(Trinidad Guardian) A Trinidadian doctor who was among the historic first round of healthcare workers to get Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine is advising citizens to put their fears aside and get vaccinated when it becomes available.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States yesterday imposed sanctions on two people and a company it says played a role in fraudulent elections in Venezuela, keeping up pressure on socialist President Nicolas Maduro even as U.S.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – The former governor of the Mexican state of Jalisco was shot dead early yesterday in a restaurant bathroom in the beach town of Puerto Vallarta, one of the most high profile political killings since Mexico embarked on its “War on Drugs” in 2006.
SAO PAULO/RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazilian engineering group Odebrecht, whose name became synonymous with graft due to its role in the nation’s sweeping Car Wash corruption investigation, is changing its name as it tries to turn the page on that scandal-plagued history.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s National Constituent Assembly, a pro-government legislature created in 2017 that was widely criticized for undermining democracy, will cease operations at the end of 2020, President Nicolas Maduro said yesterday.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia has inked deals with pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and AstraZeneca to provide 20 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, President Ivan Duque said yesterday.
(Barbados Nation) The days of having an Auditor General’s report that highlights a myriad of accounting inconsistencies and financial irregularities in Government departments, may soon be at an end.
(Trinidad Express) Registered Venezuelans will get another extension of their stay in Trinidad and Tobago, this time to June 3, 2021, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley announced yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) National Security Minister Stuart Young is reminding the country that national borders have not yet been reopened by the Government.
(Trinidad Express) British Petroleum (bp) said on Wednesday its restructuring exercise will result in 149 employees being separated from the group’s Trinidad business on a voluntary or involuntary basis.
PORT OF SPAIN, (Reuters) – Trinidad and Tobago said yesterday it would impose stiffer penalties on those trafficking migrants from neighboring Venezuela, days after a Venezuelan boat headed to the Caribbean twin-island nation sank, killing at least 28 people.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazil recorded over a 1,000 new COVID-19 deaths for the first time in over three months yesterday, as its Supreme Court ruled that vaccinations could be required in the South American country.
(Jamaica Star) For a third consecutive time a Jamaican has won the Superl Lotto.
(Jamaica Star) A central Jamaica man is demanding a $200-million settlement from a bakery after he got sick from eating one of its products that contained rat faeces in August.
(Trinidad Express) The Appeal Court has reserved its ruling in a challenge against the Equal Opportunity Commission (EOC) after it dismissed a complaint brought by a man who said he was sexually harassed by a female co-worker.
(Trinidad Guardian) Over 100 Trinidad and Tobago nationals were expected back home last evening, as the Government continued its repatriation exercises for the Christmas period.
(Trinidad Express) British Petroleum (bp) said yesterday its restructuring exercise will result in 149 employees being separated from the group’s Trinidad business on a voluntary or involuntary basis.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) said yesterday said it would mobilize $1 billion to help countries in Latin America and the Caribbean acquire and distribute COVID-19 vaccines, adding to some $1.2 billion already committed in 2020.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s federal government will purchase 46 million doses of the CoronaVac vaccine being developed by China’s Sinovac Biotech Ltd, a state governor said yesterday, as authorities rush to source vaccines in a sometimes-confusing free-for-all.
RIO DE JANEIRO/SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil registered over 70,000 new cases of the coronavirus yesterday, a daily record, bringing the country’s total caseload above 7 million as a second wave of infections slams the South American country.
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