Regional News

(Trinidad Express) The Ministry of Health advises the population that on the evening of Boxing Day, six more cases of the COVID-19 Omicron Variant of Concern were confirmed.

(Reuters) – Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley yesterday called a snap general election for Jan.

ITABUNA, Brazil, (Reuters) – Two dams gave way in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia after weeks of heavy rains, swamping already swollen local rivers as flooding hit towns across the region, authorities said on Sunday.

SANTO DOMINGO, (Reuters) – The Dominican Republic has identified its first case of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, the health ministry of the Caribbean country said on Saturday.

(Trinidad Express) The  Ministry of Health reported that 30 people succumbed to the Covid-19 virus yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian)Twenty more people have died of COVID-19, the Ministry of Health said in its daily update yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad and Tobago has recorded its deadliest day for the pandemic, with 37 COVID-19 deaths in the last 24 hours.

(Trinidad Guardian) Ryan Hadeed has been charged in the United States for allegedly attempting to arrange the contract killing of his ex-girlfriend’s fiancee.

(Trinidad Guardian) Hours after news broke that Rizanne Roach-Lucas, 26, who was six months pregnant, was found shot dead in her car at Todd’s Road in Talparo, close friends are crying out for justice.

(Trinidad Guardian) PC Anderson Bernard and PC Lester Jones both passed away from complications due to COVID-19 yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Tributes continue to flow for a South businessman and his wife—the owners of Emmanuel Garden Centre, who died from COVID-19 two days apart.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Over 300 Brazilian senior officials have resigned from their posts over budget cuts to the country’s tax and customs agency, one of the agency’s unions said yesterday, amid anger over President Jair Bolsonaro’s decision to grant police pay rises.

SAN SALVADOR,  (Reuters) – El Salvador’s Congress on Wednesday re-elected Rodolfo Delgado to serve for three more years as attorney general, despite U.S.

(Trinidad Guardian) Come 2022, the bodies of COVID-19 fatalities will be stored at a mass facility in Freeport, according to Chief Medical Officer, Dr Roshan Parasram.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian environmental agents this week shut down schemes involving hundreds of companies the agents said were covering up illegal logging in the Amazon rainforest, according to government documents reviewed by Reuters.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, (Reuters) – Haitians yesterday mourned victims of a fuel truck blast that killed 90 people last week, though many stayed home out of anger at the government amid a string of tragedies in a Caribbean nation plagued by gang violence, poverty and political turmoil.

(Trinidad Express) The botched robbery on two prison officers at Claxton Bay resulted in a grim fate for the alleged criminals, both 18 years old.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – The United States will make 20,000 additional visas available for seasonal, non-agricultural guest workers through March 31, including 6,500 visas for workers from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Haiti, in an effort to encourage legal migration, a U.S.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) is mourning the passing of No.7579 PC Surab Ali who tested positive for Covid-19 and passed away on December 15th.

(Reuters) – Ransom money was raised to pay for the release of a group Canadian and American missionaries kidnapped in Haiti, but a dozen of them escaped captivity on their own, the U.S.-based