Regional News

(Trinidad Express) Epidemiologist Dr Avery Hinds confirmed yesterday that 56 of 1,437 people who have died from the Covid-19 virus since vaccinations started in April were fully vaccinated.

(Trinidad Guardian) After identifying her daughter’s brutalised body, which was found floating in the Guayamare River, Caroni, on Sunday evening, Sandra Baboolal spent hours weeping at her Enterprise home on Monday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States, Britain and Canada imposed sanctions on Nicaraguan officials yesterday in a concerted response to an election that many countries have denounced as rigged in favour of President Daniel Ortega.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Haitian businesses began opening their doors and activities were resuming on the country’s streets as the G9 gang coalition eased a blockade on fuel deliveries that caused crippling shortages for nearly a month.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Alex Saab, an ally of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, has pleaded not guilty to a U.S.

(Trinidad Guardian) Since vaccinations began achieving herd immunity has been the goal for every country   –a point in time where enough of the population is fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and when life could return to some semblance of what it was.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentina’s ruling Peronist party was reeling yesterday after a midterm vote that saw its center-left coalition lose its majority in Congress for the first time in almost 40 years and taste defeat in its stronghold province of Buenos Aires.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned what he called “intimidation tactics” by the Cuban government ahead of today’s planned protest march in Cuba and vowed that Washington would pursue measures seeking “accountability” for the crackdown.

TEGUCIGALPA,  (Reuters) – Honduran police said yesterday they had arrested a suspect in the killing of an opposition-party mayor who was seeking re-election, in the Central American country’s latest bout of political violence ahead of national elections this month.

(Trinidad Guardian) Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh has revealed that the country’s vaccination programme has stalled.

GUAYAQUIL, (Reuters) – At least 68 prisoners were killed and more than two dozen injured in overnight violence at Ecuador’s Penitenciaria del Litoral prison, the government said yesterday, in what officials characterize as fights among rival gangs.

(Trinidad Express) – The Ministry of Health is negotiating with the manufacturers/suppliers of the new potentially life-saving Covid treatment antiviral drugs with a view to procuring them in the fight against the pandemic, if and when they are approved by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

(Trinidad Express) – Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has announced that the State of Emergency will be lifted on Wednesday.

(Trinidad Express) – Kedar Ramsingh appeared virtually in court yesterday charged with the murder of Premnath Maraj and wounding his sister with intent.

(Reuters) – A group of Haitian gangs will temporarily lift a blockade of fuel terminals to allow for gasoline distribution after weeks of crippling shortages, a gang leader said yesterday, adding that they continue to demand that the prime minister step down.

QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuador’s Attorney General’s Office said yesterday that through a local court it had frozen the bank accounts of many business leaders and former government officials, including former President Rafael Correa and members of his administration, who were sentenced last year for breaking campaign finance laws.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s Supreme Court yesterday suspended a government order that prevented companies from requiring employees to provide proof that they have been vaccinated against COVID-19 and stopped dismissals of those not immunized.

GLASGOW,  (Reuters) – Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose in October from a year ago, satellite data showed today, undercutting vows by the government of President Jair Bolsonaro that it is curbing destruction of a crucial bulwark against climate change.

 (Trinidad Express) The relatives of a 31-year-old father of twin toddler boys said they tried their best to get him on the right path but in the end they believed that his poor attitude cost him his life.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two men were killed in Arima on Wednesday night.