This file photo, taken on July 20, 2011, shows undertakers removing one of the bodies from the home in the Lauriston Housing Scheme, St Catherine, where gunmen hacked and then beheaded mother and daughter, Charmaine Rattray and Joyette Lynch. (Photo: Michael Gordon)
(Jamaica Observer) In the hours when The Queen’s School student Joeith Lynch and her mother Charmaine Rattray were screaming and fighting for their lives at their house in Lauriston, St Catherine, Sanjay Ducally — who now stands accused of murder in the gruesome death of both women — says he was on his way “from a function” in the dead of night and, on hearing the shrieks, went to investigate only to get caught up in the incident which has landed him behind bars for nine years.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Earlier this week when production for the Bad Boys For Life movie came to a close, Ian and Roger Lewis of the band Inner Circle were present on set.
(Trinidad Guardian) Days after the controversial jaw-dropping fashion show at the Trinity Cathedral in Port-of-Spain, another church held a fund-raising tea and fashion show.
(Trinidad Express) Two people, one of them a woman, are dead following a shooting outside a bar in El Socorro during the early hours of yesterday morning.
(Trinidad Express) Angela Swamber, 60, is severely visually impaired but she’s a woman possessed of extraordinary grit and determination and has been taking care of her son, Aaron, 29, who suffers from cerebral palsy, all his life.
(Trinidad Newsday) A son who bludgeoned his mother to death in 2007 after she quarrelled with him for not doing enough in the house has four months and 14 days left to serve on his sentence.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A four-year-old boy braved scorching heat to run into a burning house and rescue his ailing 88-year-old grandfather in Annotto Bay on Thursday night, drawing whoops of praise from family members and residents.
BRASILIA/CURITIBA, Brazil, (Reuters) – Brazil’s leftist former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva left prison yesterday after a judge ordered his release, startling financial markets and reigniting both ends of the political spectrum with calls for demonstrations in coming days.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The woman who allegedly dumped her newborn into a pit latrine in Esson Castle district in St Ann last week Wednesday has been charged.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Major global oil firms snubbed a second Brazilian oil auction in a row yesterday, passing up offshore blocks and forcing officials to reconsider a bidding system that gives a privileged position to state-run Petroleo Brasileiro SA.
(Jamaica Observer) All cases that were set to be heard today at the Manchester Parish Court have been adjourned following an early morning fire that damaged a section of the building.
(Barbados Nation) Parents of students at Alexandra School are expressing concern after a video circulating on social media showed a large number of cockroaches on the school’s compound.
In fact, some are even calling for health officials to conduct an investigation and suspend classesto give the school a full cleaning.
