Regional News

(Jamaica Gleaner) All public bodies have been asked by the Integrity Commission to furnish it with detailed particulars concerning contract cost overruns and/or variations that were incurred during the last financial year.

(Trinidad Express) A man was killed and a pistol and a quantity of ammunition seized following a police-involved shooting incident at Cameron Road, Maraval, yesterday morning.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica – The country recorded 165 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours and seven deaths, bringing the overall total to 44,502, and the death toll to 751.

(Trinidad Guardian) Someone strangled Utilda Joseph at her Siparia home, depriving her of the opportunity of celebrating what would have been her 97th birthday in May.

BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – Argentina is going through its “worst moment” of the COVID-19 pandemic, the health minister said on Wednesday, as deaths from the virus hit 60,000 amid a sharp second wave that has forced the country to re-impose some lockdown measures.

(Trinidad Guardian) Despite complaints of no internet connectivity in far-flung areas of the islands, T&T’s main internet service providers say broadband coverage has been achieved for 95 per cent of the population.

(Trinidad Guardian) Health Minister Terrance Deyalsingh yesterday announced new COVID-19 public health restrictions.

(Trinidad Guardian) Health Minister Terrance Deyalsingh today announced new COVID-19 public health restrictions.

(Jamaica Observer) Member of Parliament for Westmoreland Central George Wright, who has been embroiled in controversy regarding a video showing a man beating a woman, has been granted leave of absence from the House of Representatives pending a conclusion to the matter.

(Trinidad Express) The police in St Vincent has taken into custody a man who climbed the erupting La Soufriere Volcano on Sunday, and recorded himself and another hiker.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet virtually today with 15 foreign ministers of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), State Department spokesman Ned Price said.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – The United Nations launched an appeal yesterday for $29.2 million to help some 15,000 people displaced when the La Soufriere volcano on the eastern Caribbean island of St.

MOSCOW/BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – An Argentine firm has produced test batches of Russia’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, the first in Latin America, with aims to scale up manufacturing of the drug by mid-year as the wider region grapples with a new surge in infections.

(Trinidad Guardian) Head of the Special Operations Response Team (SORT) Inspector Mark Hernandez has been charged with misbehaviour in public office in relation to an investigation into the treatment of the suspects held for the abduction and murder of Andrea Bharatt.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Ministry of Health yesterday confirmed that the Brazilian variant of the COVID-19 virus, which is far more transmissible than other strains, has been detected in Trinidad and Tobago.

(Jamaica Observer) The Judicial Committee of the United Kingdom Privy Council has dismissed the appeal of five members of the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) in the Trafigura case.

(Trinidad Guardian) Leader of the Special Operations Response Team (SORT), Inspector Mark Hernandez, is set to be charged with misbehaviour in public office in relation to an investigation into the treatment of the suspects in the abduction and murder of Andrea Bharatt.

(Trinidad Guardian) Three people were killed following a fiery, early Sunday morning crash along the Western Main Road, Westmoorings.

(Trinidad Express) Marc Anthony Singh has been described as a brilliant and talented performer, artist and designer, who deserved to live in peace and love and not be made a victim of violence.

(Trinidad Guardian) A massive jump in reported COVID-19 infections yesterday is a “post-Easter spike” and likely caused by the increased activity and mingling over the Easter weekend.