Regional News

(Trinidad Express) A Venezuelan woman seeking a job was instead turned into a sex slave for two days by a man and his girlfriend.

(Barbados Nation) Police are probing reports that scores of bank accounts were hit over the weekend, leaving some customers broke.

(Jamaica Observer) A mother is demanding answers after an expletive-laced altercation between her son and members of a police team manning a checkpoint on Pretoria Road in Kingston 13 left him nursing multiple wounds and needing surgery to repair a broken jaw.

(Trinidad Express) Several police officers in the South-West peninsula are said to be seeking legal advice to prevent them having to undergo polygraph testing set to begin later this week.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A deputy superintendent of police assigned to the Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA) has revealed that more than $2 million was found in the house of one of the accused as the multimillion-dollar Manchester Municipal Corporation fraud trial continued yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) When Kyle Ja­groop went to the in­fa­mous Debe death strip where his neigh­bour Nicholas Coon had sur­vived a car ac­ci­dent, he was un­aware that the body still trapped in the wreck was his fa­ther Prem­c­hand Ja­groop.

(Trinidad Express) “We would like to signal our growing impatience and anxiety with the lack of actions regarding persons who are free to kill.”

(Trinidad Express) One man was killed and two people injured when a gunman opened fire at the Princes Town Market just before dawn yesterday.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet is “appalled” at the conditions in which the United States is keeping detained migrants and refugees, including children, her office said in a statement yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) A 16 year old boy was gunned down in his mother’s home at Guayaguayare on Sunday.

(Trinidad Express) A Venezuelan baby boy fell 20 feet from an apartment window on Sunday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Another year and another major award for author, community activist and human resource professional Kimberlee Shelley-Ajibolade.

(Jamaica Observer) Former chief of state protocol in the Office of the Prime Minister, Elinor Felix died yesterday after a struggle with cancer.

(Trinidad Guardian) Spec­u­la­tion by the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) and the Move­ment for So­cial Jus­tice (MSJ) that the Gov­ern­ment will post­pone Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Elec­tions has been rub­bished by Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley.

(Trinidad Express) Commissioner of Police, Gary Griffith says he is taking action against human trafficking and the exploitation of women and minors, paying particular attention to night clubs, bars, and brothels where these women are being used.

(Barbados Nation) DAYS AFTER the Barbados Sea Turtle Project sent out a warning about the dangers of fire pits, 25 pounds of rusty nails were collected from a few square feet of one of the island’s most popular beaches yesterday.   And deputy director of the Sea Turtle Project, Carla Daniel, is warning that the practice of lighting bonfires poses a danger not only to turtles who come up to nest, but to people and children using the beach.

(Barbados Nation) The waves of Sargassum seaweed heading toward Barbados and its neighbours could be as devastating to national economies as a strong tropical storm or a Category 1 hurricane.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday announced that a state of emergency has been declared in the police division of St Andrew South.

(Trinidad Guardian) A fairy tale came to life for 16-year-old Ka­ri­na Sama­roos­ingh who ar­rived in a gold­en car­riage at the Trinidad Hilton and Con­fer­ence Cen­tre in Port-of-Spain for her grad­u­a­tion ball, much to the sur­prise of guests, par­ents, teach­ers and fel­low grad­u­ates.

(Trinidad Guardian) More than a year af­ter the An­ti Gang Act 2018 was pro­claimed in­to law, not a sin­gle gang­ster has been con­vict­ed al­though po­lice have charged sev­er­al peo­ple.