CAMP-PERRIN, Haiti, (Reuters) – Many survivors of the earthquake that killed more than 2,200 people in southern Haiti are growing worried about how they will provide for their children, with more than half a million minors feared to be at risk from the fallout.
(Jamaica Observer) Operations at bauxite outfit Jamalco in Hayes, Clarendon, will today “be at a standstill” following a “major fire” last evening that took a cross-parish effort, which lasted well over six hours, of seven units from the Jamaica Fire Brigade and 61 fire personnel to contain the blaze.
(Trinidad Guardian) For the Sookraj and Poon families, Race Course Road in Carapo has long been a place of comfort and peace.
(Trinidad Express) The wife of Maritime General Insurance Company chairman John Henry Smith has been charged with his murder.
(Trinidad Guardian) Police said five men found dead in a bushy area off Race Course Road, Carapo, yesterday afternoon were shot execution-style.
MARCELINE, Haiti, (Reuters) – Tensions in Haiti were rising yesterday over a lack of aid to remote areas hardest hit by last week’s devastating earthquake that killed more than 2,000 people in the impoverished Caribbean country.
(Trinidad Guardian) – A woman, who obtained an injunction stopping the funeral of her estranged husband due to a dispute with his alleged caregiver over control of his estate, has been given conduct over his funeral arrangements while the lawsuit over the issue is being pursued.
TECOLUTLA, Mexico, (Reuters) – Hurricane Grace pummeled Mexico with torrential rain yesterday, causing severe flooding and mudslides that killed at least eight people after becoming one of the most powerful storms in years to hit the country’s Gulf coast.
(Trinidad Guardian) A woman, who obtained an injunction stopping the funeral of her estranged husband due to a dispute with his alleged caregiver over control of his estate, has been given conduct over his funeral arrangements while the lawsuit over the issue is being pursued.
MARCELINE, Haiti, (Reuters) – Haitians desperate for food looted a humanitarian convoy yesterday and fought over donations as anger built over the slow pace of aid deliveries almost a week after a devastating earthquake killed more than 2,000 people.
(Trinidad Express) A 31-year-old Special Reserve Police Constable was due to appear at the Port of Spain Magistrates’ Court yesterday charged with murder.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba’s drug regulator granted emergency approval for its homegrown Soberana 2 vaccine yesterday, allowing the drug’s full inclusion in the country’s inoculation program as it races to curb a Delta variant-fueled coronavirus outbreak https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/coronavirus-surge-pushes-cubas-healthcare-system-brink-2021-08-11.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica has been jolted back into lockdown mode owing to a suffocating third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic as the Andrew Holness administration continues to fend off deciding whether mandatory vaccination will have to be implemented.
(Barbados Nation) The Pfizer vaccine will be available to members of the general public, aged 18 and up, from today.
(Trinidad Guardian) Despite the reservations by some parents about having their children vaccinated at this time, Education Minister Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly said both vaccinated and unvaccinated students will be welcomed back into schools next month.
(Trinidad Express) Hindu organisations have united and written to the Minister of Health and Chief Medical Officer, calling for them to immediately discontinue to ban on open pyre cremations across Trinidad.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Government will go to Parliament next week Wednesday to extend the State of Emergency by another three months.
(Trinidad Express) Minister of Foreign and CARICOM Affairs Dr Amery Browne has informed the national community of the scheduled arrival of 108,000 WHO-approved Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines, from the African Medical Supplies Platform (AMSP), at the Piarco International Airport at 7 p.m.
(Trinidad Guardian) Education Minister Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly said she was heartened by the fast start to the rollout of Pfizer vaccines for students yesterday.
LES CAYES, Haiti, (Reuters) – An earthquake that killed about 2,000 people in Haiti had left the Caribbean nation “on its knees”, Prime Minister Ariel Henry said yesterday, as survivors showed increasing frustration about the sluggish arrival of relief to hard-hit areas.
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