Saturday, April 27, 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...

Younger people dying from COVID, says PAHO director

WASHINGTON – The Director of the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO), Dr Carissa F. Etienne on Wednesday expressed concern at the hospitalisations and deaths...

St Vincent government considering relaxing alert levels

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent – Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves on Wednesday said Cabinet is to decide soon whether it will accept a recommendation from...

Griffith: Time to control illegal immigrants

Port of Spain – Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith Tuesday said judicial officers were setting a “dangerous precedent” as it relates to the illegal...

Dr Hyginus ‘Gene’ Leon shares vision for CDB

Bridgetown – St Lucia-born economist, Dr Hyginus ‘Gene’ Leon Tuesday began his tenure as the sixth president of the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB). Leon,...

More mud flows from La Soufriere

Kingstown – The La Soufriere volcano has been displaying “spectacular” mud flows over the past 24 hours, but the scientists say the seismic activity...

St Vincent orders 50 000 doses of Sputnik V

Kingstown – The St Vincent and the Grenadines government says it has ordered 50 000 doses of the Russia-developed Sputnik-V COVID-19 vaccine, as nationals...