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INTERPOL warns C'bean govts against purchasing fake COVID vaccines
LOOP NEWS
LYON, France - The International Police (INTERPOL) has warned all of its 194 member countries, including those in the Caribbean, to be on the lookout for organised crime groups attempting to defraud governments with fake offers to sell coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines.
Major fire cripples operations at Jamaican bauxite plant
JAMAICAN GLEANER
CLARENDON, Jamaica - Operations at bauxite outfit Jamalco in Hayes, Clarendon, will today “be at a standstill” following a “major fire” that took a cross-parish effort, which lasted well over six hours, of seven units from the Jamaica Fire Brigade and 61 fire personnel to contain the blaze.
Haiti quake survivors cry for help as death toll nears 2,000
REUTERS
LES CAYES, Haiti – Survivors of the earthquake that killed at least 1,941 people in Haiti clamoured for food, shelter and medical care yesterday as search and rescue efforts resumed after a tropical storm lashed the Caribbean nation with rain, causing dangerous flooding.
Cuban's main oxygen plant fails amid COVID surge
REUTERS
HAVANA, Cuba - Cuba’s public health minister said yesterday efforts were underway to restart the country’s main oxygen factory which had broken down even as the death toll from COVID-19 on Saturday reached 98, equal to the pandemic record.
PAHO urges Caribbean to boost defences against Delta variant
LOOP NEWS CARIBBEAN
The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organisation (PAHO/WHO) Office for Barbados and Eastern Caribbean Countries is advising the public and health authorities to continue to take appropriate and urgent public health and social measures to safeguard lives due to an increase in cases and hospitalisation related to circulation of SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern (VOC) Delta in the Eastern Caribbean.
Woman pleads not guilty to wounding SVG PM
LOOP NEWS
KINGSTOWN, SVG - Annamay Lewis, a 56-year-old vendor of Layou, appeared before a Kingstown Magistrate yesterday morning charged with wounding Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines, Dr Ralph E. Gonsalves during a protest last Thursday in Kingstown.
Man held in Barbados death of Jamaican sex worker
NATION NEWS
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - A man is in police custody assisting with investigations into the death of Jamaican sex worker Odith Henriques, 44, whose nude body was discovered last week in the yard of an abandoned house in Beckwith Street, The City.
CARICOM citizens urged to participate in region wide census
LOOP NEWS CARIBBEAN
Delayed by one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, CARICOM has finally launched its population and housing census.
Haiti police say former Supreme Court judge suspect in president’s killing
REUTERS
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Haitian police on Friday outlined fresh accusations against a former Supreme Court judge over her links to the assassination of President Jovenel Moise earlier this month, saying she had met with some Colombian mercenaries accused of killing him.
Jamaica probing trimming of Rastafarian’s hair @ police lock-up
JAMAICA GLEANER
KINGSTON, Jamaica - Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson has ordered an immediate probe into claims that a 19-year-old Rastafarian woman, Nzinga King was trimmed by a policewoman at a lock-up in Clarendon.
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