(Jamaica Gleaner) The baby dubbed ‘Moses’ who was found in a pit latrine in Cox Piece, St Mary, last week remains at the St Ann’s Bay Regional Hospital under medical care, with the case being monitored by the Child Development Agency (CDA).
(Trinidad Newsday) Stedman Graham, international businessman and long-time partner of US media mogul Oprah Winfrey, has told local business leaders they have to be great leaders of themselves.
(Jamaica Observer) The Jamaican Government and the United States of America Embassy in Kingston are refuting claims on social media that the US Navy Hospital Ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) is in the island to cause harm to Jamaicans.
BRASILIA/RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro yesterday deplored a TV network’s report linking him with a former police officer accused of assassinating a Rio de Janeiro city councilwoman and threatened to cancel the broadcaster’s license.
SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Chile withdrew yesterday as the host of an APEC summit next month at which the United States and China had been expected to sign a deal to ease a trade war that has hurt the global economy, as raging street protests gripped the South American country.
(Barbados Nation) Barbados’ debt exchange deal reached with foreign creditors last week will see it having to issue bonds valued a little over $1 billion.
A Jamaica-born woman said she is counting her blessings after she was shot in the head while sleeping in her apartment in Orlando, Florida, on September 6.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Seeking to reside in Jamaica with his Canadian husband, LGBT activist and attorney-at-law Maurice Tomlinson has taken his same-sex marriage case to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
(Trinidad Guardian) The mother of a two-year-old boy who was being abused and had several injuries about his body has pleaded guilty to cruelty to a child.
(Trinidad Express) A Barataria man was yesterday sentenced to 30 days with hard labour after he pleaded guilty to allegations of sexual harassment via telephone.
(Jamaica Observer) The People’s National Party (PNP) last night approved the recommendation of Krystal Tomlinson to be named the West Rural St Andrew candidate in the next general election.
(Trinidad Guardian) Thousands of drivers were affected yesterday as Unipet’s 21 service stations across the country remained closed when dealers sought to send a message to the Government that the profits they were making were way too low for them to consider staying in business.
LA PAZ/SANTA CRUZ, (Reuters) – Protests over a disputed presidential election convulsed Bolivia yesterday as police fired tear gas in the capital and the sitting president and opposition candidate wrestled over an audit of the results.
SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Chileans took to the streets again yesterday, pouring by the thousands into plazas and shutting down main boulevards in a sign that government promises of reform continued to fall short.
(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Government has signed a new bilateral security cooperation agreement with the United States (US) that will assist in the fight against transnational criminal activities.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Prominent Montego Bay businessman Patrick Chung was yesterday freed of all 11 sexual assault charges in relation to a woman who accused him of having sex with her over a nine-year period, beginning in 1976 when she was 13 years old.