Regional News

(Jamaica Gleaner) The United States Senate today voted to confirm the nomination of Arizona businessman Donald Ray Tapia to become Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Jamaica. 

(Trinidad Guardian) An on­line fundrais­er has been es­tab­lished for a Trinida­di­an na­tion­al who has found him­self de­tained by the Unit­ed States Im­mi­gra­tion and Cus­toms En­force­ment (ICE) agency de­spite hav­ing le­git­i­mate doc­u­ments to re­side legal­ly in the coun­try.

(Trinidad Express) This is a breakthrough in the double murder of John Mills and his wife Evlyn John.

(Jamaica Observer) JAMAICA continues to make its mark on the James Bond franchise.

(Jamaica Observer) Twenty-four members of the St Catherine-based One Don Gang — a breakaway faction of the notorious Klansman Gang — are scheduled to appear in the Supreme Court today The 24 alleged gangsters, including one woman, are among 33 people who were arrested during recent police raids, and are said to be responsible for more than 30 murders, including the death of a policeman.

(Trinidad Guardian) A woman who ad­mit­ted to ar­rang­ing the mur­der of her friend and steal­ing her new­born ba­by is ex­pect­ed to be sen­tenced next month.

(Trinidad Guardian) An Ari­ma mag­is­trate fixed bail in the to­tal of $200,000 for a se­nior po­lice of­fi­cer and his wife who ap­peared in court on Wednes­day on as­sault and ma­li­cious charges.

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice are on the hunt for the killer, who not on­ly end­ed the life of Videsh Al­bert, 25 but tucked him in bed af­ter shoot­ing him sev­er­al times while he was asleep.   Al­bert, a trades­man of Farm Road, Bois Bande, Ojoe Road, San­gre Grande was al­so await­ing the birth of his first child.

(Trinidad Express) Police believe the murder of actor, director and producer Raymond Choo Kong may have been done by someone known to him.

(Trinidad Guardian) After almost seven years the ‘Emailgate’ investigation is now said to be completed and closed.

(Barbados Nation) The Argentine mechanic charged in connection with the skimming scam that touched scores of Barbadian bank accounts was remanded to prison when he appeared in court yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) A Pleasantville woman bit her way to freedom when officers attempted to arrest on Tuesday.

Eight farmers’ cooperatives are among the groups that will be receiving licences to cultivate medical marijuana in St.

(Barbados Nation) The Customs Department is to be headed by a comptroller and three deputies.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Members of a St Andrew-based fitness club had their early-morning routine brought to a dramatic halt yesterday as robbers pounced on the group, chasing them along the route in a frightful encounter.

(Trinidad Newsday) Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith has told people not to pay to have their gun licence application approved.

(Trinidad Express) Sometime during the night, someone entered Vedesh Albert’s home in Sangre Grande and shot him to death.

(Trinidad Guardian) When a 6.8 mag­ni­tude earth­quake rocked Trinidad & Tobago a year ago, 78-year-old Sug­a­nee Sam and her daugh­ter Soo­ma­tee hud­dled to­geth­er, pray­ing that their home con­struct­ed of rust­ed gal­vanised sheets and dis­card­ed wood would not col­lapse on them.

(Jamaica Observer) A Jamaican man has been sentenced to more than two decades in prison in the United States for running an international alien-smuggling organisation out of Freeport, Bahamas.

(Jamaica Observer) Janet Lawrence, a member of a Windrush generation family, won an all-inclusive north coast resort vacation for two from the Ministry of Tourism at the Jamaican High Commission in London, England, recently.