Regional News

(Trinidad Express) Carnival 2022 is happening. Even if it is just a “taste” that will allow only certain events, and no fetes.

(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley created history once again with a second consecutive 30-0 victory at the polls.

(Trinidad Express) The Chinese contractor building the Central Block of the Port of Spain General Hospital has threatened to terminate the contract with the Government.

(Trinidad Guardian) A “technical issue” forced a Caribbean Airlines flight to be diverted to Norfolk, Virginia, in the United States yesterday.

(Reuters) – Preliminary results trickled in late yesterday from the first general election Barbados has held since becoming a republic last year, with initial returns strongly favouring the Barbados Labor Party (BLP) of Prime Minister Mia Mottley.

(Barbados Nation) It will be a General Election like never before today, as Barbadians determine their path of governance for the next five years.

(Trinidad Express) Miss World representative Jeanine Brandt’s recent statements at the Miss World Pageant in Puerto Rico have come under heavy scrutiny from Trinbagonians over her depiction of Trinidad and Tobago.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Indigenous communities in Ecuador yesterday presented hundreds of thousands of signatures to the country’s top court to demand their right to make final decisions on use of ancestral lands they say are threatened by expansion of extractive projects.

(Caribbean Development Bank)  Businesses in The Bahamas will be better able to meet international criteria under a new project valued at over EUR 400,000 which is being supported by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and the European Union (EU).

(Barbados Nation) The 2022 General Election will be the country’s first in a COVID-19 environment and the chairman of the Electoral and Boundaries Commission (EBC) has cautioned there will be delays that could lead to a late announcement of results tomorrow night.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Transport and Industrial Workers’ Union (TIWU) has added its voice to those condemning the Police Service and the Government, over the handling of a protest demonstration at the Queen’s Park Savannah, on Sunday 16th January 2022.

(Trinidad Express) Police fired tear gas to disperse an unruly crowd of approximately 300 protesters and detained 12 of them at the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain, yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has put together a five-member team to evaluate the State’s handling of the COVID-19 virus “with a professional eye” and present their findings in one week.

(Trinidad Guardian) – One day after celebrating his birthday, a 31-year-old man was gunned down at a business place in Tabaquite yesterday.

KINGSTON, (Reuters) – Jamaican authorities have detained a former Haitian senator who was a key suspect in the murder of Haitian President Jovenel Moise in July, Jamaican national police said yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) – Trinidad’s Ministry of Health has recorded 24 additional COVID-related death.

(Trinidad Guardian) – A retired police officer was found murdered at his home in Chaguanas yesterday morning. 

SANTA CRUZ, Ecuador,  (Reuters) – Ecuador yesterday created a new marine reserve around its pristine Galapagos Islands — whose rich biodiversity inspired Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution — as it seeks to expand protections for endangered migratory species.

(Trinidad Guardian) Investigations are continuing into three incidents where a total of five men were killed during the period Thursday night into yesterday morning in Sangre Grande, Arima and St Ann’s.

LA GUINERA, Cuba,  (Reuters) – Young Cuban protesters from Havana’s poorest neighborhoods face decades behind bars at upcoming trials, relatives and rights groups said, amid a crackdown on some of those who took part in last year’s unprecedented anti-government demonstrations.