Regional News

(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Mia Mottley is hitting back at critics who questioned the reason for moving to a parliamentary republic and reopening the Golden Square Freedom Park amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.

(Trinidad Guardian) In one week, COVID-19 has claimed three members of a Longdenville family.

(Trinidad Guardian) – Hours after the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the newly-identified coronavirus variant, Omicron, as a variant of concern, T&T has announced restrictions to entry for travellers from seven African countries.

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Warnings of potential foul play are flying from all sides ahead of today’s presidential election in Honduras, raising fears of possible disputes and unrest if leading challenger Xiomara Castro does not win by a clear margin.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service revealed yesterday that the Dean of the Police Academy, Nizam Ali, had died from COVID-19.

(Trinidad Guardian) Hours after the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the newly-identified coronavirus variant, Omicron, as a variant of concern, T&T has announced restrictions to entry for travellers from seven African countries.

(Trinidad Guardian) A prison officer was shot and killed in Valencia yesterday afternoon.

(Trinidad Guardian) On Thursday, Trinidad and Tobago took the grim title of recording the highest daily confirmed COVID-19 deaths per million people.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazilian police have recommended multiple criminal charges against miner Vale SA and Germany’s TUV SUD for their role in a 2019 dam burst that killed 270 people and caused extensive environmental damage, according to a statement yesterday.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – France has postponed implementing a COVID-19 vaccination mandate for health workers in Martinique and Guadeloupe after the measure spurred widespread protests on the French territories in which police officers were injured and journalists attacked.

(Barbados Nation) Come on home! That’s Prime Minister Mia Mottley’s call to Barbadians living in the diaspora who want to help the country move forward.

(Barbados Nation) Chief Executive Officer of Grantley Adams International Airport (GAIA) Inc.,

(Trinidad Guardian) In a sombre address to the nation, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley last night retraced the events of the last two years of the COVID-19 virus, its arrival and treatment in Trinidad and Tobago and warned that if the current infection rate continues, the parallel health system would be overwhelmed within days.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Pleasantville shop owner was shot and killed by a man pretending to be a customer at his business place yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago has set a new daily record of Covid-19 deaths with a staggering 31 deaths being reported by the Ministry of Health yesterday, including another child.

(Trinidad Express) The nursing fraternity lost two of its members to the Covid-19 virus on Tuesday.

(Trinidad Guardian) As the COVID-19 Delta variant of concern rips through Trinidad and Tobago, the country has crossed the grim milestone of 2,000 COVID-19 deaths since March 2020.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuba has carried out a root and branch restructure of its sugar industry in a last-ditch attempt to keep mills from folding in the face of collapsing output.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Protesters looted shops and set up burning barricades overnight on France’s Caribbean island of Martinique, France Info reported today, as demonstrations against COVID-19 protocols intensified.

(Barbados Nation) KINGSTOWN – The St Vincent and the Grenadines government yesterday expressed condolences to the family of Sir James Mitchell, the country’s second prime minister, who died here at the age of 90.