(Jamaica Gleaner) The police have for the past two years failed to execute a warrant of committal on Jamaican cricketer-turned-politician Daren Powell, who has been held in contempt because of his failure to comply with a 2016 court order.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prisoners in local jails are communicating on the Internet using 4G and LTE technology, prompting the Government to amend the Interception of Communication law soon to deal with this.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Oilfield Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) has been notified that 178 out of the total unionised workforce of 286 workers at Unilever Caribbean Ltd (UCL) workers are being sent home.
(Barbados Nation) Authorities are hastening to correct an error in the court system which left hundreds of couples believing they were divorced, when they were not.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombian unions and student groups marked a third national strike yesterday with marches, chants and dancing, ahead of additional dialogue between protest leaders and the government over President Ivan Duque’s social and economic policies.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Election and Boundaries Commission (EBC) says the voter turnout in Monday’s Local Government Elections was 34.49 per cent of the voting population.
(Trinidad Guardian) A seven-seven tie result for People’s National Movement and United National Congress!
(Trinidad Guardian) The Ministry of Health says it has conducted an epidemiological examination of the Influenza deaths for this season.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Tesha Miller has been found guilty in relation to the murder of former chairman of the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC), Douglas Chambers.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States yesterday blacklisted the former Guatemalan infrastructure minister for his alleged involvement in “significant corruption,” U.S.
(Jamaica Observer) After spending three years behind bars, Dishane Dixon’s first taste of freedom was short-lived, as he was shot dead on Slipe Road in Kingston, one hour after his release.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Shock and grief gripped a section of Waterford in Portmore, St Catherine, yesterday after three members of a family were shot dead in their living room shortly after 9 p.m.
(Trinidad Express) The United National Congress (UNC) has stormed into the PNM stronghold that was the San Fernando City Corporation (SFCC).
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia’s government yesterday asked unions and student organizations that are set to hold a third national strike in as many weeks tomorrow to cancel the protest and agreed to union demands to meet individually with the government.
(Trinidad Express) A doctor was among three people killed overnight in separate crashes.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has closed the State’s case in the preliminary inquiry of ten men charged with the murder of former Independent Senator Dana Seetahal, SC.
(Jamaica Observer) The police in Manchester are on the search for the killers of a popular business man who was fatally shot in the parish Saturday morning.
(Jamaica Gleaner) In what the police suspect to have been an illicit deal gone sour, three men of St James addresses died in St Ann on Saturday night, while one is in police custody and a firearm recovered.
(Trinidad Express) Two fire fighters and a civilian were injured when a pick up van crashed into the fire tender on Sunday.
(Trinidad Guardian) A proposal to bring back a more efficient Petrotrin is chief among the plans Opposition leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar laid out at Saturday night’s United National Congress (UNC) rally.
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