Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) Rel­a­tives of 22 refugees who have not been seen since they left Güiria, Venezuela, on Thurs­day evening for Trinidad & Tobago, are ap­peal­ing for search­es to be launched for their miss­ing loved ones.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Days after the Integrity Commission sought to deflect blame amid public pressure to publish updates on ongoing investigations, the British high commissioner to Jamaica has made it clear that “time will come” when his government will be asking for “results”, having pumped thousands of pounds into the entity.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley last night announc-ed a slew of measures aimed at improving the conditions in schools, making them more conducive to teaching and learning.

(Barbados Nation) A cricket ball which was hit for six has left a young mother grieving the death of her baby.

A par­tic­i­pant in the Sea to Sea Marathon col­lapsed and died near the fin­ish line dur­ing the com­pe­ti­tion this morn­ing.

(Trinidad Express) A pregnant woman yesterday appeared before the court charged with twice exposing a three-year-old boy to suffering.

(Trinidad Guardian) Even as in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue in­to the cheat­ing scan­dal which oc­curred dur­ing last Wednes­day’s CSEC Math ex­am at the Tran­quil­li­ty Gov­ern­ment Sec­ondary School, a par­al­lel in­ves­ti­ga­tion has been launched in­to the ab­sence of a key se­nior of­fi­cial who ought to have been present at the in­sti­tu­tion on the day.

By Ezra Alleyne   (Barbados Nation) It is impossible to calculate the loss to regional journalism as a result of the passing of Harold Hoyte.

(Trinidad Guardian) Minister of Housing Edmund Dillon says construction will begin this year on 439 low and middle-income housing units in Port-of-Spain and San Fernando.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentina’s Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner said yesterday she will run as vice president in elections later this year, a surprise move by the firebrand former leader who had been widely expected to be the main challenger to President Mauricio Macri.

(Jamaica Observer) Mayor of Montego Bay Councillor Homer Davis is calling on the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry to appeal to its members to dispose of their waste properly, as rats continue to overrun the western Jamaican city.

(Trinidad Newsday) Brandon Baptiste, a 32-year-old stay-at-home dad, was shot dead in a parlour on Eligon Avenue, Diego Martin, on Thursday afternoon.

(Jamaica Observer) It appears that the Director of public prosecutions has rejected a claim by one of three alleged rogue members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) that he and his colleagues were chasing the killers of businessman Sheldon “Junior Biggs” Daley when they came under attack from an off-duty cop in Spanish Town, St Catherine, on April 27.

(Trinidad Guardian) A pe­ti­tion cir­cu­lat­ing is call­ing for all stu­dents to re-sit the 2019 CSEC Maths ex­ams fol­low­ing se­ri­ous breach­es of the ex­am­i­na­tion reg­u­la­tions.

(Trinidad Express) A 62-year-old employee of funeral home, is expected to appear before a Port of Spain Magistrate today, after being arrested and charged for drug trafficking.

(Jamaica Observer) Members of the Senate today paid tribute to Ackaisha Green, the young mother who returned a large sum of cash she found in an automated teller machine (ATM) in downtown Kingston recently.

(Barbados Nation) Government will sell the assets of the collapsed insurance giant CLICO to help pay off the expenses of its successor, which itself is being dissolved During a town hall meeting on Wednesday night for policyholders of Resolution Life (ResLife), the court-sanctioned successor of CLICO, Director of Finance in the Ministry of Finance Economic Affairs and Investment, Ian Carrington, said this course of action would be taken.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Former Mayor of Lucea Shernet Haughton has been freed of charges of misconduct in a public office.

(Trinidad Express) One week after the death of Kurt Edwards, a woman has been charged with the unlawful disposal of her ex-boyfriend’s body.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — Ackaisha Green, the woman who found a large sum of cash in an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) and handed it over to the police, has been rewarded $1.2 million for her honesty.