BRASILIA, (Reuters) – The Brazilian government will include China’s Sinovac vaccine against COVID-19 in its national immunization programme, state governors said yesterday after a meeting with the country’s health minister, in addition to one developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – An oil tanker operated by Venezuelan state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela yesterday approached a floating oil facility where it is expected to receive crude via transfer at sea amid environmental concerns, Refinitiv Eikon data showed.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Portland Municipal Corporation has been plunged into mourning following the passing of Irvin Brown, the councillor for the Fellowship division in Portland Eastern.
(Jamaica Star) David Reid, a jovial tailor who loved his rum, died a terrible death last Friday after he was boxed to the ground, allegedly by a teenager who was engaged in an argument with a shopkeeper in Pisgah, a community located some 30 minutes from New Market in St Elizabeth.
(Jamaica Gleaner) On April 20 this year, George Jon-Andrew Bryan had just returned from the skate park and climbed on to the roof of his Boston, Portland, home to watch firefighters battle a wildfire that was consuming the hills.
(Trinidad Guardian) As the restaurant industry battles through the seventh month of COVID-19 restrictions, several owners say unless the Government eases restrictions soon, low revenues may force them out of business by November.
BRASILIA/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned yesterday the United States and Brazil need to reduce their dependence on imports from China for their own security as the two countries reinforced their business partnership.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has announced that the government will revisit the energy sector tax regime to ensure the country remains competitive.
BEIJING/SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – An experimental vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac Biotech appeared to be safe in providing protection against the COVID-19 disease caused by the new coronavirus, preliminary results of a late stage clinical trial conducted in Brazil showed yesterday.
Flocks of yellow-billed cuckoos, which normally migrate from North to South America to escape winter, have been seen in Jamaica in recent weeks, an unusual spectacle which Terrestrial Biologist Damion Whyte believes is a result of Hurricane Delta.
(Trinidad Guardian) Three women appeared in the Scarborough Magistrates’ Virtual Court to answer charges of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, false imprisonment and robbery with aggravation of a 28 year old man Dachel Ashby 19, a security guard, Jennieve Gardiner 28, unemployed and Reacheal Martinez 36, also security guard are all close relatives.
“We can never forgive the Government policy that denied my father the right to return home.”
(Trinidad Guardian) The Ministry of Finance has confirmed that the proposed increase of taxes and import duty on certain private motor cars—namely, certain smaller engine CNG, electric and hybrid cars—which were announced in the 2021 Budget Statement, will now be applicable from January 1st, 2021.
LA PAZ, (Reuters) – Bolivia’s socialist candidate Luis Arce looks set to win the country’s presidential election without the need for a run-off, an unofficial count indicated today, putting the leftwing party of Evo Morales on the brink of a return to power.
(Trinidad Express) Three men who decided to go up against a 68-year-old farmer from Princes Town got more than they bargained for.
(Jamaica Observer) SIBLINGS Dwayne and Feleca Jonas are now both waiting to be called to the Jamaican Bar Association, having recently successfully completed their two-year tenure together at Norman Manley Law School (NMLS).
(Jamaica Gleaner) With two weeks to go for what is being described as one of the most important presidential elections in the history of the United States, Jamaicans in the US have high expectations of whoever takes the White House.
(Trinidad Guardian) T&T Airline Pilots Association (TTALPA) and Caribbean Airlines have agreed that all pilots’ salaries will be cut by 57 per cent—just over half—for the next three months, to support CAL’s cost cutting measures amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago will receive COVID-19 vaccines for 20 per cent of its population in the first instance after its development.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Ministry of Foreign and Caricom Affairs has dispelled any thoughts that it has not been taking action on the tilting Nabarima.
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