Thank you, Daryl. Those were the words mother of two, Alesha Garcia, would say to her husband if she could see him one last time. Daryl Garcia, 43, drowned at a beach in Guayaguayare while saving his eight-year-old son last week Thursday.
The drowning was witnessed by the couple’s two children. Garcia, also 43, said her children were traumatised by the incident. But she was grateful that they were alive.

In a telephone interview with the Express, Garcia thanked her husband for the ultimate sacrifice. “Thank you, Daryl. Because of him I have my two children here with me today. I could have been burying all three of them. Daryl was not a good dad. He was a great, great dad. There are no words to describe how good he was. I want him to know that I know he sacrificed his life for our son. He wanted his son to live, to carry on his name. Thank you for that,” she said.

Garcia, a security guard, said her husband had dropped her to work at the Arima Health Centre at around 5.30am that day. He was on a week leave from work, she said. Garcia said her husband checked on his mother in Arima and then returned home to their children.(Trinidad Express)…[+]

Police have launched a murder investigation after a man died following what was described as a “horrific” attack in east Belfast. The 45-year-old victim was seriously assaulted on Sunday night, police said.

Detectives from the Police Service of Northern Ireland‘s serious crime branch launched a murder investigation. The Democratic Unionist party Belfast city councillor George Dorrian tweeted an image of a police cordon near the scene.

Dorrian said the man was well-known and popular, telling the BBC: “It has been barbaric and the level of violence, the level that was used, was a disgrace. “People just could not believe the sort of violence that was used upon this man.” Detectives appealed for anyone with information who was in the area of Cluan Place, Albertbridge Road or Templemore Avenue between 9pm and 10pm on Sunday to make contact.(theguardian)…[+]

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO,  – Detained in a California lockup with hundreds of other immigrants seeking asylum, Duglas Cruz faced a choice.

He could content himself with a jailhouse diet that he said left him perpetually hungry. Or he could labour in the prison’s kitchen to earn money to buy extra food at the commissary. Cruz went to work. But his $1-a-day salary at the privately run Adelanto Detention Facility did not stretch far.

A can of commissary tuna sold for $3.25. That is more than four times the price at a Target store near the small desert town of Adelanto, about two hours northeast of Los Angeles. Cruz stuck with ramen noodles at 58 cents a package, double the Target price. A miniature deodorant stick, at $3.35 and more than three days’ wages, was an impossible luxury, he said. “If I bought that there wouldn’t be enough money for food,” Cruz said.(Reudollters)…[+]

The government will be using a near $2 billion loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to finance the training of Jamaicans for high-skilled jobs.

The contract for the loan, valued at US$15 million, was signed on Friday and is repayable over 24 years. The interest rate was not disclosed. The funds will be channelled through the Global Services Sector Project (GSS), which is the vehicle being used by the government to develop a high-skilled workforce that will enable Jamaica to take advantage of high-value jobs in the global marketplace.

The Ministry of Finance explained that the GSS  project is comprised of two main components. The first component seeks to improve the skills development system to provide the GSS with better skilled workers, particularly, in higher value-added segments. The implementing entities for this component are HEART/NTA; the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information; and the Business Process Industry Association of Jamaica.(Jamaica Gleaner)…[+]