Regional News

(Trinidad Express) THE police investigation into the death by suicide of 15-year-old schoolboy Jayden Lalchan is nearing completion, says ACP Wayne Mystar.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuba plunged into a countrywide blackout today after one of the island’s major power plants failed and caused the national electrical grid to shut down, its energy ministry said.

(Jamaica Observer) Prominent attorney-at-law Charles ‘Advoket’ Ganga-Singh, who is representing ska great Derrick Morgan in a defamation lawsuit, said that reggae star Ventrice ‘Queen Ifrica’ Morgan has been served by a process server.

(Trinidad Express) House Speaker Bridgid Annisette-George has been called upon to refer Energy Minister Stuart Young to the Parliament’s Committee of Privileges to face punishment.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A motorist was shot and killed gangland-style in front of the police’s control centre, formerly the Church Street Police Station, in downtown Montego Bay, St James, early Monday night by gunmen who reportedly chased his vehicle through traffic, firing a barrage of shots.

VILLA OLIVA, Paraguay, (Reuters) – A sharp decline in the Paraguay River, which hit a record low this month due to drought upstream in Brazil, is fueling a conflict between the country’s fishers and rice farmers over water use in a southern wetland region bordering Argentina.

(Trinidad Guardian) Seven years after teenager Hannah Mathura was reportedly killed and buried in a shallow grave in the backyard of the family’s compound in Valsayn, instructions have been issued for her parents to be charged with her murder.

(Trinidad Guardian) Three days after the murder of his wife Laura Sankar, a 41-year-old handyman appeared before the High Court charged with murder.

(Trinidad Express) An unidentified man was shot dead on Sunday night while allegedly attempting to rob an off-duty police officer.

MARACAIBO, (Reuters) – A huge fire that erupted on Tuesday at an oil tank in Venezuela’s La Salina terminal operated by state company PDVSA is almost completely extinguished, Cabimas firefighters said on Wednesday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Energy and Energy Industries Minister Stuart Young is facing significant backlash from the public following a controversial “hot mic” incident in which he was heard making salacious comments about the Opposition in Parliament on Thursday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Shundell Barrow’s mother was on the phone with his sister on Sunday night when the volley of gunshots that took his life rang out.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Three policemen who were charged with breaches of the Corruption Prevention Act were freed in the St Catherine Parish Court on Monday after the prosecution conceded that it could not mount a successful case against them.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Up to late Monday evening, detectives were still processing a crime scene at the Rousseau Primary School in St Andrew, hours after the murder of a parent in full view of children and other parents.

(CDB) October 15, 2024 – BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Nine outstanding researchers whose work is advancing climate resilience and sustainability across the region are being sponsored by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) to present their innovative studies at the 2024 Canada-Caribbean Institute (CCI) Research Symposium, taking place on the campus of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, from October 16-18.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Curfew measures aimed at quelling civil unrest on the French island of Martinique, where there have been violent protests over rising living costs, have been extended for a week, said the Caribbean island’s local administration.

(Trinidad Guardian) Caribbean Airlines Limited pilots, represented by the Trinidad and Tobago Airline Pilots’ Association (TTALPA), delivered a letter to the Minister of Finance yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) In one week, five women and a baby girl have been attacked by men known to them.

HOUSTON (Reuters) – Three workers filed a lawsuit in a Texas state court in Houston on Monday against Mexico’s national oil company Pemex for injuries they allege they received in a hydrogen sulfide release at a Deer Park, Texas refinery on Thursday.

VALENCIA, Venezuela (Reuters) – It was curiosity that drew 15-year-old Aliangel Jose Rodriguez to one of the protests that erupted following Venezuela’s contested presidential election in late July, his mother said.