Regional News

(Jamaica Gleaner) A police corporal this morning allegedly shot and killed his wife at their house in Tower Isle, St Mary.

(Jamaica Observer) Several women who engage in prostitution on the infamous “Back Road” in Portmore, St Catherine were brought to tears last Thursday night when they suspended their usual activities to attend a nearby open-air church service.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prison es­capees Olatun­gi Den­bow and his ac­com­plice Michael Find­ley who were cap­tured on Sat­ur­day were a no-show in the Ari­ma Court on Mon­day, but are ex­pect­ed to be in court on Tuesday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Hope among defence attorneys for a non-custodial sentence for the three cops found guilty of manslaughter in relation to the 2012 death of Immaculate Conception High School student Vanessa Kirkland was shattered yesterday as presiding judge Justice Carol Lawrence-Beswick said that the imposition of only a fine would be inappropriate.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A DNA test has revealed that prominent Montego Bay businessman Patrick Chung is not the biological father of a woman who has accused him of allegedly having sex with her over a nine-year period beginning in 1976 when she was 13 years old.

(Jamaica Observer) History is repeating itself for Sizzla Kalonji. For the second year in a row, he is under attack from a California gay rights group.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Siparia sec­ondary school is in cri­sis af­ter a se­ries of vi­o­lent episodes among stu­dents, teach­ers in fear for their lives and par­ents re­mov­ing their chil­dren — and even an al­le­ga­tion of a teacher im­preg­nat­ing a stu­dent.

(Trinidad Guardian) A truck dri­ver was award­ed $170,000 plus in­ter­est af­ter he was wrong­ful­ly ar­rest­ed and de­tained by po­lice in 2015.

(Barbados Nation) A giant was laid to rest yesterday. That is how Harold Fitzherbert Hoyte, founder and Editor Emeritus of The Nation Publishing Company was remembered by eulogist Elizabeth Thompson, Barbados’ Ambassador to the United Nations. 

LIMA, (Reuters) – Colombia and Peru yesterday called on the international community to commit more aid to help them cope with an influx of around 2 million Venezuelans who have migrated to the two countries in recent years.

(Trinidad Express) A Biche gardener is expected to appear before a Rio Claro Magistrate, charged with the 2010 murders of Shantel Byer and her boyfriend, Jevon Ferris Murray.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – The builders of a new power transmission line to the northern Brazilian state of Roraima have pledged to deploy 200 inspectors to reduce the environmental impact on an indigenous reservation where they will erect 250 pylons, according to an environmental assessment document seen by Reuters.

(Trinidad Express) There is an outpouring of love this morning for tattoo artist Robert John Seales who died in a motorcycle crash on Sunday night.

(Trinidad Express) Three men were gunned down in a parked vehicle at Fazal Avenue, Penal, on Sunday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Stu­art Young has de­fend­ed his min­istry’s de­ci­sion to rent the Queen’s Park Oval to use as one of the venues for the reg­is­tra­tion of Venezue­lans liv­ing in this coun­try lat­er this week.

(Jamaica Observer) One Caribbean politician is hitting out against the support being given to Buju Banton since his release from prison in December last year.

(Jamaica Observer) MONTEGO BAY, St James — Despite State security forces putting a lid on criminal activities in the parish of St James, now under a state of public emergency, criminals managed to make off with 19 firearms and about 150 rounds of assorted ammunition from a private security company.

(Barbados Nation) Calypsonians ARE being called on to come with clean lyrics for Crop Over.

(Trinidad Guardian) Sad­dened by the en­slave­ment of Venezue­lan mi­grants who are on­ly seek­ing to fill emp­ty stom­achs in T&T, re­cent­ly-in­stalled mod­er­a­tor of the Pres­by­ter­ian Church, Rev Joy Ab­dul-Mo­han, says her flock will use their re­sources to al­le­vi­ate the mi­grants’ hunger.

(Trinidad Express) Three girls all under the age of 18 were found at the house in which prison escapees Olatungi Denbow and Michael Findley were hiding.