Regional News

(Trinidad Express) The raid which dominated the headlines on April 10 was described as the first of its kind by the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) during the Covid-19 lockdown.

(Jamaica Gleaner) With no indication as to when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will give the green light for cruise activity to return to US waters and an expectation that COVID-19 protocols will reduce the number of guests on each voyage, Jamaican cruise line workers whose tour of duty ended prematurely at the start of the outbreak are worried that their jobs could be under threat.

(Trinidad Guardian) The swift deportation of 160 Venezuelans by the Ministry of National Security late yesterday came on the cusp of a planned meeting between Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley and Venezuela’s President Nicholas Maduro.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – A rare public protest in Cuba of more than 300 artists, activists and members of the public outside the culture ministry to denounce repression and censorship ended early yesterday after demonstrators said they agreed with officials to open an unprecedented dialogue.

(Trinidad Express) The High Court has blocked the State from deporting 19 Venezuelan nationals against whom deportation orders had been issued.

(Jamaica Star) It’s been all of 274 days since Lloyd Deen last heard the voice of his daughter, Jasmine, some time after 9 p.m.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Black university and college graduates who struggle to find internship opportunities, mentors, or employment in major corporate companies across Canada will now receive support through an initiative launched last month by two entrepreneurs – Wayne and Nigela Purboo, who boast Jamaican heritage.

(Trinidad Guardian) Relatives of a Palo Seco businessman, who police shot dead on Thursday, are calling for a murder investigation as they said police killed an unarmed man.

(Trinidad Express) JANUARY 29, 2021 has been set as the date when the preliminary enquiry against former government minister Marlene McDonald and four others on corruption charges is expected to begin.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica’s chief anti-corruption agency, the Integrity Commission, is to receive a massive cash injection from the United Kingdom as it moves to further strengthen its operations.

EGUCIGALPA,  (Reuters) – Former Honduran president Manuel Zelaya said yesterday that he had been “unjustly” detained at the Central American nation’s Toncontin international airport for carrying $18,000 in cash, which he said was not his.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Peru has secured enough coronavirus vaccine to give nearly three-quarters of its population at least one dose when the immunization is available, a hopeful development for a nation with one of the highest COVID-19 death rates in the world.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The $1-trillion bill to efficiently upgrade Jamaica’s roads requires a paradigm shift in construction and maintenance policy and provision of a credible budget, National Works Agency (NWA) Chief Executive E.

(Jamaica Star) Sackeno ‘Nico’ Ross, 30, mysteriously fell ill last Monday at his home in Rae Town, Kingston, with swellings all over his body and bruises all over his chest.

(Trinidad Guardian) The young man who found the abandoned baby hidden among bushes in Freeport last Thursday wants to visit the infant, to see for himself how she is doing.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – The state of Sao Paulo could roll out the COVID-19 vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac even without approval from Brazil’s health regulator, the state’s governor said in an interview on Thursday.

(Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Two years after the murder of popular Brazilian councilwoman Marielle Franco, her partner Monica Benicio has also won a council seat and vowed to fight for justice and LGBT+ rights.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Chile’s opposition-controlled Senate yesterday approved a government-backed bill that would allow citizens to make a second withdrawal from their public pensions to further blunt the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

David Reid, 24, and his fiancee Ann-Marie Neil, are set to tie the knot on February 27.

(Trinidad Express) THE State has been restrained from again deporting 16 Venezuelan children and 11 adults while their challenge against their deportation that took place over the weekend is heard and determined by the High Court.