Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) The Ju­di­cia­ry of T&T has col­lect­ed $170.9 mil­lion in fines paid by er­rant and delin­quent dri­vers who com­mit­ted traf­fic of­fences and vi­o­la­tions be­tween 2011 and 2015 on the na­tion’s roads.

(Reuters) – Humberto, which gained hurricane strength late Sunday, is expected to drop another 2 inches of rain on the storm-ravaged northwestern Bahamas as it crawls away from the U.S.

By Frank Seepersad (Trinidad Guardian) One year ago, I broke with tra­di­tion and spoke di­rect­ly to the me­dia about my views in re­la­tion to the open­ing of the 2018/2019 Law term.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago Special Olympics athlete Sean Gibson, 34, has been found dead.

(Jamaica Observer) While the brutal killing of promising young attorney-at-law Sashakay Fairclough has shocked, in particular, the parishes of St Ann and St James where she practises mainly, the police have no leads yet into the murder, nor has a motive been established.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados has produced only 7 800 tonnes of sugar from about 93 600 tonnes of cane this year, one of the most disappointing harvests in the last decade.

(Trinidad Guardian) The rel­a­tives of To­ba­go gy­ro ven­dor Elias Dab­bourah, 30, are de­mand­ing jus­tice fol­low­ing his death on Sat­ur­day.

NASSAU,  (Reuters) – As rescuers search for bodies amid mountains of debris and the stench of death on the Bahamas island of Abaco, life on most of the archipelago’s 700 isles is little changed.

(Trinidad Guardian) The rel­a­tives of To­ba­go gy­ro ven­dor Elias Dab­bourah, 30, are de­mand­ing jus­tice fol­low­ing his death on Sat­ur­day.

NASSAU (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Humberto lashed already devastated parts of the Bahamas with heavy rain and strong winds before crawling northwest yesterday, and forecasters said it was likely to become a hurricane before the end of the weekend.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – A group of Brazilian anthropologists and environmentalists has put forward Chief Raoni Metuktire of the Kayapó tribe as a candidate for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for a lifetime of work protecting the Amazon rainforest.

(Trinidad Express) There are cases of babies under one year old being raped in Trinidad and Tobago and there are also hundreds of alleged rapists walking around and not registered on a sexual offenders registry.

(Barbados Nation) The Ministry of Health and Wellness has warned Barbadians about the dangers of vaping, particularly on the heels of reports of an outbreak of severe respiratory illnesses associated with the practice in the United States.  In a statement issued yesterday, the Ministry said that the cause of the outbreak, which has so far resulted in six deaths, was still not entirely clear, but investigations were ongoing by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

(Trinidad Express) A La Horquetta man, charged with the murder of his neighbour, shopkeeper Christopher Khanhai.

(Jamaica Gleaner) It might be working feverishly behind the scenes to cool tempers and iron out differences as it normally does in these matters, but the secretariat for regional trade bloc Caricom is not saying anything publicly about the running battle between regional sugar producers on the one hand, and manufacturers and national governments.

(Trinidad Guardian) Watch those “cook­ies” and “brown­ies” in schools. Some in­fused with mar­i­jua­na and Ec­sta­sy pills, known lo­cal­ly as “Zessers”, have been found and are be­ing dis­trib­uted in lo­cal schools, act­ing Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Fitzger­ald Hinds said yes­ter­day.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The police’s Inspectorate and Professional Standards Oversight Bureau is reporting that it arrested three members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force between Monday and Thursday over alleged breaches of the Corruption Prevention Act.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Montego Bay Mayor Homer Davis says the gay-rights group Montego Bay Pride will not be granted permission to use the Montego Bay Cultural Centre for a series of events it is planning to stage in the western city.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Prominent attorney-at-law Dr Raymond Clough died yesterday morning at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI), Mona, after a long illness.

(Trinidad Guardian) The 30-year-old sus­pect want­ed for the mur­der of Trinidad-born Kiara Al­leyne, 20, at her home in Flori­da on Wednes­day has been re­ceiv­ing med­ical care af­ter he was found se­ri­ous­ly in­jured by Mar­i­on Coun­ty homi­cide of­fi­cers and had to be air­lift­ed from the area where he was lo­cat­ed.