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Trinidad mom chopped to death trying to save daughter
TRINIDAD GUARDIAN
SANGRE GRANDE, T&T - A Sangre Grande mother who attempted to save her daughter was chopped to death inside her home on Monday night.
Puerto Rico police uncover island’s biggest pot greenhouse
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico police said they raided the island’s largest hydroponic marijuana greenhouse on Tuesday, with nearly 2,000 plants being grown in a former addiction treatment center.
Monkeypox arrives in St Lucia via flight crew
CARIBBEAN NEWS GLOBAL
CASTRIES, St Lucia– Health authorities in St. Lucia have increased surveillance for monkeypox after being alerted that a crew member on a flight to the island has tested positive for the viral disease.
Barbados PM tests positive for COVID
BARBADOS NATION
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has tested positive for COVID 19. It is a mild case and she has indicated that she is doing well, said a statement released to the media.
Colombia elects former guerrilla Petro as first leftist president
REUTERS
BOGOTA, Columbia – Leftist Gustavo Petro, a former member of the M-19 guerrilla movement who has vowed profound social and economic change, won Colombia’s presidency yesterday, the first progressive to do so in the country’s history.
Barbados appoints Constitutional Reform Commission
CMC
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados — Attorney General Dale Marshall says the Constitutional Reform Commission (CRC), whose members were sworn into office on Monday, will begin its work on Friday.
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.
