Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) Di­vali was meant to be a hap­py time for Baldeo Soogrim and his daugh­ter Vis­han­na but one hour be­fore they lit their deyas, a fire broke out at their home and de­voured every­thing they owned.

(Jamaica Observer) Eleven-year-old Clan Carthy Primary School student Georgenae Pinnock was a picture of shock and grief as she told her mother about horrific accident that claimed the life of a schoolmate yesterday afternoon.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Po­lice Ser­vice is look­ing for a man who was pic­tured in a video among sev­er­al per­sons sift­ing through thou­sands of dol­lars of lo­cal cur­ren­cy.

(Trinidad Express) The Ministry of Health has put the public on alert for the circulation of fake liquid antibiotics.

BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – Argentina’s president-elect Alberto Fernandez vowed yesterday to ‘turn the page’ on the IMF-backed policies of incumbent Mauricio Macri, after voters weary of rising poverty and inflation swept the left back to power in Latin America’ No.3 economy.

(Barbados Nation) Minister in the Ministry of Finance, Ryan Straughn, will move the passing of a Resolution today in the House of Assembly to restructure Barbados’ foreign debt.

(Barbados Nation) The fallout from the collapse of British tour operator Thomas Cook will leave at least 70 Barbadians on the breadline come November 1.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A stunning revelation that the Caribbean region, led by Jamaica, is the amputation capital of the world, due to poor foot care, has been made by a local The University of the West Indies (UWI) professor.

(Jamaica Star) Songbird Tessanne Chin has tied the knot with Brandon, the father of her unborn child.

(Trinidad Guardian) Five years af­ter Nicole Jag­gan mys­te­ri­ous­ly dis­ap­peared while on her way to a hair­dress­ing class, her younger broth­er An­dron Jag­gan has al­so gone miss­ing from a su­per­mar­ket in South Trinidad.

(Trinidad Newsday) FRESH violence inside a Syrian camp, where some children from Trinidad & Tobago have been living, has sparked new fears.

(Trinidad Guardian) Pun­dit Satyanand Ma­haraj has tak­en Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley to task for fail­ing to at­tend the clos­ing night of Di­vali Na­gar.

(Trinidad Express) A man shot near his Morvant home two Fridays ago died in the hospital on Saturday morning.

(Trinidad Guardian) San Fer­nan­do grave dig­ger Neville Boland en­joyed tak­ing a dip in Black Stone beach every Sun­day be­fore go­ing to church.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Education Ministry has confirmed that it has received “isolated reports” of the hand, foot and mouth disease across the island.

(Trinidad Newsday) A war of words has intensified between the police and the magistracy with Police Commissioner Gary Griffith directly calling on a magistrate to not bully his officers, and the magistrate accusing policemen of pedalling misinformation about the courts.

(Trinidad Express) A year after her boyfriend was gunned down, Melissa Cain was shot and killed by a man dressed in camouflage.

(Trinidad Guardian) A man who dared to call the po­lice “ful­ly dunce” has been ar­rest­ed and charged.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Residents in Cox Piece in deep rural St Mary have dubbed as Moses the day-old baby retrieved from a pit latrine in the community on Thursday morning, likening him to the iconic biblical figure who was saved and catapulted to greatness.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The St Andrew South police are hunting for a man in connection with the mob killing of a motorist on Ricketts Crescent in Kingston 13 on Thursday afternoon during heavy showers.