BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentina will relax coronavirus restrictions as infection and mortality rates falls, the government announced yesterday, even as the South American nation approached 5 million cases with more than 107,000 deaths.
(Reuters) – St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves said yesterday he was recovering a day after a protester threw an object at his head during an anti-vaccine rally, leaving him concussed.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil had 42,159 new cases of the novel coronavirus reported in the past 24 hours, and 1,056 deaths from COVID-19, the Health Ministry said yesterday.
The Office of the St Vincent Prime Minister last evening said that Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves was physically assaulted and wounded by Opposition demonstrators while attempting to enter the House of Assembly.
(Trinidad Express) Caribbean Airlines has announced that it lost more than TT$326 million in the fix six months of 2021.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – A Brazilian congressional committee yesterday voted against a constitutional amendment to adopt printed ballots, in a major defeat for far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.
(Trinidad Guardian) “Hurt” was the only word Stephon Wells could use to describe how he felt watching his Toyota Corolla wagon being fished out of the St Ann’s River yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Canada’s Minister of International Development Karina Gould, yesterday announced that the Government of Canada will share over 82,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to Trinidad and Tobago via a bilateral agreement.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro yesterday raged against a Supreme Court investigation into his conduct and threatened to respond outside the limits of the constitution, escalating the clash between the far-right leader and the judiciary.
(Reuters) – Pop star Rihanna’s net worth is estimated at $1.7 billion, making her the richest woman musician in the world, but her music is not the primary source of her wealth, Forbes magazine said yesterday.
(Barbados Nation) Illegal gun trader Jamal Orlando Worrell bought and rented out firearms the way people rent out beach chairs.
SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Sinovac’s COVID-19 vaccine was 58.5% effective in preventing symptomatic illness among millions of Chileans who received it between February and July, the Chilean health authorities said yesterday, while Pfizer’s COVID-19 shot was 87.7% effective and AstraZeneca’s was 68.7% effective.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s lower house of Congress passed a land bill yesterday that is backed by the country’s powerful farm sector but that environmentalists say will contribute to deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil has had 32,316 new cases of the novel coronavirus reported in the past 24 hours and 1,209 deaths from COVID-19, the Health Ministry said yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Catastrophic floods caused as a result of an isolated thunderstorm swept through parts of north west Trinidad yesterday, leaving many still counting their losses and assessing damage to their properties.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Military and police authorities seized 116 tonnes of cocaine in the seventh phase of Orion, the multinational naval operation in which 38 countries took part, Colombia’s President Ivan Duque said yesterday.
PARIS, (Reuters) – France’s overseas territory of Guadeloupe will to go into a new lockdown for at least three weeks to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, said the local Guadeloupe authority on its Twitter account, as France battles a fourth wave of the virus.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson has ordered an immediate probe into claims that a 19-year-old Rastafarian woman, Nzinga King was trimmed by a policewoman at a lock-up in Clarendon.
(Trinidad Guardian) Four soldiers were among 25 people who were held at a pool party in El Socorro on Sunday night.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – The United States doubled down on its tough stance and sanctions on Cuba after historic protests in the Communist-run island last month and said it would seek to support protesters.
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