Regional News

(Trinidad Express) While he served customers, doubles vendor Shazard Manick was approached by two gunmen and shot multiple times.

(Jamaica Observer) The looks on the faces of wards of the State whose Jamaica National Children’s Home was destroyed by fire on Friday told stories of anxiety and what they believe the future hold for them.

(Trinidad Guardian) Four stu­dents who were caught cheat­ing dur­ing the CSEC Maths ex­am in May — af­ter a video was post­ed to so­cial me­dia show­ing them and oth­er stu­dents us­ing their cell-phones to share an an­swer sheet — have been dis­qual­i­fied.

(Trinidad Guardian) The crim­i­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tion of Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion Min­is­ter Mar­lene Mc­Don­ald and her com­pan­ion widened on Friday as po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tors have un­earthed new in­for­ma­tion.

(Trinidad Guardian) Af­ter two days on the run, prison es­capee Dil­lon Clarke has been re­cap­tured dur­ing J’Ou­vert cel­e­bra­tions in Ari­ma on Sat­ur­day.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The long-awaited statutory declaration of Prime Minister Andrew Holness shows that he and his family had an income of $15,569,477.41, assets totalling $161,254,055.89 and total liabilities of $22,218,182.61.

(Trinidad Guardian) The lo­cal crick­et­ing fra­ter­ni­ty was thrown in­to shock with the news that crick­et um­pire Carl­ton Best was killed by rob­bers at the age of 38.

(Jamaica Observer) Dr Andre Haughton, Opposition senator, intends to move a motion which seeks to allow the use of Jamaican expletives in dancehalls.

(Trinidad Guardian) In­deira Gar­cia is due to give birth to her ninth child any day now but the joy and ex­cite­ment any ex­pect­ing moth­er would feel is cloud­ed for Gar­cia as she is des­per­ate­ly seek­ing as­sis­tance to re­build her home af­ter an ar­son at­tack in Feb­ru­ary.

(Jamaica Observer) Close to 1,000 people have so far turned up to a job fair staged by Fontana Pharmacy to fill 16 positions at its new Waterloo Road location in St Andrew.

(Trinidad Newsday) A grieving dog refused to look at the body of its owner, 34-year-old murder victim Jesse Jacob, on Thursday during the funeral at the family’s home in St John’s Village, San Fernando.

SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele is planning by early September to fulfill a campaign vow to launch an independent commission to investigate corruption, similar to a U.N.-backed

PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – A Panamanian court yesterday declared former president Ricardo Martinelli not guilty of charges that he spied on 150 people, including politicians, union leaders and journalists during his 2009-2014 presidency, and ordered his release.

(Barbados Nation) Two Colombians and a Romanian national two of whom were caught with fraudulent banking cards confessed to stealing money from various ATMs of Republic Bank when they appeared in the District “A” Magistrates Court earlier yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The crim­i­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tion against Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion Min­is­ter Mar­lene Mc­Don­ald and her com­pan­ion widened on Friday as po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tors have un­earthed new in­for­ma­tion.

(Trinidad Express) Minister in the Ministry of Public Administration and Communications, Marlene Mc Donald spent Thursday night at the St Joseph Police Station and police are expected to continue their line of questioning today.

(Trinidad Guardian) Pris­on­er Dil­lon Clarke, who es­caped from the Gold­en Grove Prison in Arou­ca yes­ter­day while out on an agri­cul­tur­al project, re­mains on the run.

(Jamaica Observer) Hundreds of Jamaican college and university students who were banking on landing jobs in the US this summer to save for their tuition when school reopens in September have found themselves with neither the promised jobs nor the US$1,500 they each paid to secure placement.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Alfred Samuels, an advanced prostate cancer survivor, was the winner of the Ambassador of the Year Award given by Cancer Research UK (CRUK).

(Trinidad Guardian) A crack-shot team of an­ti-crime ex­perts has been hired by a busi­ness lob­by group to as­sist the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice in dis­man­tling and pros­e­cut­ing crim­i­nal gangs who have been linked to the ma­jor­i­ty of mur­ders in the coun­try.