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Trinidad: Coast Guard officer charged with killing colleague aboard patrol vessel

Ordinary Seaman Takeem Alexander has appeared before a Port of Spain Magistrate charged with the unlawful killing of his colleague, Ordinary Seaman Gyasi Richardson. Richardson...

COVID-19 testing kits for Jamaica blocked by US

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton a short while ago disclosed that test kit supplies for COVID-19 to Jamaica...

Cuba develops vaccine to combat COVID-19

The director of research at the Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology here, Dr Gerardo Guillen, says a clinical trial is now being held...

Guyana: Man struck wife to head, hanged her and then stuffed her in barrel

The Berbice man who confessed to murdering his reputed wife and stuffing her in a barrel has revealed more chilling details about how he...

PAHO warns Caribbean to prepare for full COVID-19 blast

Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) director and the World Health Organisation (WHO) regional director for the Americas, Dr Carissa Etienne, says they neither anticipated...

Trinidad: Fatal bullets for Benz driver

Police mounted a search for four gunmen who killed a man in San Fernando on Monday afternoon. Several units of police officers from the...

Jamaicans aboard cruise ship denied landing in Portugal

It’s the last thing they had hoped for: two rejections in as many weeks. But that’s the reality for a group of 45 heartbroken...

Five Jamaican nurses, former soldier die from COVID-19 in US

Five nurses and a former director of prisons are among several Jamaicans who have died in the United States as a result of the...

Trinidad: Couple found shot dead in car

A man and a woman were found shot dead in a car in Trincity yesterday in what police believe is a double homicide. As a...

At least 34 Guyanese dead from coronavirus in NY -PM says many want to return home

Over 30 Guyanese have reportedly died from the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in New York City, according to a “partial” list from the Consulate...

Another Trini dies from COVID-19 in NYC

After waking up yesterday morning to the tragic news of the passing of his uncle Winford Atherley in New York to COVID-19, a local...

Washington Post reporter of Guyanese parentage found dead

Washington Post reporter Darran Simon, who is of Guyanese parentage and lived here as a child, was found dead in his Washington DC apartment...
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Barbados recorded 37 new COVID-19 cases

There were 37 new positive COVID-19 cases on Sunday, out of the 1,436 tests conducted by the Best-dos Santos Public Health Laboratory. They comprised both...

A Visitor form UK died in Jamaica of COVID-19

Jamaica on Monday recorded one more COVID-19 death, pushing the tally to 305. The deceased is a 77-year-old male from the United Kingdom. Meanwhile, there were...

Sandals founder Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart dies aged 79 following ‘short battle with illness’

Travel pioneer Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart, who founded Jamaica's Sandals resort, has died. Stewart was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1941. He grew up on...

Barbados Confirms 161 New COVID-19 Cases

Barbados has announced 161 cases of COVID-19 at the Island’s Dodds prison. The discovery has prompted a massive contact tracing exercise. Authorities say the cases relate...