(Jamaica Gleaner) Security forces battled their way on to the Qahal Yahweh Church compound Tuesday afternoon to remove three children reportedly in need of care and protection at what has been styled as a cultic stronghold of abuse, sexual assault, and wife-swapping.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaican-Canadian businessman, pioneering broadcaster, philanthropist, entrepreneur, author and human rights activist, B.
LA PAZ, (Reuters) – A Bolivian protest leader vowed yesterday to intensify pressure on President Evo Morales to resign as he resisted opposition demands that he step down over contentious election results.
WASHINGTON/CARACAS, (Reuters) – The Trump administration yesterday issued licenses allowing some U.S.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s carbon emissions have remained stable despite an increase in deforestation because they were offset by a larger use of clean energy sources such as ethanol and wind power, a report said yesterday.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia said yesterday it would speed social investment of $391.6 million earmarked for southwestern Cauca province, where indigenous communities and political candidates have been recent targets for violence by crime gangs and dissident rebels.
(Trinidad Express) “Quite scandalous.” So responded chairperson of the Catholic Commission for Social Justice (CCSJ) Leela Ramdeen yesterday, as controversy rose over the modelling of skimpy beach wear during a fashion show at the Holy Trinity Anglican Cathedral on Sunday.
(Trinidad Express) An unemployed father of two who admitted he sold marijuana was yesterday jailed for a year.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica’s top prosecutor has disclosed that she will be seeking the death penalty for the five men who are set to go on trial for allegedly beheading a St Catherine woman and her teen daughter in a double murder that stirred national outrage.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – The government of the Brazilian state of Maranhao set up a police task force yesterday to protect the Guajajara tribe from illegal loggers that killed one of its warriors in a clash over deforestation on their Amazon reservation.
(Trinidad Guardian) A patient, suspected of being infected with the H1N1 virus (Swine Flu), has been warded at the Scarborough General Hospital.
SANTA CRUZ/LA PAZ, (Reuters) – A civic leader urged Bolivians to “paralyze” government institutions and block the borders as protests sparked by the contentious election victory last month of President Evo Morales entered their third week yesterday.
(Trinidad Newsday) An Arouca woman is in custody after she was caught offering her daughters for sex this morning.
(Trinidad Guardian) Dean and Rector at the Holy Trinity Cathedral, Reverend Shelley Ann Tenia said she was disappointed that the action of one designer tainted the public’s view of an event meant to help with the restoration of the Port-of-Spain church.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Sixteen-year-old Campion College whiz-kid Kyle Pratt has aced the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) mathematics exam, scoring the highest grade in the region.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaican hotelier, Peter Morrow, one of the two persons who died in a plane crash in Ocala, Florida last Thursday, has been described as an avid pilot and as someone who was passionate about tourism.
(Trinidad Guardian) Photographs of models in bathing suits walking down the aisle of the Holy Trinity Cathedral went viral on social media yesterday as people questioned the appropriateness of the situation.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Two men were shot and killed, and four other persons shot and injured, in separate incidents hours apart Saturday night, as gunmen continued their assault on residents in St James, which is under a state of public emergency.
(Trinidad Newsday) Two days after a woman was chopped to death at her home, an unidentified woman was found dead of chop wound on land parcel off Caura Royal Road, Caura yesterday.
(Jamaica Observer) Almost two years after the successful staging of the biennial Shaggy and Friends concert, the Bustamante Hospital for Children is still anxiously waiting to receive the benefits from the charity event which reportedly raised $100 million.
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