Regional News

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido has accepted the resignation of his Miami-based adviser Juan Rendon, his press team said yesterday, after Rendon acknowledged discussions with a U.S

(Trinidad Guardian) Senior Lecturer, University of the West Indies (UWI) Dr Roger Hosein, is projecting that T&T will suffer one of its worst Gross Domestic Product (GDP) declines in 2020 in almost 40 years.

(Jamaica Observer) Moody’s, one of the world’s leading credit ratings agencies, is describing Digicel’s plan to wipe away as much as one quarter of its US$7-billion (€6.5bn) debt through restructuring as defaulting.

(Jamaica Observer) Things are looking up for a young Jamaican who has been living on the streets of Argentina in dire poverty for some four months after he was evicted from his hotel and subsequently robbed of his documents and belongings.

(Trinidad Express) The Ministry of Health advises the public of reports received concerning the sale, in local markets, of fresh ginger, which has been contaminated with the pesticide Methomyl.

(Trinidad Guardian) Doubles vendors warn that the price of doubles may well be going up in the next week.

(Jamaica Gleaner) It should have been another typical Mother’s Day celebration on Sunday for 62-year-old Charmaine Henry and her family.

(Trinidad Guardian) The political battle between Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley and Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar seems to be heading for the courts as Persad-Bissessar has given instructions to her lawyers to initiate legal action against the Prime Minister for statements he made about her during a news conference on Friday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Businesses are hurting badly because of COVID-19 and the government is just not doing enough to help them, the American Chamber of Commerce of T&T has said.

(Barbados Nation) SOL Caribbean axed 47 employees here at the end of March, but maintains it is committed to Barbados and cites the BDS$9.2 million it plans to invest this year and the BDS$37.4 million over the past three years as proof.

(Trinidad Express) About 3,000 employees of Prestige Holdings are going back to work from today.

(Trinidad Express) A chef has issued a pre-action protocol letter to Massy Motors as she seeks a $199,000 refund for a vehicle purchased from the company.

(Trinidad Guardian) There have been no new confirmed COVID-19 cases recorded in T&T since April 26.

(Jamaica Observer) They arrived in Jamaica seven weeks ago in a militant mood with one basic objective in mind — to improve the quality of life for Jamaica’s people.

(Jamaica Star) Prime Minister Andrew Holness, through his Positive Jamaica Foundation, has donated $100,000 to the Little Bay Primary and Infant School in Westmoreland to support the institution’s initiative in providing worksheets to students, who do not have internet access.

(Jamaica Gleaner) When siblings Norma and Warren Williams left Jamaica to attend the funeral of a relative in Margate, South Florida, in February, they had no idea that a rapidly developing COVID-19 outbreak would have crippled global travel, leaving them stranded in the United States.

(Trinidad Guardian)  Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has announced three main phases by which the country will reopen following the shutting down of businesses to combat COVID-19.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Corona-virus patients were being turned away from hospitals in the Mexican capital yesterday, as both public and private medical facilities quickly fill up and the number of new infections continues to rise.

(Jamaica Observer) Almost 300 Jamaicans are to leave the island this weekend to take part in the seasonal farm work programme in the United States and Canada, despite recent reports that several of their countrymen are among 47 workers employed to a farm in Canada who have contracted the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica’s senior men’s ice hockey team’s historic championship win at last year’s Amerigol LATAM Cup is memorialised in a Canadian sports yearbook published earlier this year.