CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro yesterday proposed paying for vaccines against the novel coronavirus with oil, though he provided few details about how such a scheme would work.
(Trinidad Guardian) The AstraZeneca vaccines for T&T from the COVAX facility are being manufactured in South Korea and are still on track despite a recent raid on an Italian warehouse where AstraZeneca vaccines were housed.
(Trinidad Express) – A landmark High Court order was made on Friday when, for the first time, the use of an electronic motoring device in the form of an ankle bracelet was imposed as a bail condition on a man charged with robbery with aggravation and possession of arms and ammunition.
ARAUQUITA MUNICIPALITY, Colombia, (Reuters) – Venezuelans fleeing to Colombia to escape clashes between the Venezuelan military and irregular armed groups have accused soldiers of abuses, including killing civilians.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Facebook has frozen Vene-zuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s page for violating policies against spreading misinformation about COVID-19 by promoting a remedy he claims, without evidence, can cure the disease, a company spokesman said yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Court of Appeal has overturned a judge’s decision to strike down aspects of this country’s colonial-age sedition legislation.
Suriname yesterday received 24,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines through the COVAX Facility.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Former Prime Minister Bruce Golding has been hospitalised. In a statement, his daughter Sherene Golding Campbell said the former Prime Minister was this evening admitted for a recurring health condition.
(The UWI Regional Headquarters, Jamaica) – A grant from Silicon Valley-based company, Eon Reality, to The UWI Open Campus is the largest in decades for the University, and provides a critical foundation that will support the rise of The UWI Global Campus.
(Trinidad Guardian) Growing tensions between T&T and India over the gifting of COVID-19 vaccines to the CARICOM region ended yesterday, following the announcement it would be donating 40,000 doses of the WHO-approved Astra Zeneca vaccine to this country.
(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica recorded 458 new cases of COVID-19 yesterday and one additional death, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 37,128 and the death toll to 546.
(Trinidad Guardian) Construction tycoon Emile Elias has made his first appearance in court after being charged with grooming and sexual penetration of a 17-year-old.
(Trinidad Guardian) Nurses are opting to take up the fight against the COVID-19 virus outside of the country’s borders.
(Trinidad Guardian) Growing tensions between T&T and India over the gifting of COVID-19 vaccines to the CARICOM region ended yesterday, following the announcement it would be donating 40,000 doses of the WHO-approved Astra Zeneca vaccine to this country.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Government will engage the private sector in its search for viable vaccines outside the COVAX facility for Trinidad and Tobago.
(Trinidad Express) Masked men demanding cash and drugs chopped to death a Point Fortin man yesterday morning.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Several Caribbean island nations have issued a plea to the United States to share its stockpile of COVID-19 vaccines with the region as it has said it would with Mexico and Canada, calling on it not to neglect its “third border.”
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba will administer experimental COVID-19 shots to nearly the entire population of the capital Havana by May as health authorities carry out massive interventional studies and late stage trials, officials said yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) Masked men demanding cash and drugs chopped to death a Point Fortin man yesterday morning.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Government will engage the private sector in its search for viable vaccines outside the COVAX facility for Trinidad and Tobago.
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