RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazil suffered a record 3,251 COVID-19 deaths yesterday, as pot-banging protests erupted across the country during an address by President Jair Bolsonaro in which he defended his pandemic response and pledged to ramp up vaccinations.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Supreme Court yesterday ruled that former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva had not been treated impartially in graft probes, strengthening his chances of running against President Jair Bolsonaro in next year’s vote.
(Jamaica Gleaner) As at Saturday, 24,502 Jamaicans had received their first doses of AstraZeneca vaccine.
(Trinidad Guardian) Chief Medical Officer Dr Roshan Parasram is cautioning that the country appears to be on the verge of a significant increase in COVID-19 cases.
(Trinidad Guardian) Indian High Commissioner Arun Kumar Sahu yesterday said efforts are being made to supply some vaccines to Trinidad and Tobago, however, there is no time frame for the delivery yet.
(Trinidad Express) Twenty-five Venezuelan women, one Nigerian, and a Trinidadian were arrested by officers of the Inter-Agency Task Force, during an anti-crime exercise conducted at Icacos overnight.
(Trinidad Express) The Cold Case Unit of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) has closed the case relating to the death of Japanese pannist, Asami Nagakiya.
(Trinidad Guardian) The diplomatic friction between the Government and Indian High Commissioner Arun Kumar Sahu over the availability of COVID-19 vaccines from that country seems to be worsening.
(Jamaica Gleaner) – Antigua and Barbuda’s Prime Minister Gaston Browne has written to US President Joseph Biden, requesting that CARICOM countries be included in the provision of AstraZeneca vaccines to Canada and Mexico.
(Barbados Government Information Service) – Over 60 000 people were vaccinated against COVID-19 up to Friday as part of the National Vaccination Programme.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s government has been in talks since March 13 about potentially importing excess COVID-19 vaccines from the United States, the Brazilian Foreign Ministry said on Twitter yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) -Indian High Commissioner Arun Kumar Sahu did not communicate the availability of India’s 500,000 vaccines to CARICOM and that is why Trinidad and Tobago did not know it was an option.
(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — Prime Minister Andrew Holness has warned that there will be prosecution if corruption and/or negligence led to the disappearance of a vial of COVID-19 vaccine from the Cornwall Regional Hospital in St James recently.
(Barbados Nation) A 51-year-old Barbadian man was shot and killed in Chicago’s West Side on Sunday morning.
(Trinidad Express) A 19-year-old woman was yesterday ordered to stand trial for murder.
(Trinidad Guardian) A 35-year-old former Special Reserve Police (SRP), accused of child pornography possession, has been granted $200,000 bail.
(Trinidad Guardian) Indian High Commissioner Arun Kumar Sahu did not communicate the availability of India’s 500,000 vaccines to CARICOM and that is why Trinidad and Tobago did not know it was an option.
ATLANTA, (Reuters) – Homicide detectives yesterday weighed the possible motives of a gunman accused of fatally shooting several Asian women in Atlanta-area spas, as a U.S.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives yesterday passed bills providing a pathway to citizenship for immigrants nicknamed “Dreamers,” who are living illegally in the United States after entering as children, as well as for a large number of immigrant farmworkers.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States plans to send roughly 4 million doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine that it is not using to Mexico and Canada in loan deals with the two countries, yielding to requests to share vaccines with allies.
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