Regional News

(Trinidad Express) A man has been charged with the murder of Princes Town mother of two Karen Rauseo.

(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad and Tobago will receive only a third of the first batch of vaccines allocated to it by the COVAX facility come month-end.

(Reuters) – Earlier this month, Loren Hughes, a longtime resident of the U.S.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – During the early months of Brazil’s COVID-19 pandemic, Rio de Janeiro police detective Fernanda Fernandes was certain that cases of domestic abuse were rising, but there was little she could do about it as few women came forward to file a report.

(Trinidad Express) Point Fortin businessman, Evril “Tony” Jeffrey was shot multiple times in what police believe may have been a home invasion on Friday evening.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police are investigating a double murder and wounding with intent at Arouca during the early hours of Saturday morning.

(Jamaica Gleaner) – The finances of The University of the West Indies, Mona, are in jeopardy, a state of affairs which chairman of the campus council, Earl Jarrett, admitted is threatening the viability of the largest university in Jamaica.

(Barbados Nation) – Almost 50 000 people received the COVID-19 vaccine as part of the Barbados National Vaccination Programme.

(Barbados Nation) Bridgetown – Barbados is among ten countries across the region which will get a major boost to their coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination programmes as a result of a US$500 000 donation from CIBC FirstCaribbean.

(Trinidad Express) – Two men were killed and a 17-year-old girl was injured in a home invasion during the wee hours yesterday morning.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s daily COVID-19 death toll could reach 3,000 if serious action is not taken to halt the spread of the virus, according to a presentation made in a meeting of the government’s crisis response team, two sources present told Reuters.

ASUNCION, (Reuters) – Paraguay’s minister of public health, Julio Mazzoleni, resigned yesterday after lawmakers the previous day urged him to step down as a record-breaking surge in coronavirus cases left medication in short supply and the country’s hospitals near collapse.

(Barbados Nation) The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) has taken its Caribbean subsidiary off the chopping block after two failed attempts to sell the majority shareholding.

(Trinidad Guardian) Writer, columnist and activist Colin Robinson has died. Robinson, 59, died in Washington DC, where he was receiving palliative care after a lengthy battle with colon cancer.

(Trinidad Guardian) A law against sexual harassment—in the workplace, streets and via use of cyberspace—is coming.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuba has begun late stage trials of its most advanced experimental COVID-19 vaccine, edging closer to a potential home-grown inoculation that could help the Caribbean island nation contain infections and ease its economic crisis.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Farmers in Brazil fed some 10% of the world’s 7.76 billion population last year, a study released yesterday by state-run agricultural research agency Embrapa found.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Reports are that Chicago actress and stand-up comedian Erica Watson, who friends say was living her best life in Montego Bay, Jamaica, died on the island on Saturday from COVID-19 complications.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 32-year-old nursing assistant has lost her protracted bid to retain control of a multi-million property owned by an elderly doctor, with whom she shared a relationship, before his death in 2015.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela sent gold to Mali in 2020 via Russian-owned planes to exchange for euros and U.S.