Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) Nurses are opting to take up the fight against the COVID-19 virus outside of the country’s borders.

(Trinidad Guardian) Growing tensions between T&T and India over the gifting of COVID-19 vaccines to the CARICOM region ended yesterday, following the announcement it would be donating 40,000 doses of the WHO-approved Astra Zeneca vaccine to this country.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Government will engage the private sector in its search for viable vaccines outside the COVAX facility for Trinidad and Tobago.

(Trinidad Express) Masked men demanding cash and drugs chopped to death a Point Fortin man yesterday morning.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Several Caribbean island nations have issued a plea to the United States to share its stockpile of COVID-19 vaccines with the region as it has said it would with Mexico and Canada, calling on it not to neglect its “third border.”

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuba will administer experimental COVID-19 shots to nearly the entire population of the capital Havana by May as health authorities carry out massive interventional studies and late stage trials, officials said yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Masked men demanding cash and drugs chopped to death a Point Fortin man yesterday morning.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Government will engage the private sector in its search for viable vaccines outside the COVAX facility for Trinidad and Tobago.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazil suffered a record 3,251 COVID-19 deaths yesterday, as pot-banging protests erupted across the country during an address by President Jair Bolsonaro in which he defended his pandemic response and pledged to ramp up vaccinations.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s Supreme Court yesterday ruled that former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva had not been treated impartially in graft probes, strengthening his chances of running against President Jair Bolsonaro in next year’s vote.

(Jamaica Gleaner) As at Saturday, 24,502 Jamaicans had received their first doses of AstraZeneca vaccine.

(Trinidad Guardian) Chief Medical Officer Dr Roshan Parasram is cautioning that the country appears to be on the verge of a significant increase in COVID-19 cases.

(Trinidad Guardian) Indian High Commissioner Arun Kumar Sahu yesterday said efforts are being made to supply some vaccines to Trinidad and Tobago, however, there is no time frame for the delivery yet.

(Trinidad Express) Twenty-five Venezuelan women, one Nigerian, and a Trinidadian were arrested by officers of the Inter-Agency Task Force, during an anti-crime exercise conducted at Icacos overnight.

(Trinidad Express) The Cold Case Unit of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) has closed the case relating to the death of Japanese pannist, Asami Nagakiya.

(Trinidad Guardian) The diplomatic friction between the Government and Indian High Commissioner Arun Kumar Sahu over the availability of COVID-19 vaccines from that country seems to be worsening.

(Jamaica Gleaner) – Antigua and Barbuda’s Prime Minister Gaston Browne has written to US President Joseph Biden, requesting that CARICOM countries be included in the provision of AstraZeneca vaccines to Canada and Mexico.

(Barbados Government Information Service) – Over 60 000 people were vaccinated against COVID-19 up to Friday as part of the National Vaccination Programme.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s government has been in talks since March 13 about potentially importing excess COVID-19 vaccines from the United States, the Brazilian Foreign Ministry said on Twitter yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) -Indian High Commissioner Arun Kumar Sahu did not communicate the availability of India’s 500,000 vaccines to CARICOM and that is why Trinidad and Tobago did not know it was an option.