Regional News

(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.

(Barbados Nation) – An acquitted former murder accused is asking for almost $900 000 in assorted damages after the Court of Appeal held his right to freedom was infringed at the conclusion of his trial.

(Trinidad Guardian) – Preparation is underway for the reopening of the retail sector next week but the Confederation of Regional Business Chamber says 6,000 businesses around the country will remain permanently closed.

(Trinidad Express)  – School principal Alicia Bharath was on Monday granted $250,000 bail after being charged in relation to the drowning death of two-year-old Romelu Drakes.

(Jamaica Gleaner)  – They were just about seven minutes from home on their way back from a drive to Ocho Rios in St Ann, but they never made it.

(Trinidad Express) – A post-mortem has been ordered to confirm the cause of death of 56-year-old Fitzgerald McSween.

(Barbados Nation) – A man is in police custody assisting with investigations into the death of Jamaican sex worker Odith Henriques, 44, whose nude body was discovered last week in the yard of an abandoned house in Beckwith Street, The City.

(Trinidad Express) – Trinidad and Tobago has logged its first COVID-19 maternal death and the first case of transmission from mother to child.

(Jamaica Gleaner) – The St James police have arrested and charged a Granville man for the murder of a mother and her son in the community of Top Hill in Retirement.

(Loop News) – Annamay Lewis, a 56-year-old vendor of Layou, appeared before a Kingstown Magis-trate yesterday morning charged with wounding Prime Minister of St Vin-cent and the Grenadines, Dr Ralph Gonsalves during a protest last Thursday in Kingstown. 

(Jamaican Observer) At nights, four children — ages two, three, seven, and 12 — are sent to stay with relatives and sometimes neighbours while their parents, Marlon Buckley and his sister Nicole Panton, make do with donated mattresses on the floor in a room stained by burn marks.

(Jamaica Gleaner) An early morning football game ended in tragedy in Howells Content near York Town, Clarendon yesterday when gunmen opened fire on a group of youngsters, killing an eight-year-old boy.

(Trinidad Express) It has been almost 18 months since the shooting death of Chaguanas mother, Alana Mohammed, and no one has been held.

(Barbados Nation) – Almost 2,000 people, mostly dressed in white, took to the streets of Bridgetown this morning to show their disapproval of mandatory and coerced vaccination in Barbados.

(Jamaica Gleaner) – Six persons, including three teenagers, died in separate motor vehicle crashes on Independence Day, yesterday.

(Newsday) – From Monday, the Ministry of Health will begin administering to the public the estimated 82,000 AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine donated by Canada.

(Jamaica Gleaner) – Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has announced a weekend lockdown as COVID cases on the island surge.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – A month after assassins slipped into President Jovenel Moise’s private residence under the cover of nightfall and carried out a brazen attack on the head of state, the Caribbean country remains far from any clarity about the crime or emotional closure.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Principal of a Couva educational institution was expected to appear virtually before the Couva Magistrates’ Court yesterday, charged with the unlawful killing of two-year-old Romelu Drakes, which occurred on March 16th.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro ignored calls to drop his feud with the Supreme Court yesterday and called one of its justices a “son of a whore,” amid rising tensions over his unfounded claims the nation’s voting system is vulnerable to fraud.