Regional News

(Trinidad Express) Police are asking the public’s in finding 44-year-old Roger Bissoo who is charged with trying to kill a woman by pouring acid on her.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – The Church of Argentina yesterday called on the country´s lawmakers to vote their conscience this coming week, when the Senate will take up a bill to legalize abortion that has divided a nation with long-held Roman Catholic roots.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Kirtland Gill had no idea that his flight out of Jamaica 20 years ago would have taken him to the Buckingham Palace and landed him into the history books as the first black soldier to head the oldest regiment in the British Army.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Twenty-nine-year-old Citerina Atkins did not dream that she would become a farmer.

(Trinidad Express) ON the eve of Christmas, two women lost their lives in separate road traffic accidents on Thursday in San Juan and Cunupia.

(Trinidad Guardian) From next month four shipping companies in this country will no longer be accepting TT dollars from customers wishing to import items here, instead, they will only be accepting payment of freight charges in United States dollars.

(Trinidad Guardian) Touchstone’s Ortoire Block could have as much as one trillion cubic feet (tcf) of wet natural gas and may potentially produce in excess of 200 million standard cubic feet of gas per day (mmscf/d) according to Paul Baay, director, president and chief executive officer of Touchstone Exploration Inc.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexico yesterday inoculated its first person against COVID-19 to kick off a fightback from a pandemic that has killed 120,000 people in the country and battered the economy, celebrating a Christmas roll-out that also began elsewhere in Latin America.

(Trinidad Express) A Chaguanas man who was beaten after he defended his mother in an altercation, has died.

(Trinidad Express) A Chaguanas man who was beaten after he defended his mother in an altercation, has died.

(Jamaica Observer) Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett yesterday slammed those behind a social media post that claimed taxpayers’ money had been used to pay for an ad in Times Square, New York, wishing him happy birthday.

(Trinidad Guardian) After sharing that he was a troubled parent on March 24, two days after shutting Trinidad and Tobago’s borders with a daughter stuck in New York, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley is now insulted by the insinuation that she was given preference to return home for Christmas.

(Jamaica Observer) Jamaican health authorities have stepped up monitoring of people who arrived in the island from the United Kingdom (UK), prior to those who landed on Monday, amidst the announcement of a ban on incoming flights from that country.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazilian researchers said yesterday the COVID-19 vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac Biotech is more than 50% effective based on trial data, but again withheld full results at the company’s request, raising questions about transparency.

(Trinidad Guardian) Although some citizens fear the COVID-19 vaccine is a ploy by global authorities to alter the human genome, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says he will be first in line for the inoculation when the drug reaches Trinidad and Tobago.

(Trinidad Express) Over $10M in Cultural Relief Grants were distributed to local artistes and creatives just in time for Christmas.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentina has granted emergency approval for use of Russia’s Sputnik COVID-19 vaccine, the South American country’s health ministry said in a statement yesterday, becoming the third country after Russia and Belarus to approve the vaccine.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexico plans to begin inoculating health workers against COVID-19 today with the arrival of the first vaccines, as the government battles a sharp surge in infections that has pushed hospitals to their limits.

(Trinidad Express) A father of three was gunned down near his home on Tuesday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Perenco Trinidad and Tobago Limited yesterday shut down COVID-hit offshore platforms in its Teak, Samaan and Poui fields and transported all workers to either state facilities or other locations for quarantine pending testing.