(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Keith Rowley has announced that the government has rolled back its decision to end the vaccination programme and instead will continue on using the remainder of the vaccines meant to be second doses for those who received their first jabs.
(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley yesterday afternoon called an urgent press conference and disclosed that the country had recorded an unprecedented number of Covid-positive cases over the last 24 hours – 328.
(Barbados Nation) The Barbadian former employees of LIAT 1974 Limited are at the end of their tether.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has announced new regulations to help stop the spread of COVID-19.
(Trinidad Express) For the first time in this country’s history, a person convicted of a criminal offence was affixed with an electronic device, allowing the State to monitor the person’s whereabouts continuously and with immediate effect.
(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago yesterday recorded its most frightening Covid-19 infection tally to date—with 223 people testing positive, while simultaneously surpassing the 10,000 mark for total confirmed cases since the virus first appeared locally in March 2020.
Rio de Janeiro, (Reuters) – Brazil yesterday reported 3,163 new coronavirus deaths, the Health Ministry said, bringing the total to 398,185.
(Barbados Nation) Moments before being sentenced yesterday, Donville Inniss delivered a lengthy and passionate plea in a United States Federal Court in New York, saying that for the past 32 months he had endured public humiliation, immeasurable pain, financial ruin, poor health and shattered relationships.
(Trinidad Guardian) Two more bodies from Venezuela’s Delta Amacuro boatwreck have surfaced, bringing to eight the number of people confirmed dead.
A former Minister of Industry and elected member of Parliament of Barbados was sentenced yesterday to two years in prison for his role in a scheme to launder bribe payments from a Barbadi-an insurance company through bank accounts in New York, according to a release from the US Department of Justice.
(Trinidad Guardian) Days after a large cache of guns and ammunition was found at the Bond in the Piarco International Air-port, police officers—in an intelligence-led operation—have uncovered another large cache of guns and ammunition in a warehouse in Central Trinidad.
A former Minister of Industry and elected member of Parliament of Barbados was sentenced today to two years in prison for his role in a scheme to launder bribe payments from a Barbadian insurance company through bank accounts in New York, according to a release from the US Department of Justice.
(Trinidad Guardian) COVID-19 vaccinations are winding down now as the quota of people to receive their first dose nears.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – A wave of kidnappings is sweeping Haiti. But even in a country growing inured to horrific abductions, the case of five-year-old Olslina Janneus sparked outrage.
(Jamaica Star) Head of the police’s Corporate Communications Unit, Senior Superintendent Stephanie Lindsay, says that a high-level investigation is under way into the origin of a photo that involves persons, allegedly police personnel, toting firearms.
(Jamaica Gleaner) “Raw and emotional.” That is how Maurice Gordon, Sr viewed the trial and verdict of ex-Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin, who was found guilty last week on three counts of murdering George Floyd.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A four year-old has been orphaned, after the parents were killed in separate incidents in Effortville, Clarendon on the weekend.
(Trinidad Express) Underwater welder Leon Apping has been charged with the murder of Gasparillo businessman Anand Maharaj.
(Trinidad Guardian) Movement for Social Justice 2019 local government candidate Osei Lennard fought for his impoverished community and spoke out against injustice and poor living standards.
(Trinidad Guardian) An Arima man was killed during an attempted robbery in Curepe yesterday.
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