SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – The state of Sao Paulo could roll out the COVID-19 vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac even without approval from Brazil’s health regulator, the state’s governor said in an interview on Thursday.
(Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Two years after the murder of popular Brazilian councilwoman Marielle Franco, her partner Monica Benicio has also won a council seat and vowed to fight for justice and LGBT+ rights.
SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Chile’s opposition-controlled Senate yesterday approved a government-backed bill that would allow citizens to make a second withdrawal from their public pensions to further blunt the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
David Reid, 24, and his fiancee Ann-Marie Neil, are set to tie the knot on February 27.
(Trinidad Express) THE State has been restrained from again deporting 16 Venezuelan children and 11 adults while their challenge against their deportation that took place over the weekend is heard and determined by the High Court.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The contents of a recent letter from Gaston Browne, the Antigua and Barbuda prime minister, to his Barbados counterpart, Mia Mottley, appears to reflect both frustration in St John’s and long-running difficulty among Carib-bean Community (CARICOM) leaders to agree and implement common policies.
(Jamaica Star) A couple who dubbed themselves ‘Adam and Eve’ turned up at the gates of the Linstead Pentecostal Tabernacle Church in St Catherine on Sunday, wearing nothing but their birthday suits.
(Trinidad Guardian) A High Court Judge has ordered the immediate release of 10 minors and four of their mothers from a migrant detention centre at the T&T Coast Guard’s Heliport in Chaguaramas.
(Jamaica Observer) Danielle Grey-Stewart, one of two Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) students selected for the 2021 cohort of the Rhodes Scholarship programme, has Jamaican heritage.
(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has issued a statement on the issue of migrants from Venezuela who are continuing to flee their country and travel by boat to Trinidad.
(Trinidad Guardian) A Moruga man who chopped his neighbour’s goat in a fit of rage because it ate his crops has been jailed for six months.
CARACAS/PORT OF SPAIN, (Reuters) – At least 29 Venezuelan migrants, including 16 minors, returned to Trinidad and Tobago yesterday after being deported from the island over the weekend and spending hours at sea, said their relatives, who had been concerned about their whereabouts.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Western Union Co suspended its operations across Cuba on Monday evening as new U.S.
(Reuters) – David Dinkins, who served as New York City’s first and only African American mayor during the 1990s, died on Monday at the age of 93, police said.
(Trinidad Guardian) Deon Gardiner, 33, and Jabari James, 24, are scheduled to appear at the Scarborough Magistrates’ Court today charged with the murder of 23-year-old, Omari Matthews.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Western Union Co suspended its operations across Cuba last evening as new U.S.
(Trinidad Guardian) On the steps outside attorney Nafeesa Mohammed’s office yesterday, Gregoria Figueredo sat disconsolately.
MANAGUA, (Reuters) – In early 2010, Nicaragua’s Canal 8, an independent television network, had a new owner.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Fitzroy Wickham’s selection as the 2021 Rhodes Scholar has put the York Castle High alumnus among prestigious company as he joins a list of outstanding Jamaicans who have been awarded the honour over decades.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The serene community of Tryall Heights in Spanish Town, St Catherine, was torn by terror on Sunday as gunmen targeted a family about 4:30 p.m.,
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