Regional News

(Trinidad Express) A 31-year-old Special Reserve Police Constable was due to appear at the Port of Spain Magistrates’ Court yesterday charged with murder.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba’s drug regulator granted emergency approval for its homegrown Soberana 2 vaccine yesterday, allowing the drug’s full inclusion in the country’s inoculation program as it races to curb a Delta variant-fueled coronavirus outbreak https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/coronavirus-surge-pushes-cubas-healthcare-system-brink-2021-08-11.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica has been jolted back into lockdown mode owing to a suffocating third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic as the Andrew Holness administration continues to fend off deciding whether mandatory vaccination will have to be implemented.

(Barbados Nation) The Pfizer vaccine will be available to members of the general public, aged 18 and up, from today.

(Trinidad Guardian) Despite the reservations by some parents about having their children vaccinated at this time, Education Minister Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly said both vaccinated and unvaccinated students will be welcomed back into schools next month.

(Trinidad Express) Hindu organisations have united and written to the Minister of Health and Chief Medical Officer, calling for them to immediately discontinue to ban on open pyre cremations across Trinidad.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Government will go to Parliament next week Wednesday to extend the State of Emergency by another three months.

(Trinidad Express) Minister of Foreign and CARICOM Affairs Dr Amery Browne has informed the national community of the scheduled arrival of 108,000 WHO-approved Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines, from the African Medical Supplies Platform (AMSP), at the Piarco International Airport at 7 p.m.

(Trinidad Guardian) Education Minister Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly said she was heartened by the fast start to the rollout of Pfizer vaccines for students yesterday.

LES CAYES, Haiti, (Reuters) – An earthquake that killed about 2,000 people in Haiti had left the Caribbean nation “on its knees”, Prime Minister Ariel Henry said yesterday, as survivors showed increasing frustration about the sluggish arrival of relief to hard-hit areas.

(Trinidad Guardian) A woman has obtained an injunction stopping the funeral of her estranged husband, pending her legal dispute with his alleged caregiver over control of his estate.

 (Trinidad Guardian) Vaccination of children between the ages of 12 to 18 years begins at 8 am today and eligible members of the public who fall into this category do not need an appointment.

LES CAYES, Haiti,  (Reuters) – Survivors of the earthquake that killed at least 1,941 people in Haiti clamoured for food, shelter and medical care yesterday as search and rescue efforts resumed after a tropical storm lashed the Caribbean nation with rain, causing dangerous flooding.

(Barbados Nation) Demetrico Ricardo Layne was remanded to HMP Dodds until September 14 when he appeared in the District ‘A’ Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuba has revoked the right to home detention of leading dissident Jose Daniel Ferrer and ordered him to serve the remaining 4 years of a sentence for assault in prison, sparking criticism that the order was politically motivated.

LES CAYES, Haiti, (Reuters) – The search for survivors of a weekend earthquake that killed more than 1,400 people on Haiti resumed today after an overnight storm battered thousands left homeless with heavy rain before the weather front moved on.

(Trinidad Express) Head of the Legal Unit of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service, Christian Chandler, has been sent on leave pending the outcome of an investigation into an incident on his yacht.

(Trinidad Guardian) Downtown Owners and Merchants Association (DOMA) head Gregory Aboud said yesterday that he is concerned another lockdown could be the final nail in the coffin for business owners in the capital city.

LES CAYES, Haiti, (Reu-ters) – Doctors in Haiti yesterday battled in make-shift tents to save the lives of hundreds of injured people, including young children and the elderly, outside hospitals overwhelm-ed by an earthquake that killed at least 1,419 people.

(Trinidad Express) A police constable was killed in a crash along the Southern Main Road in Cedros on Sunday night.