Regional News

(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.

(Trinidad Express) Criminals got only the shirt off the back of a medical doctor during an attempted robbery at his San Fernando office on Friday.

(Trinidad Express) A man was gunned down mere metres away from the office of the Homicide Bureau in San Fernando on Saturday night.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jah is My Keeper, a composition by Jamaican reggae icon Peter Tosh, resonated mystically within the ancient walls of the celebrated Canterbury Cathedral in England yesterday afternoon, during the service of installation for Jamaica-born Rose Hudson-Wilkin, the new Bishop of Dover.

(Trinidad Guardian) An off-du­ty po­lice of­fi­cer and a veg­etable ven­dor were killed last night along Low­er Char­lotte Street, Port-of-Spain, af­ter a gun­man opened fire on a Beetham man who man­aged to es­cape with mi­nor in­juries.

(Trinidad Guardian) There have been over 552 re­port­ed cas­es of sex­u­al of­fences for the year with women mak­ing up the ma­jor­i­ty of the cas­es.

(Barbados Nation) Three neighbours are dead and two others suffered injuries yesterday in a cutlass attack at Walkers, St Andrew.

(Trinidad Express) The wife of a former local government councillor died on Thursday from a suspected case of the H1N1 flu virus (swine flu).

(Trinidad Expess) “I want to tell Kamla Persad-Bissessar something tonight. Not all East Indians in politics are thieves.”

(Jamaica Gleaner) Negril is reeling from yesterday’s double murder of a businessman and his Italian wife in the popular tourist resort town, which is covered under a tri-parish state of emergency in Hanover, Westmoreland, and St James.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Una Spencer had returned to Jamaica in 2012 to help her sister having lived in Canada for more than 40 years, but she has ended up gaining an extended family of survivors of HIV/AIDS.

(Trinidad Newsday) While singer Destra Garcia was shocked at the reactions to her recently released video, Me Gusta, with Pakistani-American cricketer Ali Khan, she believes the videos of apologies done by Khan and Dwayne “DJ” Bravo showed “great courtesy” by wanting to remedy the situation.

(Trinidad Newsday) The Prime Minister has identified gambling as one of many social ills in TT which the Opposition UNC has no interest in addressing.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro claimed yesterday that Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio financed fires being set in the Amazon rainforest, without presenting any evidence, the right-wing leader’s latest broadside in casting blame over forest fires that have generated international concern.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said yesterday that his government was committed to fighting organized crime, seeking to dispel fears that the United States could take matters in its own hands in the fight against drug cartels.

(Trinidad Guardian) A sergeant in the T&T Defence Force was arrested by officers of the Special Operations Response Team (SORT) yesterday for the alleged rape and buggery of a child.

(Trinidad Newsday) Pakistani-American cricketer Ali Khan is asking his fans on social media to “move on” from an issue over his being a part of soca singer Destra Garcia’s Me Gusta video.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A 34-year-old woman who reported a bizarre toilet birth has denied allegations that she tried to kill the newborn.

(Jamaica Star) When you think of a university classroom, you immediately think books, laptops, pencils and pens.

(Trinidad Guardian) A sergeant in the T&T De­fence Force was ar­rest­ed by of­fi­cers of the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Re­sponse Team (SORT) yes­ter­day for the al­leged rape and bug­gery of a child.