(Trinidad Express) Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar has called on the Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley to cancel hosting of the 2020 Caribbean Premier League (CPL) in the wake of a surge of Covid-19 cases.
(Trinidad Guardian) With the country at the start of what appears to be a second phase of COVID-19 infections following five locally transmitted infections from an unknown source last week, the Ministry of Health is in overdrive to locate the source/s and determine the spread of this wave of infections through contact tracing.
(Trinidad Express) A Trinidadian stranded in the United States was left heartbroken after he was not allowed to perform the last rites for his deceased father.
(Trinidad Express) Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar has called on the Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley to cancel your hosting on the 2020 Caribbean Premier League (CPL) in the wake of a surge of Covid-19 cases.
(Jamaica Observer) Two American women who were arrested at the Sangster International Airport in St James on Friday, July 24 in relation to the seizure of more than a million dollars worth of cocaine are booked to appear in the St James Parish Court on Friday, July 31.
(Jamaica Star) Pictures posted on social media platforms such as Instagram and Facebook by persons who should be in home quarantine will be used as evidence in cases where people have been deemed to be breaching COVID-19 rules.
(Trinidad Express) On Tuesday night, as a letter circulated on social media announcing the school’s temporary closure because a pupil had contact with a positive Covid-19 virus patient, NPTA Public Relations Officer Sharmila Raheem told Express the matter is to be investigated.
A police officer stationed at Riverside Plaza in Port-of Spain and her sister, who works in the finance department of the T&T Police Service, have tested positive for COVID-19.
(Trinidad Guardian) A 29-year-old Arouca man will appear before an Arima magistrate today charged with attempting to extort $80,000 and harassment of United National Congress Toco/Sangre Grande candidate Nabila Greene.
(Jamaica Star) Lance, a 28-year-old resident of Ramsay Road along Maxfield Avenue, spent 30 minutes trying to kick off a padlocked gate and a bolted door to save his neighbour’s two-year-old son from a burning house on Sunday afternoon.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A brazen daylight robbery of the Jamaica National Bank Money Shop in Whitehouse, Westmoreland, on Tuesday has raised concern among the police that they can’t distinguish hoodlums from law-abiding citizens observing coronavirus protocols.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Yet another Jamaican has tasted success in politics in the United States.
(Barbados Nation) Government will move this week to reduce travel taxes, says Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says the Caribbean is a poorer place following the passing of the former Prime Minister Owen Arthur.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – The former boss of Mexican state oil firm Pemex, Emilio Lozoya, told a court yesterday he was innocent of corruption charges and said he would denounce those responsible for his alleged crimes, in a case that could seriously embarrass Mexico’s previous rulers.
(Trinidad Express) SOCIAL distancing is a challenge in schools. This was the response yesterday from several primary school principals after two schools were closed within days of each other as a result of possible exposure to Covid-19.
Two men were charged with larceny for allegedly breaking into two vehicles and stealing a total of $55,000.
(Jamaica Star) The world renowned Dunn’s River Falls and theme park in Ocho Rios, St Ann, has been recording an uptick in patronage since being reopened to the public on July 21, following a four-month closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
(Jamaica Star) Danville Walker, the national director for the New Social Housing Programme (NSHP), has defended the $5.9 million price tag for a one-bedroom house that was recently constructed by the state entity.
(Jamaica Observer) The August Town community in St Andrew has been left baffled after 47-year-old Kenneth Grant, a former football coach, was yesterday discovered swinging from an electrical cord at his residence in what the police have since said is a suspected case of suicide.
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