Published 24 August 2021
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Jamaicans and other track and field fans are expressing their grouse online and threatening to boycott the Nike brand unless they show due respect to Olympic champion and the fastest woman in the world Elaine Thompson-Herah.
Published 14 August 2021
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Many feared dead as Haiti struck by 7.2 Magnitude Earthquake
Quake felt across the Caribbean revives memories of the 2010 event when 200,000 are thought to have died
Haiti’s prime minister has said “numerous” lives have been lost after the Caribbean country was struck by a 7.2-magnitude earthquake that reduced buildings and churches to rubble and rekindled painful memories of the devastating 2010 tremor that killed an estimated 200,000 people.
Published 11 August 2021
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An increase in Covid-19 cases and hospitalization related to circulation of Variant of Concern (VOC) Delta in the Eastern Caribbean Countries
Bridgetown, Barbados – August 9, 2021 (PAHO) -The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (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 (PHSM) to safeguard lives due to an increase in cases and hospitalization related to circulation of SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern (VOC) Delta in the Eastern Caribbean.
Published 9 August 2021
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Former Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, Sir Lester Bird (83), died at 6 am on Monday morning, August 9, 2021.
By WICNewsJas
Antigua and Barbuda: Former Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, Sir Lester Bird (83), died at 6 am on Monday morning, August 9, 2021. Office of Prime Minister Antigua and Barbuda announced early morning that the country has lost one of its most distinguished and heroic sons.
Published 5th August 2021
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St. Vincent Prime Minister hurt during protests outside parliament.
SOURCE: SearchLight Newspaper/ Nationwide News Network- Reports emerging from the region are that St. Vincent and Grenadines Prime Minister, Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, is receiving treatment after he was injured by an object thrown by a protester.
