Daily Archive: Monday, April 13, 2020

Since its last update on Saturday, the Ministry of Public Health today said that the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases has risen from 45 to 47.

The Police say they are investigating a fatal accident which occurred today about 9 am on  the  No.

The Police say they are investigating the murder of Albert ‘Soldier’ Raghu, age 40 years, a labourer of Lot 218 Hope West, Enmore, ECD which occurred at the said address allegedly by a 29-year-old housewife and her 40-year-old husband , both of whom have been arrested and are cooperating with investigators.

(Jamaica Observer) Five nurses and a former director of prisons are among several Jamaicans who have died in the United States as a result of the novel coronavirus pandemic, according to the Global Jamaica Diaspora Council and other well-placed sources.

(Jamaica Gleaner) It’s the last thing they had hoped for: two rejections in as many weeks.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The second positive COVID-19 case at a Portmore call centre and the ordering of staff to self-quarantine have triggered more concern that business process outsourcing (BPO) companies – characterised by high-density office arrangements – may be incubators for the spread of the new coronavirus.

(Jamaica Star) Health authorities are currently tracking some 1,000 Portland residents who they believe were in contact – directly or indirectly – with persons who have tested positive for COVID-19.

Guyana’s economy could be pegged back by risks generated by the incomplete general election and the rampaging coronavirus, according to the World Bank’s latest semiannual report which also has more modest figures for growth of GDP in the next three years.

Six weeks after the March 2nd general elections, a crisis triggered by a rigging attempt in GECOM to hand victory to the incumbent APNU+AFC rumbles on with the way forward resting heavily with the Chair of the electoral body, Justice (retired) Claudette Singh.

Police in Berbice yesterday arrested the suspect in the murder of an unidentified woman whose battered body was found stuffed in a barrel which was found partially submerged in a trench at R and S Street, Belvedere, Corentyne, on Saturday. 

A forty-year-old labourer of Lusignan Railway Embankment, ECD, was caught yesterday about 6.30 am in the act of attempting to throw a bag containing two cellular phones, one hundred and four grams of suspected cannabis and other items into the Lusignan Prison compound.