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) 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.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Tired of months of confinement, Christmas shoppers have been crowding stores in Mexico City this week despite a recent spike in coronavirus cases that has strained hospitals in the capital.
(Trinidad Express) A Jamaican national resident in Trinidad and Tobago for over fourteen years died on Tuesday night at hospital due to complications after being shot on Sunday along the Brian Lara Promenade, Port of Spain.
SANTIAGO, Dec 15 (Reuters) – Chilean lawmakers late yesterday approved a bill to reserve 17 of 155 seats for representatives of indigenous communities in its upcoming constitutional convention, a measure lauded as “historic” by the government of center-right President Sebastian Pinera.
LA PAZ, (Reuters) – A scientific expedition high in the Bolivian Andes revealed 20 species new to science, including “lilliputian frog” plus four rediscovered species including the “devil-eyed frog” previously thought to be extinct, Conservation International said.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba yesterday rejected a U.S. government report concluding that directed radio frequency was the most plausible explanation for mysterious ailments suffered by U.S.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Jamaican nurse who created history by becoming the first person in the United States to receive the COVID-19 vaccine is urging her countrymen to get the life-saving jab to shield them from the virus that has infected almost 73 million people globally and killed 1.6 million.
(Trinidad Guardian) Police are investigating a firebombing incident in Cocorite on Sunday night in which a 92-year-old man was killed and his elderly wife in her 80s warded in a critical condition.
SAN JOSE DE GUANIPA, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Francisco Belisario, a Venezuelan mayor, retired general and member of the ruling Socialist party, had enough.