(Jamaica Observer) Pastor of the King’s Seventh-day Adventist Church in Mount Salem, Charles Brevitt, yesterday warned members of his congregation to “cease and desist” from playing dominoes on the compound, arguing that if the Government is not allowing it to be played in bars, then members must not play the game on church premises.
(Jamaica Observer) Comfortable rooms, on time meals, lots of food, pleasant and professional staff, are some of the descriptions repeated by individuals quarantined at the Jewels Paradise Cove Hotel in this north eastern Jamaica parish.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Caribbean students still stuck at The University of the West Indies, Mona, are anxious to get home as the coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc across the globe.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Oliver Frederick Clarke, the media mogul who stood at the helm of The Gleaner as chairman and managing director for more than four decades, has died.
(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley announced yesterday a further ease up of the regulations related to the Covid-19 pandemic.
(Trinidad Express) Lurking among gatherings of people, there can be a super-spreader of the Covid-19 virus, who can transmit the virus exponentially to large numbers of the population.
(Trinidad Express) A Maraval man is expected to appear before a Port of Spain Magistrate tomorrow charged with the NY 12 murder of his brother, Atilola Josiah Herod.
(Jamaica Star) From as early as 6 a.m., early childhood teacher Tandeka McKoy-Phipps can be seen making rounds in several St Andrew South communities, writing schoolwork on community notice boards or walls.
(Trinidad Express) Businessman Derek Chin says he is disappointed and hurt over distasteful comments that he is receiving special treatment at Cascadia Hotel and there was an “ulterior motive” in him picking up cancer patient Krissa Bissoon to return to Trinidad.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Maxine Reyes grew up in the community of Marley Hill in South Manchester with her great-grandmother.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil lost its second health minister in a month yesterday after President Jair Bolsonaro demanded wider use of unproven anti-malarial drugs to fight the coronavirus outbreak, adding to turmoil in one of the pandemic’s worst global hotspots.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley is insisting he did not know what portfolio Asdrubal Chavez held when he met with him and Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez on March 27th.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Jamaica Tourist Board has partnered with DestinationWeddings.com to host a virtual, symbolic ceremony for couples who had to postpone or cancel their Jamaican and other warm-weather destination weddings as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The RJRGLEANER Communications Group has laid off 93 workers and implemented salary cuts for others amid the economic impact of the coronavirus in Jamaica.
SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – LATAM Airlines Group, the region’s largest carrier, will lay off 1,400 employees, the company said yesterday, marking the first instance of a major Latin American airline laying off staff because of the coronavirus crisis.
SAN JOSE, (Reuters) – The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said yesterday its 37 members had approved Costa Rica’s application to join the group and that a formal membership agreement will be signed in the coming days.
MEXICO CITY, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Lawmakers in Puerto Rico this week approved a new set of civil laws that enshrine rights for LGBT+ people, even as opponents say gaps in the code could fuel discrimination toward trans people in the U.S.
(Jamaica Observer) The health authorities last evening reported that Jamaica had recorded no new positive cases of COVID-19 for the first time since early March when the first case was reported.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Although elated on Wednesday about returning home after being stranded overseas because of COVID-19 travel restrictions, quarantined Jamaicans have been crying out for hunger as they lambasted conditions at a St Ann hotel.
(Jamaica Gleaner) If she was allowed to have her own way, Mildred’s (not her real name) husband would not have travelled to Canada on the overseas farm work programme this year as he has been doing for the past 19 years.
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