(Trinidad Guardian) One year after T&T reported its first case of COVID-19, hundreds of businesses have been forced to permanently close their doors, while others that have remained open continue to see a drastic fall in sales.
(Trinidad Express) A 61-year-old delivery driver cannot be found and his family is pleading for help.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil reported 2,216 COVID-19 deaths in the last 24 hours, the third day in a row that fatalities exceeded 2,000 in the worst run of deaths since the pandemic began a year ago.
(Trinidad Guardian) CL Financial Limited is selling its 94.24 per cent shareholding in COLFIRE.
(Trinidad Express) Auto-air-conditioning business owner Nicolas Mohith died at hospital on Thursday, hours after being shot in the abdomen by a gunman who walked into the garage of his home and business.
(Trinidad Guardian) T&T’s natural gas woes are expected to continue for at least another four years as the Energy Minister Franklin Khan confirmed that production is unlikely to return to the required four billion cubic feet per day (bcf/d) until 2025.
(Trinidad Express) A Valencia man was killed bed early Friday. Javon “Shorto” Clement, 26, was shot in the head and body.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba accused Washington of stoking illegal migration by not processing visas in Havana and making it relatively easy for Cubans to claim asylum, in the wake of a spate of ill-fated clandestine attempts to reach U.S.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – The office of Brazil’s prosecutor general yesterday appealed a Supreme Court judge’s ruling earlier this week that annulled the criminal convictions of former leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Public Health England (PHE) yesterday said a new coronavirus variant had been identified in the UK in two people who had recently been in Antigua, adding that it shared some traits of others but would not be categorised as concerning for now.
(Barbados Nation) On Tuesday morning, Kleisha Thomas was unable to reach her father on the phone.
(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley said Government received 5 000 doses of coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines from Guyana yesterday and expects 33 600 through the COVAX Facility soon.
(Trinidad Express) Businessman Emile Elias has been charged with two sexual offences against a minor.
(Trinidad Guardian) Minutes before 15-year-old Akid “Chuffie” Duke was killed, gunmen warned the driver of the vehicle the boy was seated in to “leave the area” as it was “hot.”
(Jamaica Gleaner) Public health nurse Marcia Thomas Yettman yesterday became the first person in Jamaica to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil has registered a record for daily COVID-19 fatalities, with 2,286 people dead from the virus in the last 24 hours, according to the Health Ministry yesterday.
GENEVA, (Reuters) – United Nations human rights experts said yesterday they were looking into allegations that Venezuelan police forces had killed 200 people this year and investigators raised concerns about possible summary executions.
(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.
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