Regional News

(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley said yesterday that she is among eight people who recently received a vaccine for coronavirus (COVID-19).

(Trinidad Express) Two men were killed in a shoot-out with an off-duty police officer on Wednesday night.

MANAUS, Brazil,  (Reuters) – The Brazilian state of Amazonas is running out of oxygen during a renewed surge in COVID-19 deaths, its government said yesterday, with media reporting that people on respirators were dying of suffocation in hospitals.

(Jamaica Star) Twins Zaneta and Zuri Scott were eager to celebrate their mother Rosemarie’s graduation from the University of the West Indies, Mona, tomorrow.

(Trinidad Guardian) A suspected hitman was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer along the Lady Chancellor Hill in St Ann’s on Wednesday night.

(Trinidad Express) Officers of the Financial Investigations Branch (FIB) of the Police Service committed an illegality and breached the Consti-tutional rights of the Trini-dad Express when it executed two search warrants at the media house last March.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro has tried to sabotage efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19 in his country and pursued policies that undermine the rights of Brazilians, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said yesterday.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s health ministry has registered Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine for use against COVID-19 under an emergency use authorisation procedure, vaccine developers said yesterday.

MANAGUA,  (Reuters) – Nicaragua is in talks with Russia’s Gamaleya Insti-tute to acquire the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said yesterday.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s Health Ministry said yesterday that vaccination of the country’s population against COVID-19 will begin with vaccines imported from China and India as soon as their emergency use has been approved by health regulator Anvisa, planned for Sunday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Detroit Pistons’ power forward Isaiah Stewart says that he has never forgotten his Jamaican roots on his journey to the NBA.

(Trinidad Guardian) On his first day back to work after he suffering injuries in two chopping incidents over the Christmas holidays, Mayaro mason Joel Ellis was fatally shot.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica —  A total of approximately 292,000 doses, enough to vaccinate approximately 146,000 Jamaicans, are due on island in April.

(Trinidad Guardian) A young man, who was struck in his head by a stray bullet and given a slim chance of survival, has defied the odds.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – A coronavirus vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac Biotech was just 50.4% effective at preventing symptomatic infections in a Brazilian trial, researchers said yesterday, barely enough for regulatory approval and well below the rate announced last week.

(Jamaica Star) G. Samuels, the Jamaican who recently won the $301.5-million Super Lotto jackpot, says he has been playing Lotto for 19 years.

(Trinidad Guardian) A former boyfriend of Jada Pierre has been denied bail after appearing in court for allegedly beating her on the head with a hammer.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Trump administration yesterday announced it was returning Cuba to the U.S.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – The coronavirus vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac Biotech showed a general efficacy of less than 60% in its late-stage trial in Brazil, a news website reported yesterday, citing two people who seen the results.

(Trinidad Guardian) Journalist Abby Phillip, who was born to Trini-dadian parents, has been named CNN’s Senior Political Correspondent.