Regional News

(Barbados Nation) Barbados will be ready to roll out the first batch of the AstraZeneca vaccine late this month.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 32-year-old man was shot and killed in Freeport on Saturday.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Haitian authorities yesterday arrested nearly two dozen people, including a Supreme Court judge, for their role in an alleged plot to oust President Jovenel Moise that has exacerbated political tensions in the troubled Caribbean country.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration will reengage with the United Nations Human Rights Council, three years after former President Donald Trump withdrew over what his administration called bias against Israel and a lack of reform.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Panama has sought to acquire more than 8 million coronavirus vaccine doses to inoculate about 80% of the Central American nation’s residents, Health Minister Luis Sucre said yesterday.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuadorean economist Andres Arauz received 31.5% of the votes in yesterday’s presidential election, according to an official quick count presented by the elections council, compared with 20.04% for indigenous activist Yaku Perez.

(Trinidad Guardian) A regional insurance company, which was implicated in fraud charges arising out of the construction of the TT$1.6 billion Piarco International Airport before being cleared three years ago, is seeking over TT$200 million in compensation for malicious prosecution.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Detectives assigned to the Falmouth CIB have charged three men in connection with the shooting death of 51-year-old Andrea Lowe-Garwood, a bank manager of Brook Manner in Falmouth, Trelawny.

LA PAZ, (Reuters) – Corpses in Bolivia have begun to pile up as a fierce second wave of the coronavirus has overwhelmed funeral homes and cemeteries, according to officials, stoking fears the growing backlog could become yet another focal point of infection.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – In a major reform of the state-dominated economy, the Cuban government will allow small private businesses to operate in most fields, eliminating its limited list of activities, state-run media reported today.

(Barbados Nation) Former Barbados and West Indies fast bowler Ezra Moseley died tragically in a road accident here this morning.

(Trinidad Guardian) The discovery of human remains at Heights of Aripo just hours after the decomposed body of 23-year-old Andrea Bharatt was found has prompted homicide investigators to widen their investigation to include a series of sex crimes in which women were raped and murdered but their bodies never found.

(Trinidad Express) The search for missing 23-year-old Andrea Bharatt ended yesteday afternoon in the forests off Aripo Road, Sangre Grande.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will seek to raise annual refugee admissions to 125,000 in the coming fiscal year, he said yesterday, a more than eight-fold increase after former President Donald Trump slashed levels to historic lows.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s prosecutor-general has opened a preliminary investigation into its president and health minister for possible negligence in response to a COVID-19 outbreak in Manaus city, according to a document seen by Reuters yesterday.

(Barbados Nation) Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce’s (CIBC) plan to sell most of FirstCaribbean International Bank (FCIB) for $1.6 billion has been rejected by regulators.

SAO PAULO,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – More than three-quarters of Brazilians think Amazon rainforest fires have hurt the country’s image – and that environmental protection should become a priority for the country, even at an economic cost, a new survey has found.

(Jamaica Star) Organiser of the annual 10,000 Men and Family’s March in Spanish Town, Bishop Rohan Edwards, says the time has come for pastors to arm themselves to protect their congregation from vicious men.

(Trinidad Express) It has been seven days since court clerk, Andrea Bharatt, was last seen and the nation has united in a desperate search for her.

(Trinidad Guardian) In a near three-hour long memorial service held yesterday for the late calypso icon Sandra “Singing Sandra” Des Vignes-Millington at the Queen’s Hall, in St Ann’s, Port-of-Spain, tributes in song, dance, written expressions, and even extempo came filing in for the woman they all affectionately called “Mother.”