BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Supreme Court yesterday suspended a high-profile land rights case that the country’s indigenous people say is vital for their survival, with no new date for when it will re-take the matter.
(Trinidad Guardian) Hours after her husband died at the Sangre Grande Hospital after being treated for ingesting poison, Lisa Ramkissoon said she too has more questions than answers.
(Trinidad Guardian) International backlash erupted yesterday over Trinidad and Tobago-born United States-based rapper Onika “Nicki Minaj” Maharaj’s social media claims in relation to COVID-19 vaccines.
As the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) struggles to reach herd immunity, the Heads of Government have issued yet another call for persons to be vaccinated and agreed to design a Community Public Relations Strategy to supplement national campaigns encouraging citizens to vaccinate.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Gunmen stormed a hotel in Mexico’s central San Luis Potosi state yesterday and kidnapped some 20 foreigners believed to be mostly from Haiti and Venezuela, the state’s attorney general’s office said.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – The Venezuelan government wants a top envoy who has been charged with money laundering and is close to President Nicolas Maduro to take part in its political dialogue with the opposition, a move that threatens to stir tensions.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Haiti’s chief public prosecutor has asked the judge overseeing the investigation into the assassination of President Jovenel Moise to charge Prime Minister Ariel Henry as a suspect and ordered migration services not to let him leave the country.
(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad and Tobago, with a menu of vaccines now available, may be facing the expiration of tens of thousands of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine and Oxford/AstraZeneca doses come November.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) has now lost 14 of its officers to COVID-19 with the latest being WPC Anisa Khan, who was last assigned to the Cunupia Police Station.
(Trinidad Guardian) The beleaguered Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) has launched a full-scale investigation into the dereliction of duty by two managers which has resulted in the authority purchasing some $7.7 million worth of chemicals, some of which WASA no longer uses to treat its water.
(Trinidad Guardian) Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh is concerned that the number of students turning up for the Pfizer vaccine has waned in recent weeks.
(Trinidad Express) A “network that is quite mercenary in orientation” masterminded by a senior cop in the granting of firearm user’s licences has been uncovered.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s chief public prosecutor invited Prime Minister Ariel Henry on Friday to meet with him next week to explain why he spoke with one of the main suspects in the assassination of former President Jovenel Moise on the night of the crime.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Abimael Guzman, leader of the Shining Path rebels who nearly toppled the Peruvian state in a bloody Maoist revolution, died yesterday while in prison and following several weeks of poor health, the government said.
(Trinidad Guardian) – Jamaat Al Muslimeen leader Imam Yasin Abu Bakr has issued a “warning” to the Government and the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS), calling for justice in T&T.