KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Jamaica Urban Transit Company Limited (JUTC) says investigations are still ongoing into the circumstances that led to a female student being reportedly thrown from a moving school bus in the eastern parish of St Mary earlier this month.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Police Commissioner Allister Guevarro says abduction of a 70-year-old man and his 47-year-old wife at their Monos Island home over the last  weekend is at a “sensitive stage” and it would not be prudent to reveal operational details publicly.

WASHINGTON, DC – The self-proclaimed  “king” of Haiti’s violent 400 Mawozo gang, Joly Germine,was on Wednesday sentenced to life in prison by a Washington court for orchestrating the 2021 kidnapping of 16 American citizens — including five children.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) Friday described Ena Collymore-Woodstock as an exemplary barrister and magistrate from Jamaica whose career broke barriers for women throughout the region.

TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands – The police have intensified the search for two men who escaped from His Majesty’s Prison.

WASHINGTON, DC – The self-proclaimed  “king” of Haiti’s violent 400 Mawozo gang, Joly Germine,was on Wednesday sentenced to life in prison by a Washington court for orchestrating the 2021 kidnapping of 16 American citizens — including five children.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – The nation is mourning the death of former speaker of the House of Representatives and former attorney general, Sir Gerald Watt KC. 

GEORGE TOWN , Cayman Islands – Two visiting cruise passengers were robbed in separate assaults along Seven Mile Beach in broad daylight earlier this week.

PARAMARIBO, Suriname – A director at the state-owned Food and Agriculture Industries (FAI) has been remanded into custody on suspicion of financial malfeasance, a few weeks after he and the general manager, were suspended for serious mismanagement.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) is crediting the presence of a controversial United States radar system on Tobago as helping in the seizure of more than TT$170 million in drugs seized earlier this week.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The police are continuing to investigate the murder of well known Kenyan born artist Mazola Wa Mwashighadi who was killed in the southern parish of St Elizabeth last week. 

WASHINGTON, DC – Jamaica has secured a comprehensive package of up to US$6.7 billion over a three-year period to strengthen the country’s recovery and reconstruction efforts following the passage of Hurricane Melissa in October.