Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) The Ministry of Health yesterday reported that another 20 people had died from COVID-19, taking the figure to 48 deaths in two days and to 1,967 overall.

(Trinidad Guardian) Relatives of a police officer, who was killed in a shootout with a member of the T&T Coast Guard yesterday morning, have denied that he was involved in a love triangle.

(Trinidad Guardian) Investigations are continuing into a double murder at St Barbs Road, Laventille.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago has experienced its deadliest day of the Covid-19 pandemic to date, with a record 28 new deaths being ­recorded yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) – The International Monetary Fund mission that recently visited T&T has called on the authorities to remove all restrictions on current international transactions while providing sufficient foreign exchange to meet demand for all current international transactions.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil has had 8,833 new cases of the novel coronavirus reported in the past 24 hours, and 217 deaths from COVID-19, the health ministry said yesterday.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s National System of Youth and Children’s Orchestras – known as “El Sistema” – has set a new Guinness record for the world’s largest orchestra, the country’s government said yesterday.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Haiti on Friday opened a consulate in the southern Mexican border city of Tapachula in a bid to help manage migration, Mexico’s government said, amid a steep increase in Haitians attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico

WASHINGTON/OTTAWA/MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – When U.S. President Joe Biden gathered the leaders of his closest neighbours at the White House on Thursday, far-off rival China was top of mind.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Diplomats expressed shock and disappointment yesterday at new data revealing higher-than-expected deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon this year, saying it increases pressure on President Jair Bolsonaro’s government to do more to stop the destruction.

(Barbados Nation) Andre Omar Jackman, Kaeron Sylvian Moore and Shane Hakeem Omar Babb will spend the next 25 years in jail, less time spent on remand.

(Trinidad Express) Mother of four, Rehana Jaggernauth, was beaten, stabbed and strangled before being thrown into the Guayamare River, where she drowned, an autopsy has found.

(Trinidad Express) Just two days after epidemiologist Dr Avery Hinds warned that the country could begin seeing near 1,000 new cases of Covid-19 being recorded each day, the country has recorded its highest number of newly confirmed cases.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – Switzerland’s financial regulator reprimanded two more Swiss banks for breaching their obligations to combat money laundering as it wrapped up a five-year investigation into banks’ dealings with people linked to Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA.

 (Reuters) – A suspect in the July assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise died while being transferred to a hospital from pretrial detention after suffering coronavirus symptoms, his wife said yesterday.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Brazilian military police clashed with an indigenous group in the northern Amazon state of Roraima during an operation to remove a roadblock, the state government said yesterday, as tensions mounted on the reserve over illegal gold mining and land invasions.

(Trinidad Guardian) The family of a woman, who was among five people murdered in separate incidents in Morvant, Tunapuna and Valencia, say too many women are being killed in the country.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Joe Biden yesterday banned members of the Nicaraguan government from entering the United States as he issued a broad proclamation in response to an election that Washington has denounced as rigged in favor of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – The Mexican Supreme Court yesterday declared unconstitutional a bid by the country’s ruling party to extend the period in office of the tribunal’s chief justice, which President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador had supported.

(Barbados Nation) Government has spent approximately $60 million in the installation of four megawatts (MW) of solar photovoltaic panels on the roofs of various government buildings and other energy conservation projects.