday, a move environmentalists criticized as another assault on the country’s sensitive ecosystems.

(Trinidad Express) The investigation into how the children of Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi’s were allowed to use the shooting range at Camp Cumuto, where they were photographed holding what appeared to be high-powered weapons, is almost at a close.

(Jamaica Star) The St James Police are currently processing the scene where a male parent was shot and killed, while dropping off his child at the Cornwall Gardens Basic School, in Mount Salem, this morning.

(Jamaica Observer) Jamaica’s double Olympic sprint champion Elaine Thompson, who recently tied the knot, says hubby Derron Herah has been a source of inspiration.

(Trinidad Guardian) Bish­op of the An­gli­can Dio­cese of T&T Rev Claude Berkley has ‘strong­ly con­demned’ the de­pic­tion of scant­i­ly-clad mod­els in the Trin­i­ty Cathe­dral over the past week­end, say­ing it was out of or­der.