Regional News

(Trinidad Express) China Town may have been the talk of the town yesterday.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Ivan Archivaldo Guzman, the leader of Los Chapitos wing of the Sinaloa Cartel, was behind the assault on security forces that prompted the release of his half-brother from a house in the city of Culiacan last week, a top Mexican official said.

BRASILIA/RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – A thick sludge of crude oil has been washing up on vast stretches of Brazil’s coast for nearly two months, and authorities and experts have been baffled by its origin.

(Trinidad Express) The bomb squad of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service were called into a used car dealership owned by Rachael Sukhdeo when an object resembling a grenade was found on the premises on Friday.

(Trinidad Newsday) A Cunupia man who joined ISIS has no regrets over leaving Trinidad & Tobago for Syria, though three of his wives and three of his children were killed. 

(Jamaica Gleaner) A newborn was discovered in a pit latrine in Cox Piece, St Mary this morning and later brought to the Gayle Health Centre in the parish.

(Trinidad Newsday) Oposition Senator and UNC deputy political leader Khadijah Ameen was put out of the Senate briefly yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) has moved to shut down a biki­ni par­ty ad­ver­tised to be held on an HDC com­pound in Arou­ca on Sun­day.

(Jamaica Observer) MONTEGO BAY, St James —Not even a heavy afternoon downpour could further delay the long-awaited ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of the US$43 million Western Children and Adolescents Hospital on the grounds of the Cornwall Regional Hospital, yesterday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) In a stunning revelation on Wednesday, former Contractor General Dirk Harrison detailed how the pockets of local contractors are raided by politicians, the police, and dons although already faced with stiff competition from foreigners who enjoy vast concessions.

(Trinidad Guardian) Tobago Homicide Officers are probing the circumstances surrounding the island’s eighth murder for 2019.

(Trinidad Express) How could a fisherman raise “overnight” US currency of $20,000 to pay as a ransom, National Security Minister Stuart Young asked yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) A thief with a firearm ripped a gold chain off the neck of a woman holding a baby in South Oropouche on Tuesday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Residents of Mountain View are fearful that yesterday’s daring daylight murder of a reputed lieutenant of an eastern St Andrew crime lord could trigger a series of reprisals in the violence-plagued community.

(Trinidad Newsday) It was anything but a happy birthday for a Tunapuna man accused of sexually assaulting a teen couple on October 14.

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice and fire­fight­ers had to break in­to a se­nior cit­i­zen’s home in South Trinidad yes­ter­day af­ter staff locked the gate and re­fused a woman ac­cess to her aunt.

(Jamaica Observer) Chairman of the Guardsman Group, Kenneth ‘Kenny’ Benjamin, today offered condolences to the family and friends of Paul Bruce, a security officer of the company who was killed in St Lucia last Friday, October 18.

LA PAZ,  (Reuters) – Bolivian leader Evo Morales yesterday repeated his claim of victory in a presidential election and accused the opposition of trying to orchestrate a coup, after mass opposition-led protests since the Sunday vote that claimed the counting was rigged.

SANTIAGO,  (Reuters) – Students and trade unionists led marches through Santiago yesterday in the first formally organised demonstration against social inequality since Chilean President Sebastian Pinera pledged social reforms to try to quell days of rioting.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuador’s indigenous movement said yesterday that it paused talks with President Lenin Moreno because of the government’s “persecution” of the group’s leaders since a halt to violent anti-austerity protests.