RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – The surging COVID-19 outbreak in Brazil is increasingly affecting younger people, with hospital data showing that last month the majority of those in intensive care were aged 40 or younger, according to a new report.
QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuador yesterday detained the country’s comptroller and a former energy minister as part of an investigation into corruption at three state institutions, including oil company Petroecuador, the national prosecutor’s office said.
(Trinidad Express) Even with borders closed 70 per cent of Venezuelan migrants entered Trinidad through illegal entry points.
(Trinidad Guardian) A 24-year-old gardener from Sangre Grande, who was shot after he cursed a police officer who was moonlighting as a bouncer, before being charged with assaulting the same officer, is set to receive almost $400,000 in compensation.
QUITO, (Reuters) – Guillermo Lasso, who unexpectedly won Ecuador’s presidency on promises to revive an economy battered by the coronavirus, pledged on Monday to eliminate the fiscal deficit and to revamp oil deals.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazil added an additional 1,480 people to its COVID-19 death toll yesterday, as a looming investigation of how the government has handled the world’s second-deadliest coronavirus outbreak puts increased pressure on right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro.
(Barbados Nation) Deputy Prime Minister of St Vincent & the Grenadines (SVG), Montgomery Daniel said the agriculture sector is non-existent on the eastern side of the La Soufriere volcano, which erupted last Friday.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Shareholders in Brazil’s Petrobras voted yesterday to remove Roberto Castello Branco as CEO, and elected his government-picked successor to the board of directors, but discontent among some investors threatens to drag out the transition process.
KINGSTOWN, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, (Reuters) – Hot flows of ash, rock fragments and gas tore down the flanks of the La Soufriere volcano on the tiny Caribbean island of Saint Vincent today after its most powerful explosion yet, four days after it first started erupting.
(Barbados Nation) The Grantley Adams International Airport will remain closed until noon, Wednesday, April 14, due to the ongoing ash fall resulting from the eruption of the La Soufriere volcano in St Vincent.
(Trinidad Express) Fire destroyed the India Live Expo in Chaguanas yesterday morning.
(Trinidad Guardian) Members of T&T Defence Force sail to St Vincent today on the Galleons Passage vessel to carry supplies and assist the eruption-ravaged island– and the vessel will also bring home T&T nationals who are in St Vincent.
QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuadorean banker Guillermo Lasso has won yesterday’s presidential runoff vote against leftist economist Andres Arauz, putting the country on track to maintain open market policies rather than return to socialism.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Far-left candidate Pedro Castillo is leading the Peruvian presidential race with 16.1% of the vote, followed by conservative Keiko Fujimori and liberal economist Hernando de Soto, tied in second place with 11.9%, according to an Ipsos exit poll released last night.
KINGSTOWN, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, (Reuters) – The Caribbean Saint Vincent island was hit by another explosive event from the La Soufriere volcano early today, triggering power cuts and water outages in some areas, while ash clouds began to blanket parts of the island of Barbados.
(Trinidad Guardian) The family of a medical student who died days after she was administered a powerful painkiller for mild fever and pain plans to approach the Medical Board to initiate an investigation into a Caroni doctor.
(Trinidad Guardian) Although the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has projected economic growth of 2.1 per cent for T&T this year, economist Dr Roger Hosein yesterday warned that the economy is in dire straits.
(Barbados Nation) KINGSTOWN – The new dome that was forming in the crater of La Soufriere for months was blown off in the explosive eruptions, sending at least 13 million cubic metres of material into the atmosphere.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – A striking image is circulating this week on social media in Cuba: a dissident pumping his fist in the air, handcuffs dangling from one wrist, after friends and neighbours helped him evade arrest by police in Havana.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazil yesterday recorded 2,616 new COVID-19 deaths and 71,832 new coronavirus cases, the Health Ministry said.
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