MANAGUA, (Reuters) – The government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has proposed two pieces of legislation that would clamp down on news outlets and nongovernmental organizations, which critics say is an attempt to control the opposition and the media.
(Jamaica Star) According to her grandaunt, Lorna Davidson, seven-year-old Bianca ‘Heaven’ Spence wanted to become a nurse.
(Jamaica Star) For the second time in a matter of days, policemen have been attacked while trying to get persons to adhere to the COVID-19 protocols.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Michelle Henry looked with bewilderment at her house a day after her eight-year-old daughter was found inside hanging from a clothes line in Commodore, St Catherine, on Sunday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaican Kay Maragh is hoping that she will be the first woman, person of colour, and Caribbean immigrant to be elected mayor of Palm Bay in Florida.
(Trinidad Express) IT was a soldier, not a policeman. And an investigation will be launched to determine whether the member of the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force (TTDF) committed any criminal act following the release of video footage showing an officer secretly pocketing an envelope during a raid in La Horquetta last week where $22 million in cash was seized from Drugs Sou Sou (DSS).
(Jamaica Gleaner) After prayer and consultation with her constituency, Lisa Hanna today made her intention to contend for president of the People’s National Party (PNP) official.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – The largest city in Brazil’s Amazon has closed bars and river beaches to contain a fresh surge of coronavirus cases, a trend that may dash theories that Manaus was one of the world’s first places to reach collective, or herd, immunity.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Beauty queen-turned-lawmaker Lisa Hanna has emerged as the front runner to take over the reins of the floundering People’s National Party (PNP), according to a leaked internal poll commissioned by the party.
(Trinidad Express) Kidnap victim Mary Ali was found on the roadway, approximately six kilometres from her home, at daybreak on Saturday.
(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago faces the threat of “twin viruses,” as it enters the yearly flu-season, adding the threat of the H1N1 virus to the COVID-19 pandemic.
(Trinidad Guardian) Caribbean Airlines appears to be flying into some strong headwinds as the airline warns of turbulence and proposes temporary salary reductions for all staff beginning next month to try and stay in the air.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The nude body of Anglican priest Father Larius Lewis was found in the rectory in Chapelton, Clarendon, on Friday.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru’s Navy yesterday was carefully watching a fleet of around 250 Chinese fishing vessels that had sailed just outside the Andean country’s waters, angering the domestic fishing industry and sparking a Twitter war between Washington and Beijing.
(Trinidad Guardian) He is 65-years-old, diabetic and has US$4 left to his name.
SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – Salvadoran military files from the time of a 1981 massacre of 1,000 people during the country’s civil war have been mostly destroyed, said El Salvador’s president, who vowed to make the few surviving documents public in an effort to bring justice in the case.
(Jamaica Star) Abysenya Gordon is just seven years old, and to the amazement of her family, is spelling words most adults cannot even pronounce.
(Jamaica Star) A herb which is allegedly treating persons infected with COVID-19 is now in high demand in Portland and St Thomas.
(Trinidad Guardian) Relatives of a Sangre Grande businesswoman, who was kidnapped outside her family’s supermarket on Wednesday morning, are yet to receive a ransom request.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Christopher and Andrea Jacobs were eagerly anticipating celebrating son Kristophe’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination results at the family home in Sydenham Gardens, just outside Spanish Town, on Tuesday evening.
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