Regional News

(Trinidad Express) A $50,000 cash reward has been offered for information in locating kidnapped businessman Kartikay Ramsundar.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Ministry of Health has announced 14 new deaths from COVID, including a 4th death attributed to the Delta variant.

(Trinidad Express) More and more Covid-19- positive people are requiring hospital and intensive care unit (ICU) treatment, and nearly all are unvaccinated.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Desperate to have her infant son Pierre admitted to hospital to treat his anemia and diarrhea, Mirlande Cherie set out two weeks ago on an odyssey to find a medical facility that had not already been shuttered by Haiti’s fuel shortages.

(Barbados Nation) – Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has taken the financial institutions to task over high bank fees, her upbraiding coming on the heels of Central Bank Governor Cleviston Haynes announcing a cap on point of sale and ATM fees for banks and credit unions.

(Reuters) – Potential bidders for the bankrupt Limetree Bay refinery in the Virgin Islands may be on the hook for newly discovered groundwater contamination near the site and numerous other unspecified costs, according to a letter from environmental regulators reviewed by Reuters.

(Trinidad Guardian) – Sky-rocketing freight rates will now add to the already high prices of goods initially triggered by global supply chain disruptions.

(Trinidad Express) A security officer protecting a cigarette delivery van was ambushed by six armed criminals and shot dead during a robbery in Valencia yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Transgender activist Brandy Rodriguez has died.   Rodriguez was the founder of the Trinidad and Tobago Transgender Coalition.

A male passenger has died on a Caribbean Airlines (CAL) aircraft which was en route to Barbados.

 (Trinidad Guardian) Just over three months after his wife and stepson were killed in Arima, Mario Gomez was fatally shot early on this morning at St John’s Road in St Augustine.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley yesterday confirmed that the global supply chain clogs at major US and UK ports will have a “very serious” ripple effect on the importation of goods to T&T.

(Trinidad Express) The relatives of one of two men shot dead at a Carapo garage on Monday night claimed he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

(Trinidad Guardian) As several Caribbean countries battle their highest rates of COVID-19 infections and deaths, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) says 29 per cent of the Caricom population is at a higher risk of developing severe strains of the disease.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – A Brazilian Senate investigative committee approved a report yesterday that calls for President Jair Bolsonaro to be indicted for nine crimes related to his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, including crimes against humanity.

(Trinidad Express) Police Commissioner Gary Griffith is claiming there is “blatant political interference” in the running of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS).

(Trinidad Guardian) Two men were killed in a shooting in Carapo on Monday night.

(Trinidad Express) Private medical institution Medical Associates Hospital Limited joined the fight against the Covid-19 virus with the launch of the country’s first private COVID-19 Ward Care designated for COVID-19 positive patients, at its Chaguanas hospital on September 6.

(Trinidad Express) Health officials have sounded an alarm that the Covid-19 intensive care units in Trinidad and Tobago are running out of room to treat critically ill infected patients.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil plans to bring forward its 2030 goal of ending illegal deforestation by two or three years, Vice President Hamilton Mourao said yesterday, six days before a global climate conference.