Regional News

(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.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Vigilant nurses at the busy Spanish Town Hospital in St Catherine recently accosted a man who posed as a doctor for over a week in the accident and emergency (A&E) department.

(Trinidad Express) Radio announcer Justin Dookhi drowned in a pond at the La Vega Estate in Gran Couva on Sunday.

(Jamaica Observer) Renowned musical arranger, composer and choirmaster Noel Dexter is being remembered as a gentle giant whose legacy will be the impact of his work on thousands of Jamaicans.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Constable Merrick Nelson said his life was saved because of a swift decision by a woman and her spouse to transport him to the hospital after he sustained serious injuries resulting in a motor vehicle collision along the Spanish Town Road in Kingston on October 19 last year.

(Trinidad Guardian) A High Court Judge has blocked the de­por­ta­tion of a Ja­maican man ac­cused of drug traf­fick­ing.

(Trinidad Guardian) Di­ag­nosed with cere­bral pal­sy at birth years ago, doc­tors ini­tial­ly said Josi­ah At­i­ba Man­dela Thomas might nev­er walk or talk.

(Trinidad Guardian) Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith says de­spite his achieve­ments over the last year in of­fice, mur­ders and the fear of crime con­tin­ues to be his biggest chal­lenges.

(Trinidad Express) A man and his female companion are dead following a shoot-out with police on Friday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Au­top­sies on the bod­ies of the Pe­nal triple mur­der vic­tims re­vealed that their throats were slit.

(Trinidad Express) A pregnant woman was among four people shot by police in Santa Cruz on Friday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) An em­ploy­ee at the Port of Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal was ar­rest­ed and a quan­ti­ty of mar­i­jua­na seized by of­fi­cers of the Port-of-Spain Di­vi­sion Task Force, dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise on Fri­day.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley said the coun­try is go­ing through a pe­ri­od when the pub­lic will see “more and more of what hap­pened in the last week”, re­fer­ring to the re­cent ar­rest and charges be­ing laid against for­mer min­is­ter Mar­lene Mc­Don­ald.

(Trinidad Guardian) The two chil­dren found in their Penal home with three corpses on Thurs­day were blood-soaked and starv­ing, accord­ing to their grand­fa­ther Dipraj Ra­goo­nanan.

PARAMARIBO (Reuters) – Suriname’s state-owned oil company is planning a bond sale next year to finance offshore oil exploration, its chief executive said on Thursday, as it seeks to capitalise on growing hype over neighbouring Guyana’s looming oil boom.

(Trinidad Guardian) The In­sti­tute of Ma­rine Af­fairs (IMA) said it is con­sid­er­ing plac­ing signs at sev­er­al beach­es along the North-West­ern Penin­su­la of Trinidad af­ter it found high lev­els of bac­te­ria present in the wa­ter, which it said, could in­crease the prob­a­bil­i­ty of con­tract­ing in­fec­tions and oth­er ail­ments.