(Trinidad Express) Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith says that the Intelligence agencies have revealed that there are over 50 “ shooters”, linked to various gangs, with most being active in taking out hits on opposing gang members.
(Trinidad Express) A man with previous convictions for robbery and narcotics was gunned down near his home in Rio Claro on Sunday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Late Jamaican statesman Edward Seaga was on Sunday lauded by his long-time political rival P.J.
(Jamaica Observer) Jamaicans from all walks of life filled the streets around the Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity in Kingston yesterday, watching and cheering as the carriage bearing the coffin with the remains of former Prime Minister Edward “Papa Eddie” Seaga made its way slowly to its final resting place at National Heroes’ Park.
(Jamaica Observer) Members of the Christian community brought high drama to the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court last week following the appearance of a 21-year-old bishop who accused another bishop’s wife of assaulting him because he had shunned her sexual advances.
(Jamaica Observer) Another prominent victim of the Windrush scandal has died without receiving compensation or a personal apology from the UK government.
(Trinidad Guardian) The United National Congress has moved on from the Ganga Singh issue and there is no division in the party.
(Jamaica Observer) Rickie Stewart had a sense of foreboding leading up to his 32nd birthday yesterday.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – U.S.-bound asylum seekers will be sent back to at least two additional Mexican border cities later this week to wait for their claims to be processed, officials said, with one of the cities in a region that is among Mexico’s most chaotic and violent.
SAN JOSE, (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Costa Ricans celebrated gay pride yesterday in the capital, San Jose, in the first such march since the country’s constitutional court promised same-sex couples the right to marry starting next year.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan authorities have arrested six members of the country’s military and police forces over the weekend, according to relatives of the detainees and human rights activists, as President Nicolas Maduro seeks to weed out dissent.
(Trinidad Newsday) The three young children of murdered Venezuelan Evelyn Mata Rojas are facing eviction with relatives from an house in central Trinidad.
(Trinidad Express) Western Division police are investigating a report in which a 25-year-old prison officer was threatened.
(Trinidad Guardian) Clutching a rock as she struggled to escape battering waves and strong currents, Radha Jugoon watched in dismay as her 13-year-old son drowned in the sea while swimming in the Morne Diablo Beach on Saturday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Residents in the North West St Ann constituency of Dr Dayton Campbell have welcomed the Member of Parliament’s (MP) recently initiated revolving-pig project aimed at establishing income for unemployed persons in the parish.
(Jamaica Observer) The Port-more police are still trying to catch a rapist who has been targeting women aged 19 to 60 in several communities in the municipality.
(Trinidad Express) National Security Minister Stuart Young said yesterday the murder of State witness Candy-Ann McIntyre on Tuesday was a tragedy, but added that she was not in the witness protection programme.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The principal of St Hilda’s Diocesan High School in Brown’s Town, St Ann, Heather Reid-Johnson is now being treated in hospital after being injured by an intruder on the school compound last night.
A Venezuelan national died after being struck by a vehicle while walking on the shoulder of the Churchill Roosevelt Highway on Friday morning.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley slammed the US State Department for T&T’s ranking in their 2019 Trafficking in Persons Report which placed the country at Tier 2.
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