Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) Just two months af­ter he got bap­tised and mar­ried the moth­er of his child, Carl Swamber was gunned down in cold blood out­side his home.

(Trinidad Guardian) Ja­mal Young and his wife Nar­i­va St Rose are sleep­ing un­der a tent in Cou­va af­ter their home and shop were torn down by the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion last week.

(Trinidad Guardian) Un­der Gary Grif­fith’s tenure as Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er so far, an es­ti­mat­ed 485 peo­ple have been mur­dered.

(Trinidad Guardian) A major boost in the police’s anti-crime arsenal is expected to unfold following Wednesday night’s passage of the Bail (Amendment) Bill which was surprisingly supported by the Opposition.

(Jamaica Observer) The Narcotics Division of the Jamaica Constabulary Force along with the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) Coast Guard, between Sunday and Tuesday, seized more than 1,200 kilogrammes of cocaine worth approximately $4.5 billion in Kingston and St Thomas respectively.

(Trinidad Guardian) A ma­jor boost in the po­lice’s an­ti-crime ar­se­nal is ex­pect­ed to un­fold fol­low­ing Wednes­day night’s pas­sage of the Bail (Amend­ment) Bill which was sur­pris­ing­ly sup­port­ed by the Op­po­si­tion.

(Trinidad Guardian) The fu­ner­al ser­vice for Vaughn “Sand­man” Mieres and his wife Ali­ka “Let­ty” De­here can­not be held at the Las Cuevas Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School, Min­is­ter of Ed­u­ca­tion An­tho­ny Gar­cia con­firmed on Wednes­day.

A historic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on Wednesday by the Vice-Chancellor of The University of the West Indies (UWI), Professor Sir Hilary Beckles and a senior official of the University of Glasgow (UoG) for “reparatory justice” related to the slave trade.

(Trinidad Guardian) High Court Judge Vasheist Kokaram has grant­ed a lim­it­ed sus­pen­sion of his judg­ment on the un­con­sti­tu­tion­al­i­ty of a law, which gives prospec­tive lawyers from T&T a short­cut in­to the lo­cal le­gal pro­fes­sion not af­ford­ed to Cari­com cit­i­zens.

(Trinidad Express) The desire to have her father walk her down the aisle at her wedding will not be a reality for a woman who was indecently assaulted by him when she was eight and ten years old.

(Barbados Nation) The Court of Appeal today released former condemned murderer Omar DaCosta Holder from prison saying his case should not have gone to the jury in light of his unsigned written statement taken while he was in police custody.

(Barbados Nation) Visitors to Barbados for the last lap of Crop Over could find themselves waiting on the plane for longer than usual before they can disembark.

(Trinidad Express) The mother of a man shot and killed by the police after he robbed and terrorised patrons of a bar in Phillipine last Saturday morning, says her son was innocent.

(Trinidad Express) On the advice of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Roger Gaspard, the charges of malicious damage and threatening a potential witness in a criminal investigation have been re-laid against the CEO of A&V Oil and Gas Ltd, Hanif Nazim Baksh.

(Jamaica Observer) The Portland police are searching for a man who is alleged to have killed his girlfriend following a prolonged domestic dispute at David Lane in Port Antonio yesterday morning.

(Trinidad Guardian) Min­is­ter of Ed­u­ca­tion An­tho­ny Gar­cia said he would “have to con­sid­er the rec­om­men­da­tions” to de­ter­mine whether or not the fu­ner­al ser­vice for re­put­ed gang­ster Vaughn “Sand­man” Mieres can be held at the Las Cuevas Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School, on Fri­day.

(Jamaica Observer) The 57th anniversary of Jamaica’s independence is in the spotlight with Jamaicans and friends of Jamaica celebrating across the United States the island’s milestone of gaining independence from Britain on August 6, 1962.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Communist-run Cuba yesterday imposed sweeping price controls on all state and private businesses as it battles a deepening economic crisis and mounting U.S.

WASHINGTON/BRASILIA/SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump yesterday said he will pursue a U.S.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Former Salvadoran president Mauricio Funes has been granted Nicaraguan citizenship, according to a decree published yesterday in the Nicaraguan government registry, likely hobbling El Salvador’s efforts to bring him home to face charges of embezzlement and money laundering.