Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) Commissioner of Prisons Dennis Pulchan accidentally shot himself on Saturday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Moments after she saw her husband being washed away in a landslide that also toppled their home yesterday, Alma Archargee clawed her way out of the debris in a desperate attempt to save him.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – The death toll from a devastating earthquake in Haiti rose to 1,297 yesterday as neighbouring countries rushed to send aid and rescuers scrambled to find survivors buried beneath the rubble before a tropical storm hits.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuba’s public health minister said yesterday efforts were underway to restart the country’s main oxygen factory which had broken down even as the death toll from COVID-19 on Saturday reached 98, equal to the pandemic record.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – The death toll from a devastating earthquake in Haiti rose to 724 today as rescue workers scrambled to find survivors buried under buildings a day after the 7.2 magnitude quake and as a tropical storm bore down on the Caribbean nation.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Haitians laboured overnight to pick through shattered buildings in search of friends and relatives trapped in the rubble after a devastating earthquake struck the Caribbean country yesterday, killing more than 300 people and injuring many more.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Ministry of Health is witnessing an uptick in the number of paediatric COVID-19 cases, three of which are currently warded at hospital and are “severely ill.”

(Trinidad Express) – With the arrival of 305,000 Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines in Trinidad and Tobago, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says schools will finally be able to reopen after almost a year and a half of closure if parents consent to have their children vaccinated.

(Trinidad Guardian) – Jamaica currently is seeing a third wave of COVID-19 infections across the island, leading to all large hospitals there being over their capacity for admissions.

PORT-AU-PRINCE/HAVANA, (Reuters) – At least 227 people died and hundreds were injured or missing after a major earthquake struck southwestern Haiti on Saturday, authorities said, reducing churches, hotels and homes to rubble in the latest tragedy to hit the impoverished Caribbean nation.

(Jamaica Observer) – A four-year-old child fled her house in the early hours of Wednesday morning to get help after her mother’s throat was slashed in the deep-rural community of Clarendon.

(Trinidad Express) – With the Government aiming to roll out Pfizer vaccines as early as Monday to pupils, some parents say their children are eager to receive their jabs and they will be letting them do so.

(Jamaica Observer) -Verona White was hoping that by now, eight months after her son was shot dead, someone would have been held responsible.

(Trinidad Guardian) – Prison Officer Stariel Charles was arrested and charged after he was found to be in possession of prohibited items at his place of employment.

(Trinidad Express) – A 28-year-old man and his wife were killed on Tuesday morning during an alleged confrontation with police in Enterprise, Chaguanas.

(Jamaican Observer) – More than half of the 143 doctors who were last month left jobless after their contracts with State-run facilities were not renewed have moved on to brighter prospects, even as the Government — now faced with caseloads which outmatch manpower — says it is heading to Cabinet to get approval to create more posts.

(Jamaican Gleaner) – Maroon Chief Richard Currie yesterday declared that he does not need permission to use any modern weapon to defend his people and their property.

(Trinidad Express) – A police officer attached to the Valencia Criminal Investigations Department has been arrested after allegedly making threats to kill his wife and their two-year-old daughter.

(Jamaican Observer) – The Jamaican father of one of the men shot dead at a party in Brooklyn, New York, early Sunday morning believes that the killers targeted his son after seeing him in a photo with Donald “Likkle Danny” Nash, the alleged leader of the Darksyde gang who was also slain in the attack.

(Trinidad Express) – The Ministry of Health advises the population that today, 11th August, 2021, Trinidad and Tobago confirms its first two cases of the COVID-19 Delta Variant of Concern.