(Trinidad Guardian) Lawyers representing Special Operations Response Team (SORT) Inspector Mark Hernandez filed a habeas corpus on Friday night challenging his protracted detention.
(Barbados Nation) CASTRIES – Caribbean teachers objected to the Carib-bean Examinations Council (CXC) decision to conduct the CSEC and CAPE examinations as “a full-blown exercise” this year.
(Trinidad Guardian) – Energy Minister Franklin Khan is dead. In a brief post, Prime Minister Keith Rowley extended “his deepest condolences to the family of Senator the Hon Franklin Khan”.
(Trinidad Guardian) Energy Minister Franklin Khan is dead. In a brief post, Prime Minister Keith Rowley extended “his deepest condolences to the family of Senator the Hon Franklin Khan”.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Raul Castro confirmed he was handing over the leadership of the all-powerful Cuban Communist Party to a younger generation at its congress that kicked off yesterday, ending six decades of rule by himself and older brother Fidel.
(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica— Jamaica’s COVID-19 death toll surpassed 700 after recording 16 virus-related deaths yesterday as the country recorded 233 new cases of the virus.
(The Nassau Guardian) Six men who were released from police custody on Wednesday were shot and killed two hours later at the intersection of Jerome Avenue and Chesapeake Road by assailants who escaped the scene, authorities reported last night.
SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – China’s Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine was 67% effective in preventing symptomatic infection, data from a huge real-world study in Chile has shown, a potential boost for the jab which has come under scrutiny over its level of protection against the virus.
(Trinidad Express) The 60 year old man who suffered a blood clot and paralysis after taking the AstraZeneca vaccine has died.
(The Nassau Guardian) Six men who were released from police custody yesterday were shot and killed two hours later at the intersection of Jerome Avenue and Chesapeake Road by assailants who escaped the scene, authorities reported last night.
(Trinidad Express) The 60 year old man who suffered a blood clot and paralysis after taking the AstraZeneca vaccine has died.
Over 10,000 persons have been evacuated from the red zone in St Vincent and the Grenadines where the erupting La Soufriere volcano has created havoc and CARICOM Heads of Government heard yesterday that the situation could be a prolonged one.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – A majority of Brazil’s Supreme Court confirmed yesterday a decision to annul criminal convictions against former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, teeing up a presidential run against current President Jair Bolsonaro in 2022.
(Trinidad Guardian) “He was a good person and did not deserve this.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Government has re-implemented COVID-19 restrictions in a bid to curtail the current upward trajectory of cases.
(Trinidad Guardian) A father and son have been identified as the victims in a double murder which took place along the Penal Rock Road, Moruga, just before midnight on Tuesday.
(Trinidad Express) There was another explosive eruption of the La Soufriere Volcano in St Vincent shortly before midnight last night, on a day that pyroclastic flows reached the sea on the island’s west coast.
(Trinidad Guardian) The 40,000 doses of COVISHIELD COVID-19 vaccines from India has arrived in T&T.
(Barbados Nation) Conman and thief Ricardo Cortez Browne has an unenviable record when it comes to appearances before the law courts.
KINGSTOWN, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, (Reuters) – The tiny eastern Caribbean island of Saint Vincent was rocked by a fifth day of eruptions from the La Soufriere volcano yesterday as leaders warned of shortages of water and the potential need for hundreds of millions of dollars to rebuild.
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