Regional News

(Trinidad Express) Covid-19 vaccines will be distributed to all citizens and non-nationals in Trinidad and Tobago, says Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh.

(Jamaica Gleaner) More than 100 public figures in Britain, including former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and the acclaimed poet Benjamin Zephaniah, have signed a letter to Home Secretary Priti Patel demanding that the deportation of 22-year-old Jamaican Osime Brown be rescinded.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Miqueal-Symone Williams has been crowned Miss Universe Jamaica 2020.

(Trinidad Guardian) Members of the San Juan community turned out to support grieving family and friends of murdered teenager Ashanti Riley in a motorcade held in her memory yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The T&T Police Service (TTPS) is owing more than $40 million to several garages and auto repair shops across the country for work done on police vehicles.

BARCELONA,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Rich nations are “lagging badly” on a longstanding pledge to channel $100 billion a year in funding, from 2020 onwards, to help poorer countries develop cleanly and adapt to the worsening impacts of climate change, the U.N.

(Trinidad Express) A woman was granted $75,000 bail after she was charged with three offences of assault, including throwing hot water on her husband.

(Jamaica Observer) FORMER Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller marks her 75th birthday today, 14 years and nine months after creating history on being sworn in as Jamaica’s first female chief executive.

(Trinidad Guardian) Seventh-Day Adventist pastor Clive Dottin is calling on Trinidad and Tobago’s men to become more actively involved in the protection of the nation’s women and children.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaican soap manufacturers have lost a year-long battle for continued duty-free exports to the Caricom market of 18 million people.

(Barbados Nation) By April next year, Barbados could, for the first time, have a national minimum wage along with fixed amounts for different sectors.

(Trinidad Guardian) Thick, black smoke billowed high into the skies across Port-of-Spain yesterday, as thousands of gallons of fuel burnt indiscriminately following an explosion at National Petroleum’s Sea Lots compound.

(Trinidad Express) Former Miss Trinidad and Tobago Yvee Clarke has less than seven days to pay over $100,000.

The United States announced travel and other sanctions on Thursday against six Jamaicans who were part of the controversial Reneto Adams-led Crime Management Unit that was criticised as a trigger-happy police squad that committed multiple extrajudicial killings.

MOSCOW/BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – Russia has agreed a deal with Argentina to supply 10 million doses of its Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, which will allow the South American country to start vaccinating people this month.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Lebanese-Brazilian financier Joseph Safra, who built a banking empire spanning from Brazil to Switzerland and a fortune that made him the world’s wealthiest banker, has died at the age of 82, Banco Safra said.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Doses of a COVID-19 vaccine made by China’s Sinovac Biotech are rolling off a Brazilian production line, drawing interest around the country and across Latin America from governments struggling to procure costlier vaccines.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – The commercial arm of Mexican state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) has temporarily suspended business with the world’s largest independent oil trader Vitol, which is the subject of a U.S.

(Jamaica Observer) Opposition Member of Parliament Mikael Phillips wants a referendum on replacing the Queen as head of State pinned to the local government elections due by February 2022.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaican Professor Kevin Fenton has been named on the Powerlist 2021 as the second most influential black person in Britain for his role in the fight against the novel coronavirus.