(Jamaica Gleaner) Dr Alveda King, the niece of one of United States’ most celebrated civil rights activists, Martin Luther King Jr, is appealing to Jamaican lawmakers to steer clear of making abortion legal in the island.
(Trinidad Guardian) Barefeet and cold, little Lucia Meza sat on the street hungrily licking an empty pack of biscuits while her mother tried to find accommodation for them to spend the night.
(Trinidad Guardian) “Everybody deserves a second chance.” This is why a 30-year-old clerical worker wants to pay the fines imposed on popcorn vendor Kevin Thomas for illegally vending on Lower High Street, San Fernando.
(Jamaica Observer) The St James police have launched a massive manhunt for a group of brazen gunmen who, in an attempted robbery Tuesday night, ensnared a truck along the busy ‘elegant corridor’ and sprayed it with bullets, seriously injuring the three occupants.
(Jamaica Gleaner) By the middle of next week, Political Ombudsman Donna Parchment Brown expects to lay to rest all issues surrounding a tweet made last Wednesday by People’s National Party Youth Organisation President Krystal Tomlinson, likening Prime Minister Andrew Holness to former German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler.
(Trinidad Guardian) Police have launched a manhunt for two suspects, who fatally shot a former member of the Medical Board of Trinidad & Tobago just meters away from his Wallerfield home yesterday.
(Barbados Nation) British national James O’Rourke is singing the praise of technology today.
(Trinidad Express) A security officer assigned to keep watch on a cargo vessel anchored off the port of Port of Spain has been found murdered.
(Trinidad Guardian) The 93 Venezuelan nationals who have been detained by police in Palo Seco, are being released.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Andrew Holness-led Cabinet will be asked to agree to amending laws to allow convicts who have abandoned criminality for an extended period of time to have their records expunged.
A 75-year-old medical doctor was killed in a robbery near his home before dawn on Wednesday.
(Trinidad Express) Independent Senator Dr Varma Deyalsingh says, given the ill-effects of alcohol, legislation should be passed that will make it harder for people to obtain liquor licences.
(Trinidad Newsday) Tobago East MP Ayanna Webster-Roy is appealing to parents who have children languishing in orphanages to renounce their rights and allow them to be adopted.
(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — A new batch of 113 farm workers will take up employment opportunities in Canada under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Programme (SAWP).
(Trinidad Guardian) Relatives of a young woman who was among 22 passengers on board the Ana Maria, the vessel that has not been seen since it sailed from Güiria in Venezuela bound for T&T, say she had been promised a job at a resort hotel where the income of up to US$1,000 a week was guaranteed.
(Trinidad Guardian) Six men from Diego Martin, who spent almost a decade behind bars awaiting trial for murder, were freed on Tuesday after a magistrate found there was insufficient evidence for them to face a judge and jury.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States is preparing sanctions and criminal charges against Venezuelan officials and others suspected of using a military-run food aid programme to launder money for President Nicolas Maduro’s government, according to people familiar with the matter.
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentina’s populist ex-president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner passed through a crowd of ardent supporters and into a Buenos Aires courthouse yesterday to undergo a graft trial she derided as a “smokescreen,” days after kicking off her campaign for vice president on social media.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Popular entertainer, George Nooks, has been found not guilty of a cocaine possession charge.
(Trinidad Express) After a midnight argument with his sister, Ricardo Chinnon walked into the water near the Chaguaramas Boardwalk, and disappeared.
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