BUENOS AIRES/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s pick to run Latin America’s main financing institution appears poised to win the top job in this weekend’s election amid faltering regional opposition to having a U.S.
THE HAGUE, (Reuters) – The interim government of Bolivia has referred protests and blockades by opposition supporters this August ahead of the presidential vote in October to the International Criminal Court, the court’s prosecutor said in a statement yesterday.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – The governor of Brazil’s São Paulo state said yesterday that Phase 3 clinical trials of a potential COVID-19 vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac Biotech Ltd have shown promising results and it may be available to Brazilians as early as December.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – The office of Brazil’s top prosecutor has decided to keep the country’s famed Car Wash anti-corruption task force active through Jan.
(Jamaica Star) Retailers and shopkeepers across the island are reportedly rationing chicken due to a shortage of poultry meat in the market place.
(Trinidad Express) POLICE had to be called to the Bayside Towers gated community in Cocorite on Sunday to break up a poolside birthday party attended by more than 40 young people.
(Trinidad Guardian) A 16-year-old boy is expected to appear before a Magistrate virtually today, charged with the murder of Kowsil Ramkhelawan.
(Trinidad Express) A 28-year-old labourer of La Brea Trace, Siparia, was denied bail when he appeared before Magistrate Aden Stroude at the Siparaia First Magistrates’ Court yesterday, charged with rape and kidnapping.
(Jamaica Gleaner) DNA samples taken from six persons of interest and close associates of murdered American model Desiree Gibbon have not led to the arrest or identity of the New Yorker’s killer three years after her death.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Minister of Health Dr Christopher Tufton says based on modelling, up to 1.5 million Jamaicans may contract COVID-19.
(Trinidad Express) FOUR police officers and two civilians were seriously injured after their vehicle crashed while chasing suspected criminals in Barrackpore on Sunday morning.
(Trinidad Express) Joanna Diaz Sanchez was one of thousands of Venezuelans who fled the economic crisis in the South American country and sought refuge in Trinidad and Tobago.
(Jamaica Observer) Jamaicans across the United States have reacted with shock over the results of last Thursday’s general election in which the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) battered the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP).
(Jamaica Gleaner) The sons of 83-year-old Avis Ledgister are still in shock after their mother died suddenly on election day, missing out on her decades-long tradition of voting for whoever was the People’s National Party (PNP) candidate in St Elizabeth South West.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaican designer Lorna Scott-Williams has been listed by Vogue magazine as a stalwart among 67 industry veterans named in the September issue as “people who make fashion happen”.
(Jamaica Gleaner) American model Desiree Gibbon’s unsolved murder has forced her family to call for the intervention of Prime Minister-designate Andrew Holness three years since the heinous killing.
(Jamaica Observer) There were unconfirmed reports last night that the final count for the Westmoreland Eastern constituency has produced a tie.
(Trinidad Express) PARENTS who could not afford a computer device for their children to participate in virtual learning may now be in a better position to do so, as all taxes on laptops, notebook computers and tablets have been removed.
(Barbados Nation) Three men were remanded when they appeared in the District “A” Magistrates Court on murder and arson charges yesterday morning.
(Trinidad Express) AVenezuelan woman missing for a week was found killed and dumped in a cess Pit at the home of an alleged former lover at Preysal yesterday.
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