Regional News

(Trinidad Express) A man chopped his wife to death and hanged himself at San Fernando on Tuesday night.

(Trinidad Express) Barrackpore residents fought back when armed criminals attempted a robbery at a roti shop yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) The search for missing 17-year-old Christopher Cummings ended yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Kelvin Andrews of St. James is expected to appear before a Port of Spain Magistrate  charged with the 2020 murder of Brianna Parks.

(Trinidad Express) A Las Lomas businessman was killed, and two employees injured in a drive-by shooting in Las Lomas yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) A man has been charged with the murder of Princes Town mother of two Karen Rauseo.

(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad and Tobago will receive only a third of the first batch of vaccines allocated to it by the COVAX facility come month-end.

(Reuters) – Earlier this month, Loren Hughes, a longtime resident of the U.S.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – During the early months of Brazil’s COVID-19 pandemic, Rio de Janeiro police detective Fernanda Fernandes was certain that cases of domestic abuse were rising, but there was little she could do about it as few women came forward to file a report.

(Trinidad Express) Point Fortin businessman, Evril “Tony” Jeffrey was shot multiple times in what police believe may have been a home invasion on Friday evening.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police are investigating a double murder and wounding with intent at Arouca during the early hours of Saturday morning.

(Jamaica Gleaner) – The finances of The University of the West Indies, Mona, are in jeopardy, a state of affairs which chairman of the campus council, Earl Jarrett, admitted is threatening the viability of the largest university in Jamaica.

(Barbados Nation) – Almost 50 000 people received the COVID-19 vaccine as part of the Barbados National Vaccination Programme.

(Barbados Nation) Bridgetown – Barbados is among ten countries across the region which will get a major boost to their coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination programmes as a result of a US$500 000 donation from CIBC FirstCaribbean.

(Trinidad Express) – Two men were killed and a 17-year-old girl was injured in a home invasion during the wee hours yesterday morning.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s daily COVID-19 death toll could reach 3,000 if serious action is not taken to halt the spread of the virus, according to a presentation made in a meeting of the government’s crisis response team, two sources present told Reuters.

ASUNCION, (Reuters) – Paraguay’s minister of public health, Julio Mazzoleni, resigned yesterday after lawmakers the previous day urged him to step down as a record-breaking surge in coronavirus cases left medication in short supply and the country’s hospitals near collapse.

(Barbados Nation) The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) has taken its Caribbean subsidiary off the chopping block after two failed attempts to sell the majority shareholding.

(Trinidad Guardian) Writer, columnist and activist Colin Robinson has died. Robinson, 59, died in Washington DC, where he was receiving palliative care after a lengthy battle with colon cancer.

(Trinidad Guardian) A law against sexual harassment—in the workplace, streets and via use of cyberspace—is coming.