Regional News

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazil yesterday recorded 2,616 new COVID-19 deaths and 71,832 new coronavirus cases, the Health Ministry said.

(Barbados Nation) The West and North of Barbados was hard hit by the falling ash as a result of the eruption of La Soufriere volcano in St Vincent and the Grenadines.

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent and the Grenadines, (Reuters) – Residents of the eastern Caribbean island of St.

(Trinidad Guardian) Agro-processors renting State lands will now pay significantly less on their leases.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States is considering a conditional cash transfer programme to help address economic woes that lead migrants from certain Central American countries to trek north, as well as sending COVID-19 vaccines to those countries, a senior White House official told Reuters yesterday.

ROSE HALL, St Vincent and the Grenadines, (Reuters) – La Soufriere volcano on the eastern Caribbean island ofSt.

(Jamaica Star) Jamaican dog Joseph is certainly living the high life with his new owner Rachel Kornblum in Toronto, Canada.

(NEMO/CMC) Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines Dr Ralph Gonsalves has issued an evacuation order effective immediately.

(Barbados Nation) The number of COVID-19 deaths moved to 44 after the passing of a 52-year-old Barbadian man on Tuesday, April 6.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Brazil has recorded its first confirmed case of the highly contagious coronavirus variant discovered in South Africa, a fresh danger sign for a country already ravaged by the world’s worst daily death toll and scrambling to make space for burials.

(Trinidad Express) Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries says that at approximately 6:30am yesterday there was an incident at NiQuan Energy Trinidad Limited, Pointe-A-Pierre.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazil recorded 92,625 additional confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours, along with 3,829 deaths from COVID-19, the Health Ministry said yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) There has been an explosion at NiQuan Energy’s Gas to Liquids Plant located on what was formerly Petrotrin Pointe-a-Pierre refinery.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley is said to be “holding his own” after testing positive for COVID-19 yesterday.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s brutal surge in COVID-19 deaths will soon surpass the worst of a record January wave in the United States, scientists forecast, with fatalities climbing for the first time above 4,000 in a day yesterday as the outbreak overwhelms hospitals.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Office of the Prime Minister has confirmed that Dr Keith Rowley has tested positive for COVID-19.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has tested positive for COVID-19.

(Trinidad Guardian) Even in the face of numerous warnings by Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh and the T&T Police Service not to congregate, especially over the long Easter weekend, some citizens continued to ignore that call yesterday and it ended with lawmen and party-goers facing off in Sea Lots, Port-of-Spain.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s main academies of medicine and science yesterday urged renewed efforts to vaccinate the South American nation’s population against the coronavirus amid a spike in infections that has led the government to extend lockdown measures.

(Trinidad Express) A familydispute led to the chopping death of an 18-year-old Mayaro man on Sunday.