Regional News

(Jamaica Gleaner) Government Minister Daryl Vaz says the revocation of his United States visa has not affected his ability to perform his duties so far.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Forty Cuban medical professionals were on Monday welcomed to the island under the Technical Cooperation Agreement signed between Jamaica and Cuba.

(Jamaica Observer) Fame FM disc jockey Collin Hines said the tragic death of his colleague, Raymond “DJ Venom” Peart, has cast a pall of gloom over the radio station as well as its employees.

(Jamaica Observer) For Carmen Thomas, an American who now resides in Jamaica, relocating to the Caribbean island was largely influenced by the quality of the country’s food.

(Trinidad Express) The patient shot and killed on Ward 3 of the Port of Spain General Hospital last night was not the intended target.

(Barbados Nation) The Barbados Light & Power Company yesterday agreed to urgently add another 15 kilowatts of generating capacity to its electricity grid, part of the process of guaranteeing its capacity after two consecutive days of power outages last week.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Mus­lim Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice (SRP), who suc­cess­ful­ly chal­lenged the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) pol­i­cy ban­ning fe­male of­fi­cers from wear­ing hi­jabs while on du­ty, has been award­ed $185,000 in com­pen­sa­tion. 

COCHABAMBA, Bolivia,  (Reuters) – Bolivia may need outside help to investigate a “massive” number of human rights violations amid post-election violence to ensure findings are seen as credible in the deeply divided country, the head of a regional human rights commission told Reuters yesterday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Radio disc jock ‘DJ Venom’ and a University of Technology, Jamaica student have been killed in a motor cycle crash.

(Trinidad Express) There has been an explosion at the Parkade building in Port of Spain.

(Trinidad Express) Special Reserve Police (SRP) officer Sharon Roop, who won her right last November to wear her hijab while in uniform, has been awarded $185,000 by the High Court for breach of her Constitutional rights.

(Jamaica Observer) United States Ambassador to Jamaica Donald Tapia has promised to work assiduously with Jamaica for a direct flight between Jamaica and Phoenix, the capital of the south-western US state of Arizona.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The prosecution has closed its case in the trial of Tesha Miller, who is accused of ordering the 2008 murder of then chairman of the Jamaica Urban Transit Company, Douglas Chambers.

A tropical wave is sweeping across Trinidad and Tobago from this morning, bringing heavy rainfall, gusty winds and street or flash flooding.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Press Association of Jamaica is raising concerns about statements about the press made by Prime Minister Andrew Holness recently at a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) constituency conference in West Kingston.

(Trinidad Express) A Claxton Bay man was killed days after three men were committed to stand trial for attempting to murder him three years ago.

(Barbados Nation) The man who was shot and killed late Sunday night has been identified as Denzil Obed Scarboro, alias Blue, of Farm Road, St Philip.

(Trinidad Express) Coast guard officers assisted police in the search for the bodies of two people found burnt in a boat at Canari bay, Moruga, yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Hours before he was to appear in court for his wife’s murder, a San Fernando man is suspected to have committed suicide.

(Trinidad Guardian) Busi­ness­man John­ny Soong and chair­man and prin­ci­pal in­vestor of Green La­va Labs, the first com­pa­ny to be­gin le­gal cannabis cul­ti­va­tion in St Vin­cent says Trinidad & Tobago can be a ma­jor play­er in the pro­duc­tion and trade of med­i­c­i­nal mar­i­jua­na.   Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, Soong said “There is a busi­ness side to it that we should not be left be­hind.