WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – World Bank President David Malpass said yesterday he is seeking board approval for a $12 billion coronavirus vaccine financing plan to help poor and developing countries secure a sufficient share of vaccine doses when they become available in the coming months.
In view of the reduced demand for its services due to the global pandemic, Caribbean Airlines (CAL) is being forced to lay off staff in a bid to stay afloat.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – A new round of protests has started to sweep across Venezuela as discontent intensifies in the country’s near-abandoned interior due to worsening fuel shortages and the constant failure of public services, a local non-governmental organization said yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) Police Commissioner Gary Griffith will be flying out to Ireland to “recharge” and vacation with his family.
(Jamaica Star) When she lost her father Imran to gun violence in March, 17-year-old Mikaelah Mustafaa’s life took a drastic turn.
(Trinidad Guardian) Police officers from two units are appealing to anyone who may have been sexually assaulted or robbed along the North Coast Road to report their cases to them.
(Trinidad Express) THE decision is final — Carnival 2021 is off.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says Carnival 2021 has been cancelled.
RIO DE JANEIRO/BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian state prosecutors in Rio de Janeiro yesterday brought charges against the president’s son, Flavio Bolsonaro, for alleged embezzlement, laundering and running a criminal organization, domestic newspaper O Globo reported.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s biggest lobby group for soy farmers Aprosoja has broken ties with the Brazil Agribusiness Association (Abag) over its support for an initiative calling on the Brazilian government to rein in soaring deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.
MANAGUA, (Reuters) – The government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has proposed two pieces of legislation that would clamp down on news outlets and nongovernmental organizations, which critics say is an attempt to control the opposition and the media.
(Jamaica Star) According to her grandaunt, Lorna Davidson, seven-year-old Bianca ‘Heaven’ Spence wanted to become a nurse.
(Jamaica Star) For the second time in a matter of days, policemen have been attacked while trying to get persons to adhere to the COVID-19 protocols.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Michelle Henry looked with bewilderment at her house a day after her eight-year-old daughter was found inside hanging from a clothes line in Commodore, St Catherine, on Sunday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaican Kay Maragh is hoping that she will be the first woman, person of colour, and Caribbean immigrant to be elected mayor of Palm Bay in Florida.
(Trinidad Express) IT was a soldier, not a policeman. And an investigation will be launched to determine whether the member of the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force (TTDF) committed any criminal act following the release of video footage showing an officer secretly pocketing an envelope during a raid in La Horquetta last week where $22 million in cash was seized from Drugs Sou Sou (DSS).
(Jamaica Gleaner) After prayer and consultation with her constituency, Lisa Hanna today made her intention to contend for president of the People’s National Party (PNP) official.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – The largest city in Brazil’s Amazon has closed bars and river beaches to contain a fresh surge of coronavirus cases, a trend that may dash theories that Manaus was one of the world’s first places to reach collective, or herd, immunity.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Beauty queen-turned-lawmaker Lisa Hanna has emerged as the front runner to take over the reins of the floundering People’s National Party (PNP), according to a leaked internal poll commissioned by the party.
(Trinidad Express) Kidnap victim Mary Ali was found on the roadway, approximately six kilometres from her home, at daybreak on Saturday.
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