PORT-DE-PAIX, Haiti (AP) — The death toll from a 5.9 earthquake that hit Haiti over the weekend rose to 15 people with 333 injured, authorities said Monday, as thousands of people slept outdoors fearing aftershocks would topple their cracked homes. Haiti’s civil protection agency said it will soon deploy 70 soldiers to the Nord-Ouest and […]
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SOURCE: Agence France Press (AFP): An earthquake hit northern Haiti late Saturday, killing at least 14 people, injuring more than 100 and sparking a scramble by rescue agencies to help towns in the impoverished Caribbean country battered by the shockwave. A local official said at least eight people died in Port-de-Paix on the northern coast […]
KINGSTON — The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) says it today seized 16 firearms at the Kingston port, following the seizure of ten firearms and approximately 640 rounds of ammunition at the location yesterday Tuesday, October 3. Reports are that the Counter Terrorism and Organised Crime Investigations Branch, the JCF’s Narcotics Division and Jamaica Custom’s Contraband […]
PORT OF SPAIN – Police are working on several theories on the motive behind the killing of 50-year-old prison superintendent Wayne Jackson, with one being that he refused to allow a delivery of contraband into the prison. Sources told Newsday that a delivery of wildmeat was supposed to pass through prison security and into the hands […]
The Trinidad-based Seismic Research Center of the University of the West Indies is monitoring high levels of seismic activity at the Kick em’ Jenny Volcano. The center said since an episode recorded last Sunday, there have been several other notable events. It said that on Monday an event with a magnitude of 3.5 occurred at […]
PORT OF SPAIN – An incident at a secondary school in central Trinidad where two students passed out after getting high on over the counter medicine has raised concern about a new trend in drug addictions taking root in the country. Reports are that the two Form Four students took high doses of an easily […]
KINGSTON – Family members of slain Woman District Constable Mellissa Edwards-Whyte were not aware that she was having marital troubles. They are only now replaying events in their heads that might have led to the vicious killing of the 43-year-old whose dismembered body was discovered in the house she shared with husband Barrington Whyte in Duhaney […]
PORT OF SPAIN – A 14-year-old male student of the Princes Town West Secondary school was taken for medical attention after being kicked repeatedly and stomped on the head by other students. The incident was shown in a video that has gone viral on social media. Education minister Anthony Garcia, in a statement, said there would […]
Parents of students attending the Number 8 Secondary School on the West Coast of Berbice, Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice) on Thursday picketed the school in protest over the return of a violent male student, who was allowed to reenter the school after a mere five-day suspension for beating a teacher. The student had beaten a female […]
NASSAU – Devaughn Hall was sentenced to 60 years in prison yesterday for the murders of Deadman’s Reef couple Barry and Sheena Johnson who were shot to death during an armed robbery at their home three years ago. Supreme Court Justice Estelle Gray Evans noted that while the murders were “horrific, callous and cold-blooded” she was […]
ST JOHN’S – A probe has been launched into the death of convicted murderer Cordayro Joseph, 27, who was found dead, hanging in his cell at Her Majesty’s Prison yesterday morning. A senior prison officer told OBSERVER media that investigators suspect that he committed suicide because all of the evidence uncovered so far reveals that he […]
PORT OF SPAIN – The decomposing body of 42-year-old Tricia Farrow was found on Monday, three days after she went missing. Farrow, a mother of six, was hog-tied and strangled, police said. And there was a gaping wound to the head. Police said Farrow, of Bonne Aventure Road, Gasparillo was last seen by relatives on Friday […]
KINGSTON – While some residents in Kingston and St Andrew communities, now under a state of public emergency, happily welcomed the measure yesterday, others decried the crime-fighting move by prime minister Andrew Holness as too little too late. “Dem a come when everything done and di man dem (criminals) run weh. Weh dem a come do? […]
Source: Trinidad Guardian: The plight of Nishal Sankat who is charged with attempting to steal an American Airlines plane should serve as a wake-up call to parents so that they understand mental health awareness says Education Minister Anthony Garcia. In a statement yesterday, Garcia urged parents to be more vigilant in safeguarding the mental […]
The Guyana-based Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat says it is reviewing the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) administrative procedures to recommend ways of making them more simple and harmonised where possible. The CSME allows for the free movement of goods, skills and labour across the 15-member regional integration movement. The Secretariat said that a consultation […]
PORT OF SPAIN — Attorney general Faris Al-Rawi Thursday said that the state intends filing an appeal against a High Court judge ruling that consensual sex between people in same-sex unions should not be criminalized as the court partly struck down the sodomy laws in Trinidad and Tobago. Al-Rawi said that the case is a […]
ST JOHN’S – President of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) Adrian Saunders Wednesday said while he will not tell citizens of Antigua and Barbuda how to vote in the upcoming referendum on the CCJ, he has a duty nonetheless to provide accurate information about the Trinidad-based court. Antigua and Barbuda will hold a referendum […]
