(Jamaica Observer) The five Jamaican fishermen picked up by United States Homeland Security investigators in September 2017 off the Haitian coast were charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute some 613 pounds of marijuana, according to an affidavit filed by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jesus Pertierra.
(Trinidad Guardian) A 12-year-old boy screamed in agony as he hugged and caressed his mother’s body after gunmen shot her dead in Santa Cruz on Tuesday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Venezuelan oil subsidiary PDV Caribe is demanding that the Government of Jamaica (GOJ) pay a minimum of US$50 million (J$6.5 billion) in core share value as compensation for the forcible takeover of its 49 per cent stake in the local refinery, Petrojam.
(Trinidad Newsday) An argument between siblings over a television remote turned fatal when an 11-year-old girl died by suicide after she was sent to her room by her mother.
(Trinidad Express) A humiliating defeat. This is how Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar is describing the move by Government to delete the controversial clause 7 to the Freedom of Information Act.
(Trinidad Express) Southern Division police are searching for a man captured on surveillance camera stealing gold from a jewellery store at Gulf City Mall, La Romaine, on Saturday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica’s foreign Minister Kamina Johnson Smith on Sunday night confirmed that the board of Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), the South American country’s oil and gas company, has filed a lawsuit in relation to Kingston’s forcible takeover of its 49 per cent stake in local oil refinery Petrojam.
(Trinidad Guardian) A report carried by a pan-Latin American news organisation, Panam Post, is stating that Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro has given Russia two gas deposits near to Trinidad and Tobago.
(Jamaica Gleaner) With Ghana commemorating 400 years since the first African slave was shipped from its shores, the president of the West African country, Nana Akufo-Addo, has offered an invitation to Jamaicans to come share in activities taking place in that country to mark the occasion.
(Jamaica Gleaner) As a young budding footballer who represented Jamaica College in Under-14 and Under-16 football competitions, Richard Byfield’s big dream was to make the Reggae Boyz team one day.
(Trinidad Newsday) The Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha is concerned about Venezuelan migrants entering the country with Hindu marriage licences issued by a pundit in central Trinidad.
(Jamaica Observer) Prime Minister Andrew Holness has rejected claims that his Administration is moving to introduce same-sex marriage through the back door.
CARACAS (Reuters) – The ad-hoc board of Venezuelan state-run oil company PDVSA, appointed by opposition leader Juan Guaido, said on Saturday it had asked Jamaica’s government not to seize the company’s shares in an oil refinery on the island.
(Trinidad Guardian) Government’s visa stipulation for Venezuelans is causing concerns among some Venezuelans who are due to come here soon, as well as recent registrants who had planned to bring relatives over.
(Barbados Nation) A group of men who were playing dominoes under a street light at Well Gap, St Michael, early this morning ran for cover when they heard gunshots.
(Jamaica Observer) Members of the Senate clashed Friday, after Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith insisted that the Government would respond to the issues stemming from the detention of five Jamaican fishermen by the United States Coast Guard in 2017 after completing its investigations.
(Trinidad Express) Venezuelan school teacher and desperate migrant Isabeth Moren, has a message for the women of Trinidad and Tobago.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Ten months after an incident caught on video in which a policeman appears to body slam a female motorcyclist to the ground during an arrest, the Independent Commission of Investigation (INDECOM) has completed its probe.
(Trinidad Guardian) Gasparillo resident Verne and his Venezuelan partner Jennifer will likely be heading for the altar since he said Jennifer was among the 400 who didn’t succeed in being registered last Friday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The eastern parish of Portland is arming itself to tackle a rat-infestation problem that has taken root especially in the seaside town of Port Antonio, the parish’s capital.
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