Regional News

(Jamaica Gleaner) Commodore Antonette Wemyss Gorman is to become Jamaica’s first woman Chief of Defence Staff next January.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazilian authorities are investigating whether JPMorgan Chase & Co played a role in an alleged bribery and money laundering scheme that dated back to 2011 and involved state-run oil company Petrobras, according to documents reviewed by Reuters and two law enforcement sources.

(Trinidad Guardian) Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh has admitted that the majority of people who have so far refused to become vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus, are from the Christian faith.

(Trinidad Express) Over 24 years of domestic abuse suffered by a Tarodale family culminated in the killing of one of their youngest children, a one-year-old girl, during a bloody cutlass attack on Sunday night by a rejected lover.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti/CIUDAD ACUNA, Mexico,  (Reuters) – Angry scenes broke out at Haiti’s main airport yesterday among migrants sent home from a squalid Texas border camp, as U.S.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Peru’s energy and mines minister said yesterday the government wants to revise the framework for the country’s mining industry, redrafting the umbrella law that regulates the sector, as well as the legislation that sets royalty payments.

BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – Argentina yesterday unveiled plans to ease coronavirus pandemic restrictions, including loosening strict border controls, allowing more commercial activities and getting rid of the mandatory wearing of face masks outdoors.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga tested positive for COVID-19 hours after accompanying President Jair Bolsonaro to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, the government said.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados is dangerously close to losing out on precious doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine.

(Trinidad Guardian) “These men are demon. They don’t have no God in them,” lamented the grandmother of 15-month-old Sariah Williams who was fatally chopped by a relative during a domestic dispute on Sunday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Police Service has lost its 15th police officer to COVID-19.

(Trinidad Express) It is official. Gary Griffith has been told by the Police Service Commission (PolSC) not to report for duty “until further notice”.

(Trinidad Guardian) In the face of revelations of hundreds of millions of dollars in losses on failed projects, the Chairman of the National Gas Company (NGC) Conrad Enill has denied that the company was reckless in its investment in Atlantic LNG Train 1 and its TT$200 million investment in the Beachfield project which it later realised was not necessary.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Media Association of T&T (MATT) has spoken out again Trinidad-born US-based rapper Nicki Minaj for her attacks on local reporter Sharlene Rampersad on social media.

(Trinidad Guardian) Twenty-year-old Abdullah Hassim studied relentlessly to make his parents proud.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Media Association of T&T (MATT) has spoken out again Trinidad-born US-based rapper Nicki Minaj for her attacks on local reporter Sharlene Rampersad on social media.

(Trinidad Guardian) A family dispute is believed to be the motive behind the murder of a Claxton Bay mother and her 21-year-old daughter who were both shot in the head on Friday.

(Trinidad Guardian) – Industrial Court president Deborah Thomas-Felix has stated that mandatory vaccinations cannot be implemented unilaterally by employers.

(Trinidad Express) – A Barrackpore family is in mourning after two of their relatives died 24 hours apart.

(Trinidad Express) – A mother and daughter were shot and killed at their home on Friday evening.