Jamaica: Deportee detained in connection with murder of three homeless men
(Jamaica Gleaner) One man has been taken into custody in relation to the brutal slaying of three of four homeless men in the Corporate Area on Monday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) One man has been taken into custody in relation to the brutal slaying of three of four homeless men in the Corporate Area on Monday.
(Jamaica Star) The emotional wounds are still very deep for relatives and friends of Canadian national Latoya Alcindor as they try to make sense of her tragic death.
(Trinidad Express) Over 70 people, including children, were detained at a nightclub in One Woodbrook Place this morning.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Health facilities have been partnering with hotels to offer PCR tests for as much as US$300 (J$43,000) following requests from some of Jamaica’s main international travel partners for a negative COVID-19 test from travellers.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The cold, haunting streets of Kingston were frozen with fear on Monday night as the capital’s nomads snuggled in corners or retreated to shelters in the aftermath of the grisly murders of four homeless men and the wounding of two others.
(Trinidad Express) United National Congress (UNC) has pulled off an upset in the bye election for the Arima Central seat, one of five contested on Monday.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – The Mexican president’s announcement he had COVID-19 just a few hours after taking a commercial flight unleashed renewed criticism of his handling of the pandemic, which has left the country with the fourth-highest death toll worldwide.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro, a longtime China skeptic, thanked Beijing yesterday for rapidly approving the export of active ingredients for local COVID-19 vaccine production, as his government scrambles to secure scarce shots.
(Trinidad Guardian) Environmental non-profit Fishermen and Friends of the Sea (FFOS) has emerged victorious in its legal battle with the Environmental Management Authority (EMA) over access to its Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) records.
BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s Juan Guaido is a “privileged interlocutor” but no longer considered interim president, European Union states said in a statement yesterday, sticking by their decision to downgrade his status.
(Trinidad Express) Two men were shot dead in St James yesterday morning.
(Trinidad Express) Over 70 people, including children, were detained at a nightclub in One Woodbrook Place this morning.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Ricardo Lewandowski has approved an investigation into Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in the northern city of Manaus, according to a court document released yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Kevon Matamoro, akaalso known as ‘Preacher’ of Pinto Road, Arima, has been charged with murder following the advice of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Roger Gaspard SC.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A multipronged investigation has been launched into whether a deregistered plane bearing the Mexican flag that crash-landed in Rocky Point, Clarendon, on Saturday evening was on a smuggling mission.
(Barbados Nation) The United States Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a Level 4: Very High Level of COVID-19 alert in Barbados.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Meggy Fernandes voted for Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil’s 2018 presidential election, attracted by the far-right former army captain’s promise to shake up a hidebound political establishment mired in endless graft scandals.
(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — New Indian High Commis-sioner to Jamaica, His Excellency Rungsung Masakui, says his country is exploring arrangements with Jamaica to provide vaccines to fight the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has tested positive for COVID-19, he said yesterday, adding that his symptoms were light and that he was receiving medical treatment.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil recorded 592 new COVID-19 deaths, the Health Ministry said yesterday, taking total fatalities from the pandemic to 217,037 people.
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