BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro said yesterday that the nomination of his son Eduardo to be ambassador to the United States was not an act of nepotism and that he would not make the appointment if it were.
(Trinidad Guardian) It was the reunion that many hoped for. Zookeeper Walter Bunyan and Albino Burmese Python on Friday reunited after a bite that shocked many on Thursday. A video posted on social media Thursday afternoon showed Bunyan opening Mustard’s enclosure and tossing a rabbit for him to eat.
(Trinidad Express) A woman charged in 2015 with stabbing her ten-year-old sister during an alleged argument over a television remote control has been committed to stand trial before the San Fernando High Court.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaicans living illegally in the United States are being advised by New York-based immigration attorney Millicent Clarke to have a lawyer’s number on speed dial as they could quickly find themselves on a plane back home if a US government-planned operation gets under way this weekend.
(Trinidad Guardian) One week after she became vocal on the many serious issues and concerns including criminal activities in the Oropune Gardens, Piarco area, the life of a former news anchor Colleen Holder has been threatened.
(Barbados Nation) Some of the National Housing Corporation (NHC) units are being used as houses of ill repute.
(Trinidad Guardian) Cabinet will initiate a commission of enquiry to examine the circumstances in which over $500 million was paid to homeowners to acquire land for the extension of the highway from San Fernando to Point Fortin.
(Barbados Nation) Barbadians are facing the reality they will no longer be able to claim child allowance when filing their personal income tax returns.
(Barbados Nation) The families of missing American couple Oscar Suarez and Magdalena Devil are taking matters into their own hands.
(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — Digicel this morning announced the appointment of Allison Cole Philbert as its chief executive officer (CEO) in Jamaica.
(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago track and field athlete Michelle-Lee Ahye has been charged with domestic violence in the United States.
(Jamaica Observer) CASSANDRA Brown, after having two daughters, was over the moon when she was told during a prenatal clinic visit that she was having a boy.
(Jamaica Observer) Police are puzzled over the gun murder of a Bishop Gibson High School teacher at her home in Melrose Mews, a few miles east of here, in the very early hours of yesterday morning.
(Trinidad Guardian) The US Embassy has donated 110,000 rapid HIV test kits to the Ministry of Health.
(Trinidad Guardian) Police and Immigration officers are searching for 14 persons who escaped from the Immigration Detention Centre (IDC) in Aripo.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s lower house of Congress approved a landmark overhaul of the country’s pension system yesterday by a far wider margin than predicted, delivering a resounding victory to the government in its quest to restore public finances to health.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan authorities yesterday buried the remains of a navy captain who died in military custody last month, despite the opposition of family members who say he was tortured to death and want an independent autopsy.
(Trinidad Express) A Trinidadian man fatally stabbed during an ambush 13 years ago was lured to his death by a former girlfriend, the Supreme Court was told as two people went on trial here for his murder.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Mandeville Police are probing the murder of a high school teacher in Melrose Mews, Manchester.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A major figure in Jamaica’s most dominant period in international track and field, iconic sprinter Usain Bolt, says he is disturbed by the state of the country’s male sprinting, heading into the World Championships in Doha, Qatar, in September.
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