CARIBBEAN NEWS ROUNDUP – AUG. 7, 2019

News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 7, 2019: Here are the top news making headlines from the Caribbean and its Diaspora for this Wednesday morning August 7, 2019:

A torrid-turned-tortured interspecies romance is front and center in the full-length trailer for Carnival Row, premiering Friday, Aug. 30 on Amazon Prime.

Three American tourists from Texas are dead after they were swept away in fast-moving waters while on Bambarra Beach, Turks & Caicos.

A rocket successfully set off today from French Guiana on a mission to deposit two satellites above the Earth’s equator.

A Jamaican pollster is predicting the St. Kitts and Nevis Labour Party would win six out of the eight seats on St. Kitts if the election were called today.

Guyanese born Baroness Valerie Amos has been appointed the new master of the University College Oxford.

Rastafarians in Saint Lucia have welcomed the signing of a £20 million reparations agreement between the University of the West Indies (UWI) and the University of Glasgow.

The US Virgin Island’s landmark ‘Toxic 3 Os’ – oxybenzone, octinoxate and octocrylene – sunscreen ban became law this week.

India beat the West Indies in Guyana Tuesday by 7 wickets to deal the T20 series 3-0.

And it looks like Rihanna and her dad have kissed and made up. The singer hung out with her dad at the Barbados Carnival this week after suing him for exploiting her name.