Regional News

(Jamaica Observer) Prime Minister Andrew Holness has rejected claims that his Administration is moving to introduce same-sex marriage through the back door.

CARACAS (Reuters) – The ad-hoc board of Venezuelan state-run oil company PDVSA, appointed by opposition leader Juan Guaido, said on Saturday it had asked Jamaica’s government not to seize the company’s shares in an oil refinery on the island.

(Trinidad Guardian) Gov­ern­ment’s visa stip­u­la­tion for Venezue­lans is caus­ing con­cerns among some Venezue­lans who are due to come here soon, as well as re­cent reg­is­trants who had planned to bring rel­a­tives over.

(Barbados Nation) A group of men who were playing dominoes under a street light at Well Gap, St Michael, early this morning ran for cover when they heard gunshots.

(Jamaica Observer) Members of the Senate clashed Friday, after Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith insisted that the Government would respond to the issues stemming from the detention of five Jamaican fishermen by the United States Coast Guard in 2017 after completing its investigations.

(Trinidad Express) Venezuelan school teacher and desperate migrant Isabeth Moren, has a message for the women of Trinidad and Tobago.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Ten months after an incident caught on video in which a policeman appears to body slam a female motorcyclist to the ground during an arrest, the Independent Commission of Investigation (INDECOM) has completed its probe.

(Trinidad Guardian) Gas­par­il­lo res­i­dent Verne and his Venezue­lan part­ner Jen­nifer will like­ly be head­ing for the al­tar since he said Jen­nifer was among the 400 who didn’t suc­ceed in be­ing reg­is­tered last Fri­day.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The eastern parish of Portland is arming itself to tackle a rat-infestation problem that has taken root especially in the seaside town of Port Antonio, the parish’s capital.

(Trinidad Express) Venezuelan school teacher and desperate migrant Isabeth Moren, has a message for the women of Trinidad and Tobago.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith says the Government cannot call in officials from the United States Embassy to shed light on the alleged inhumane treatment meted out to five Jamaican fishermen by the US Coast Guard until she has received “as many facts as possible about the matter”.

(Trinidad Express) There is a video circulating on social media of a female attempting to cross the road in Marabella being hit by a car, somersaulting in the air and landing in the middle of the road.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados’ acute nursing shortage could soon be a thing of the past.

(Jamaica Observer) A man, said to be a member of the notorious Klansman Gang, was yesterday afternoon shot dead while travelling in a taxi on Wellington Street in the old capital.

(Trinidad Guardian) From Mon­day, Venezue­lans seek­ing to en­ter T&T will have to get a visa as the Gov­ern­ment an­nounced the new mea­sure to pre­vent the free flow of im­mi­grants in­to this coun­try.

(Trinidad Guardian) Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Stu­art Young has an­nounced that from Mon­day, the Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go will im­ple­ment a visa sys­tem for Venezue­lans wish­ing to come to Trinidad and To­ba­go.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach in Florida are among the first areas to receive Jamaican mangoes in the United States.

MEXICO CITY/EL PASO, Texas,  (Reuters) – The United States has doubled the number of asylum seekers it sends back each day to Mexico from El Paso, Texas, a Mexican immigration official said on Friday, in the first sign of action following a deal struck to avert U.S.

(Jamaica Observer) From frustrated ghetto youth to Internet sensation, Kemoy Lindsay has entered the realms of online stardom after one of his tweets went viral last Sunday and created an international buzz.

(Trinidad Express) On the night before the final day of the Venezuelan migrant registration process, a protest erupted outside the Queens Park Oval in Port of Spain, triggering a police response led by Commissioner Gary Griffith.