(Trinidad Guardian) The family of a medical student who died days after she was administered a powerful painkiller for mild fever and pain plans to approach the Medical Board to initiate an investigation into a Caroni doctor.
(Trinidad Guardian) Although the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has projected economic growth of 2.1 per cent for T&T this year, economist Dr Roger Hosein yesterday warned that the economy is in dire straits.
(Barbados Nation) KINGSTOWN – The new dome that was forming in the crater of La Soufriere for months was blown off in the explosive eruptions, sending at least 13 million cubic metres of material into the atmosphere.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – A striking image is circulating this week on social media in Cuba: a dissident pumping his fist in the air, handcuffs dangling from one wrist, after friends and neighbours helped him evade arrest by police in Havana.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazil yesterday recorded 2,616 new COVID-19 deaths and 71,832 new coronavirus cases, the Health Ministry said.
(Barbados Nation) The West and North of Barbados was hard hit by the falling ash as a result of the eruption of La Soufriere volcano in St Vincent and the Grenadines.
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent and the Grenadines, (Reuters) – Residents of the eastern Caribbean island of St.
(Trinidad Guardian) Agro-processors renting State lands will now pay significantly less on their leases.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States is considering a conditional cash transfer programme to help address economic woes that lead migrants from certain Central American countries to trek north, as well as sending COVID-19 vaccines to those countries, a senior White House official told Reuters yesterday.
ROSE HALL, St Vincent and the Grenadines, (Reuters) – La Soufriere volcano on the eastern Caribbean island ofSt.
(Jamaica Star) Jamaican dog Joseph is certainly living the high life with his new owner Rachel Kornblum in Toronto, Canada.
(NEMO/CMC) Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines Dr Ralph Gonsalves has issued an evacuation order effective immediately.
(Barbados Nation) The number of COVID-19 deaths moved to 44 after the passing of a 52-year-old Barbadian man on Tuesday, April 6.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil has recorded its first confirmed case of the highly contagious coronavirus variant discovered in South Africa, a fresh danger sign for a country already ravaged by the world’s worst daily death toll and scrambling to make space for burials.
(Trinidad Express) Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries says that at approximately 6:30am yesterday there was an incident at NiQuan Energy Trinidad Limited, Pointe-A-Pierre.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazil recorded 92,625 additional confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours, along with 3,829 deaths from COVID-19, the Health Ministry said yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) There has been an explosion at NiQuan Energy’s Gas to Liquids Plant located on what was formerly Petrotrin Pointe-a-Pierre refinery.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley is said to be “holding his own” after testing positive for COVID-19 yesterday.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s brutal surge in COVID-19 deaths will soon surpass the worst of a record January wave in the United States, scientists forecast, with fatalities climbing for the first time above 4,000 in a day yesterday as the outbreak overwhelms hospitals.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Office of the Prime Minister has confirmed that Dr Keith Rowley has tested positive for COVID-19.
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