Regional News

PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – The presidents of Panama, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic yesterday asked for U.S.

(Barbados Nation) Members of the House of Assembly and the Senate yesterday in a separate ballot, voted Governor General Dame Sandra Mason to be Barbados’ first President on November 30, 2021.

(Trinidad Guardian) All students in Forms Four to Six have been ordered to return to the physical classroom from next Monday–October 25, regardless of their vaccination status at this time.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuba has reached a deal with the Paris Club of creditor nations to postpone an annual debt payment due in November until next year, according to diplomats from five of the governments involved, the latest sign the Communist-run country is suffering a grave foreign exchange crisis.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Countries should grant entry to vaccinated travelers regardless of which shot they received to prevent discrimination and facilitate business, a top official of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said today.

(Trinidad Guardian) A light aircraft crashed just before landing at the Piarco International Airport and two people were hospitalised following the daring crash-landing in farmlands on the perimeter of the airport.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuadorean President Guillermo Lasso late on Monday declared a state of emergency in the Andean country as part of a crackdown on the consumption and trafficking of drugs.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s government, through its Investment Partnerships Program (PPI), gave the green light yesterday for the privatization of Latin America’s largest utility Eletrobras by floating shares to dilute the state’s 61% shareholding.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with Brazilian counterpart Carlos Franca to discuss “unprecedented” regional migration and ways to collaborate to slow the number of migrants heading north, the State Department said yesterday.

MIAMI,  (Reuters) – Human Rights Watch said yesterday that Cuba’s government had arbitrarily arrested, beaten and abused protesters following unprecedented demonstrations earlier this year in a bid to strike fear into the populace and clamp down on dissent.

KINGSTON, (Reuters) – Three people were left dead and three hospitalized after Jamaican police raided the compound of a small religious organization due to concerns the group was preparing to carry out “ritualized killing,” Jamaican police said yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) After his wife died from the Covid virus in September, Dennis Lalchan was determined to fight to stay alive for his four children.

(Trinidad Guardian) A nationwide manhunt was up to last night continuing for a suspect in yesterday’s explosion at the Parkade, Government Campus, Port-of-Spain, which left parts of the capital city cordoned off from pedestrian and vehicular traffic.

(Trinidad Express) The Police Complaints Authority (PCA) has completed its investigation into the treatment of suspects in the kidnapping and murder of Andrea Bharatt while in custody in July.

(Trinidad Express) Bullets  meant for another man killed Glen Bousigac in Port of Spain at nightfall yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) President Paula-Mae Weekes is maintaining she did not wilfully violate any provision of the Constitution and has not misbehaved in public office.

(Trinidad Guardian) T&T has lost 1,600 people to COVID-19 since the pandemic in March 2020.

(Barbados Government Information Service) Seven Barbadians, five men and two women, lost their battle with COVID-19 between Thursday and Saturday.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says he wrote to the Police Service Commission (PolSC) last year to express his loss of confidence in then-Police Commissioner Gary Griffith.

(Trinidad Guardian) Only two per cent of the people who died from COVID-19 and five per cent of those hospitalised were vaccinated against the disease, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley revealed yesterday.