(Trinidad Guardian) Although several regional territories are concerned over the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) move to administer the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Exam (CAPE) and Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations in July, although COVID-19 response may still be a major issue for some countries, senior CXC officials say it will go on as planned.
(Trinidad Guardian) Twenty-one T&T nationals who had found themselves on the outside looking in when borders closed at midnight on March 22, returned to this country yesterday.
(Barbados Nation) Family members have identified the three people who were shot and killed at River Land, St Philip early yesterday morning.
(Trinidad Guardian) Works and Transport Minister Rohan Sinanan says the proposed laws in the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill, 2019, will ensure the tint on vehicles is properly handled and not via Licensing officer’s whim and fancy.
(Jamaica Observer) JAMAICAN health authorities are bracing for a spike in the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases locally, following yesterday’s arrival of more than 200 stranded Jamaicans from the United States and Canada at Norman Manley International Airport (NMIA) in Kingston.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A Clarendon egg farmer slaughtered and buried 12,000 layer chickens on Tuesday to cut his losses as a result of the dramatic slump in egg prices and sales, which he attributes to the agriculture ministry’s intervention to ease a surplus by subsidising costs.
(Trinidad Guardian) The United States Embassy has said that Government violated the 73-year-old Rio Treaty when Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez landed in the country.
(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — Government Member of Parliament (MP) for South West St Catherine Everald Warmington says no infrastructure in Jamaica should be named after any politicians.
(Trinidad Express) A prisoner was found hanging in a cell at the Penal Police Station on Monday night.
(Trinidad Express) Ten people were arrested this afternoon for breaching the Public Health Ordinance Regulations when they were found bathing in the waters off Bayside Towers in Cocorite.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Student pilot Mark Daniel Scott’s death has been described as a major loss for young aspiring Jamaican aviators.
(Trinidad Express) She calls it a miracle and he felt “divine intervention” was at work.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Several Jamaicans who are stranded in Barbados due to COVID-19 have lambasted the Government for not doing enough to rescue them from starvation and homelessness in a foreign country.
(Trinidad Express) The Government relief programmes to offset the negative impact of COVID-19 is expected to cost the country six billion dollars.
(Trinidad Express) San Fernando businesswoman Jowelle De Souza went to her hairdressing salon yesterday although the Government had not yet given the green light for businesses such as hers to operate.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prestige Holdings CEO Simon Hardy has defended his company in the face of allegations it benefitted from information it had ahead of yesterday’s restarting of KFC restaurants as food businesses reopened in phase one of Government’s COVID-19 reopening plan.
(Jamaica Observer) FIFTY-SEVEN of Jamaica’s 505 confirmed COVID-19 cases are children, Chief Medical Officer (CMO) in the Ministry of Health and Wellness Dr Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie has confirmed.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaican Dr Anita Brown-Johnson said yesterday that she was not shocked that her son Nicholas Johnson’s record of academic excellence paved the way for his history-making exploits as the first black valedictorian of Princeton University.
(Jamaica Star) Apostle Christene McLean, founder of the City of Refuge Endtime Prophetic Ministries in St Ann’s Bay, St Ann, last night reacted in dismay to a declaration from Prime Minister Andrew Holness that churchgoers must wear masks when they are in the sanctuary.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil deployed thousands of soldiers to protect the Amazon rainforest yesterday, taking precautions to avoid spreading the novel coronavirus, as the government mounts an early response to surging deforestation ahead of the high season for forest fires.
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