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...

CDC puts 5 Caribbean countries on high risk COVID list

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Five Caribbean countries, including Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, were given the highest risk assessment by the US Centres for Disease...

T&T bans Christmas parties in the public sector

SCARBOROUGH, Tobago – The Trinidad and Tobago government on Saturday announced a total ban on Christmas parties within the public sector and urged the...

Opposition confident of election petitions

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon remained confident that the opposition coalition would be successful in the two petitions challenging the results of...

Grenada facing major budget cuts

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada – Members of the Finance Committee in the House of Representatives were told to prepare for major expenditure cuts in the budget...

St Lucia to introduce room levy

CASTRIES – The St Lucia government on Wednesday signalled its intention of introducing a tourism levy that it said will help finance the marketing...

Australian company finds gold in Guyana

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The Australia-based mining company Alicanto Minerals says it has made its first-ever gold find here and that it has discovered a...