MARSH HARBOUR/NASSAU, Bahamas, (Reuters) – Days after fleeing their crumbling home and breaking into a vacant apartment to take shelter while Hurricane Dorian rampaged over the Bahamas’ Great Abaco Island, Samuel Cornish and his family caught a rescue flight to Nassau.
(Trinidad Guardian) One of the country’s most “Wanted” and “Dangerous” man was gunned down several feet away from the Freeport Police Station seconds after he walked out from the charge room on Saturday night.
(Barbados Nation) Miss Universe Barbados 2019 is Shanel Ifill. The statuesque beauty was crowned moments ago before a packed house at the Barbados Hilton Resort, Needhams Points, St Michael.
(Jamaica Observer) A businessman found himself in trouble with the law after he damaged a Toyota Prado motor vehicle that his ex-lover and her new friend were travelling in during an incident in July.
(Trinidad Newsday) The cousin of murdered fisherman and suspected gang leader Vaughan ‘Sandman’ Mieres has been shot dead.
NASSAU, Bahamas, (Reuters) – Thousands of displaced people are living in “rapidly deteriorating” conditions in the worst-hit parts of the Bahamas six days after Hurricane Dorian made landfall, the United Nations World Food Programme warned yesterday.
(Trinidad Newsday) Relatives of murdered man, Ricky Mohammed, 54 believe land dispute may be the reason why he was shot yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) A woman and a child died in a road traffic accident this morning involving a truck.
NASSAU, Bahamas,(Reuters) – Thousands of displaced people are living in “rapidly deteriorating” conditions in the worst-hit parts of the Bahamas six days after Hurricane Dorian made landfall, the United Nations World Food Programme warned today.
(Trinidad Guardian) Over the past week, about 15 customers of Scotiabank’s Sangre Grande branch had thousands of dollars stolen from their accounts after their cards were skimmed.
(Trinidad Guardian) The debate over a ban on fireworks raged yesterday after a young male Red Kangaroo at the Emperor Valley Zoo died from “trauma and stress” it experienced after the Independence Day fireworks in the Queen’s Park Savannah.
(Jamaica Gleaner) He left Savanna-la-Mar in Westmoreland for a visit to The Bahamas in 1990, but his stay was made permanent, having met his now wife there.
MARSH HARBOUR, Bahamas, (Reuters) – The smell of death hung over parts of Great Abaco Island in the northern Bahamas yesterday, as relief workers sifted through the debris of shattered homes and buildings in a search expected to dramatically drive up the death toll from Hurricane Dorian.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The timetable to return Fly Jamaica to the skies appears to be in doubt, its employees are still unpaid, and the airline’s founder, Ronald Paul Reece, says the deal for the takeover of the airline is yet to be finalised.
(Trinidad Newsday) A man was shot by police after he stormed the Barataria South Secondary School this morning and attacked security guards and police.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – An American Airlines mechanic was on Thursday charged with purposely damaging an aircraft in July amid a dispute between the airline and its mechanics union involving stalled contract negotiations.
(Jamaica Observer) The declaration of a state of public emergency (SOE) in Clarendon yesterday was greeted with cautious optimism by some residents and business operators.
(Trinidad Guardian) Four people accused of operating a drug trafficking operation in Westmoorings have been committed to stand trial.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Cabinet has decided to cancel a contract that was given to a Chinese construction company, Gezhouba Group International Engineering Co Ltd (CGGC), the Housing Development Corporation (HDC).
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has announced that Trinidad and Tobago will assist The Bahamas with soldiers, electricity workers and US$500,000.
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