(Barbados Nation) Minister of Home Affairs Wilfred Abrahams is promising a full investigation into an incident at the Government Industrial School (GIS) where a picture was reportedly taken of a nude 14-year-old girl in a cell.
(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley received a call from President of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping via teleconference at the Diplomatic Centre, St Anns yesterday.
(Jamaica Star) Many Jamaicans would jump at the chance to migrate to Canada but last Saturday it was 144 of the island’s most overlooked dogs who got the opportunity.
(Barbados Nation) The shocking image of a 14-year-old girl, lying naked on a cement floor in a solitary confinement cell at the Government Industrial School (GIS), has so angered a board member that she has vowed to take action against the school and, by extension, Government.
With Guyana still awaiting word on its allotment, Jamaica today received 14,400 doses of COVID-19 vaccines through the COVAX Facility, the first country in the Caribbean to benefit from the mechanism which has come in for strong criticism over its inability to meet commitments.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The police say a search is ongoing for the boyfriend of 37-year old Tamika Richards in connection with yesterday’s fatal domestic dispute in Spanish Town, St Catherine.
(Trinidad Express) A TEENAGE mother who was arrested after an alleged robbery at a roti shop in Barrackpore, where a man was shot and killed last Tuesday, faced the court charged with three offences.
(Jamaica Observer) Jamaicans across the United States have given the thumbs up to the US$1.9-trillion America economic rescue plan which President Joe Biden signed into law last Thursday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica-born Oliver McRae, a postdoctoral associate at Boston University (BU), and Associate Professor James Bird, have published a study which adds to the knowledge of how disease is spread and may have a bearing on the transmission of COVID-19.
(Jamaica Star) A man who proposed to his girlfriend in court in January as he answered to charges of assaulting her, is now in lock-up.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is pressing banks to implement digital payment systems as hyperinflation prompts chronic shortages of cash in the bolivar currency, three people familiar with the talks told Reuters.
LA PAZ, (Reuters) – Bolivia’s former president Jeanine Anez yesteday appeared via videolink for a first hearing before a judge over accusations she helped foment a coup against the country’s socialist government.
TAIPEI, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has urged Paraguay to work with its diplomatic ally Taiwan to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic, after protests in the South American country over the government’s handling of the health crisis.
(Trinidad Guardian) One year after T&T reported its first case of COVID-19, hundreds of businesses have been forced to permanently close their doors, while others that have remained open continue to see a drastic fall in sales.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil reported 1,127 COVID-19 deaths in the past 24 hours and 43,812 new cases of the coronavirus, the Health Ministry said yesterday, ending the most lethal week since the pandemic began a year ago.
(Trinidad Guardian) One year after T&T reported its first case of COVID-19, hundreds of businesses have been forced to permanently close their doors, while others that have remained open continue to see a drastic fall in sales.
(Trinidad Express) A 61-year-old delivery driver cannot be found and his family is pleading for help.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil reported 2,216 COVID-19 deaths in the last 24 hours, the third day in a row that fatalities exceeded 2,000 in the worst run of deaths since the pandemic began a year ago.
(Trinidad Guardian) CL Financial Limited is selling its 94.24 per cent shareholding in COLFIRE.
(Trinidad Express) Auto-air-conditioning business owner Nicolas Mohith died at hospital on Thursday, hours after being shot in the abdomen by a gunman who walked into the garage of his home and business.
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