Regional News
Front-line workers should be first to get vaccine, says Barbados PM
Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Amor Mottley believes workers in the tourism and travel sector should be given priority access to vaccinations and therapeutics...
Guyana President says fresh elections will be held with new voters list
Guyana President David Granger Tuesday said voters will be given a new opportunity to elect a government after the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice...
Majority of Guyana’s teachers vaccinated against COVID-19
Just over 63 per cent of teachers in Guyana have received their COVID-19 vaccinations, while approximately 30 per cent of the students eligible for...
Antigua PM worried over CDB President’s administrative leave process
Antigua and Barbuda’s Prime Minister Gaston Browne on Wednesday said concerns have been raised about the method used to send the President of the...
Barbados police probe death of British woman who was strangled and set ablaze
Barbados police have launched an investigation into an incident in which a British woman who was strangled, doused with a flammable liquid and set...
Three men shot dead in Trinidad
As most of the country was preparing for effects of Tropical storm Bret, three men were murdered in a shooting in Laventille, Trinidad last...
Guyana has received over 300,000 doses of vaccines from COVAX
Guyana continues to benefit from free vaccines from the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX), a programme that provides free vaccines to 92 countries worldwide.
Guyana’s...
Too much unnecessary sick leave in Dominica Prime Minister Skerrit says
Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, has expressed concern over the level of productivity in Dominica, saying there are too many unnecessary sick leave papers from...
Venezuela Protests Leave 35 dead, 850 Arrested
A week of protests against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has left 35 people dead and 850 detained, non-governmental organisations said yesterday.
“We have the corroborated...
PAHO urges region to prepare “timely response” for dengue outbreaks
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has called for countries in the Caribbean and Latin America to prepare for a timely response to possible...
