(Barbados Nation) Barbadians may soon have shorter curfew hours. Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley said yesterday she was “close to extending the curfew” but the decision depended on the outcome of discussion being held with the medical authorities on the point at which this should be done.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The application brought by a senior data specialist who is seeking an injunction to bar his employer, Digicel Jamaica Limited, from implementing a mandatory COVID-19 vaccinate-or-test policy has been set for hearing on November 17.
(Trinidad Express) There is now some light at the end of the tunnel.
(Trinidad Express) A 34-year-old man was shot dead in Port of Spain on Wednesday afternoon.
(Trinidad Express) After spending almost a week in the Intensive Care Unit at the Arima Hospital being treated for Covid-19, former district medical officer Dr Vinod Mahabir died yesterday (Wednesday) morning.
(Jamaica Observer) Dancehall entertainer Popcaan was slapped with a $10,000 fine after pleading guilty to several road traffic violations in the Yallahs Traffic Court in St Thomas yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) The government of Belize has sued Trinidad and Tobago for allegedly failing to apply a 40 per cent Common External Tariff (CET) on 3,000 tonnes of brown sugar imported from Guatemala and Honduras in 2019.
(Trinidad Guardian) The body of Jeneka Guerra was found in a shallow grave in Santa Barbara, Maracas St Joseph.
SAO PAULO/GLASGOW, (Reuters) – Of the more than 100 countries that committed to ending deforestation by 2030 in Glasgow this week, one country was particularly welcome: Brazil.
GLASGOW, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Mines and Energy Minister Bento Albuquerque said yesterday that the water shortage driving a crisis for the country’s hydroelectric dams, which many observers link to climate change, had improved after recent rains.
GLASGOW, (Reuters) – Colombia will designate a further 16 million hectares (39.5 million acres) of its maritime areas as protected next year, eight years earlier than planned, President Ivan Duque said yesterday at the global COP26 climate conference Climate summit sees new pledges on cutting methane, saving forests in Glasgow.
(Trinidad Express) – A man was almost beheaded and a woman in critical condition after a man attacked them with a cutlass in South Oropouche on Monday.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A man once considered Colombia’s most wanted drug lord pleaded guilty yesterday to U.S.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haitians honored their ancestors to mark the Day of the Dead on Tuesday in colorful voodoo rituals that offered a respite from the tough day-to-day reality of fuel shortages, gang violence and rising malnutrition.
GLASGOW, (Reuters) – Brazil yesterday said it was raising its climate commitments at the start of the COP26 summit, including ending illegal deforestation by 2028, marking a change of tone after more than two years of soaring destruction under President Jair Bolsonaro.
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Australian mining billionaire Andrew Forrest is planning what could be up to an $8.4 billion “green hydrogen” investment in Argentina, the South American country’s government said yesterday after a meeting between the businessman and President Alberto Fernandez.
MEXICO CITY/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega runs for a fourth consecutive term on Sunday in an election seen in Washington as a sham that looks certain to cement his hold on power and deepen the struggling Central American country’s international isolation.
(Trinidad Guardian) – A 28-year-old man from Enterprise, Chaguanas, was murdered in a shooting in Longdenville on Saturday night.
(Trinidad Express) – Two friends were killed and a third man critically injured when he lost control of their car and slammed into a drain off the Uriah Butler Highway in Chaguanas yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Rampant inefficiencies in the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) project management department have led to the beleaguered State-owned company procuring $81 million in pipelines they may not have needed.
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