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JAMAICA: Teen robbed, set on fire after meeting man on gay site
JAMAICA GLEANER: A St James man, who reportedly went to Flankers in Montego Bay, St James, last Monday to meet a man he met...
Barbados records 7 COVID-19 deaths
Seven Barbadians, five men and two women, have lost their battle with COVID-19.
The deaths occurred over a three-day period. On Thursday, October 14, a...
St Lucia lifts State of Emergency
Prime Minister Phillip J Pierre, indicating that St. Lucians will have to live with the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic for the ‘foreseeable future” has announced...
Nearly 60% of Cuba’s eligible population fully vaccinated with their own vaccine
TELUSUR: If the total population of the Caribbean nation is taken into account, 52.3% of its inhabitants (5,847,755) have already received the complete anti-COVID-19...
Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court Recognised as a Pioneering Caribbean Woman...
The Honourable Dame Janice M. Pereira, DBE, LL.D, Chief Justice, has been recognised by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) Academy for Law as...
Regional students performed well in CXC exams despite challenges
Students across the Caribbean have had to battle with a number of challenges from natural disasters to the coronavirus pandemic and the death of...
Moderna or Pfizer booster works better for people vaccinated with J&J – study
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP)— People who received Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine may benefit from a booster dose of Pfizer or Moderna, preliminary results of a...
‘Squid Game’ strikes nerve in debt-ridden South Korea
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — “Squid Game,” a brutal Netflix survival drama about desperate adults competing in deadly children’s games for a chance to...
Guess How Many Americans Travelled To The Caribbean In The Last 6 Months?
By NAN Staff Writer
News Americas, BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Tues. Oct. 12, 2021: Care to guess how many pandemic weary Americans travelled to the Caribbean in the...
Superman’s son comes out as bisexual in new issue, DC Comics says
DC Comics has big plans for the new Man of Steel.
Jonathan Kent, son of Superman Clark Kent and Lois Lane, will come out as bisexual and fall...
More than 700 pregnant women have contracted COVID-19 in Trinidad and Tobago
A senior health official on Monday said Trinidad and Tobago has recorded more than 700 cases of COVID-19 among pregnant women since the country...
55 people under age 18 test positive for COVID-19 in Barbados
COVID-19 cases recorded for in Barbados Sunday, October 10, number 214. The Best-dos Santos Public Health Laboratory conducted 1,706 tests.
Of the 94 males and...
The UWI rejects allegations of widespread exam cheating
The University of the West Indies says it categorically rejects misinformed allegations in recent media coverage on the subject of the integrity of its...