US CDC issues ‘very high’ COVID-19 alert for Barbados
(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.
(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.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican authorities said over the weekend they recovered 19 bodies, some burned and shot, in a vehicle left in an uninhabited region of Tamaulipas in northern Mexico.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A small plane is reported to have crashed in the fishing village of Rocky Point, Clarendon around 7 p.m
(Jamaica Gleaner) For six times less than the amount an average student would pay for tuition at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, in three years, a counterfeit degree can be obtained within days by anyone wishing to bypass the rigours of intellectual discourse of tertiary education.
(Trinidad Express) Two police officers risked their lives and rescued two men from drowning at a Blanchisseuse beach on Thursday.
(Jamaica Star) The usual court proceedings were in session when Andre Chantiloupe was called to defend himself against a claim from his common-law wife of 14-years, Neisha Morrison, that he physically assaulted her.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaicans were left in shock yesterday with news of the passing of former Reggae Boy Luton Shelton.
(Trinidad Guardian) Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh says he was shocked to see reports of People’s National Movement (PNM) supporters openly flouting COVID-19 regulations during a campaign meeting which the Prime Minister attended in Roxborough on Wednesday night.Since
(Trinidad Guardian) The private contractor hired to construct a retaining wall at the Monkey Town Public Cemetery ‘Garden of Rest’ yesterday halted construction as an investigation has been launched by the Penal Debe Regional Corporation (PDRC) after 20 graves and tombstones were dug up.
GENEVA, (Reuters) – The World Health Organization said yesterday it had reached an agreement with Pfizer/BioNTech for 40 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine and should be able to start delivering vaccines to poor and lower-middle income countries next month under its COVAX programme.
(Trinidad Guardian) TCL’s Packaging Limited will cease operations next month as the TCL Group says it has become uneconomical to continue.
(Trinidad Guardian) A deep water bid round is expected to take place before the end of this year, Energy Minister Franklin Khan has said.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley says he is “worried” that the first case of the more contagious UK COVID-19 variant is in Trinidad and Tobago.
(Jamaica Star) Etta Isatu Findlay was on her way to earning a medical degree from the Carlos J.
(Trinidad Guardian) Australian outfit BHP has confirmed that it’s recent search for oil in Trinidad and Tobago’s deep water ended in failure with the Broadside-1 well being a dry hole.
(Trinidad Guardian) A repatriated national has brought the new strain of COVID-19 (Variant B117) from the United Kingdom into the country, increasing fears now over whether health officials will be able to control its spread.
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