(Jamaica Gleaner) The United States Coast Guard said on Thursday that its Cutter Harriet Lane seized millions of US dollars worth of narcotics and arrested seven alleged smugglers during a 71-day patrol of the Caribbean Sea.
(Trinidad Guardian) With steady hands, Ramsaran Moonsammy chipped away at the hair of his son seated in his barber chair when Guardian Media visited him.
(Trinidad Guardian) More women are expressing a need for firearm training and are looking at tactical ways to protect themselves from attackers.
Governor Timothy Antoine of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) has confirmed that his organisation will be approving the sale of Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) operations in several territories in the Eastern Caribbean.
(Barbados Nation) Twelve vaccination centres will be open today and only those with appointments will be seen, says public health specialist Dr Elizabeth Ferdinand, who is also Co-coordinator of the National COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign.
(Trinidad Express) It is unconstitutional and illegal for the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) to retain a person’s photographs and other information in its database if that individual was charged with a criminal offence but later acquitted.
(Barbados Nation) Prominent Barbadian farmer, businessman, activist and environmentalist Richard Goddard has died.
(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad and Tobago is among the Caribbean countries late to order COVID-19 vaccines.
BOGOTA/RIO DE JANEIRO, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As U.S. President Joe Biden develops his climate change agenda for the global stage, foreign and trade policies could also be used to tackle the thorny issue of rising deforestation in the Amazon, researchers and former officials said.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Former commanders from Colombia’s demobilized FARC guerrillas yesterday accepted accusations by a transitional justice court that they committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during the group’s 50-year war with the state.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Recent comments by Petrobras Chief Executive Roberto Castello Branco regarding the possibility of a truckers’ strike will have consequences, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said yesterday, adding that “something will happen in the coming days.”
(Jamaica Observer) The St Ann police say they were able to nab a robber after he left his condition of bail book at the scene of the crime in Exchange, Ocho Rios in the parish on Friday, February 5.
(Barbados Nation) In full view of the surveillance cameras attached to Central Police Station, Guyanese proprietor Hamenauth Sarnedranauth was conducting business at his Tudor Street store.
(Trinidad Guardian) In a landmark move in the country’s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, 100 frontline healthcare workers were the first to be inoculated as the Ministry of Health began its first phase of vaccinations at the Couva Multi-Training Facility yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Journalist Abby Phillip, who was born to Trinidadian parents, has been recognised by TIME Magazine as an emerging leader who is shaping the future of the world.
KINGSTON, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Jamaica should repeal its colonial-era gay sex ban, the top rights body of the Americas said yesterday, in a symbolic landmark ruling on LGBT+ rights in the Caribbean.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Joe Biden supports a study on whether descendants of enslaved people in the United States should receive reparations, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said yesterday, as the issue was being debated on Capitol Hill.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Pressured by state governors over a shortage of coronavirus vaccine, Brazil’s health minister yesterday promised to mobilize 11.3 million shots by the end of the month, but included doses the delivery of which has yet to be confirmed.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Police in Rio de Janeiro launched an investigation yesterday into reports that doses of the coronavirus vaccine may have been diverted after images emerged of healthcare workers sticking needles into elderly people without injecting them.
(Trinidad Guardian) A 34-year-old man from Santa Cruz was gunned down outside his home on Monday night.
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