Regional News

PARIS,  (Reuters) – France has postponed implementing a COVID-19 vaccination mandate for health workers in Martinique and Guadeloupe after the measure spurred widespread protests on the French territories in which police officers were injured and journalists attacked.

(Barbados Nation) Come on home! That’s Prime Minister Mia Mottley’s call to Barbadians living in the diaspora who want to help the country move forward.

(Barbados Nation) Chief Executive Officer of Grantley Adams International Airport (GAIA) Inc.,

(Trinidad Guardian) In a sombre address to the nation, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley last night retraced the events of the last two years of the COVID-19 virus, its arrival and treatment in Trinidad and Tobago and warned that if the current infection rate continues, the parallel health system would be overwhelmed within days.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Pleasantville shop owner was shot and killed by a man pretending to be a customer at his business place yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago has set a new daily record of Covid-19 deaths with a staggering 31 deaths being reported by the Ministry of Health yesterday, including another child.

(Trinidad Express) The nursing fraternity lost two of its members to the Covid-19 virus on Tuesday.

(Trinidad Guardian) As the COVID-19 Delta variant of concern rips through Trinidad and Tobago, the country has crossed the grim milestone of 2,000 COVID-19 deaths since March 2020.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuba has carried out a root and branch restructure of its sugar industry in a last-ditch attempt to keep mills from folding in the face of collapsing output.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Protesters looted shops and set up burning barricades overnight on France’s Caribbean island of Martinique, France Info reported today, as demonstrations against COVID-19 protocols intensified.

(Barbados Nation) KINGSTOWN – The St Vincent and the Grenadines government yesterday expressed condolences to the family of Sir James Mitchell, the country’s second prime minister, who died here at the age of 90.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Gunshots were fired overnight at police in the French Caribbean island of Martinique, local authorities said yesteday, in a sign that unrest triggered by COVID-19 curbs that has rocked the nearby island of Guadeloupe could be spreading there.

(Trinidad Guardian) The 32-year-old man accused of chopping to death his sister and brother-in-law have been remanded into custody.

TAPACHULA, Mexico,  (Reuters) – Thousands of migrants in southern Mexico have accepted a government offer to disperse from their U.S.-bound

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Nicaragua announced on Monday that it is lifting the visa requirement for Cuban nationals in a move which could make it easier for Cubans to migrate north toward the United States.

(news784.com) Sir James Fitz-Allen Mitchell, former Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines has died.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Nicaragua announced yesterday that it is lifting the visa requirement for Cuban nationals in a move which could make it easier for Cubans to migrate north toward the United States.

(Trinidad Express) A search is now on for a missing father of two after his vehicle was found burnt in the Heights of Aripo on Saturday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad and Tobago is in the midst of a third wave of COVID-19 infections, Minister of Health Terrence Deyalsingh said yesterday.

(Barbados Nation) The body found in the vicinity of the Mangrove landfill on Sunday morning has been identified as that of missing woman Samara Cameisha Kymel Bristol.