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Police: resources stretched for New Years
The Royal St Lucia Police Force says its resources will be stretched across the country this weekend as a number of communities host New Year’s Day festivities. In Castries, police say officers will be pulling double duty with an influx of...
Caribbean
Barbados: Trade union wants revolution in thinking to drive change
Barbados Today:-The island’s largest trade union is calling on workers to “rise up” and lead a revolution to drive positive change in the country and strengthen the union’s hands in the struggle for workers’ rights. However, General...
Crime
Brother says friends killed his sibling
The brother of a man who died after allegedly being hit on the head during a Christmas Day party in Soufriere, has claimed that ‘friends’ killed his sibling. Cletus St Jean said that he is both bitter and outraged. He asserted that the...
World
Father 'found 13-year-old son and 44-year-old teacher having sex in car'
(The Independent) - A father has said he found his teenage son having sex in the back of a car with a teacher from his Texas school. Police in Bay City, 80 miles south-west of Houston, have charged the teacher, Rachel Gonzales, 44, with online...
Caribbean
Guyana: Woman dies after being set alight by son
Guyana Chronicle:-A 73-YEAR-OLD pensioner who was set alight by her alcoholic son on Christmas Day at their home succumbed to severe burns about her body at Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) early Thursday morning. Police blotter said...
Caribbean
T&T: Bandit killed after cornered by cops
Trinidad Guardian:-Residents of El Carmen, St Helena said they risked their lives to chase an armed bandit after police officers froze in apparent fear after being shot at. According to the residents, who spoke with the T&T Guardian hours...
Crime
Japan: Daughter dies in room she was locked in for 15 years
Tokyo (CNN)A couple in Japan have been arrested after their emaciated adult daughter was found dead in a windowless room where she had apparently been locked for at least 15 years. Airi Kakimoto, 33, weighed less than 20 kilograms (42 pounds)...
Caribbean
Guyana: Cocaine-in-gas cylinder accused granted bail
Demerara Waves:-Thirty year old Juan Anderson and thirty three year old Damion Williams stood before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magistrates Court and denied a drug trafficking charge that was laid against them. The charged...
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