Regional News

(Barbados GIS) The Grantley Adams International Airport (GAIA) has been illuminated pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

(Trinidad Express) A 23-year-old man has been charged with the murder of Justine Davis.

(Trinidad Guardian) A woman and her daugh­ter had to be res­cued yes­ter­day by of­fi­cers from the Guard and Emer­gency Branch, Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions re­sponse Team (SORT) and the North­ern Di­vi­sion af­ter a two-hour or­deal where they were held hostage by the woman’s hus­band.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The United States Government has moved a motion for the court to dismiss the suit by four Jamaican fishermen who have accused the US Coast Guard (USCG) of holding them captive in inhumane conditions for over a month.

(Jamaica Observer) One Jamaican student studying in Canada is encouraging her countrymen to consider a similar option, a move she says would bring valuable results.

(Trinidad Newsday) A 33-year-old husband and his wife appeared yesterday in the San Fernando magistrates’ court on charges relating to rape of a 13-year-old girl.

(Trinidad Guardian) A High Court judge has or­dered Uni­com­er (Trinidad) Lim­it­ed to pay more than $255,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a Freeport pen­sion­er who was in­con­ve­nienced by the com­pa­ny’s con­struc­tion of its head­quar­ters and dis­tri­b­u­tion cen­tre in 2017. 

REALIDADE, Brazil, (Reuters) – Deforestation in Brazil is the story of highways.

(Trinidad Express) A 31 year old mother of four allegedly drank a poisonous substance while with her children at Palmiste Park, San Fernando on Wednesday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) is reporting that the Haile Selassie student who was struck by lightning at an ISSA/Manning Cup match yesterday is recovering from his ordeal.

(Trinidad Express) “That is my son. I hugged him.” The words of an elderly mother as she pleaded guilty to interfering with a prisoner on Tuesday.

(Jamaica Observer) A 37-year-old father, Oral Grey, was yesterday morning shot dead as he walked back to his motor vehicle just minutes after escorting his daughter into the Care Bear Early Childhood Development School in St Andrew Southern.

(Trinidad Newsday) Leiselle Morton-Taylor, the mother of a 15-year-old St Stephen’s College student who was warned about her natural hairstyles by the school, is awaiting word from authorities.

(Trinidad Guardian) The par­ents of a 17-year-old girl who ran away from home two weeks be­fore her wed­ding day are plead­ing with their daugh­ter to re­turn home.

 (Trinidad Guardian) Fifty-two el­der­ly peo­ple aged 60 years and over have been mur­dered in Trinidad and To­ba­go be­tween the start of 2018 and now, with the first nine months of 2019 ac­count­ing for 32 of them.

(Jamaica Observer) Louie Rankin’s Jamaica manager, Lexxi, has confirmed that the dancehall deejay/actor died Monday evening as a result of injuries sustained in a motor vehicle crash in Canada.

(Trinidad Guardian) Three men from east Port-of-Spain have been de­nied bail af­ter ap­pear­ing in court on gang charges.

(Trinidad Express) There have been no arrests for the murder of Richard Chan-Attong, 43 who was abducted from his Belmont home on September 16 and found dead in Santa Cruz days later.

BOGOTA,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Police in the Dominican Republic have rescued dozens of women from forced sex work in bars and nightclubs across the Caribbean island in its biggest anti-trafficking operation this year, authorities said yesterday.

QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuador, one of the smallest members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), said yesterday it will leave the 14-nation bloc from Jan.