GEORGETOWN, Guyana –Professor Duke Pollard, one of the architects of the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has died in the United States, according to relatives and media reports here.

ROSEAU, Dominica – The Dominica government says over EC$40 million (One EC dollar=US$0.37 cents) would have been spent in acquiring hundreds of acres of land as well as to compensate hundreds more property owners as the island moves to construct an international airport by 2026.

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada – Chief Magistrate, Teddy St Louis, Wednesday said the Trinidadian crew of a Barbados-owned vessel had resorted to “excessive use of force” when they sought to have two brothers, including Grenada’s World Javelin champion, leave the vessel last week.

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent – Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves Monday led the country in paying tribute to the five people who were killed when the vehicle in which they were traveling to a funeral overturned in Sandy Bay on Sunday afternoon.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley has warned that Trinidad and Tobago “is in for a long haul” as it relates to criminal activities, especially murders, as he reiterated the need for parents and family members to play a much more meaningful role in the assisting law enforcement agencies curb the spiraling crime situation here.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad –The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) says it will be adopting new strategies to deal with the escalating rival gangs and civilian shootings that have claimed the lives of more than 360 people so far this year. Last year, Trinidad and Tobago recorded 450 murders.

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts –Energy and Public Utilities Minister, Konris Maynard, is urging consumers to bear with the St. Kitts Electricity Company’s (SKELEC) as the efforts continue to deal with the power outages on the island.

Washington, D.C.  – Radcliffe Manyan Sr and his wife Sherene who hail from Duhaney Park in Kingston, and now reside in Washington DC, are demanding answers regarding how their daughter, a Library Police Officer, was shot and killed while on a training course on August 4, 2022.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Prime Minister Andrew Holness, is calling for political consensus in dealing with the matter of crime in Jamaica, described as one of the countries with the highest homicide rates in Latin America and the Caribbean.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The Dr. Eric Williams Memorial Library was officially opened here in the heart of the capital on Tuesday, a stone throw away from the area that the country’s first prime minister had declared “the University of Woodford Square”.

NASSAU, Bahamas – Government and opposition leaders have condemned the murder of a 21-year-old student, who was due to return to the United States this week to begin an internship at a noted audit firm in Atlanta, Georgia.

HOUSTON, Texas – A Texas billionaire charged with tax evasion and money laundering through a web of offshore entities in Bermuda and the Caribbean has died in the United States, according to media reports.