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Trump administration announces $3.7 billion for Puerto Rico
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON DC, USA — The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it will award a $3.7 billion grant to help Puerto Rico rebuild water and wastewater treatment plants, pumping stations and reservoirs damaged by Hurricane Maria more than three years ago.
Bermuda records new COVID death ahead of vaccine rollout
LOOP NEWS CARIBBEAN
Bermuda has recorded a new COVID-19 related death just as the country prepares to begin rollout of the coronavirus vaccine.
CXC to return to regular format
ANTIGUA OBSERVER
SAINT JOHN'S, Antigua - Following the temporary adjustments to its CSEC and CAPE exams earlier this year, the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) will revert to the original format for the January sitting of the exams. Word of this came from local CXC Registrar, Myrick Smith.
Latin America COVID-19 death toll tops 500,000 as Brazil cases spike
REUTERS
BRAZILIA, Brazil - Deaths in Latin America and the Caribbean from COVID-19 topped 500,000 yesterday, and cases soared above 15 million amid holiday festivities, according to a Reuters tally of figures in official government reports.
Barbados: Sandals delisted as quarantine facility over alleged breaches
BARBADOS NATION
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Chief Medical Officer Dr Kenneth George has delisted Sandals Barbados Resort and Spa as a designated quarantine hotel effective January 5, 2021, and three tourists have been held for questioning by police, according to a media statement on Tuesday.
Skylar and VJ to stay in Cayman Islands jail; but sentence halved
CNS
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands - The Cayman Islands Court of Appeal handed down a reduced sentence on Tuesday, when they cut the jail time for Skylar Mack (18) and Vanjae “VJ” Ramgeet (24), who were convicted for breaching quarantine regulations, from four months to two. The justices did not explain the reasons for the change, but after listening to arguments from Ben Tonner QC, representing Mack and Ramgeet, and prosecutor Greg Walcolm, they said a written judgment would follow.
Trinidad oil company shuts down offshore platforms over COVID
TRINIDAD GUARDIAN
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Perenco Trinidad and Tobago Limited yesterday shut down COVID-hit offshore platforms in its Teak, Samaan and Poui fields and transported all workers to either state facilities or other locations for quarantine pending testing.
Brazil's Health Ministry expects at least 150mil vaccine doses by June
REUTERS
BRASILIA, Brazil – Brazil’s Health Ministry expects to have at least 150 million doses of vaccines against COVID-19 available in the first half of 2021, with a third or more coming from a Chinese company despite the president’s early skepticism.
Respiratory therapist given Puerto Rico’s first vaccine
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico--A respiratory therapist who treated the first two COVID-19 patients hospitalised in Puerto Rico became the first person in the US territory to be vaccinated against the virus on Tuesday.
Twin doctors die from COVID-19 in Belize
LOOP NEWS CARIBBEAN
The coronavirus pandemic has snatched away the lives of two doctors who were fighting to keep others healthy during the pandemic.
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