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In a tragic incident in Ebony Vale, St Catherine, Jamaica , Thyrone Erskin, 19, has succumbed to injuries following a violent altercation with his mother, a police sergeant. The confrontation, which escalated into a physical attack, saw Erskin allegedly assaulting his mother with a knife. In response, she was forced to use her service weapon, […]

A Gulfstream aircraft, registration number N337LR, has gone missing after departing from Canouan Airport (CIW) on Friday afternoon. The aircraft, carrying three passengers and a pilot, lost contact with the control tower just minutes after takeoff, at 2:33 p.m. The pilot, whose personal details remain unknown, was expected to land in Canouan at 4:27 p.m.

The Trinidad and Tobago Government is currently engaged in a rigorous search for missing “packages of interest” believed to contain illegal weapons. These packages disappeared from a transit shed at Customs, prompting significant concern from the authorities. Finance Minister Colm Imbert revealed this situation in the Senate while addressing questions about the Customs and Excise

Massy Holdings, a Trinidad-based regional conglomerate, has vehemently denied claims by its shareholder and general counsel, Angelique Parisot-Potter, that the company trains employees in practices like communicating with the dead and self-healing using “white light energy”. These allegations were described by Massy Holdings as “patently untrue and scandalous” in a paid advertisement in Trinidadian media.

The World Health Organization’s latest report reveals a slight decrease in annual global road traffic deaths to 1.19 million, yet road accidents continue to be the leading cause of death for children and youth aged 5–29. Despite a 5% reduction in fatalities since 2010, road crashes remain a major global health crisis, with vulnerable users

Bernard Looney, the former chief executive of BP, has been denied a substantial payout of 32.4 million pounds (US$41 million) following findings that he was not completely honest about his past relationships with colleagues. BP announced yesterday that Looney, who resigned in September, failed to be “fully transparent” in his disclosures, leading the company to

The World Health Organization (WHO) has raised concerns about the potential international spread of the mpox epidemic, previously known as monkeypox, from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Dr. Rosamund Lewis, the WHO’s technical lead for mpox, highlighted the urgency of the situation during a briefing in Geneva, citing a significant increase in suspected cases

The Grenada Citizenship by Investment Unit has clarified that their Citizenship by Investment (CBI) Programme does not accept applications from all nationalities, contrary to claims made by Senator Adrian Thomas. In a recent debate on the 2024 budget, Thomas stated that the program was open to everyone, regardless of nationality, emphasizing the administration’s view of

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has indefinitely halted operations at their emergency center in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after a shocking incident where an armed group forcibly removed a critically ill patient from an MSF ambulance and brutally killed him. This act of violence starkly underscores the perilous state of security in Haiti, particularly in a city largely

Three foreign nationals, identified as Deivy Oscoro Silva (20yrs) from Colombia and Digna Yulay (33yrs) and Alexandra Chalas Pozo (22yrs) from the Dominican Republic, have been charged with human trafficking and violations under the Children’s Act. They appeared in a magistrate’s court and were denied bail, pending their court reappearance on December 22. The trio,