11 Venezuelan children, women, men drown heading to Trinidad, 9 missing
(Trinidad Express) The Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard is confirming the deaths of eleven Venezuelan men women and children who drowned on their way to Trinidad.
(Trinidad Express) The Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard is confirming the deaths of eleven Venezuelan men women and children who drowned on their way to Trinidad.
(Trinidad Guardian) On the very day Ashanti Riley will be laid to rest, a San Juan man is expected to face the court charged with her murder today.
(Trinidad Guardian) Awakened by loud explosions as gunmen shot up his bedroom early yesterday morning, a Chaguanas man remained on his bed paralysed with fear.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Supreme Court yesterday gave the country’s health minister 48 hours to fix the starting date for a national vaccination programme to fight the world’s second-deadliest outbreak of coronavirus.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition, led by Juan Guaido, on Saturday concluded a “popular consultation” to repudiate President Nicolas Maduro’s government after boycotting a congressional vote last Sunday.
(Trinidad Express) Covid-19 vaccines will be distributed to all citizens and non-nationals in Trinidad and Tobago, says Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh.
(Jamaica Gleaner) More than 100 public figures in Britain, including former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and the acclaimed poet Benjamin Zephaniah, have signed a letter to Home Secretary Priti Patel demanding that the deportation of 22-year-old Jamaican Osime Brown be rescinded.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Miqueal-Symone Williams has been crowned Miss Universe Jamaica 2020.
(Trinidad Guardian) Members of the San Juan community turned out to support grieving family and friends of murdered teenager Ashanti Riley in a motorcade held in her memory yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) The T&T Police Service (TTPS) is owing more than $40 million to several garages and auto repair shops across the country for work done on police vehicles.
BARCELONA, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Rich nations are “lagging badly” on a longstanding pledge to channel $100 billion a year in funding, from 2020 onwards, to help poorer countries develop cleanly and adapt to the worsening impacts of climate change, the U.N.
(Trinidad Express) A woman was granted $75,000 bail after she was charged with three offences of assault, including throwing hot water on her husband.
(Jamaica Observer) FORMER Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller marks her 75th birthday today, 14 years and nine months after creating history on being sworn in as Jamaica’s first female chief executive.
(Trinidad Guardian) Seventh-Day Adventist pastor Clive Dottin is calling on Trinidad and Tobago’s men to become more actively involved in the protection of the nation’s women and children.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaican soap manufacturers have lost a year-long battle for continued duty-free exports to the Caricom market of 18 million people.
(Barbados Nation) By April next year, Barbados could, for the first time, have a national minimum wage along with fixed amounts for different sectors.
(Trinidad Guardian) Thick, black smoke billowed high into the skies across Port-of-Spain yesterday, as thousands of gallons of fuel burnt indiscriminately following an explosion at National Petroleum’s Sea Lots compound.
(Trinidad Express) Former Miss Trinidad and Tobago Yvee Clarke has less than seven days to pay over $100,000.
The United States announced travel and other sanctions on Thursday against six Jamaicans who were part of the controversial Reneto Adams-led Crime Management Unit that was criticised as a trigger-happy police squad that committed multiple extrajudicial killings.
MOSCOW/BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Russia has agreed a deal with Argentina to supply 10 million doses of its Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, which will allow the South American country to start vaccinating people this month.
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