(Trinidad Guardian) The new license plate system, which would include radio frequency identification markers should be available from early next year, Minister of Works and Transport Rohan Sinanan has said.
(Jamaica Star) Rapture, the five-song EP by teenage sensation Koffee, is among five albums nominated in this year’s reggae category of the Grammy awards.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaican Leroy Headley who has been wanted in the United States for the April 2018 murder of the mother of his two children, has been added to the US Marshal top 15 most-wanted-men list.
(Trinidad Newsday) A 42-year-old Freeport man was stabbed to death at a wake in his village on Monday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The St Mary Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a 9-year-old boy who was found at his house in Mason Hall district on Monday.
(Trinidad Express) A mother and son were shot dead at a supermarket in Santa Cruz on Tuesday.
MANAGUA, (Reuters) – The Organization of American States said yesterday that Nicaragua was experiencing a “critical human rights situation” that had upset the country’s constitutional order, following President Daniel Ortega’s crackdown on opponents.
(Barbados Nation) Calling the situation unacceptable and embarrassing, Prime Minister Mia Mottley has asked for a meeting with the chairman of Barbados Light and Power/Emera.
(Trinidad Express) The young man who founded the Matelot Facebook page and introduced the North Coast Trinidad village to thousands around the world, has been shot and killed.
(Trinidad Guardian) Motorists driving along the Old Valencia Road yesterday made a gruesome find, as they spotted the bullet-riddled body of a man lying on the ground.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Hundreds converged on a packed the St Paul’s Cathedral in London this morning to witness history as the beloved and widely admired Jamaican priest, Reverend Rose Hudson-Wilkin, was ordained as Bishop of Dover.
BRIDGETOWN, (Reuters) – Barbados was hit by serious power outages for a second day today, forcing schools and some businesses to close and hitting water supplies on the island.
(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidadian born poet and author, Ian Williams has won Canada’s richest literary award for fiction, for his novel Reproduction.
(Jamaica Star) Nicardo thought that it would just be a night of fun when he and a friend went to Waves Beach in Portmore last Thursday night.
(Trinidad Express) A St Joseph man is expected to appear before a Port of Spain Magistrate today, charged with the murder of physically challenged landlord Rudven Prout.
(Jamaica Star) A 13-year-old girl was allegedly raped by an older student at a St Catherine High School, after she refused to give him $50.
(Trinidad Newsday) Because she was scheduled to be deported after serving a prison sentence, a Venezuelan woman was kept in prison even after she had completed her jail term.
(Jamaica Observer) An admission by a Crown witness that he prefers to remain in prison rather than being released early under a plea bargain deal he signed with the State surprised many people in the Home Circuit Court on day four of the Tesha Miller trial yesterday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) With some 1.6 million Jamaican children registered between 1955 and 2017, without their fathers’ names on their birth certificates, Pastor Michael McAnuff-Jones has made a call for the Registration Act to be revised.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Amid concerns of a permissive culture of drug use among Jamaican children, there are fresh fears that easy access to marijuana-laced foods is putting students at risk of health complications in ‘high schools’.
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