Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) A to­tal of 156 peo­ple were ar­rest­ed dur­ing Op­er­a­tion Strike Back II ex­er­cis­es, in­clud­ing 45 sus­pects want­ed by po­lice for var­i­ous of­fences.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Honduran politician Juan Antonio “Tony” Hernandez was found guilty of U.S.

(Barbados Nation) There has been a breakthrough in debt restructuring negotiations between Government and the Barbados External Creditor Committee, which represents foreign bondholders.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados-based Elegant Hotels Group is being acquired by well-known global hotel group Marriott International in an “all cash offer” worth about $260.2 million.

 (Trinidad Guardian) The pri­vate sec­tor must play a big­ger role in dri­ving the na­tion’s econ­o­my said Ryan Lewis, Di­rec­tor, Trinidad and To­ba­go Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA).

(Trinidad Express) A Cedros woman who was snatched by criminals during a power outage on Wednesday, has been found dead.

(Trinidad Express) A police officer was found dead near a primary school this afternoon, shortly after he called his wife and said he loved her.

(Trinidad Express) Some lucky citizens were on Tuesday night treated to what appeared to be a meteor blazing its way into Earth’s atmosphere, looking much like a comet as it streaked across the sky.

(Trinidad Guardian) BHP, the Australian outfit drilling in T&Ts deep water has announced that its latest well, Carnival-1 failed and was a dry hole.

(Trinidad Express) Someone in central Trinidad captured video footage of a meteor flashing across the night sky over Trinidad on Wednesday night.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren has listed United States Ambassador to Jamaica Donald Tapia among five persons whom she claims are “unqualified” and only got the job because they made financial donations to President Donald Trump.

(Jamaica Observer) American rapper, songwriter, producer and entrepreneur Kanye West will bring his Sunday Service music worship experience to Emancipation Park in Kingston on Friday.

(Reuters) – The United States yesterday restored economic aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras that had been cut off after the Trump administration complained the three Central American countries had done too little to halt a surge in migration.

(Trinidad Express) Gunmen broke into a house in Rancho Quemado and shot a man and his wife on Tuesday night.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – The longtime head of Mexico’s powerful oil workers union, Carlos Romero Deschamps, has resigned, a ruling party federal lawmaker said yesterday, a day after the president hinted he should step down to face allegations of wrongdoing.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – One of the world’s largest freshwater fish is protected by the natural equivalent of a “bullet-proof vest,” helping it thrive in the dangerous waters of the Amazon River basin with flexible armour-like scales able to withstand ferocious piranha attacks.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Detectives assigned to the Kingston East Division are reporting the seizure of two magazines loaded with 14 rounds of ammunition at the Norman Manley International Airport on Sunday.

(Trinidad Newsday) A 20-month-old boy suffered a fractured skull during a street brawl between his grandmother and another woman at Enterprise, Chaguanas.

(Trinidad Newsday) While Trinidad & Tobago citizens who took their families to war-torn Syria and Iraq seek government’s help to return home, a criminologist is calling for the mothers, if ever they return, to be charged with trafficking their children.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The bloodletting continues in Clarendon despite a state of emergency blanketing the mid-island parish since September 5 as the Government seeks to peg back a runaway homicide rate.