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SVG PM announces ‘shield’ against rising electricity bills
CMC
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent & The Grenadines – The St Vincent and the Grenadines government says it has taken emergency steps to prevent the fuel surcharge on electricity bills from surpassing the record high of EC$0.67 cents per unit in 2008.
Cuba sanctions 381 protesters, including jail for 297
REUTERS
HAVANA, Cuba – Cuba said yesterday it has sanctioned 381 people, including 16 young people between the ages of 16 and 18, who participated in last summer’s protests, the Communist-run island’s largest since Fidel Castro’s 1959 revolution.
Jamaica dancehall producer charged with triple murder
JAMAICAN GLEANER
KINGSTON, Jamaica - Music producer Linval ‘Shab Don’ Thompson Jr has been charged with three counts of murder.
American woman dies after butt-lift surgery in Dom Republic
LOOP NEWS CARIBBEAN
A New York City Department of Correction officer passed away after receiving plastic surgery at a clinic run by a controversial doctor in the Dominican Republic.
Uproar in T&T over slave-master comment by Persad-Bissessar
TRINIDAD GUARDIAN
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad & Tobago - “What problem you have with my name? What’s wrong with my name? Camille, at least I have the name of my ancestors. Where you got yours from? Your name is that of a slave-master.”
Dom Republic environment minister shot dead in his office
REUTERS
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – The Dominican Republic’s environment minister, Orlando Jorge Mera, was shot dead in his office yesterday, authorities said.
Bandits tunnel their way into Republic Bank, Couva
TRINIDAD EXPRESS
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad & Tobago - Bandits tunneled their way into the Republic Bank branch opposite the Couva Police Station over the long weekend.
Gonsalves urges regional leaders to boycott Summit of the America
CMC
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados — St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves is urging Caribbean Community (Caricom) leaders “not to attend” next month’s Summit of the Americas to be held in the United States.
School outbreak boosts covid case in Cayman Islands
CNS
GEORGETOWN, Cayman Islands - After a reported outbreak of COVID-19 at Cayman Prep on Friday, over 100 students and their family members were locked down over the weekend. The positive tests boosted the number of people in isolation and on Monday Public Health said there were an estimated 1,778 active cases, including 58 on the Sister Islands.
3 Americans died from carbon monoxide poisoning in Bahamas
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
A trio of American tourists found dead at a popular Bahamas resort likely died from carbon monoxide poisoning, according to a new report.
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