(Jamaica Gleaner) The police assisted by members of the Jamaica Defence Force have brought to a peaceful end a hostage situation in a reported robbery attempt at a Cash Pot outlet at the intersection of Seaward Drive and Molynes Road in St Andrew.
(Trinidad Guardian) An estimated $2.4 million worth of cocaine has been demanded for the release of a Venezuelan couple who was allegedly kidnapped on Saturday afternoon.
(Jamaica Gleaner) While the topic is difficult for most, experts believe the methods and risk factors of suicide have to be discussed if the country is to see a fall in the numbers of persons who kill themselves annually.
(Trinidad Guardian) “A storm in a teacup and nothing to lose sleepover.”
(Barbados Nation) A school day finds Sybil Leacock in the classroom doing what she has been doing for the last 72 years – teaching.
MARSH HARBOUR, Bahamas, (Reuters) – Rescue workers wearing white hazard suits carried out a grim search for bodies and survivors in the hurricane-ravaged Bahamas yesterday, as relief agencies worked to deliver food and supplies over flooded roads and piles of debris.
(Trinidad Express) A Laventille man is expected to appear before a Port of Spain Magistrate today, charged with the murder of Angelina Samuel and wounding two men.
(Trinidad Express) A man wearing a mask claimed Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley was privy to the details of the now cancelled US$71.7 million contract between the Housing Development Corporation (HDC) and Chinese construction company Gezhouba Group International Engineering Co Ltd (CGGC).
(Trinidad Guardian) Complete strangers have built a new home for an ailing single mother of nine who had been living in a dilapidated shack in Carapichaima. Kathy Ann Devenish, 41, who has cancer, had been struggling to support her family as she underwent chemotherapy treatments when members of a local church found out about her plight and pitched in to help.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A six-month-old baby has become the 96th murder victim in St James this year, following a shooting rampage that also left three other persons injured after gunmen struck in Norwood, St James, on Saturday night.
(Jamaica Observer) The United States (US) Supreme Court is to make a decision in the case of Jamaican-born Lee Boyd Malvo, who at age 17 was sentenced to life without parole for his part in the infamous DC (District of Columbia) sniper case that claimed the lives of 10 people.
(Trinidad Guardian) “Worried and concerned about Port-of-Spain South.” That’s how PNM Port-of-Spain South MP Marlene McDonald said she is feeling about Thursday’s announcement regarding the cancellation of a contract to a Chinese firm for the planned housing unit construction in her constituency.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Twenty-six persons died in motor vehicle crashes in August, marking the first time this year that Jamaica recorded less than 30 road deaths in a single month.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Indigenist Maxciel Pereira dos Santos was murdered execution-style before members of his family in the Amazon town of Tabatinga, according to INA, a union group representing workers at Brazil’s indigenous protection agency FUNAI, yesterday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) An undocumented Jamaican man who helped United States (US) authorities convict drug kingpin Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke is now fighting to remain in the US, according to a report in the New York Daily News.
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.
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