Regional News

(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.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Facebook and YouTube have removed from their platforms a video by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in which the far-right leader made a false claim that COVID-19 vaccines were linked with developing AIDS.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Peru’s socialist president, Pedro Castillo, urged Congress yesterday to draft a bill for the “nationalization” of Peru’s natural gas sector, undoing previous statements in which he said he would not seek to nationalize parts of the economy.

(Trinidad Guardian)  Minister of Energy and Energy Resources, Stuart Young has said that Trinidad and Tobago will aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 15 per cent by the year 2030.

 (Jamaica Gleaner) The Health Ministry says it has now started house-to-house COVID vaccination in nine parishes.

(Trinidad Express) The people of Princes Town have been living in a horror movie for the past two weeks.

(Trinidad Express) Fourteen days. That is the length of time residents of San Francique, Penal, are giving the Government to respond to their cries for better roads, pipe-borne water and for dealing with flooding.

(Trinidad Guardian) The country has entered into the Influenza (Flu) season but as the Ministry of Health rolled out its vaccination drive for this virus, which is running simultaneous to its COVID-19 immunization drive, there can be some uncertainty of how these shots should be taken.

(Trinidad Express) – One million dollars bail was granted last night to attorney Christian Chandler, head of the Legal Unit of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS).

(Trinidad Express) – Fuad Abu Bakr, son of 1990 insurrectionist Imam Yasin Abu Bakr, urged mourners to remember the good yesterday at the funeral service for his father.

(Trinidad Guardian) T&T Police Service (TTPS) Legal Unit head Christian Chandler was last night slapped with five criminal charges arising out of an incident aboard a yacht on August 5.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department yesterday announced a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to the arrest or conviction of Colombian businessman Alvaro Pulido over money laundering charges in connection with an alleged Venezuela bribery scheme.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexico yesterday delayed for three years a rule mandating that new trucks and buses use low-sulfur diesel, arguing the fuel is not currently available everywhere in the country, according to an environment ministry official and a document seen by Reuters.

(Reuters) – Jamaica will extradite a former Colombian military member implicated in the assassination of former Haiti President Jovenel Moise to Port-au-Prince, Colombia’s police chief said on Friday.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – A Haitian man identifying himself as the leader of the gang that kidnapped a group of American and Canadian missionaries said in a video posted on YouTube yesterday that he was willing to kill “these Americans” if he does not get what he needs.

(Trinidad Express) The Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago was the scene of chaos yesterday as Opposition Members took umbrage with House Speaker Bridgid Annisette-George over the process regarding the tabling of an impeachment motion for the removal of President Paula-Mae Weekes from office.

  (Trinidad Guardian) Leader of the Jamaat Al Muslimeen, Imam Yasin Abu Bakr, has died.