Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) A 43-year-old man maintained his innocence even after being convicted of murdering two teenage boys in Tobago, almost 12 years ago.

The World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved yesterday US$21.9 million for the Renewable Energy Sector Development Project for Saint Lucia.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain will start delivering 9 million doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine this week to countries including Indonesia, Jamaica and Kenya to help tackle the pandemic, the government said today.

 (Trinidad Express) Police responded to a scene of a suspected murder-suicide last evening at New Grant.

(Trinidad Guardian) National icon LeRoy Clarke has died.  He was 82 years old.

(Jamaica Observer) Barely a month after announcing relaxed COVID-19 measures the Jamaican Government was on Monday  forced to back-pedal, pushed by rising infections numbering an average 135 new cases per day with a staggering 1,318 new cases already recorded for the month of July alone.

(St Lucia Times) The Saint Lucia Labour Party (SLP) romped to victory in yesterday’s general elections, winning 13 seats and  dealing a devastating blow to the reelection hopes of Allen Chastanet and his United Workers Party (UWP).

(Trinidad Guardian) A Maraval family and their friends and neighbours in Rookery Nook have  been plunged into mourning following the ghastly news that three children perished in a fire at their home yesterday.

(BBC) “It’s the best thing I’ve found in 31 years of diving,” says Maurice Belgrave, pointing to the spot where a centuries-old shipwreck lay hidden under the water for more than 200 years.

(Reuters) – With a seventh opposition presidential hopeful under arrest, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega in a speech described his political opponents as pawns being used by the United States against him.

LIMA, (Reuters) – An opposition-led alliance won a vote yesterday to lead Peru’s Congress, a setback for socialist President-elect Pedro Castillo on the eve of his inauguration and a sign of challenges ahead to his plans to reform the constitution and hike mining taxes.

SAN JOSE,  (Reuters) – Relentless rainfall in the Caribbean region caused at least two deaths amid severe flooding and major infrastructure damage in northern and eastern Costa Rica, authorities said yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) A woman detained for the murder of Maritime General and Fidelity Finance chairman John Henry Smith made a brief escape from the St Ann’s Hospital, St Ann’s, before daybreak on Monday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The foreign ministers of the United States and 20 other countries today condemned mass arrests in Cuba and called for full restoration of Internet access in the island nation that has recently been rocked by political unrest.

(Trinidad Guardian) Marathoner and sprinter Errol Hosein loved and lived for running.

(Trinidad Guardian) Hours after Trinidad & Tobago said goodbye to cultural icon Lutalo “Brother Resistance” Masimba, there is mourning at the loss of another musician.

(Trinidad Guardian)  Trinidad and Tobago has crossed the 500,000 mark of people being administered the COVID-19 vaccine.

(Trinidad Guardian) Unvaccinated Special Branch police officers have been moved from President Paula-Mae Weekes and Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley’s security details.

(Trinidad Express) A fight between a couple led to the death of a 73-year-old man.

GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Guatemalan anti-graft fighter Juan Francisco Sandoval fled the country early yesterday, the country’s human rights ombudsman said, only hours after being fired in a move that sparked international outrage.