Regional News

BRASILIA/SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s weekly rolling average of deaths per day reached 1,111  yesterday, surpassing 1,000 deaths for the first time since early August, according to a Reuters calculation.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Trinidadian Prime Minister has been discharged from West Shore Medical Hospital and is now at home resting comfortably.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Government is now facing another massive bill following heavy rainfall that resulted in severe flooding in sections of St James on Friday and yesterday, which left many businesses and motorists with extensive damage.

(Trinidad Express) A 22-year-old nurse remained in critical condition at the San Fernando General Hospital yesterday after she was beaten with a hammer by a former boyfriend.

(Trinidad Express) The overnight medical tests done on Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley at the West Shore Private Hospital has led doctors to order a coronary angiogram.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Hundreds of vacationers hoping to return to Canada are now stranded in Jamaica after new rules requiring them to show proof of a negative PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test in order to enter the country came into effect on January 7.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Brazilian health authority Anvisa said yesterday that the application from São Paulo-based medical center Butantan for emergency use of a COVID-19 vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac Biotech lacks some relevant information for the analysis.

(Jamaica Gleaner) With a single Caribbean country yet to receive any vial of the COVID-19 vaccine released a month ago, Prime Minister Andrew Holness says big countries are hoarding the precious medicine.

(Jamaica Star) Elder Wayne Palmer of the Berry Hill Seventh-day Adventist church in Manchester is expressing his disappointment after the church building was stoned on Wednesday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police Commissioner Gary Griffith said yesterday that a renewed area of concern and focus in dealing with mass gatherings in the quest to contain the spread of COVId-19 is weddings.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States’ stark racial inequality was on display after a mob of predominantly white supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S.

(Trinidad Guardian) Sources have told Guardian Media that doctors have so far discounted any major cardiac problem with Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley.

(Trinidad Guardian) This year has started the same way 2020 began with the severing of workers in the downstream petrochemical sector as the State-owned National Gas Company fails to reach a gas supply agreement with a petro-chemical company.

Following is a statement by chairman of the Caribbean Community, Prime Minister of Trinidad Dr Keith Rowley.

(Trinidad Guardian) This year has started the same way 2020 began with the severing of workers in the downstream petrochemical sector as the State-owned National Gas Company fails to reach a gas supply agreement with a petro-chemical company.

PARA STATE, Brazil,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – In the middle of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, far from the laboratories of the world’s major pharmaceutical companies, the Kayapó indigenous people of Para state are using a drink made from vines to help them ward off the worst effects of COVID-19.

(Barbados Nation) Dr Corey Forde, Barbados’ lone infectious diseases specialist, will be the first person to receive a coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine if Government is able to secure at least four by this weekend.

(Trinidad Express) Kurt Sylvester, the husband of Couva secondary school teacher Suzette Sylvester, has been charged with her murder.

(Trinidad Guardian) International reinsurers are threatening to fully withdraw from the T&T insurance market, the Association of Trinidad and Tobago Insurance Companies (ATTIC) has warned.

(Jamaica Star) The Port Maria police have arrested and charged a mother and daughter in the December 25 killing of 26-year-old Jerome Forrester, otherwise called ‘Mop Head’, of Tank Lane, Oracabessa.