(Trinidad Express) Twenty-five Venezuelan women, one Nigerian, and a Trinidadian were arrested by officers of the Inter-Agency Task Force, during an anti-crime exercise conducted at Icacos overnight.
(Trinidad Express) The Cold Case Unit of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) has closed the case relating to the death of Japanese pannist, Asami Nagakiya.
(Trinidad Guardian) The diplomatic friction between the Government and Indian High Commissioner Arun Kumar Sahu over the availability of COVID-19 vaccines from that country seems to be worsening.
(Jamaica Gleaner) – Antigua and Barbuda’s Prime Minister Gaston Browne has written to US President Joseph Biden, requesting that CARICOM countries be included in the provision of AstraZeneca vaccines to Canada and Mexico.
(Barbados Government Information Service) – Over 60 000 people were vaccinated against COVID-19 up to Friday as part of the National Vaccination Programme.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s government has been in talks since March 13 about potentially importing excess COVID-19 vaccines from the United States, the Brazilian Foreign Ministry said on Twitter yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) -Indian High Commissioner Arun Kumar Sahu did not communicate the availability of India’s 500,000 vaccines to CARICOM and that is why Trinidad and Tobago did not know it was an option.
(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — Prime Minister Andrew Holness has warned that there will be prosecution if corruption and/or negligence led to the disappearance of a vial of COVID-19 vaccine from the Cornwall Regional Hospital in St James recently.
(Barbados Nation) A 51-year-old Barbadian man was shot and killed in Chicago’s West Side on Sunday morning.
(Trinidad Express) A 19-year-old woman was yesterday ordered to stand trial for murder.
(Trinidad Guardian) A 35-year-old former Special Reserve Police (SRP), accused of child pornography possession, has been granted $200,000 bail.
(Trinidad Guardian) Indian High Commissioner Arun Kumar Sahu did not communicate the availability of India’s 500,000 vaccines to CARICOM and that is why Trinidad and Tobago did not know it was an option.
ATLANTA, (Reuters) – Homicide detectives yesterday weighed the possible motives of a gunman accused of fatally shooting several Asian women in Atlanta-area spas, as a U.S.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives yesterday passed bills providing a pathway to citizenship for immigrants nicknamed “Dreamers,” who are living illegally in the United States after entering as children, as well as for a large number of immigrant farmworkers.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States plans to send roughly 4 million doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine that it is not using to Mexico and Canada in loan deals with the two countries, yielding to requests to share vaccines with allies.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon denied yesterday that she had misled parliament over how she handled sexual misconduct claims against her predecessor, in a dispute that threatens her dream of leading her nation to independence.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru’s Rafael López Aliaga, an ultra-conservative member of Opus Dei who practices celibacy and says he wears a sackcloth to keep his physical desires in check, has a serious shot at becoming the Andean country’s next president.
(Barbados Government Information Service) The Vaccination Medical Committee of the Ministry of Health and Wellness has advised that the efficacy or effectiveness of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19 is greater if it is administered 10 to 12 weeks after the first dose.
(Trinidad Express) Police say two men were shot and killed in an alleged gun fight with officers yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) China is stepping in to assist Trinidad and Tobago’s access to COVID-19 vaccines.
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