(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’.
(Trinidad Guardian) Ramrajie Gobin, 49, who was discovered hacked to death at her home in Golconda on Sunday was described as an “Angel.”
SAO JOSE DOS CAMPOS, Brazil, (Reuters) – Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose to its highest in over a decade this year, government data yesterday showed, confirming a sharp increase under the leadership of right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro.
(Trinidad Express) Digicel customer service employee Dillon Fraser was killed in Port of Spain this morning.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Nicaraguan police yesterday accused 16 anti-government protesters of planning to carry out terrorist attacks in the Central American country, which has been rocked by more than a year and a half of deadly protests against the government.
TORONTO, (Reuters) – Writer Ian Williams won Canada’s top annual literary award for fiction for his book “Reproduction,” the prize’s sponsor said yesterday.
LA PAZ, (Reuters) – Thousands of Bolivian coca farmers marched yesterday to demand the resignation of interim President Jeanine Anez, who was forced to suspend a trip to her home province earlier in the day after receiving a death threat.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Fans will recognise Kevoy Burton as the lead actor in Right Girl, Wrong Address for the play’s final few weeks at Centerstage, or as the intense financial ‘coach’ on Victoria Mutual Group’s iSave campaign.
(Trinidad Express) The media have been banned from the funeral of Satnayaran Maharaj, secretary general of the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha (SDMS).
(Trinidad Newsday) The day before she was fired as Scarborough General Hospital’s Medical Chief of Staff, Dr Rufaro Celestine sent a legal letter to the Tobago Regional Health Authority (TRHA), questioning the conduct of the authority’s CEO Sheldon Cyrus in relation to an e-mail she had written, two weeks ago, expressing concern about the shortage of medical staff at the hospital.
(Jamaica Observer) A day after Alisia Beckford buried her brother and was preparing to attend church, gunmen entered her yard in Bayshore Heights, St Andrew, and sprayed her son, Justin Foster, with bullets.
(Trinidad Guardian) Two teenagers, a 15-year-old girl and 19-year-old boy, drowned at the Argyle Waterfall in Tobago yesterday, after a sudden gush of water caught them off-guard.
(Trinidad Guardian) A 26-year-old man from El Dorado was shot and killed while purchasing a meal in Curepe, early yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) A man was attacked and beaten to death with a concrete block in Ste Madeleine near San Fernando on Sunday afternoon.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti needs international support to tackle an unfolding humanitarian crisis, President Jovenel Moise said in an interview, two months into anti-government protests that have exacerbated food insecurity in the Americas’ poorest nation.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Barbara Smith, better known as Lady Ann, a veteran dancehall artiste whose megahit, Informer, set her in a league of her own, has come in for commendation from the wife of Brigadier Jerry.
(Trinidad Newsday) A three-year-old girl died in the arms of her father after suffering for three days from cold-like symptoms, which her family believes were related to the H1N1 virus (swine flu).
(Jamaica Observer) One member of Jamaica’s Parliament has boldly admitted to accepting monetary gifts from contractors, in order to bolster his salary which he said was too low to meet the needs of his constituents and his home.
(Trinidad Express) Secretary General of the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha (SDMS), Satnarayan Maharaj, has died.
GUATEMALA CITY/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government said yesterday that it had no plans to send asylum seekers to remote regions in Guatemala after the Central American country floated the plan during negotiations for a bilateral migration agreement this week.
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