(Trinidad Express) A twenty-nine year-old San man was in police custody last night after he turned himself in after he kidnapped his one legged landlord and threw him down a precipice off the North Coast Road last week.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A psychiatric evaluation has been ordered for the St James woman who was recently charged in connection with the deaths of her two sons, in a fire which destroyed their home in Paradise, Norwood, on November 1.
(Trinidad Newsday) Murdered Water and Sewage Authority (WASA) worker Ganesh Leroy Codjoe is being hailed a hero by relatives.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Consultant psychiatrist and government senator Dr Saphire Longmore has turned the spotlight on the treatment of mentally ill persons by their families and the wider society, charging that the stigma and discrimination against this group was “very unfortunate”.
The Bustamante Hospital for Children is to benefit from a new three-storey, 150-bed ward, set to cost $150 million, using the majority of the funds coming from the Shaggy & Friends concert staged in 2018.
The former Head of Antigua’s Financial Services Regulatory Commission, Leroy King was extradited to the United States on Friday in connection with the Ponzi scheme that brought down US billionaire R.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition leaders looking to oust their country’s socialist government can perhaps take some hope from the resignation of its leftist ally in Bolivia, President Evo Morales, on Sunday after weeks of street protests.
(Trinidad Newsday) A police officer will know on November 27 the sentence a judge will impose on him for adding a zero to a sick-leave certificate for six days, thus turning it into 60.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A clash between People’s National Party Councillor Kari Douglas and a medical doctor at the Bustamante Hospital for Children exploded into an expletive-laden tirade and near-brawl, triggering a shutdown of the Accident and Emergency (A&E) unit for two hours.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Amid speculation over the visa revocations of two senior parliamentarians, Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has blamed the People’s National Party (PNP) for the country’s travel troubles.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica will not be accepting any new loans from China, Prime Minister Andrew Holness disclosed at the end of his official visit to the Asian industrial powerhouse yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Secretary-General of the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha, Satnarayan Maharaj is in critical condition at the intensive care unit of the Medical Associates private hospital in St Joseph.
(Trinidad Guardian) A second long-time member of the United National Congress (UNC), Barataria MP Dr Fuad Khan, is bowing out of politics.
(Trinidad Newsday) Frustrated at the lengthy delay in settling her divorce, the estranged wife of educator and one of the central figures in the educational side of the controversial Life Sport programme, Adolphus Daniel, is suing the judge in the matter Justice Joseph Tam.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Traumatised by reports of brutal killings and assaults, several Jamaicans not connected to victims of these crimes have been showing up for counselling at the Victim Services Division (VSD) after experiencing severe anxiety and sleepless nights.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Shaggy Make a Difference Foundation has pledged to donate $100 million to the Bustamante Hospital for Children following the recent disclosure that the hospital had yet to benefit from the charity concert hosted by the artiste in January 2018 to aid the paediatric institution.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s former leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva yesterday attacked right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro for impoverishing working Brazilians and vowed to unite the left to win the 2022 elections in a speech one day after being freed from jail.
LA PAZ, (Reuters) – Bolivian President Evo Morales denounced the actions of “violent groups” early yesterday, hours after police forces were seen joining scattered protests, but the military weighed in later saying it would not “confront the people” in a standoff over a disputed election.
(Trinidad Express) A woman was among three people killed when someone opened fire outside a bar in El Socorro yesterday morning.
(Jamaica Gleaner) There has been a sharp reduction in road deaths since the start of the second half of the year, official figures have revealed.
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