NAIROBI, (Reuters) – The World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday the only approved vaccine against malaria should be widely given to African children, potentially marking a major advance against a disease that kills hundreds of thousands of people annually.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Government is challenging a lawsuit from a group of regional British American Insurance (BAICO) and Clico policyholders alleging that it (the Government) discriminated against them when it only bailed out the CL Financial (CLF)’s local subsidiaries.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru’s President Pedro Castillo swore in Mirtha Vasquez, a left-wing former head of Congress, as prime minister on Wednesday, replacing her predecessor who resigned after two months in the job, as the administration grapples with political instability.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Pfizer Inc will study the effectiveness of its vaccine against COVID-19 by inoculating the whole population over the age of 12 in a town in southern Brazil, the company said today.
(Trinidad Guardian) Economist Marla Dukharan says the 2021/2022 Budget presentation lacked transparency and accountability because the country was not told how much money was collected, spent and borrowed in the last fiscal year.
(Trinidad Guardian) Preparations for prayers turned into tragedy after a 34-year-old father of one was gunned down while picking flowers yesterday.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico could see asylum applications jump 70% this year compared with 2019 as requests from Haitians soar, though most of those Caribbean migrants do not meet the criteria under current rules, according to Mexico’s top asylum official.
(Trinidad Express) Finance Minister Colm Imbert’s $52 billion budget is laden with relief measures for the poor, small and medium businesses, manufacturers and tech companies—both start-ups and existing operators.
WASHINGTON, Oct 4 (Reuters) – The Czech prime minister, the king of Jordan and the chairman of a well-known Indian conglomerate were among global figures denying wrongdoing yesterday after the leak of what major news outlets called a secret trove of documents about offshore finance.
(Barbados Nation) A former President of the Barbados Dental Association, Dr Vidya Armogan, who says his dental care facility will only be doing business with vaccinated patients, is calling on Government and the business community to get around mandatory vaccination by using strategic measures that encourage more Barbadians to get inoculated.
(Trinidad Guardian) Police have charged two Venezuelan nationals under anti-gang legislation.
(Trinidad Express) Dwayne Gloster, the who was shot and killed near West End Police Station, Diego Martin on Friday, was one of the men charged with the murder of businesswoman Vindra Naipaul-Coolman.
(Trinidad Guardian) Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi is under fire from several quarters after the collapse of the Police Service Commission (PSC) left behind a tangled mess.
(Trinidad Guardian) – A High Court judge has voided CL Financial (CLF)’s decision to sell its subsidiary Clico’s energy assets to Proman Holding (Barbados) Limited over a decade ago.
(Trinidad Express) – A real estate agent and mason died following a shooting in Mc Bean, Couva on Friday night.
(Trinidad Guardian) A 17-day-old baby was detained at the Piarco International Airport along with his family shortly after arriving in the country from Orlando, Florida on September 17.
(Trinidad Guardian) A 25-year-old man with dual citizenship (Canada and T&T) was expected to appear before a Port of Spain Magistrate yesterday, charged with the murders of his grandmother, mother and brother, which occurred on September 24.
NECOCLI, Colombia, (Reuters) – An influx of thousands of mostly Haitian migrants seeking transport northward toward the United States is pushing locals in the Colombian beach town of Necocli out of housing, residents said, as landlords favor migrants able to pay in dollars.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela yesterday launched its second monetary overhaul in three years by cutting six zeros from the bolivar currency in response to hyperinflation, simplifying accounting but doing little to ease the South American nation’s economic crisis.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil had 18,578 new cases of the novel coronavirus reported in the past 24 hours and 506 deaths from COVID-19, the Health Ministry said yesterday.
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