(Trinidad Guardian) PNM councillor Vidya Mungal-Bissessar is denying allegations by social media commentator Marcia Braveboy that she was racially abused by San Fernando Mayor Junia Regrello.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico’s moderate Finance Minister Carlos Urzua resigned yesterday with a letter that shocked markets by citing “extremism” in economic policy, before President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador quickly named a well-regarded deputy minister to replace him.
(Trinidad Guardian) A daylight robbery was foiled when two bandits believed to be in their early 20s from Longdenville and Rio Claro respectively were shot by security guards as they attempted to rob Savi’s Classic Jewelry located on the corner of Noel Street and Southern Main Road, Couva on Tuesday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Laventille is in crisis and we need to fix it.
(Barbados Nation) The word must go out – the Internet was not developed for issuing threats and death wishes on others, Chief Magistrate Christopher Birch declared on Monday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad and Tobago has suffered a downgrade in its sovereign ratings from credit rating agency Standard and Poor’s.
(Trinidad Express) Two-year-old Amara Reason has died. The infant was struck by a vehicle on Saturday morning along La Retreat Road, Arima.
(Trinidad Express) A Venezuelan woman seeking a job was instead turned into a sex slave for two days by a man and his girlfriend.
(Barbados Nation) Police are probing reports that scores of bank accounts were hit over the weekend, leaving some customers broke.
(Jamaica Observer) A mother is demanding answers after an expletive-laced altercation between her son and members of a police team manning a checkpoint on Pretoria Road in Kingston 13 left him nursing multiple wounds and needing surgery to repair a broken jaw.
(Trinidad Express) Several police officers in the South-West peninsula are said to be seeking legal advice to prevent them having to undergo polygraph testing set to begin later this week.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A deputy superintendent of police assigned to the Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA) has revealed that more than $2 million was found in the house of one of the accused as the multimillion-dollar Manchester Municipal Corporation fraud trial continued yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) When Kyle Jagroop went to the infamous Debe death strip where his neighbour Nicholas Coon had survived a car accident, he was unaware that the body still trapped in the wreck was his father Premchand Jagroop.
(Trinidad Express) “We would like to signal our growing impatience and anxiety with the lack of actions regarding persons who are free to kill.”
(Trinidad Express) One man was killed and two people injured when a gunman opened fire at the Princes Town Market just before dawn yesterday.
GENEVA, (Reuters) – U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet is “appalled” at the conditions in which the United States is keeping detained migrants and refugees, including children, her office said in a statement yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) A 16 year old boy was gunned down in his mother’s home at Guayaguayare on Sunday.
(Trinidad Express) A Venezuelan baby boy fell 20 feet from an apartment window on Sunday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Another year and another major award for author, community activist and human resource professional Kimberlee Shelley-Ajibolade.
(Jamaica Observer) Former chief of state protocol in the Office of the Prime Minister, Elinor Felix died yesterday after a struggle with cancer.
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