Regional News

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexico has signed an agreement with Pfizer to acquire 34.4 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine, the country’s health ministry announced yesterday.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition is discussing scaling back the interim government of opposition leader Juan Guaido that has won diplomatic recognition by dozens of countries that disavowed President Nicolas Maduro, nine legislators told Reuters.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Jamaican mother of a three-year-old boy has been ordered to return the child to his father in United States amid a simmering year-long dispute that drew on international law governing child abduction.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The mothers of two men whose bodies were found in a macabre heap on a Portmore roadway on the weekend have denied that their killing was in revenge for the triple murder of an 81-year-old woman and her granddaughters.

(Trinidad Express) A 13-year-old was struck and killed by an armoured security truck in Guapo, Point Fortin on Monday afternoon.

(Trinidad Express) Two police officers were each charged with the offence of misbehaviour in public office and two offences of corruptly obtaining $5,000 for themselves.

(Trinidad Guardian) His dream is to become a famous cricketer but after being diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia, (AML), 14-year-old Asa Ramkissoon is now begging for a chance to live.

(Trinidad Guardian) Fire victim Lesli Ann Jeffers was hit with a second major tragedy this week when she lost her home to a fire on Monday, a day after her mother passed away.

(Jamaica Observer) JAMAICAN scientists are now engaged in a drive to locate and protect two endemic plants that flower and bear fruits.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A 23-year-old man who is to be deported from the United Kingdom (UK) on Wednesday, December 2, having served time in prison for peddling ‘class A’ drugs, is accusing the Home Office of being “callous, wicked and uncaring” for arresting him in full view of his two infant sons.

(Trinidad Guardian) “We will deport you.” This was the message from Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley to Venezuelan migrants entering Trinidad and Tobago illegally.

(Trinidad Express) A man who left some of his life savings hidden under his mattress for a rainy day, was came home to discover the bed had been burnt to ash.

(Trinidad Express) A POLICE constable’s identification card, badge, and diary were stolen from a TTPS vehicle on Saturday.

BOGOTA,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As a girl growing up in Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest, Nemonte Nenquimo would listen to stories passed down from her ancestors about how the Waorani indigenous people preserved their forests and defended their lands from settlers and oil companies.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The family of Oral Nunis Sr, a Jamaican man who died in the custody of the Chula Vista police, has sued the San Diego city government and the police department for what they are alleging is his wrongful death at the hands of officers.

(Jamaica Gleaner) One year after a Toronto street was named after him, Jamaica-born Canadian B.

(Jamaica Observer) How does a shy, little, ‘lisp-tongue’ girl from Kingston end up as a Supreme Court judge in New York, beating back cancer and COVID-19 along the way?

(Trinidad Guardian) A Chaguanas man, who underwent two emergency triple bypass surgeries in less than a year in the private sector at a cost of $250,000, says he is traumatised and in pain after he developed an incisional hernia following the surgeries.

(Trinidad Guardian) A bodyguard who rescued a couple who were swept away in their vehicle by floodwaters last Thursday, is grateful that he was in the right place at the right time to save them.

(Trinidad Express) FOLLOWING last week’s controversial “extreme embalming” funeral where the seated body of Che Lewis arrived via procession, the Catholic Archdiocese last Friday reminded of the “dignity” of the body and said parishes will now have to request details ahead of services.