Regional News

(Trinidad Express) The family of kidnapped Jamaican businessman Yohan Chin has placed newspaper advertisements appealing to his kidnappers to complete negotiations with them for his safe release.

(Jamaica Gleaner) In an alleged case of abuse of power and violation of human rights, conscious reggae artiste JahDore, whose real name is Sean McDonald, said members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) forcibly took his Rastafarian children from their home, trimmed their locks and fed them meat.

(Trinidad Guardian) One of the sev­en Sea View Dri­ve, Gulf View res­i­dents whose homes were searched as part of a con­tro­ver­sial po­lice op­er­a­tion last Fri­day, has threat­ened to sue the State over the in­ci­dent.

(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.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 33-year-old Coast Guard of­fi­cer, who set his po­lice of­fi­cer girl­friend on fire dur­ing an ar­gu­ment last week, has been de­nied bail af­ter ap­pear­ing in court this morn­ing.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Detectives in Clarendon are seeking the public’s assistance to locate Andy Williams of Desire district, Clarendon who is believed to have taken six-month-old Fredericka Tulloch from her house in the community on Monday.

(Trinidad Express) A POST MORTEM examination on the body of a six-month-old baby girl who was found unresponsive at an El Socorro daycare centre on Thursday afternoon found that she died as a result of aspiration.

(Jamaica Observer) A Jamaican man has been arrested and charged in relation to the deaths of two women whose bodies were found in a luxury Miami condominium on Tuesday.

(Trinidad Express) A businessman was shot dead while saying prayers in a mosque in California, Couva, on Friday.

(Jamaica Observer) The probe into allegations of fraudulent activities at the Ministry of Education and connected agencies has resulted in former Minister of Education Rule Reid now being the subject of a criminal investigation.

(Jamaica Observer) Former Prime Minister Edward Seaga has been hospitalised in Miami, Florida, where he is being treated for an undisclosed ailment.

(Trinidad Guardian) Teach­ers at the Ari­ma Hin­du School were forced to send pupils home and shut down op­er­a­tions for the rest of the day yes­ter­day, af­ter a gun at­tack near the com­pound left one man dead and a woman in­jured.

(Trinidad Guardian) Thir­teen peo­ple from a well-known gang in the North­ern Di­vi­sion, who were found lurk­ing around the Tu­na­puna Mag­is­trates’ Court on Wednes­day, were ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with a plot to mur­der a state wit­ness as he was about to leave the court.

Venezuelan nationals on board the Kuvanakan, after they were stopped by T&T Coast Guard and denied entry to this country within sight of their final destination, Chaguaramas.

(Trinidad Guardian) At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Faris Al-Rawi told Par­lia­ment on Wednes­day that 12 at­tor­neys “alone con­sumed” $290 mil­lion of ex­pens­es dur­ing the pre­vi­ous 2010-2015 pe­ri­od.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police have arrested of 13 male suspects wanted in connection with a plot to murder a state witness, as he exited a Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Simeon Anthony Sutherland, the 20-year-old man charged with the murder of Member of Parliament Dr Lynvale Bloomfield, was today granted $800,000 bail when he appeared before the Portland Parish Court.

(Trinidad Express) Four girls were passengers on the ill-fated fishing pirogue when it capsized in rough seas on the way from Venezuela to Trinidad two weeks ago.

(Jamaica Observer) The police are seeking a construction worker who yesterday shot and injured two of his colleagues at the work site of the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) where rehabilitation is under way.

(Barbados Nation) A goverment backbencher has frowned on the “romanticising” of the recently held Buju Banton concert.