Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) Approximately 2,000 school students appear to have dropped out of the education system since T&T’s COVID-19 pandemic battle began in March 2020.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Ministry of Health has registered another day of high fatalities in T&T due to the COVID-19 virus, with 18 deaths recorded over the last 24-hour reporting period, one of which occurred in Tobago.

(Trinidad Guardian) Cultural icon Torrance Mohammed died yesterday, after being brutally beaten and robbed in San Fernando on Monday.

(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley isn’t fooling herself. The Barbados Labour Party leader on Sunday night boasted of many things her administration had been able to achieve in the first three years in office, but said there was still plenty to be done.

(Trinidad Express) Police have responded to a murder-suicide at Caparo where a man bludgeoned his estranged wife to death and committed suicide overnight.

(Trinidad Express) A PetitValley woman was killed in a knife-fight in the kitchen with another female relative on Sunday.

(Trinidad Guardian) T&T recorded 15 more COVID-19 deaths in the last 24 hours, pushing the country’s death toll closer to 400.

(Trinidad Express) Police have responded to a murder-suicide at Caparo where a man bludgeoned his estranged wife to death and committed suicide overnight.

(Barbados Nation) The Royal Barbados Police Force is continuing investigations into the death of a police officer who was shot and killed while responding to an attempted robbery in his neighbourhood of Rose Hill, St Peter on Saturday night.

(Trinidad Express) Public health regulations, which were due to expire yesterday, have now been extended to July 4.

(Trinidad Express) Public health regulations, which were due to expire today, have now been extended to July 4.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Ministry of Health has recorded 17 additional COVID-19 related deaths.

(Trinidad Express) – Couva market vendor Amar Ramkhalwhan would have turned 34 in just four months had his life not been taken by the Covid-19 virus.

(Trinidad Guardian)-  In just two days, more than 14,000 people have already started the process of applying for the Salary Relief Grant for May, Finance Minister Colm Imbert disclosed yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Ministry of Health has recorded 7 additional COVID related deaths.

(Trinidad Express)A Rio Claro man was chopped to death during an altercation on Friday.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – The death toll from COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean passed 1 million people yesterday, according to a Reuters tally, with the pandemic worsening in the part of the world with the highest per capita death rate.

SAN SALVADOR,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is pulling aid from El Salvador’s national police and a public information institute and will instead redirect the funding to civil society groups, the agency’s head said in a statement yesterday.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s health minister said yesterday the government is doing everything possible to prevent the spread of the concerning coronavirus variant first identified in India in the northern state of Maranhao, which has detected the country’s first cases.

(Trinidad Express) A police officer was killed on the Solomon Hochoy Highway, near the Brian Lara Stadium on Thursday night.