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 Stabroek News   (Jamaica Gleaner) Prominent Montego Bay businessman Patrick Chung was yesterday freed of all 11 sexual assault charges in relation to a woman who accused him of having sex with her over a nine-year period, beginning in 1976 when she was 13 years old. Chung, 78, was freed of six counts of incest and five counts of indecent touching after a successful no-case submission in the St James Circuit Court.

 Barbados Today   Two young children on their way home from school almost became the 41st and 42nd murder victims for 2019 when brazen gunmen launched an attack in Well Gap, Cave Hill, St Michael this afternoon. According to eyewitness reports, around 3 o’clock at least two men in a white car approached the area. One got out of the vehicle and recklessly opened fire where numerous women and young children were walking.

 Barbados Today  Lawmen are investigating the unnatural death of Jamar Omar Haynes alias Red Dog, which occurred around 9: 50 tonight, October 26. Thirty-three-year-old Haynes – who resided at Combermere Street, St Michael but was originally from Yearwood Road, Sugar Hill, St Joseph – was reportedly walking in a northerly direction along Nelson Street, when a man wearing a dark hoodie approached him from behind, opened fire and shot him several times. “The victim fell to the ground and was assisted by other persons,” police reported.

BBC News   The French Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique thrive on their image as idyllic sun, sea and sand destinations for tourists. But few visitors are aware that these lush, tropical islands have a chronic pollution problem. A pesticide linked to cancer - chlordecone - was sprayed on banana crops on the islands for two decades and now nearly all the adult local residents have traces of it in their blood.

Guyana Chronicle  Three unemployed teens were on Friday October 25, 2019, remanded to prison by Senior Magistrate Leron Daly for robbery with violence. Shawn Inniss, Harrcarlaus Harris and Daniel McArthur, all age 18, appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court and pleaded not guilty to robbery charges.

 JamaicaObserver   The show, the first of the rapper's pop-up concert series outside of the United States, started at 7:00 pm with the choir, led by director Jason White, enthralling the audience with popular praise and worship choruses.

 Stabroek News   Six persons, including a doctor, are currently in police custody as the investigation continues into Monday morning’s fatal robbery attempt outside of El Dorado Trading. Crime Chief (ag) Michael Kingston last evening confirmed the arrests to Stabroek News.

 Newsday    According to police, Romero Serrette of Las Alturas went to the Prizgar Lands home of the man, around 2.30 am, and was about to steal the fruits when the owner caught him and chopped him with an axe. Serrette collapsed and died under the tree.

Saint Lucia’s latest homicide victim has been identified as 32-year-old Burke Baptiste,  a resident of Richfond, Dennery, according to law enforcement officials.

 Barbados Today  The duo is accused of murdering LeAndrew Sharvar Coward on October 3. The deceased was shot multiple times about the body around 2:18 a.m. while at Jessamine Avenue, Bayville, St Michael. He later died at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital

The New York Times  FORT WORTH — The former Fort Worth police officer who fatally shot a woman through her bedroom window this weekend was charged with murder on Monday and booked into jail without the possibility for bond, according to the Fort Worth Police Department. The officer, Aaron Y. Dean, had resigned earlier on Monday, hours before the police chief had planned to fire him amid the community’s growing anger and frustration after the death of the woman, Atatiana Jefferson.

 PAPER  Rihanna famously hails from Barbados. She stays plugged into Bajan politics, has an official ambassador position, and goes home every year to serve looks at the Crop Over festival. Who wouldn't want to have Rihanna as their countrywoman? Indeed, apropos of nothing, Jamaican Twitter has launched a campaign to steal Rihanna's nationality.

St.LuciaNewsonline   ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – Cricket West Indies (CWI) announces the appointment of former West Indies player Phil Simmons as the head coach of the West Indies senior men’s Tteam for a period of four years, as well as the appointment of three new selection panels.

One male is dead and at least one other person injured following a shooting incident in Soufriere early Saturday morning, police said. The incident occurred around 1 a.m. Stlucianewsonline

Left-handed batsman Jonathan Carter and all-rounder Ashley Nurse were apart of the Barbados Tridents team which arrived this morning at the Grantley Adams International Airport.

 Barbados Today   Police are at the scene of the discovery of a body at the Westbury Cemetery, Westbury Road, St Michael.

 Barbados Today   A 44-year-old man was killed in a shooting incident at Golden Rock, The Pine, St Michael, Saturday night. Shortly before midnight, police said Keron Anthony Hodge, 44, of #92 Midway Lane, Pinelamds, St Michael, was reportedly liming with other people when a group of men passed by and discharged firearms.

Saint Lucia NewsOnline    Sheldon Leon, who, according to his Facebook profile is a ‘patrol officer’ with the Royal Saint Lucia Police Force, is calling for justice for his son, who was shot around 1 a.m. “Rest in peace Shalomn but I will not rest even if it has to cost me my life. Justice for Shalomn Justice I will not rest,” he wrote on his Facebook profile on Saturday afternoon.

Stabroek News   Autopsies performed on the bodies of Ian and Rakesh Matthias, the two brothers whose bullet-riddled bodies were found on Shell Beach, in Region One on Thursday, have confirmed that they both died from multiple gunshot wounds and investigators believe they were tortured prior to being killed.

 Newsday   A POLICE officer who had been having sex with a girl since she was 14, was jailed yesterday for 43 years. The girl became pregnant at 17, but PC Visham Ragoo, 40, did not want the baby. One night in February 2008, at about 10 pm, he dragged her naked into an apartment and put a gun into her mouth. He held a knife against her and threatened to cut her open.

 St. Lucia News Online   Police in Texas are seeking a motive in the slaying of a witness who testified in the murder trial of a white Dallas police officer who fatally shot her black neighbour.

 JamaicaObserver    DOHA, Qatar — The Jamaican team with a 2:57.90 -second clocking won silver in the final of the men's 4x400m relay at the 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar a  short while ago. Akeem Bloomfield with the lead leg, Demish Gaye on anchor, along with Nathon Allen and Terry Ricardo Thomas were the members of the Jamaican team.

 Stabroek News  Darrell Breedy, 53, who worked as a tout outside the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts, was shot once to his abdomen during a home invasion, which occurred around 3.30 am at his Lot 2037 Humming bird Street, Festival City, North Ruimveldt residence. He died on spot.

Newsday   LOCAL pharmacies have pulled heartburn and ulcer medicine brands Zantac and APO-Ranitidine from their shelves. This after the Ministry of Health said companies Apotex and GlaxoSmithKline issued letters of a voluntary recall of the preparation containing the Ranitidine Hydrochloride drug. On Friday, the ministry recalled all medications with the Ranitidine Hydrochloride drug “out of an abundance of caution to safeguard the population.”

Washington Post In a high-profile case this week, former police officer Amber Guyger, who is white, was found guilty of the murder of Botham Jean, a black man, in his Dallas home.

Law and Crime Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger, 31, was sentenced to ten years in the murder of neighbor Botham Shem Jean, 26. She was found guilty on Tuesday.

 The Texas Tribune  The shooting sparked outrage across the country, as many called it another example of a white police officer killing an unarmed black man. Defence attorneys have said there is no evidence to suggest the shooting was racially motivated. Guyger, 31, testified Friday that she mistook Jean's fourth-floor apartment for her own, one floor below Jean's. Guyger, who was off duty but still in uniform, said she thought he was a burglar. Guyger had just completed a nearly 14-hour work shift. She tested negative for drugs and alcohol.

Jamaicaobserver   PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Thousands of demonstrators set fires Monday and chanted calls for Haiti's president to resign as the opposition to Jovenel Moïse tried to increase pressure for him to leave office. Schools, businesses and government offices were closed as protesters gathered chanting, "Down with Jovenel!"

Stabroek News  On Friday evening, in a residential community in the capital, two young men, armed with knives and hopelessly intoxicated in the moment, set upon each other, inflicting wounds with a crazed sense of purpose.

 Barbados Today  Business in The City was briefly disrupted this morning after police and emergency personnel responded to a bomb threat at First Citizens Bank on Broad Street. Police said just after 8 a.m., personnel at the bank received an anonymous call that there was a bomb in the building.