Regional News

(Jamaica Gleaner) A Portland family has been left heartbroken as what they said was a nearly two-decades-long abusive relationship ended in tragedy Tuesday night, leaving the matriarch dead, her common-law husband on the run, and other members of the family homeless.

(Trinidad Guardian) Just one week af­ter com­plaints were raised about cats in­vad­ing the Ca­roni Bird Sanc­tu­ary, dis­turb­ing pho­tos have sur­faced on so­cial me­dia show­ing the an­i­mals dead from ap­par­ent poi­son­ing at the same site.

(Trinidad Express) A suspected car thief died in a crash yesterday morning.

(Trinidad Express) The Emperor Valley Zoo has four new additions. Four red kangaroos have been brought in from a facility in Texas, USA.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro posted on social media that funding for movies with LGBT+ themes was being suspended, a decision that was published yesterday on the country’s official web site.

(Jamaica Observer) THE confessed driver of a motor car who was captured recklessly stunt driving in a video that went viral last week got off scot-free after surrendering to the police.

(Trinidad Express) A DIEGO MARTIN man was shot dead on Tuesday afternoon.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The university lecturer who had promised to give needy students his approximately $3 million in basic salary annually had his contract terminated by The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, amid questions about his mental state.

(Trinidad Guardian) A night of cel­e­bra­tion spurned in­to life­time of tragedy for a Gas­par­il­lo fam­i­ly af­ter ban­dits shot dead a po­lice of­fi­cer’s broth­er and wound­ed his friend af­ter a rob­bery at a vil­lage bar.

(Trinidad Express) In the last four years, Chinese tech firm, Huawei, has invested $272 million (US$40 million) in Trinidad and Tobago.

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – A Honduran court convicted the wife of former President Porfirio Lobo on graft charges, including siphoning funds from programmes designed to help poor children, a judicial official said yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) For­mer gov­ern­ment min­is­ter Mar­lene Mc­Don­ald’s long-time com­pan­ion Michael Carew and an­oth­er man charged along­side the cou­ple for cor­rup­tion and mon­ey laun­der­ing, are yet to ac­cess bail.

LIMA (Reuters) – Uruguay’s President Tabare Vazquez announced yesterday that doctors detected a likely malignant growth in his right lung during a routine checkup.

(Jamaica Observer) When Jamaica’s youngest detective sergeant Adrian Wellington returns to the island in 2020, equipped with an MSc in Forensic Accounting, he intends to undertake an extensive study into financial crimes in the country.

(Trinidad Guardian) The moth­er of a woman who was shot dead by po­lice in San­ta Cruz be­lieves her daugh­ter’s death may be linked to a car which she bought four days be­fore the in­ci­dent.

(Jamaica Observer) One of the island’s top plastic surgeons is advocating the establishment of a specialist registry in light of a significant increase in the demand for body contour surgeries across the island.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 64-year-old woman and her grand­daugh­ter, 20, were ar­rest­ed af­ter po­lice of­fi­cers found an as­sault ri­fle at her home in San­ta Cruz, Trinidad.

(Trinidad Guardian) The at­tacks against prison of­fi­cers con­tin­ued on Sun­day morn­ing af­ter a prison officer’s house was shot at in Pleas­antville.

(Trinidad Express) Police have rescued a 17-year-old Venezuelan national who was abducted and being kept in a house in exchange for drugs.

(Trinidad Express) Three men who held employees of a popular ice cream establishment at gunpoint and robbed them of cash and cellphones were held on Sunday night.