Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) “I never looked at it as something to stop me.

SANTIAGO, Dec 15 (Reuters) – Chilean lawmakers late yesterday approved a bill to reserve 17 of 155 seats for representatives of indigenous communities in its upcoming constitutional convention, a measure lauded as “historic” by the government of center-right President Sebastian Pinera.

(Trinidad Express) It was unintentional and the Prime Minister is sorry.

LA PAZ,  (Reuters) – A scientific expedition high in the Bolivian Andes revealed 20 species new to science, including “lilliputian frog” plus four rediscovered species including the “devil-eyed frog” previously thought to be extinct, Conservation International said.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuba yesterday rejected a U.S. government report concluding that directed radio frequency was the most plausible explanation for mysterious ailments suffered by U.S.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Jamaican nurse who created history by becoming the first person in the United States to receive the COVID-19 vaccine is urging her countrymen to get the life-saving jab to shield them from the virus that has infected almost 73 million people globally and killed 1.6 million.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police are investigating a firebombing incident in Cocorite on Sunday night in which a 92-year-old man was killed and his elderly wife in her 80s warded in a critical condition.

SAN JOSE DE GUANIPA, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Francisco Belisario, a Venezuelan mayor, retired general and member of the ruling Socialist party, had enough.

(Trinidad Guardian) Minister of National Security Stuart Young has successfully defended a legal challenge brought by Shirlanne Sacha Singh against the exemption process to manage the entry of people into T&T.

(Trinidad Guardian) Relatives of Stephon Ramnarine, 26, yesterday claimed he was in an abusive relationship but stayed because he was in love.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A Jamaican-American nurse was the first to get the COVID-19 vaccine in New York.

(Jamaica Observer) JAMAICAN Grammy Award-winning recording artiste Shaggy has brushed aside conspiracy theories about COVID-19 vaccines and says he’s ready to take the jab when it becomes available in the island.

(Jamaica Gleaner) An Inter-American Development Bank study has revealed that Jamaica leads the Caribbean in the number of inmates who were armed with weapons when they committed a crime.

(Jamaica Star) St D’Acre, a small district situated about five minutes from Alexandria, St.

(Jamaica Star) After almost three decades of hiccups, 45-year-old Patricia ‘Alicia’ Fearon has been able to attain an associate degree in early childhood education.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 26-year-old contractor was stabbed to death by a close female relative during a domestic dispute yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Three T&T Defence Force personnel and a police officer were among 44 revellers that were held, as police busted an illegal “zesser” party in La Horquetta yesterday morning.

(Trinidad Express) The Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard is confirming the deaths of eleven Venezuelan men women and children who drowned on their way to Trinidad.

(Trinidad Guardian) On the very day Ashanti Riley will be laid to rest, a San Juan man is expected to face the court charged with her murder today.

(Trinidad Guardian) Awakened by loud explosions as gunmen shot up his bedroom early yesterday morning, a Chaguanas man remained on his bed paralysed with fear.