Regional News

(Jamaica Gleaner) Keith Austin was returning home Monday afternoon after a failed quest to obtain work having earlier been overtaken by “bad feeling” – Jamaican vernacular for ominous unease.

SANTIAGO,  (Reuters) – The number of deaths from the coronavirus in Latin America has exceeded the figure for North America for the first time since the start of the pandemic, a Reuters count showed on Monday.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – More than 930 employees of private contractors running U.S.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil is restructuring the space agency team responsible for monitoring deforestation including reassigning a key manager, a move that enviromentalists said raised concerns of political interference as destruction soars in the Amazon rainforest.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has said the value of the savings in his mutual funds account declined by almost 40 per cent, due to current market conditions.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexico yesterday raised the number of people listed officially as disappeared in the violence-torn country to 73,201, with most of them believed to be victims of brutal drug cartel warfare.

(Jamaica Star) Roshana Brown sat for minutes in silence and tears before she was able to produce any sound.

(Trinidad Guardian) “Oh my God. I was not aware” was how Public Utilities Minister Fitzgerald Hinds reacted to realising a live Facebook broadcast of his interview on U97.5 FM was not switched off during a heated exchange.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Jamaican community in West Palm Beach, Florida, is in mourning following news of the passing of community activist and businessman Norman Perkins, affectionately known as ‘DC’ even as reports swirl of several Jamaicans contracting the virus at a recent party.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Hungry and homeless, a desperate mother of five is longing for reprieve from a life of hardship unfamiliar to many.

(Barbados Nation) They came to work, relax, visit family and one person even came to grieve.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Deaths in Mexico from the coronavirus pandemic rose above 35,000 yesterday, with the Latin American country overtaking Italy for the world’s fourth-highest death total, according to Reuters data.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has accused the United National Congress (UNC) of buying votes for $300 as part of their attempt to ensure success in the August 10 general election.

(Trinidad Express) Gunmen opened fire near midnight on a vehicle carrying three men and two teenagers at Valencia on Saturday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has accused the United National Congress (UNC) of buying votes for $300 as part of their attempt to ensure success in the August 10 general election.

(Trinidad Guardian) With energy prices remaining low, the Government has no choice but to rely on an efficient tax system to generate funds, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said on July 4.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Ministry of National Security is moving to bring home citizens from Grenada, Canada and the United Kingdom, including Europe and the Middle East.

SUZHOU/BEIJING,  (Reuters) – Chinese vaccine developer CanSino Biologics is in talks with Russia, Brazil, Chile and Saudi Arabia to launch a Phase III trial of its experimental COVID-19 vaccine, its co-founder said yesterday.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Michelle Bolsonaro, the wife of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro who is sick with the new coronavirus, said yesterday that she and her two daughters had tested negative for the virus.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazil, the world’s No. 2 coronavirus hotspot after the United States, recorded 1,071 new deaths from the outbreak yesterday, with a total of 1,839,850 confirmed cases, the Health Ministry said.