(Caribbean Development Bank) Businesses in The Bahamas will be better able to meet international criteria under a new project valued at over EUR 400,000 which is being supported by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and the European Union (EU).
(Barbados Nation) The 2022 General Election will be the country’s first in a COVID-19 environment and the chairman of the Electoral and Boundaries Commission (EBC) has cautioned there will be delays that could lead to a late announcement of results tomorrow night.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Transport and Industrial Workers’ Union (TIWU) has added its voice to those condemning the Police Service and the Government, over the handling of a protest demonstration at the Queen’s Park Savannah, on Sunday 16th January 2022.
(Trinidad Express) Police fired tear gas to disperse an unruly crowd of approximately 300 protesters and detained 12 of them at the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain, yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has put together a five-member team to evaluate the State’s handling of the COVID-19 virus “with a professional eye” and present their findings in one week.
(Trinidad Guardian) – One day after celebrating his birthday, a 31-year-old man was gunned down at a business place in Tabaquite yesterday.
KINGSTON, (Reuters) – Jamaican authorities have detained a former Haitian senator who was a key suspect in the murder of Haitian President Jovenel Moise in July, Jamaican national police said yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) – Trinidad’s Ministry of Health has recorded 24 additional COVID-related death.
(Trinidad Guardian) – A retired police officer was found murdered at his home in Chaguanas yesterday morning.
SANTA CRUZ, Ecuador, (Reuters) – Ecuador yesterday created a new marine reserve around its pristine Galapagos Islands — whose rich biodiversity inspired Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution — as it seeks to expand protections for endangered migratory species.
(Trinidad Guardian) Investigations are continuing into three incidents where a total of five men were killed during the period Thursday night into yesterday morning in Sangre Grande, Arima and St Ann’s.
LA GUINERA, Cuba, (Reuters) – Young Cuban protesters from Havana’s poorest neighborhoods face decades behind bars at upcoming trials, relatives and rights groups said, amid a crackdown on some of those who took part in last year’s unprecedented anti-government demonstrations.
(Trinidad Guardian) Minutes after his wife and child carried food for him, a fish vendor was gunned down on the street in broad daylight yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Three men of North Eastern Settlement, Sangre Grande have been shot dead, in what it the country’s first triple-murder for 2022.
(Trinidad Express) Government’s decision to lift the ban on open-air pyre cremations for Covid-19 victims is a victory for the Hindu community and the people of Trinidad and Tobago, says Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha (SDMS) Secretary General Vijay Maharaj.
(Trinidad Express) Two more police officers have died as a result of Covid-19.
(Reuters) – Venezuela has ramped up shipments of gasoline and food to Cuba since November, providing key supplies to one of President Nicolas Maduro’s closest allies, according to documents from Venezuelan state-run oil company PDVSA and Refinitiv Eikon tanker tracking data.
(Trinidad Express) Two more police officers have died as a result of Covid-19.
(Trinidad Express) A teenager is among the nine suspects detained for the kidnapping for ransom of St Helena couple Narine and Mattie Maraj.
(Trinidad Guardian) Garth Perkins’ infectious smile was known to warm those around him, but when the Jamaican national was murdered in Port- of- Spain on Monday, shock waves rippled from here to his home over a thousand kilometres away.
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