Regional News

(Barbados Nation) Barbados’ debt exchange deal reached with foreign creditors last week will see it having to issue bonds valued a little over $1 billion.

A Jamaica-born woman said she is counting her blessings after she was shot in the head while sleeping in her apartment in Orlando, Florida, on September 6.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Seeking to reside in Jamaica with his Canadian husband, LGBT activist and attorney-at-law Maurice Tomlinson has taken his same-sex marriage case to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).

(Trinidad Guardian) The moth­er of a two-year-old boy who was be­ing abused and had sev­er­al in­juries about his body has plead­ed guilty to cru­el­ty to a child.

(Trinidad Express) A Barataria man was yesterday sentenced to 30 days with hard labour after he pleaded guilty to allega­tions of sexual harassment via telephone.

(Jamaica Observer) Japhene Campbell wept bitterly as guidance counsellors, police and clergymen encircled her, singing praises unto God.

(Jamaica Observer) The People’s National Party (PNP) last night approved the recommendation of Krystal Tomlinson to be named the West Rural St Andrew candidate in the next general election.

(Trinidad Guardian) Thou­sands of dri­vers were af­fect­ed yes­ter­day as Unipet’s 21 ser­vice sta­tions across the coun­try re­mained closed when deal­ers sought to send a mes­sage to the Gov­ern­ment that the prof­its they were mak­ing were way too low for them to con­sid­er stay­ing in busi­ness.

LA PAZ/SANTA CRUZ,  (Reuters) – Protests over a disputed presidential election convulsed Bolivia yesterday as police fired tear gas in the capital and the sitting president and opposition candidate wrestled over an audit of the results.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Chileans took to the streets again yesterday, pouring by the thousands into plazas and shutting down main boulevards in a sign that government promises of reform continued to fall short.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Government has signed a new bilateral security cooperation agreement with the United States (US) that will assist in the fight against transnational criminal activities.

(Trinidad Guardian) Ac­tress and come­di­enne Nik­ki Cros­by has re­port­ed an act of sex­u­al as­sault against her, to po­lice in Venice, Italy.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Lt Com Devon Foster was a picture of fulfilment as he spoke to The Gleaner aboard a vessel in the Kingston Harbour yesterday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Prominent Montego Bay businessman Patrick Chung was yesterday freed of all 11 sexual assault charges in relation to a woman who accused him of having sex with her over a nine-year period, beginning in 1976 when she was 13 years old.

(Trinidad Guardian) Di­vali was meant to be a hap­py time for Baldeo Soogrim and his daugh­ter Vis­han­na but one hour be­fore they lit their deyas, a fire broke out at their home and de­voured every­thing they owned.

(Jamaica Observer) Eleven-year-old Clan Carthy Primary School student Georgenae Pinnock was a picture of shock and grief as she told her mother about horrific accident that claimed the life of a schoolmate yesterday afternoon.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Po­lice Ser­vice is look­ing for a man who was pic­tured in a video among sev­er­al per­sons sift­ing through thou­sands of dol­lars of lo­cal cur­ren­cy.

(Trinidad Express) The Ministry of Health has put the public on alert for the circulation of fake liquid antibiotics.

BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – Argentina’s president-elect Alberto Fernandez vowed yesterday to ‘turn the page’ on the IMF-backed policies of incumbent Mauricio Macri, after voters weary of rising poverty and inflation swept the left back to power in Latin America’ No.3 economy.

(Barbados Nation) Minister in the Ministry of Finance, Ryan Straughn, will move the passing of a Resolution today in the House of Assembly to restructure Barbados’ foreign debt.