(Trinidad Guardian) Tobago Police are currently investigating a video of a group of boys dressed in the uniform of Signal Hill Secondary School passing around what appeared to be a firearm.
(Trinidad Newsday) Members of the 2019 National Culinary Team, who took part in the Taste of the Caribbean competition in Miami which ended on Tuesday, took away gold, silver and bronze medals in individual categories.
(Jamaica Observer) Senior defence attorney Bert Samuels says the four Jamaican fishermen who have brought a case against the United States Coast Guard alleging egregious mistreatment and human rights violations in 2017 could have a case against their own Government.
(Jamaica Gleaner) An alleged quack doctor who reportedly fleeced several residents of western Jamaica out of hundreds of thousands of dollars under the guise that they were being treated by a certified physician will know today whether she will be granted bail.
(Trinidad Express) A six-year-old boy was stung by a scorpion while at school on Monday.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Congress threw out part of a decree by President Jair Bolsonaro giving say over indigenous land claims to the Agriculture Ministry, further undermining the right-wing president’s agenda to empower rural farmers in disputes over land.
GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will deploy up to 89 agents to Guatemala by the end of August under a joint agreement to curb illegal immigration and strengthen border security, according to an official document seen by Reuters on Tuesday.
(Trinidad Express) Minister Dr Keith Rowley’s ‘wajang’ behaviour places Trinidad and Tobago at risk if United States President Donald Trump pulls support to the Caribbean basin programme says Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The US Coast Guard Cutter Confidence on which the five Jamaican fishermen were detained pending the Jamaican Government’s response to a request to prosecute the men.
(Trinidad Express) Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith says that the Intelligence agencies have revealed that there are over 50 “ shooters”, linked to various gangs, with most being active in taking out hits on opposing gang members.
(Trinidad Express) A man with previous convictions for robbery and narcotics was gunned down near his home in Rio Claro on Sunday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Late Jamaican statesman Edward Seaga was on Sunday lauded by his long-time political rival P.J.
(Jamaica Observer) Jamaicans from all walks of life filled the streets around the Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity in Kingston yesterday, watching and cheering as the carriage bearing the coffin with the remains of former Prime Minister Edward “Papa Eddie” Seaga made its way slowly to its final resting place at National Heroes’ Park.
(Jamaica Observer) Members of the Christian community brought high drama to the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court last week following the appearance of a 21-year-old bishop who accused another bishop’s wife of assaulting him because he had shunned her sexual advances.
(Jamaica Observer) Another prominent victim of the Windrush scandal has died without receiving compensation or a personal apology from the UK government.
(Trinidad Guardian) The United National Congress has moved on from the Ganga Singh issue and there is no division in the party.
(Jamaica Observer) Rickie Stewart had a sense of foreboding leading up to his 32nd birthday yesterday.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – U.S.-bound asylum seekers will be sent back to at least two additional Mexican border cities later this week to wait for their claims to be processed, officials said, with one of the cities in a region that is among Mexico’s most chaotic and violent.
SAN JOSE, (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Costa Ricans celebrated gay pride yesterday in the capital, San Jose, in the first such march since the country’s constitutional court promised same-sex couples the right to marry starting next year.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan authorities have arrested six members of the country’s military and police forces over the weekend, according to relatives of the detainees and human rights activists, as President Nicolas Maduro seeks to weed out dissent.
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