(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Andrew Holness has used a last-minute digital press conference on Independence Day to warn that tighter COVID containment measures will soon be reimposed.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – The house arrest of former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe in a witness tampering case is unlikely to dim his influence, but has focused his party on justice reform proposals they say will bring more consistency to the judicial process, according to politicians and analysts.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – The leader of a Mexico-based church that claims over 1 million followers worldwide was ordered yesterday to remain held on $90 million bail, nearly double the original bail, on newly expanded charges of rape, human trafficking and child pornography.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro issued a decree yesterday that will set aside 1.9 billion reais ($356 million) in funds to purchase and eventually produce the potential COVID-19 vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca PLC and Oxford University researchers.
(Trinidad Guardian) Pupils preparing for the Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA) examination will do their work at home from today until the August 20 test – and bars and restaurants are now the biggest COVID-19 risk.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Expiring emergency payments to millions of low-paid Brazilians and the likely restoration of growth-choking austerity measures, as unemployment rises, risk torpedoing growing optimism that Latin America’s economy may not tank as much as feared.
GOIANIA, Brazil, (Reuters) – Chief Aritana Yawalapiti, one of Brazil’s most influential indigenous leaders who led the people of Upper Xingu in central Brazil and helped create an indigenous park there, died on Wednesday from COVID-19, his family said in a statement.
GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors charged Guatemalan former Economy Minister Asisclo Valladares yesterday with helping launder nearly $10 million in cash from drug traffickers and a corrupt politician.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled yesterday that President Jair Bolsonaro’s government must adopt measures to stop the spread of novel coronavirus to the country’s vulnerable indigenous communities.
QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuador said yesterday that China has agreed to allow supervision of its fishing vessels near the Galapagos Islands, after their presence spurred concerns about possible environmental impacts on the ecologically sensitive region.
(Trinidad Guardian) While his father worked nearby, a four-year-old toddler, left in the care of his grandmother, fell into a swimming pool in Rio Claro and drowned on Sunday.
(Jamaica Star) Jeffery Bowen is being hailed as a hero after he rescued a drowning boy from a crocodile-infested water canal in Bridgeport, Portmore, St Catherine, last Friday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The blast that killed more than 70 people and injured 4,000 in Beirut, Lebanon, on Tuesday was felt as far as the Republic of Cyprus and is being described as an “atomic bomb”.
(Trinidad Express) A man was stabbed to death during an altercation with another man at the home of a woman early Monday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has alleged the UNC is distributing truckloads of stoves, fridges and microwave ovens in the South and East and he told supporters to take them all and then vote for the PNM.
(Trinidad Express) A drunken man who poured a pot of boiling water on a woman who asked him to leave her house, has been sent to prison.
(Jamaica Star) In May, 27-year-old Thitania Williams was told that she desperately needed a heart transplant.
(Jamaica Star) Even with the news that the novel coronavirus claimed the lives of two senior citizens on the weekend, senior citizen Eletia ‘Miss Dottie’ Kelly is prepared to ignore stay-at-home orders, which require people aged 75 and over to leave their house only for the essentials of life.
(Jamaica Observer) United States Ambassador to Jamaica Donald Tapia has cited national security concerns as the reason he has objected to the use of Chinese firm Genlot Game Technology as the back-end provider for new local lottery company Mahoe Gaming.
(Trinidad Express) All schools are still set to reopen on September 1 and there is no change to the August 20 date for the Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA) examination.
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