Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) The Ministry of Finance has confirmed that the proposed increase of taxes and import duty on certain private motor cars—namely, certain smaller engine CNG, electric and hybrid cars—which were announced in the 2021 Budget Statement, will now be applicable from January 1st, 2021.

LA PAZ,  (Reuters) – Bolivia’s socialist candidate Luis Arce looks set to win the country’s presidential election without the need for a run-off, an unofficial count indicated today, putting the leftwing party of Evo Morales on the brink of a return to power.

(Trinidad Express) Three men who decided to go up against a 68-year-old farmer from Princes Town got more than they bargained for.

(Jamaica Observer) SIBLINGS Dwayne and Feleca Jonas are now both waiting to be called to the Jamaican Bar Association, having recently successfully completed their two-year tenure together at Norman Manley Law School (NMLS).

(Jamaica Gleaner) With two weeks to go for what is being described as one of the most important presidential elections in the history of the United States, Jamaicans in the US have high expectations of whoever takes the White House.

(Trinidad Guardian) T&T Airline Pilots Association (TTALPA) and Caribbean Airlines have agreed that all pilots’ salaries will be cut by 57 per cent—just over half—for the next three months, to support CAL’s cost cutting measures amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago will receive COVID-19 vaccines for 20 per cent of its population in the first instance after its development.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Ministry of Foreign and Caricom Affairs has dispelled any thoughts that it has not been taking action on the tilting Nabarima.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil reported 24,062 new cases of the novel coronavirus and 461 deaths from the disease caused by the virus in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) British Member of Parliament Steven Baker has responded to criticisms levelled against him by Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley.

(Trinidad Express) Southern Division police are investigating three deaths in three separate shooting incidents on Friday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) There is not a large Jamaican presence in Lake Charles, Louisiana – the section of the southern state that was bludgeoned by Hurricane Laura six weeks ago.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Two bullet-riddled bodies with heads severed, which were found at Plum Lane off Whitehall Avenue in St Andrew, have triggered an intense probe by senior investigators of the Major Investigation Division who are working diligently to piece together whatever evidence or clues they can find to nab the perpetrators of the heinous murders which left the community in shock.

(Trinidad Express) Com-missioner of Police, Gary Griffith, has welcomed the decision of Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley to bring in British and Barbados police officers to assist in the investigations into the seizure and subsequent disappearance of $22 million in cash which had been found in a house at Kathleen Warner Drive, La Horquetta, on September 22.

(Barbados Nation) Canada was placed in the category of high risk in the latest update of Barbados travel protocols effective yesterday.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica’s first state-run shelter for victims of domestic violence is ready.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says “under no circumstances” will Trinidad and Tobago implement an open-door policy to migrants.

SAO PAULO,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As farms expand into the Amazon rainforest, felled trees and expanding pastures may open the way for new Brazilian exports beyond beef and soybeans, researchers say: pandemic diseases.

(Trinidad Guardian) If the tax exemption cap of $350,000 proposed by Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley is implemented, the list of cars considered luxurious that can be purchased without exemptions could be significantly reduced for Members of Parliament and other public officers who are entitled to the exemption.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley last night hit back at the British MP who raised the plight of Trinidad and Tobago nationals stranded in the UK due to the closure of T&T borders since March.