Regional News

(Trinidad Newsday) The three young children of murdered Venezuelan Evelyn Mata Rojas are facing eviction with relatives from an house in central Trinidad.

(Trinidad Express) Western Division police are investigating a report in which a 25-year-old prison officer was threatened.

(Trinidad Guardian) Clutch­ing a rock as she strug­gled to es­cape bat­ter­ing waves and strong cur­rents, Rad­ha Ju­goon watched in dis­may as her 13-year-old son drowned in the sea while swim­ming in the Morne Di­a­blo Beach on Sat­ur­day.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Residents in the North West St Ann constituency of Dr Dayton Campbell have welcomed the Member of Parliament’s (MP) recently initiated revolving-pig project aimed at establishing income for unemployed persons in the parish.

(Jamaica Observer) The Port-more police are still trying to catch a rapist who has been targeting women aged 19 to 60 in several communities in the municipality.

(Trinidad Express) National Security Minister Stuart Young said yesterday the murder of State witness Candy-Ann McIntyre on Tuesday was a tragedy, but added that she was not in the witness protection programme.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The principal of St Hilda’s Diocesan High School in Brown’s Town, St Ann, Heather Reid-Johnson is now being treated in hospital after being injured by an intruder on the school compound last night.

A Venezuelan national died after being struck by a vehicle while walking on the shoulder of the Churchill Roosevelt Highway on Friday morning.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley slammed the US State De­part­ment for T&T’s rank­ing in their 2019 Traf­fick­ing in Per­sons Re­port which placed the coun­try at Tier 2.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury Department yesterday imposed sanctions on four high-ranking Nicaraguan government officials for allegedly preventing their country’s citizens from exercising fundamental freedoms.

TAPACHULA, Mexico, (Reuters) – Millions of new trees will soon begin sprouting in El Salvador thanks to a programme funded by the Mexican government that aims to help impoverished communities that often create fertile ground for fleeing migrants.

PHILADELPHIA,  (Reuters) – A massive fire at Philadelphia Energy Solutions Inc’s oil refinery yesterday damaged the largest U.S.

(Trinidad Guardian) The hur­ri­cane fore­cast for 2019 is just as bad as the fore­cast of 2018 and with nine to 15 named storms ex­pect­ed to form in the At­lantic this year, of­fi­cials from the Com­mon­wealth of Do­mini­ca wants the rest of the Caribbean to pre­pare.

(Jamaica Observer) A report that an 11-year-old schoolgirl had been given the choice of either being knocked out or killed after she was abducted and raped in Manchester, allegedly by a 15-year old boy on Wednesday this week, shocked participants at a child protection symposium yesterday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaicans who have overstayed their visas for long periods have been warned by immigration attorneys to regularise their status in the face of threats by the Trump administration to kick out millions of migrants living illegally in the United States.

(Trinidad Guardian) There is said to be an “in­va­sion” of Colom­bians and Venezue­lans at Brick­field in Cara­pichaima which are caus­ing grave con­cerns by vil­lagers who are claim­ing that il­le­gal ac­tiv­i­ties are on a ram­pant in­crease in­clud­ing State land grab­bing, drug traf­fick­ing, guns and am­mu­ni­tion traf­fick­ing and hu­man traf­fick­ing.

(Trinidad Express) A spiritual leader who attempted to exorcise a ‘buck’ allegedly terrorising a Gasparillo family in March was shot multiple times on Tuesday.

(Trinidad Express) A security officer on duty at a Woodbrook casino was shot dead by “Spanish-speaking” men early yesterday morning.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A motor vehicle accident yesterday morning along a section of the Barbican main road in Hanover claimed the lives of two drivers and left 18 other persons, including three teenagers, injured.

(Trinidad Guardian) This coun­try’s lat­est fast fer­ry, the HSC Jean de la Valette, once out­ran some pi­rate ships, a de­scrip­tion from the Ship Tech­nol­o­gy web­site has claimed.