Regional News

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russia will find ways to help Cuba secure supplies of oil and petroleum products, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview broadcast on Saturday.

(Barbados Nation) Yet another family and community is in mourning following gun violence.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The contentious resolutions that sought to bar members of the public from accessing Cabinet documents for 70 years was officially withdrawn from the order paper of the Senate yesterday.

(Barbados Nation) Almost three months after being shot in the back of the head, a Christ Church man is reported to have succumbed to his injuries.

(Jamaica Observer) American comedian, television host, producer, radio personality, actor, and author Steve Harvey arrived in Montego Bay yesterday for the Sagicor Motivational Seminar (SMS) where he will be the closing speaker today.

(Trinidad Guardian) Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie came out swing­ing against ‘lo­cal de­trac­tors’ at the open­ing cer­e­mo­ny of the Fam­i­ly Court, Calder Hall, To­ba­go, yesterday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Opposition Senator Dr Andre Haughton has been hammered by social media users over his Senate blunder this morning as he rose to pay tribute to breast cancer victims and survivors in observance of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

(Trinidad Guardian) For­mer trav­el agent Vicky Boodram and her es­tranged hus­band Ravi Ar­joon­s­ingh were yesterday com­mit­ted to stand tri­al on 107 fraud charges in the San Fer­nan­do High Court.

(Trinidad Express) Police and soldiers launched a five month anti-crime exercise yesterday, with Police Commissioner Gary Griffith calling on citizens to help with information to find the criminals.

(Jamaica Gleaner) An expert witness yesterday testified that two audio recordings of conversations said to be between the female foreman and Livingston Cain, the juror accused of attempting to bribe the jury in the 2014 trial of dancehall artiste Vybz Kartel, were tampered with.

(Trinidad Express) Police have interviewed the husband of the Princes Town woman who drank poison while at a park with her children on Wednesday.

(Jamaica Observer) The father of the baby who was snatched from Victoria Jubilee Hospital on January 9, 2019, Sinclair Hutton, is dissatisfied with the sentence handed down to the perpetrator yesterday.

(Jamaica Observer) Member of Parliament for St Andrew Eastern Fayval Williams has been hit hard by a series of tragedies which impacted her constituents over the past week, while she was overseas.

(Trinidad Newsday) Housing Development Corporation chairman Newman George yesterday insisted fired managing director Jearlean John was “disrespectful” to the board at a meeting, and this led to her being summarily terminated the next day.

(Trinidad Guardian) The cen­tu­ry-old Clax­ton Bay Ju­nior An­gli­can School has been shut down be­cause of un­safe con­di­tions, leav­ing over 170 pupils dis­placed.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Law As­so­ci­a­tion has filed its law­suit against Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley over his de­ci­sion to re­ject its in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to mis­con­duct al­le­ga­tions lev­elled against em­bat­tled Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie. 

TEGUCIGALPA,  (Reuters) – Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez said yesterday he had never intervened to protect anybody, after his brother was accused of smuggling tons of cocaine into the United States for years under Hernandez’s protection.

(Trinidad Express) The man last seen near the Chaguanas overpass on Sunday, ended up in Malick, where he was killed that very day.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno declared a state of emergency on Thursday as protesters hurled stones and erected burning barricades after the end of decades-old fuel subsidies as part of a $2 billion government fiscal reform package.

(Trinidad Express) Musical prostitution. This is how 31-year-old aspiring artiste Sancha Samara Scipio has described her experience trying to break into the soca music industry, after being told by a popular radio DJ that she needs to “post more sexy pictures” and “show more skin” to get recognition.