Trinidad Prisons Officer dies from Covid-19
(Trinidad Guardian) The Trinidad and Tobago Prison Service is plunged into mourning on the passing of Prisons Officer I #3834, Nixon Lokai, on Tuesday.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Trinidad and Tobago Prison Service is plunged into mourning on the passing of Prisons Officer I #3834, Nixon Lokai, on Tuesday.
(Trinidad Guardian) One thousand people have died from the Covid-19 virus in Trinidad and Tobago.
(Barbados Nation) Barbados has established a travel bubble for people coming from select countries.
(Trinidad Guardian) After an unplanned delay of more than two months, Prestige Holdings finally had the opportunity to open its 60th Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant at Xtra Plaza, Guiaco, Sangre Grande.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru’s electoral authority yesterday named socialist Pedro Castillo as the country’s next president, having officially won the June 6 runoff against right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori, who accepted the result but said she had been cheated.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba, which kept coronavirus infections low last year, now has the highest rate of contagion per capita in Latin America.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – A definitive settlement with miner Samarco and owners, BHP Group and Vale SA, for the damage caused by a burst tailings dam in 2015 could reach 100 billion reais ($19.06 billion), the governor of the Brazilian state where the disaster occurred told Reuters.
(Trinidad Guardian) Six more people have died from COVID-19, the Ministry of Health said in its daily update yesterday.
(Reuters) – Years before becoming president of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel pushed for greater public access to the internet at a time when it was only available to a tiny minority.
(Trinidad Express) Last Tuesday afternoon, when prisoners at the Maximum Security Prison in Arouca were let out of their cells to get dinner, inmate Basil Gobin stayed behind.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – “Leave the area! Get the kids out!” screamed gang members walking through western Caracas’ El Cementerio barrio with megaphones the morning of Thursday, July 8.
(Trinidad Express) Police are investigating the death of a Cunupia hairdresser who was found in a torched vehicle in Carlsen Field on Saturday night.
(Trinidad Express) A Rio Claro man and his girlfriend were killed in a vehicular collision on Saturday.
(Trinidad Express) A Princes Town software engineer was charged with the murder of amputee pensioner Lennard Mohammed.
(Trinidad Express) A Rio Claro man and his girlfriend were killed in a vehicular collision on Saturday.
(Trinidad Guardian) – In what appears to be a major embarrassment for the Keith Rowley administration and the National Gas Company (NGC), Atlantic LNG’s Train 1 plant will be mothballed in the coming weeks and could stay out of service for at least two years, according to highly-placed sources at both the NGC and the government.
(Trinidad Guardian) Works Minister Rohan Sinanan has described the arrival of the first commercial flight to T&T since the country’s borders were closed in 2020 as a “big step” for the country.
(Trinidad Guardian) Those who are trying to enter this country illegally or bring in illegal arms and ammunition now run the risk of being intercepted by two brand new Cape Cross Coast Guard vessels.
(Trinidad Guardian) UNC Councillor Anil Maharaj was granted $130,000 bail when he appeared virtually before the Port-of-Spain Magistrates’ Court yesterday afternoon charged with one count of Misbehaviour in Public Office.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazil registered 1,456 COVID-19 deaths yesterday and 45,591 additional cases, according to data released by the nation’s Health Ministry.
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