Regional News

(Jamaica Observer) Jay Ravers, a member of popular dance group Ravers Clavers, died on July 14 of an unknown illness.

(Trinidad Guardian) Homi­cide of­fi­cers are cur­rent­ly on quadru­ple mur­der scene in Las Cuevas where re­put­ed drug and gun smug­gler, Vaughn ‘Sand­man’ Mieres, his wife and two oth­ers were killed.

(Trinidad Guardian) A search party has found the body of one of the seven missing fishermen from Orange Valley.

(Trinidad Express) Cabinet has agreed to the reconstitution of the Board of Directors of Tourism Trinidad Ltd.

(Jamaica Observer)  Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) says it is deeply concerned at what appears to be the continuing neglect of the principles of good governance and the attempted redefinition of the standards required to maintain the moral legitimacy and authority of the state.

(Trinidad Guardian) Sanatan Dhar­ma Ma­ha Sab­ha (SDMS) sec­re­tary gen­er­al Sat­narayan Ma­haraj and the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s me­dia com­pa­ny Cen­tral Broad­cast­ing Ser­vices have won their law­suit over the re­fusal of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) to dis­close the war­rant used to search Ra­dio and TV Jaa­gri­ti, in April.

(Jamaica Observer) The American news anchor who accused her ex-lover of ‘cyber rape’ is appealing to Jamaican Parish Judge Jaqueline Wilcot to impose a heavy sentence on the 53-year-old man.

(Trinidad Express) The body of one of the seven fishermen thrown overboard in the Gulf of Paria on Monday night has been found.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has instructed National Security Minister Stuart Young to deport Venezuelan nationals who have not registered with the Government.

(Trinidad Guardian) An 18-month-old boy was Tues­day night list­ed in a se­ri­ous con­di­tion at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal af­ter he fell from an apart­ment lo­cat­ed on the fourth floor of a Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) build­ing.

(Trinidad Guardian)  The in­fil­tra­tion of crim­i­nal gangs which have been si­phon­ing mil­lions of tax­pay­ers dol­lars from Gov­ern­ment projects and con­trac­tors has been a prob­lem for over two decades, ac­cord­ing to Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley.

(Trinidad Guardian) The search con­tin­ues for sev­en fish­er­men who were forced over­board af­ter they were at­tacked by ban­dits in the Gulf of Paria on Mon­day night.

(Trinidad Express) The mother of 20-year-old murder victim Michael Creese may not be able to attend her son’s funeral.

(Jamaica Observer) One woman is convinced that she was sent home to die earlier this year after visiting the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) for treatment.

(Trinidad Guardian) Rel­a­tives and friends of sev­en fish­er­men lost at sea are mak­ing a des­per­ate plea for as­sis­tance in find­ing them.

(Trinidad Express) In a midnight pirate attack, five fishing vessels were stolen from the Gulf of Paria in the vicinity of Carli Bay and Orange Valley.

(Trinidad Express) Police can only detect and arrest people driving without a drivers’ license on the nation’s roads if there are informants.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Gov­ern­ment min­is­ter pub­licly dis­closed on Monday that he had to seek po­lice pro­tec­tion af­ter a crim­i­nal gang threat­ened him so that he could help arrange a por­tion of a mul­ti-mil­lion dol­lar State con­tract in the Moru­ga dis­trict.

(Trinidad Guardian) Sev­en­teen-year-old Sta­cy Paul and her boyfriend Ronald De­onar­ine, 21, want­ed to build a life with each oth­er.

SAN JUAN,  (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of people filled San Juan streets yesterday to demand that Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló resign over offensive chat messages, the latest scandal to hit a bankrupt island struggling to recover from deadly 2017 hurricanes.