Regional News

(Jamaica Observer) Thirty-six-year-old amputee, David Daley, is determined to support his family and himself despite having to live with one leg.

(Trinidad Guardian) Chelsea Re­nee, the now es­tranged wife of Trinidad &Tobago’s Olympic ath­lete Michelle-Lee Ahye, has ad­mit­ted that Ahye was ar­rest­ed by po­lice be­cause of a mar­i­tal dis­pute but added that she did not press charges.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Joint Con­sul­ta­tive Coun­cil (JCC) has filed a Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion Act (FOIA) re­quest­ing de­tails of the State’s US $71 mil­lion deal with a Chi­nese-based hous­ing con­struc­tion com­pa­ny.

(Trinidad Newsday) Fired CEO of the Trinidad Tourism Ltd (TTL) Camille Campbell maintains she did her best for the company in the six months she was there, and her work had only just begun when she was axed.

(Trinidad Express) Mother of two, Roslyn Rivers, has a bad feeling about her younger daughter’s disappearance.

(Jamaica Observer) Michael O’Hara has refuted claims that he has disrespected Racers Track Club Head Coach Glen Mills.

(Jamaica Observer) Jamaican animator living in Japan, Michelle Keane is using her work to address mental health, racism and black negative stereotypes in an industry where being black and female is an anomaly.

(Jamaica Observer) A former Jamaica Defence Force soldier who has reportedly been stalking his ex-lover and assaulted both her and her current young lover on separate occasions, claiming the young man had destroyed his family, was remanded for psychiatric evaluation when he appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court last week.

(Trinidad Guardian) Clothes, pho­tos, shoes, even a bank card and oth­er per­son­al items be­long­ing to Neil, 25, and Nigel See­bran, 23, are cher­ished and close­ly guard­ed by their fam­i­ly at their Granville, Ce­dros home.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Looking to secure a larger foothold in the ethnic market in western Canada by year end, GraceKennedy has expanded retail space and launched new products in that market.

(Barbados Nation) Music producer Eddy Grant believes there should be a calypso college in Barbados.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Chilean officials said yesterday that the unborn baby of a Venezuelan migrant had died while the woman waited for the appropriate visa to cross the border from Peru into Chile.

(Jamaica Observer) FREEPORT, St James — Massy Gas Products has disclosed that it has an interest in leasing the Petrojam Oil Refinery should it be divested by Government as was recently recommended in the report from the Christopher Zacca-led Petrojam Strategic Review Committee.

(Barbados Nation) The massive influx of smelly Sargassum seaweed in the island’s waters continues to inundate a number of beaches across Barbados.   But while the algae could be a nuisance and damage vessels at times, some fishermen at Consett Bay, St John, are actually reporting it is bringing them good financial returns as it makes their daily catches bountiful.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The St Catherine Health Department said it has identified the source of the rat infestation at the Spanish Town Hospital and has taken steps to eliminate the problem.

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice are mov­ing to lay a charge of in­vol­un­tary manslaugh­ter against a Cen­tral school bus dri­ver more than a week af­ter a tod­dler died in her care.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 40-year-old man, of no fixed place of abode, has ap­peared be­fore a San Fer­nan­do Mag­is­trate, af­ter be­ing charged with lar­ce­ny amount­ing to $51,000, af­ter promis­ing to im­port and de­liv­er ve­hi­cles to sev­er­al vic­tims.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Colombia is working to halt scores of slayings of community leaders by criminal groups and remnant bands of rebels following the country’s historic 2016 peace deal, President Ivan Duque said yesterday, during a visit from the UN Security Council.

PANAMA CITY,  (Reuters) – Panama will withdraw its flag from more vessels that violate sanctions and international legislation, the country’s maritime authority told Reuters, following the removal of about 60 ships linked to Iran and Syria from the Panamanian registry in recent months.

BOGOTA,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A court in Ecuador has upheld a ruling that prevents the government from selling land in the Amazon rainforest to oil companies, a move activists called a historic win for the Waorani indigenous tribe living there.