Regional News

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Bank of Jamaica, BOJ, plans to test a digital currency as an alternative to cash later this year.

Former Bahamian Prime Minister Perry Christie has described the late, former Barbadian Prime Minister Owen Arthur as an “extraordinary” man of CARICOM and  a vibrant political source for the regional integration project.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has announced a change in the number of people who can congregate in groups, from 25 to 10.

(Barbados Nation) The Ghanaian nurses are here. The contingent of 49 female and 46 male nurses was warmly greeted by a delegation of health and tourism officials shortly after arrival at Grantley Adams International Airport on Thursday evening aboard a chartered Azores Airlines flight.

(Trinidad Guardian) Having been together with the father of her children for 15 years and having gone through years of severe abuse to a point where she sustained broken bones in the process, 26-year-old Vera Golabie refused help from the police to be placed in a safe house.

(Trinidad Guardian) Despite an increase in locally spread COVID-19 cases, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says the August 10 General Election will go on.

(Trinidad Express) A 14-year-old boy is in serious condition at hospital after his lip was bitten almost half off during an argument with a close female relative early Friday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Two American sisters who were charged by the police following the seized of a quantity of cocaine valued at $1.3 million were each offered $100,000 bail when they appeared before the St James Parish Court on Friday.

(Trinidad Express) The Ministry of Health is reporting five more Covid-19 cases this morning.

(Trinidad Guardian) With the growing perception that Venezuelans are responsible for T&T’s second wave of COVID-19 spread, human rights activists say landlords are now evicting migrants over the fear of prosecution by the State.

(Trinidad Guardian) As the fear of the recent uptick in localised COVID-19 cases continued to fuel debate on whether the Government should again lock down the country, the Ministry of Health yesterday reported eight new cases, the highest daily count since the virus hit Trinidad and Tobago’s shores.

(Trinidad Guardian) As the fear of the recent uptick in localised COVID-19 cases continued to fuel debate on whether the Government should again lock down the country, the Ministry of Health yesterday reported eight new cases, the highest daily count since the virus hit Trinidad and Tobago’s shores.

(Trinidad Guardian) Republic Financial Holdings Limited (RFHL) announced yesterday a profit attributable to shareholders of the parent of $774 million for the nine-month period ended June 30, 2020.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Portmore Mayor Leon Thomas has rejected claims he is the father of a 30-year-old visually impaired man from Six-Miles in Bartons in St Catherine.

(Trinidad Express) A police constable turned up at the Matura Police Station this afternoon, to say that he and his wife were involved in a fight and she was injured.

(Trinidad Express) In what has been the third judgment of its kind, a High Court judge has struck down a policy by the Customs and Excise Division over the importation of adult toys into the country.

(Trinidad Guardian) In the past week, Trinidad and Tobago has had five people who contracted COVID-19 from an unknown source within the country, sprouting eight more cases through primary contacts and forcing some businesses to close for sanitisation exercises, the closure of three schools and the self-quarantining of hundreds of people.

(Jamaica Observer) Reigning Miss World, Jamaica’s Toni-Ann Singh will serve an extra year as the international pageant will not be staged due to the current pandemic.

(Jamaica Observer) Olympian Asafa Powell has requested a paternity test for his daughter.

(Trinidad Express) Over 3,000 people attempted “double dipping” into the Salary Relief Grant, and the Income Support Grant distributed by the Government through separate ministries to assist cash-strapped families and individuals during the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic.