(Trinidad Guardian) The Government’s TT Safe Zone initiative launches today with vaccinated employees of bars, restaurants, gyms, theatres, cinemas, waterparks, as well as licensed gaming houses, betting pools and private members’ clubs being able to open and serve vaccinated citizens.
(Trinidad Guardian) The first robot-assisted surgeries to be conducted in the English-speaking Caribbean were done in T&T.
(Barbados Nation) A master of picong, pioneer of traditional Barbadian music, professional.
(Trinidad Express) Almost 2,000 “dead” people were issued social support cheques by the Ministry of Social Development, some as recently as August 2021.
(Trinidad Express) – A Chaguanas couple was gunned down in Curepe on Friday night.
(Trinidad Guardian) Friends and relatives of Shenice George say they are still puzzled as to why the 21-year-old woman was gunned down in cold blood in Marabella on Thursday night.
SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Chile’s public prosecutor said yesterday it would open an investigation into the sale of a mining project involving the family of President Sebastian Pinera after new details emerged about the transaction in the Pandora papers leak.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States will accept the use by international visitors of COVID-19 vaccines authorized by U.S.
(Barbados Nation) The High Court has thrown out the matters, brought by trade unionist and Senator Caswell Franklyn and two small businessmen, challenging the constitutionality of Government’s COVID-19 protocols.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazil became the second country in the world to pass 600,000 COVID-19 deaths yesterday, a dark milestone for a government that has been sharply criticized for mismanaging the outbreak.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s state-run oil company Petrobras said yesterday it has agreed to pay 1.4 billion reais ($254 million) to settle three civil suits relating to the leak of an oil pipeline in southern Brazil in 2000.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba announced today it would conduct annual military exercises on Nov.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Government is hoping to vaccinate one million Jamaicans against COVID-19 by the end of November, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has said.
(Trinidad Guardian) Investigations are continuing into the murder of a WASA labourer in Sangre Grande yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) One of the men who was on the ill-fated vessel that sank last week in the waters between Trinidad and Venezuela has been located.
(Trinidad Express) A police constable last attached to Cumuto Police Station has been charged with the 2018 murder of an Arima man.
(Trinidad Guardian) The University of the West Indies (UWI) has received a donation of US$120,000 from one of its first medical graduates.
NAIROBI, (Reuters) – The World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday the only approved vaccine against malaria should be widely given to African children, potentially marking a major advance against a disease that kills hundreds of thousands of people annually.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Government is challenging a lawsuit from a group of regional British American Insurance (BAICO) and Clico policyholders alleging that it (the Government) discriminated against them when it only bailed out the CL Financial (CLF)’s local subsidiaries.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru’s President Pedro Castillo swore in Mirtha Vasquez, a left-wing former head of Congress, as prime minister on Wednesday, replacing her predecessor who resigned after two months in the job, as the administration grapples with political instability.
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