Regional News

(Trinidad Express) A man who posted a message on social media, following the death of Andrea Bharatt, has been reported to the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service’s (TTPS) Professional Standards Bureau (PSB) by Police Commissioner Gary Griffith.

(Trinidad Guardian) Farmer Nappy has won the 2021 International Soca Monarch with his song “Backyard Jam”.

(Jamaica Observer) Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Senator Kamina Johnson Smith informed the Senate on Friday that progress is being made in discussions with United States authorities on Jamaica’s request for new protocols to protect Jamaican seafarers detained under the Shiprider Agreement.

(Trinidad Express) What is usually celebrated as a Fantastic Friday turned into a day of complete sorrow as hundreds of people came out in the streets of Arima yesterday to say their final goodbyes to Andrea Bharatt.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – A U.N. envoy yesterday said U.S. and E.U.

(Trinidad Guardian) Pepper spray will be available ahead to women and girls within a regulated arrangement where a permit will be required .

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuador’s election authority said yesterday it will conduct a recount in most of the country to ensure the transparency of Sunday’s presidential elections, after one of the candidates made accusations of electoral fraud.

CARICOM Secretary General Irwin LaRocque has written Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressing appreciation for New Delhi’s donation of 500,000 COVID-19 vaccines to the region.

(Trinidad Guardian) Over 500 businesses have announced they will be closed today as murder victim Andrea Bharatt is laid to rest.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two yachts were destroyed by fire Thursday at the Trinidad and Tobago Yacht Club in Carenage.

(Trinidad Guardian) Negus George, of Seventh Street, Gooding Trace in Malabar, has been formally charged with the murder of 23-year-old Andrea Bharatt.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – A coronavirus variant identified in the Brazilian Amazon may be three times more contagious but early analysis suggests vaccines are still effective against it, the country’s health minister said yesterday, without providing evidence for the claims.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan government officials and opposition leaders have met to discuss buying coronavirus vaccines through the COVAX program using cash frozen in the United States by economic sanctions, two sources familiar with the matter said yesterday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Haiti’s ambassador to the United States yesterday called for the international community to support talks between President Jovenel Moise’s government and the opposition as a constitutional crisis escalates, but rejected calls for Moise to leave office.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Medical teams working to immunize Brazil’s remote indigenous villages against the coronavirus have encountered fierce resistance in some communities where evangelical missionaries are stoking fears of the vaccine, say tribal leaders and advocates.

REIMS, France,  (Reuters) – When Marie-Ines Romelle, a Black woman born on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, decided to join the exclusive world of France’s champagne producers, she saw no one who looked like her.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Dancehall artiste Moses Davis, more popularly known as Beenie Man, has pleaded not guilty to charges for breaches of the Disaster Risk Management and Noise Abatement acts.

(Trinidad Express) Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Roger Gaspard has instructed police to charge one man with the murder of court clerk Andrea Bharatt.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Haitian police yesterday clashed with rock-hurling protesters in the capital Port-Au-Prince amid street demonstrations against President Jovenel Moise after his government retired three Supreme Court judges earmarked as his potential replacements.

(Reuters) – The executors of Jeffrey Epstein’s estate were accused yesterday of being the “indispensable captains” of the financier’s sex trafficking scheme, escalating a legal battle that could delay compensation for Epstein’s victims.