Sunday, April 28, 2024

Regional

$10,000 bounty for shark

Port of Spain - A $10,000 reward is being offered to anyone who finds the shark that attacked, mauled, and critically injured a British tourist on Friday. The bountry will...

British national hospitalised after shark attack

SCARBOROUGH – A 64 year-old British national has been taken to the Scarborough General Hospital, after being attacked...

Haiti’s Prime Minister resigns

Haiti's Prime Minister Ariel Henry resigned on Thursday as a new council was sworn in to lead the...

Dominica High Court overturns ban on same-sex relations

Dominica's High Court has overturned a ban on consensual same-sex relations in the Caribbean island nation. The court ruled...

Port of Spain General Hospital NICU baby death toll jumps to 18

Port of Spain - Two weeks after the North West Regional Health Authority (NWRHA) announced that seven babies...

The Bahamas, US sign airspace agreement

Nassau – The Bahamas government has signed an air navigation services agreement with the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) allowing for the monitoring of...

UN human rights chief raises alarm

United Nations – Michelle Bachelet, United Nations human rights chief, has issued an alert over the rising number of threats, attacks and attempts to...

UK issues travel advisory on Jamaica

Kingston – Less than a week after Jamaica lifted its travel ban on the United Kingdom due mainly to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Britain’s...

CARPHA warns of mosquitoes as rainy season approaches

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) urged residents of the region to protect themselves against mosquito-borne diseases, even as...

Trinidad company takes over Trident Insurance

Port of Spain – Trinidad and Tobago Insurance Limited (Tatil) has acquired Barbados-based Trident Insurance Company Limited, after officially getting the nod from regulators,...

St Vincent Govt lowers La Soufriere Volcano alert to Orange

Kingstown – The government has moved the alert at the La Soufriere volcano from Red, the highest, to Orange, the third-highest on the four-level scale. Prime...

Crop over Ire