PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Trinidad and Tobago is celebrating its 48th anniversary as a Republic with three people, including a prominent attorney being awarded the country’s highest honors.

ORLANDO, FL –  A citizen of Trinidad and Tobago, Varun Maharajh 32, was on Wednesday sentenced to seven years in federal prison for smuggling firearms overseas and possessing firearms as an unlawful alien.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – A member of the Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard (TTCG) is now hospitalized after gunmen shot him when they stormed the Gulfstream shipwreck off the Coast of Cove in Tobago, late Friday. 

KINGSTON, Jamaica – A female vendor who was seen urinating in bottle near the Charles  Gordon Market in the second city of Montego Bay in western Jamaica, is facing six charges and is scheduled to appear in court later this month

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti –  The Commander of the Kenya-led Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission, Godfrey Otunge, says the efforts to “decisively deal’ with the criminal gangs in Haiti “has just begun”.

GEORGETOWN Guyana – One of Guyana’s cultural icons, Dave Martins died on Sunday, at the age of 90 The cause of death was not immediately known, but in recent years he was afflicted with dementia.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Sep. 11, CMC – An investigation has been launched after at least six workers were injured in an explosion at a fast food store in the business district of New Kingston on Wednesday.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Police are investigating whether or not a shark is responsible for the death of a student of the William Knibb Memorial High School, whose headless body was discovered on Tuesday, a day after he went missing during a spearfishing expedition.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Police Wednesday said they have arrested five people following last Sunday’s brutal attack on a party in Clarendon, south of here, that left eight people, including a two year-old child, dead and several others injured.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Veteran musician, band leader and saxophonist, Roy Cape, who received an honorary doctorate from The University of the West Indies (UWI) in 2011, has died. He was 82.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Tributes are being paid to the former businessman, Lawrence Duprey, who died on Saturday at the age of 89.

THE VALLEY, Anguilla – Police says they believe that the shooting incident that occurred on Sunday night , in which one person was killed and two others injured, may have involved foreign nationals.