BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro promised a Yanomami community that he would respect their wishes to keep mining out of their reservation in the Amazon, though he said he would still seek access to other indigenous lands for commercial agriculture and mining.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombian authorities are investigating 10 police officers who allowed civilians to shoot at demonstrators in Cali, a high-ranking official said yesterday, while the attorney general’s office linked three more deaths to protests.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Ministry of Health has recorded 16 additional COVID related deaths, bringing the total to 495.
(Trinidad Guardian) The family and friends of the Rollock’s family are reeling from the shock of 34-year-old Rachel Rollock who died of COVID-19 yesterday morning.
(Trinidad Express) A nurse was shot in the face when she and her husband, a prison officer, were attacked by a gunman yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Ministry of Health has reported another nine more deaths from the COVID-19 virus over the past 24-hours.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Ministry of Health reported 12 deaths due to COVID-19 and 381 new positive cases between May 21 and May 28.
(Trinidad Guardian) Chief Executive Officer of the North Central Regional Health Authority (NCRHA) Davlin Thomas has created a firestorm following claims that the new team of doctors he put into the rotation at the Couva Hospital achieved a 60 per cent decrease in mortality of COVID-19 patients.
(Trinidad Express) – Trinidadian Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley yesterday afternoon announced a total closure of all restaurants and bars, along with hardwares for one week.
(Trinidad Guardian) – More people without comorbidities are dying of COVID complications and patients are becoming younger.
(Trinidad Express) – A nurse was stabbed to death and her body set on fire at an apartment in Malabar, Arima yesterday afternoon.
(Trinidad Express) A nurse was stabbed to death and her body set on fire at an apartment in Malabar, Arima yesterday afternoon.
(Trinidad Express) The Tobago Emergency Management Agency has reported that 15 bodies have been retrieved from the foreign vessel that was adrift off Tobago waters yesterday morning.
(DWT online) PARAMARIBO – Due to the “very, very serious” Covid-19 situation in Suriname, there will be a total lockdown from May 31 to June 18.
(Trinidad Guardian) A further 18 people have died of the COVID-19 virus, taking the total deaths in T&T up to 458.
(Reuters) – A Dominican court has restrained local authorities from removing fugitive jeweller Mehul Choksi from the country, throwing up another hurdle to India’s attempts to have him brought home and tried in India’s largest bank fraud case.
(Trinidad Express) After receiving heavy criticism from Trinidadians last year for his wax sculpture of veteran calypsonian Slinger Francisco “The Mighty Sparrow”, sculptor Arthur Edwards is coming under fire from Trinidadians yet again, for his interpretation of David Rudder.
(Trinidad Express) A Covid-19 positive police sergeant died after leaving home quarantine yesterday.
(Reuters) – Fugitive Indian-born jeweller Mehul Choksi has been captured in Dominica and will likely be repatriated to India, Gaston Brown, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, told Reuters partner ANI, days after he went missing from the Caribbean nation.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Ministry of Health has recorded 17 additional COVID related deaths.
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