BRIDGETOWN, (Reuters) – Barbados ditched Britain’s Queen Elizabeth as head of state, forging a new republic today with its first-ever president and severing its last remaining colonial bonds nearly 400 years after the first English ships arrived at the Caribbean island.
(Trinidad Express) An entertainer from Tobago was among three people shot and killed at a house in Laventille yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) A second prison officer has been killed in four days, this time in Siparia.
(Trinidad Express) A Claxton Bay man was gunned down near his home on Saturday night in what police believe was a drug-related killing.
(Trinidad Express) Sixty-one critically ill Covid-19 patients are currently in the intensive care units of Trinidad and Tobago’s parallel healthcare system.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba will ratchet up restrictions from Dec. 4 on passengers from certain African countries over concerns about the Omicron coronavirus variant, the country’s Communist-run government said yesterday.
BRIDGETOWN, (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince Charles flew to Barbados as the Caribbean nation prepared for a celebration today marking the founding of a republic and the removal of the queen as sovereign, cutting imperial ties some 400 years after English ships first arrived.
TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Honduran presidential candidate Xiomara Castro headed for a landslide win in yesterday’s election, declaring victory as supporters danced outside her offices to celebrate the left’s return to power 12 years after her husband was ousted in a coup.
(Trinidad Guardian) As the Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard (TTCG) commissioned their two new Cape Class vessels yesterday, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley urged the Coast Guard officers to utilise the vessels properly to cut down on human trafficking and the illegal gun trade.
TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – The opposition and the ruling party both claimed victory in Honduras’ presidential election yesterday as strong turnout lifted the leftist contender’s hopes of ending a dozen years of conservative National Party rule.
(Barbados Nation) The man who was charged with the murder of Samara Bristol was remanded when he appeared in the Supreme Court before Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes yesterday morning.
(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Mia Mottley is hitting back at critics who questioned the reason for moving to a parliamentary republic and reopening the Golden Square Freedom Park amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
(Trinidad Guardian) In one week, COVID-19 has claimed three members of a Longdenville family.
(Trinidad Guardian) – Hours after the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the newly-identified coronavirus variant, Omicron, as a variant of concern, T&T has announced restrictions to entry for travellers from seven African countries.
TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Warnings of potential foul play are flying from all sides ahead of today’s presidential election in Honduras, raising fears of possible disputes and unrest if leading challenger Xiomara Castro does not win by a clear margin.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service revealed yesterday that the Dean of the Police Academy, Nizam Ali, had died from COVID-19.
(Trinidad Guardian) Hours after the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the newly-identified coronavirus variant, Omicron, as a variant of concern, T&T has announced restrictions to entry for travellers from seven African countries.
(Trinidad Guardian) A prison officer was shot and killed in Valencia yesterday afternoon.
(Trinidad Guardian) On Thursday, Trinidad and Tobago took the grim title of recording the highest daily confirmed COVID-19 deaths per million people.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazilian police have recommended multiple criminal charges against miner Vale SA and Germany’s TUV SUD for their role in a 2019 dam burst that killed 270 people and caused extensive environmental damage, according to a statement yesterday.
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