(Trinidad Express) Special Reserve Police (SRP) officer Sharon Roop, who won her right last November to wear her hijab while in uniform, has been awarded $185,000 by the High Court for breach of her Constitutional rights.
(Jamaica Observer) United States Ambassador to Jamaica Donald Tapia has promised to work assiduously with Jamaica for a direct flight between Jamaica and Phoenix, the capital of the south-western US state of Arizona.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The prosecution has closed its case in the trial of Tesha Miller, who is accused of ordering the 2008 murder of then chairman of the Jamaica Urban Transit Company, Douglas Chambers.
A tropical wave is sweeping across Trinidad and Tobago from this morning, bringing heavy rainfall, gusty winds and street or flash flooding.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Press Association of Jamaica is raising concerns about statements about the press made by Prime Minister Andrew Holness recently at a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) constituency conference in West Kingston.
(Trinidad Express) A Claxton Bay man was killed days after three men were committed to stand trial for attempting to murder him three years ago.
(Barbados Nation) The man who was shot and killed late Sunday night has been identified as Denzil Obed Scarboro, alias Blue, of Farm Road, St Philip.
(Trinidad Express) Coast guard officers assisted police in the search for the bodies of two people found burnt in a boat at Canari bay, Moruga, yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) Hours before he was to appear in court for his wife’s murder, a San Fernando man is suspected to have committed suicide.
(Trinidad Guardian) Businessman Johnny Soong and chairman and principal investor of Green Lava Labs, the first company to begin legal cannabis cultivation in St Vincent says Trinidad & Tobago can be a major player in the production and trade of medicinal marijuana. Speaking to Guardian Media yesterday, Soong said “There is a business side to it that we should not be left behind.
(Trinidad Guardian) Police are investigating the shooting of another police officer in one day.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Former deputy governor of the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ), Owen Jefferson, died yesterday at his Millsborough Crescent home in St Andrew.
(Trinidad Express) Wayne Chance, the founder and executive director of the non-governmental organisation Vision on Mission (VOM), has died.
LA PAZ, (Reuters) – Interim Bolivian President Jeanine Anez agreed to withdraw the military from protest areas and repeal a law giving them broad discretion in the use of force as part of a preliminary “pacification” deal struck early yesterday with protest leaders.
(Trinidad Guardian) Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi says fully legalising marijuana now will cripple its economic potential for the small man.
(Jamaica Observer) With the debate now before Parliament to amend sections of the Sexual Offences Act to make marital rape a crime, the question of whether or not a husband can rape his wife remains a doctrinal negative in some quarters of the church community.
(Jamaica Observer) A midnight shooting rampage in Harbour Heights, St Andrew, has left three men dead after gunmen dressed in camouflage and balaclava masks sprayed bullets on scores of residents who had gathered for a party in the community, early yesterday morning.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A Jamaican man believed to be living in the United States (US) illegally has admitted, in a federal court in Florida, that he was the person behind a shipment of high-powered rifles and pistols along with thousands of bullets that were intercepted at the wharf in Kingston in 2017.
(Trinidad Express) A Cocorite resident has filed a police report alleging that Police Commissioner Gary Griffith choked him and threatened to kill him.
LIMA (Reuters) – Both chambers of Bolivia’s Congress unanimously passed legislation yesterday to annul the contested Oct.
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