Regional News

Following is a statement by chairman of the Caribbean Community, Prime Minister of Trinidad Dr Keith Rowley.

(Trinidad Guardian) This year has started the same way 2020 began with the severing of workers in the downstream petrochemical sector as the State-owned National Gas Company fails to reach a gas supply agreement with a petro-chemical company.

PARA STATE, Brazil,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – In the middle of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, far from the laboratories of the world’s major pharmaceutical companies, the Kayapó indigenous people of Para state are using a drink made from vines to help them ward off the worst effects of COVID-19.

(Barbados Nation) Dr Corey Forde, Barbados’ lone infectious diseases specialist, will be the first person to receive a coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine if Government is able to secure at least four by this weekend.

(Trinidad Express) Kurt Sylvester, the husband of Couva secondary school teacher Suzette Sylvester, has been charged with her murder.

(Trinidad Guardian) International reinsurers are threatening to fully withdraw from the T&T insurance market, the Association of Trinidad and Tobago Insurance Companies (ATTIC) has warned.

(Jamaica Star) The Port Maria police have arrested and charged a mother and daughter in the December 25 killing of 26-year-old Jerome Forrester, otherwise called ‘Mop Head’, of Tank Lane, Oracabessa.

(Trinidad Guardian) Gasparillo police are being praised by a resident for not only finding her stolen pet parrot Jessica and arresting the man who took her but saving the bird from being curried.

(Trinidad Express) A warning to criminals that the next cop you encounter might just throw you on your back with a Chuck Norris style roundhouse kick as the latest batch of recruits will receive Judo training.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 30-year-old Rio Claro man is warning citizens to learn from his mistake and stay away from sou sous. 

(Jamaica Star) Romeo Reid, who was deported from the United Kingdom in 2004, says he hates Jamaica, citing the island as an “oppressive state… [which] suppress and depress the people.”

(Trinidad Guardian) Government continues to fight against what it says is further misinformation by the Organisation of American States’ (OAS’) general secretariat concerning last month’s tragic drowning of a number of Venezuelans off Guiria.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Chinese Embassy has rejected remarks made by outgoing United States Ambassador Donald Tapia, accusing China of eavesdropping on his telephone conversations via a Jamaican domestic network.

(Jamaica Observer) Founder and chairman of the ATL Group of Companies, Gordon “Butch” Stewart passed away on Monday night.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – A three-week-long roadblock protest by locals has prevented Las Bambas mine in Peru, run by Australia-based MMG Ltd, from exporting 189,000 tonnes of copper concentrate, a mining association leader said yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Caribbean Airlines advises that its commercial service to Havana, Cuba is suspended with immediate effect until further notice.

(Trinidad Guardian) In 2020, Trinidad  recorded its lowest road fatalities figure in 63 years—96 road deaths, according to new figures shared by the Traffic and Highway Patrol Branch of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TPS).

(Jamaica Gleaner) It took more than four years, but Jamaica has finally signed off on a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the United States (US) that seeks to stamp out corruption at the ports, which has, for decades, facilitated the inflows of guns, drugs and other illicit items.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Police Service has confirmed that a male relative is assisting police with enquiries relating to the death of 48-year-old Suzette Sylvester, of Mowlah Road Extension, Preysal.

(Trinidad Express) A suspected criminal was killed during a home invasion in Freeport early yesterday.