Regional News

ZURICH, (Reuters) – The World Health Organization yesterday listed Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, in a move seeking to speed access in the developing world.

(Jamaica Gleaner) It was during her last prayer Sun-day morning that Andrea Lowe Garwood, a 56-year-old credit card officer was shot dead at the Agape Christian Fellowship in Falmouth, Trelawny.

CASTRIES, St. Lucia,  (Reuters) – Residents of the eastern Caribbean island chain of St.

BRASILIA/RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Fiocruz biomedical center will request authorization for emergency use of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca PLC and Oxford University by next Wednesday, its president, Nísia Trindade, said  yesterday.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil reported 56,773 additional confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours, and 1,074 deaths from COVID-19, the health ministry said yesterday.

CASTRIES, St. Lucia,  (Reuters) – Residents of the eastern Caribbean island chain of St.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police rescued a 92-year-old woman yesterday from what her neighbours called ‘A house of horror’.

(Trinidad Express) A Tobagonian man is claiming he has written 22 e-mails to National Security Minister Stuart Young and his ministry pleading for an exemption to return home.

(Trinidad Guardian) Homicide officers were kept busy Tuesday night following two murders in Chaguanas and Brazil Village.

RIO DE JANEIRO/SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Brazil will soon weigh emergency-use approval for AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine after Britain gave the green light yesterday, as the South American country was forced into making regulatory concessions to speed up its lagging immunization program.

MOSCOW/LA PAZ,  (Reuters) – Russia’s sovereign fund, Russia Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), agreed to supply Bolivia with enough of its two-dose Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine to vaccinate 2.6 million people, RDIF said yesterday, marking the South American nation’s first major vaccine deal.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Colombia has reached an agreement with Johnson & Johnson’s pharmaceutical division Janssen to acquire 9 million doses of coronavirus vaccines, President Ivan Duque said in a televised address yesterday.

(Jamaica Observer) FITZROY Coore, branded as one of Clarendon’s most wanted criminals and who was shot dead by law enforcers in Manchester on Sunday, used two women as human shields in an attempt to escape after he was cornered in a house, the police have reported.

(Jamaica Gleaner) From a homeless shelter in Kingston, 60-year-old Devon ‘Frank’ Wade has launched a business which allows him to employ other homeless persons to design, build and furnish the homes of prospective and current homeowners.

(Jamaica Star) Twenty-seven years ago, Debbie Eaton lost her right leg to gunshot wounds, but that did not prevent her from living a full life.

(Trinidad Guardian) A blind pensioner was among several tenants of a building in Port-of-Spain who had to climb through a window to escape a fiery death yesterday.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentina’s Senate voted today to legalize abortion, a first for a big country in Latin America and a triumph for women’s rights campaigners achieved over the visceral objection of the Catholic Church.

(Barbados Nation) Chief Medical Officer Dr Kenneth George has delisted Sandals Barbados Resort and Spa as a designated quarantine hotel effective January 5, 2021, and three tourists have been held for questioning by police, according to a media statement on Tuesday.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras said that it had received 232.6 million reais ($44.65 million) on yesterday in a settlement with Swiss energy trading firm Vitol, which was implicated in a sprawling national corruption probe.

(Barbados Nation) Residents of St Vincent and the Grenadines were warned to stay away from La Soufriere volcano after increased seismic activity was detected in the dome over the weekend.