(Jamaica Gleaner) Approximately 3,000 Jamaicans who are beneficiaries of the Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals (DACA) breathed a sigh of relief on Thursday after the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Donald Trump administration cannot end the programme that was instituted by executive order by then President Barack Obama eight years ago.
(Trinidad Guardian) The State has been ordered to pay a little over $300,000 in compensation to a 27-year-old man from Sangre Grande, who was doused with hot water and pepper sauce during an interrogation by police in 2015.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s firebrand education minister resigned yesterday, following blunders that aggravated tense relations between the right-wing president and the country’s Supreme Court.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazilian police yesterday arrested a former aide to President Jair Bolsonaro’s eldest son in a graft investigation threatening to undermine the far-right leader and ratchet up his battle with the judiciary.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – In much of Cuba, restaurants welcomed back customers yesterday while families escaped cities for the beaches as the government started to ease the Caribbean island’s three-month-old lockdown restrictions after curbing the coronavirus outbreak there.
OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canada officially racked up 100,000 cases of the novel coronavirus yesterday and although the outbreak is slowing, health experts said major challenges remain.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Health Ministry reported new COVID-19 statistics yesterday showing the country fast approaching 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases and 50,000 deaths.
(Jamaica Observer) A Jamaican immigrant is now behind bars in New York, following his arrest yesterday for manslaughter and weapons possession in connection with the death of a Brooklyn man at a house party.
(Jamaica Star) Reggae artiste Ancient Warrior said he narrowly escaped death after he was chopped by a machete-wielding man after an argument developed over chicken at his home in Vanity Fair, Linstead, St Catherine.
(Trinidad Express) MERCY! That was the last plea that relatives of Geeta Newman heard from her.
(Trinidad Guardian) A woman who claimed she was waiting for two months to get the promised rental assistance from the government, was on Wednesday kicked out of their rented home in San Fernando.
(Jamaica Star) When Prime Minister Andrew Holness ordered that all persons should wear a mask in public as one of the COVID-19 measures, one taxi driver believes a brand new pack of G-string panties is enough to provide him with all the protection he needs.
(Jamaica Star) Dr. L’Antoinette Stines, founder, artistic director and principal choreographer of L’Acadco: A United Caribbean Dance Force, is the latest Jamaican creative to file a lawsuit against an international superstar.
(Jamaica Gleaner) For the first time in 48 years, George Williams had his day in a court of law yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley yesterday launched a scathing attack on T&T Chamber of Industry and Commerce CEO Gabriel Faria, saying he had a “disrespectful mouth” and an “acid tongue.”
LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru topped 240,000 total cases of coronavirus yesterday, surpassing hard-hit Italy, government data showed, even as the pace of infections has begun to moderate in the South American nation.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s indigenous people lost one of their pioneering leaders to COVID-19 yesterday with the death of Paulinho Payakan, a Kayapó chief who led protests against the Belo Monte hydro-electric dam in the 1980s.
(Reuters) – The U.S. Transportation Department said yesterday it fined Panama’s Copa Airlines $450,000 for unlawfully transporting passengers between the United States and Venezuela via a stopover point, and ordered the airline to avoid future similar violations.
(Trinidad Guardian) Days after T&T students from Barbados and Jamaica were repatriated, T&T medical students who are currently in Cuba are also seeking repatriation as they say life has become “unbearably tough” for them.
(Trinidad Express) Mall janitor Ramesh Suienarine made a virtual court appearance before a magistrate yesterday morning after he was charged with the murder of Tricia Ramsaran-Ramdass.
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