(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.
(Trinidad Guardian) Minutes after his wife and child carried food for him, a fish vendor was gunned down on the street in broad daylight yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Three men of North Eastern Settlement, Sangre Grande have been shot dead, in what it the country’s first triple-murder for 2022.
(Trinidad Express) Government’s decision to lift the ban on open-air pyre cremations for Covid-19 victims is a victory for the Hindu community and the people of Trinidad and Tobago, says Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha (SDMS) Secretary General Vijay Maharaj.
(Trinidad Express) Two more police officers have died as a result of Covid-19.
(Reuters) – Venezuela has ramped up shipments of gasoline and food to Cuba since November, providing key supplies to one of President Nicolas Maduro’s closest allies, according to documents from Venezuelan state-run oil company PDVSA and Refinitiv Eikon tanker tracking data.
(Trinidad Express) Two more police officers have died as a result of Covid-19.
(Trinidad Express) A teenager is among the nine suspects detained for the kidnapping for ransom of St Helena couple Narine and Mattie Maraj.
(Trinidad Guardian) Garth Perkins’ infectious smile was known to warm those around him, but when the Jamaican national was murdered in Port- of- Spain on Monday, shock waves rippled from here to his home over a thousand kilometres away.
(Trinidad Express) The 2022 murder toll shot up to 17 yesterday with four more murders.
(Trinidad Guardian) Two days after the husband of a kidnapped woman of Madras Settlement escaped their kidnappers, the 54-year-old woman was found wandering along Cumaca Road, Valencia yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Investigations continue into the murder of a man who was shot dead on Monday night along Broadway in Port-of-Spain when he stopped to purchase a meal.
WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega was sworn into office for his fourth consecutive term yesterday, hours after the United States and European Union imposed sanctions on several figures in his government following elections Washington has called a “sham”.
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