Regional News

(Jamaica Gleaner) A total of 10,626 Jamaicans overstayed their United States (US) non-immigrant tourism/business (B1/B2) visas between October 1, 2017, and September 30, 2018, the US Department of Homeland Security has reported.

(Trinidad Express) A knife was pulled and a woman stabbed after a crash on the Churchill Roosevelt Highway near Aranguez on Monday.

(Trinidad Guardian) A woman who led her 16-year-old-boyfriend to his death as she wore a see-through dress has been re­leased from prison af­ter 10 years and de­port­ed from the coun­try.

(Trinidad Express) A woman and a man are dead following a motor vehicular accident along the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway yesterday morning.

(Jamaica Observer) One man has been hospitalised following an early morning robbery attempt at Andrew Memorial United church in Mandeville, Jamaica yesterday.

(Jamaica Observer) The Ganja Growers Producers Association Jamaica (GGPAJ) says it is strongly opposed to the Government’s embrace of hemp cultivation here and has made a number of demands designed to protect the local cannabis industry from what the group sees as a threat.

(Trinidad Express)  A San Fernando man was gunned down while sitting in his car with his girlfriend in Ste Madeleine on Sunday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Had Antonette Bernard heeded the warnings of the police to leave a community drink-up in York Town, Clarendon, on Saturday night, she might have lived to enjoy Mother’s Day with her daughters yesterday.

(Jamaica Observer) The police are reporting that a woman was killed along the Dunn’s River main road in St Ann yesterday after a tree branch fell on the vehicle in which she was travelling.

(Trinidad Guardian) Coun­ter­feit con­doms are be­ing sold in T&T, one of the pop­u­lar brands avail­able lo­cal­ly has warned, say­ing that the sit­u­a­tion pos­es a threat to pub­lic health.

(Trinidad Guardian) Rachael Sukhdeo’s Moth­er’s Day got off to a rough start yes­ter­day as she had to run for her life to es­cape a shoot­ing in­ci­dent in which she is be­lieved to have been the tar­get.

(Barbados Nation) Harold Hoyte has passed away. Hoyte, one of the founders of The Nation Publishing Co, passed away around 11:30 a.m.

(Trinidad Guardian) Hu­bert Bhag­wans­ingh, the founder and chair­man of the Bhag­wans­ingh’s Group of Com­pa­nies, has died.

(Trinidad Express) An attempt has been made on the life of Rachael Sukhdeo, the widow of murdered real estate and car dealer Sheron Sukhdeo.

(Jamaica Observer) The woman who found a large sum of money in an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) on East Queen Street in downtown Kingston has stoutly defended her mother who called her “stupid” for returning the cash.

(Trinidad Guardian) The An­ju­man Sun­nat-ul-Ja­maat As­so­ci­a­tion (AS­JA) be­lieves the mur­der of Han­iff Mo­hammed on Fri­day at the Junon Street Mosque, Cal­i­for­nia is an iso­lat­ed in­ci­dent and is not rep­re­sen­ta­tive of a larg­er threat to the Mus­lim com­mu­ni­ty.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Amid mounting public condemnation for abuse of power and human-rights breaches and a multiagency investigation, the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has denied a reggae singer’s allegations that the police trimmed his Rastafarian children and fed them meat.

(Trinidad Guardian) Four days af­ter Ja­maican busi­ness­man Yohan Chin re­turned to Trinidad & Tobago April 10 he was snatched by kid­nap­pers af­ter be­ing lured to the is­land un­der the pre­tence of seal­ing a new busi­ness deal.

(Jamaica Observer) Following last Friday’s release of Country For Sale by Grammy-winning reggae act Buju Banton, his first track since being released from a US prison where he served time for a drug trafficking conviction, the artiste and his team are already looking towards the release of an album within the next three months.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two days before Finance Minister Colm Imbert prepares to present his 2019 mid-term budget review, comes news that BPTT will not have enough natural gas to supply Atlantic LNG’s Train One and the plant may have to close down for at least two years.