MANAUS, Brazil, (Reuters) – Deaths from the coronavirus outbreak have piled up so fast in the Amazon rainforest’s biggest city that the main cemetery is burying five coffins at a time in collective graves.
SAO PAULO/BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil plans to deploy its armed forces to fight deforestation and fires in the Amazon jungle, Vice President Hamilton Mourão said yesterday, in an effort protect the world’s largest rainforest where destruction has surged since last year.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department, the Treasury Department and the U.S.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia will offer individuals who leave crime gangs and rebel dissident groups legal benefits including reduced sentences in an effort to weaken illegal armed groups, the Andean country’s high peace commissioner said yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) The T&T Registered Nurses’ Association (TTRNA) is asking the Government to consider a $1 million payout in the event any nurse loses their life during the COVID-19 pandemic.
(Trinidad Guardian) Dean Walters of Tobago and Donna Lisa Phillips-Walters of Trinidad got married in Chaguaramas and left for Curaçao on March 16.
(Jamaica Star) Prime Minister Andrew Holness was blunt. “The possibility is that all of us, at some point in time, will get it,” he said about the coronavirus, which has had a crippling economy on the country since the first case was discovered on March 10.
(Trinidad Express) Trinidad-born healthcare worker Mahadaye “Mary” Jagroop passed away last week at the Birmingham Heartlands Hospital in England after contracting COVID-19.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Ravaged by fallout from the coronavirus disease, the Holness administration has established a high-powered task force to kick-start Jamaica’s battered economy and chart the road to recovery in the medium term.
(Trinidad Express) A police officer is warded at hospital after he said he accidentally drank a poisonous substance in Rio Claro.
(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad-born Dr Michael Pillai, 28, is one of the ‘heroes’ working on the frontline in a hospital in East Brooklyn, New York.
(Jamaica Star) The Redeemed United Holy Church of God on Red Hills Road in St Andrew has adopted a shift system to help contain the spread of COVID-19 while they continue to worship.
Jamaicans stranded overseas amid the COVID-19 pandemic can now qualify to return home by applying through an online portal under the Government’s programme of controlled re-entry.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A team of high-level investigators have launched a probe into the death of 23-year-old Jodian Fearon who died at a prominent hospital on Saturday, April 25.
(Trinidad Guardian) COVID-19 plus crashing oil prices have caused the 2020 Budget deficit to balloon from $5.3 billion to $15.5 billion – and the 2020 Budget is now being recalibrated.
(Barbados nation) Barbados is not accepting any commercial flights or passengers, says Terry Layne, acting chief executive officer of Grantley Adams International Airport (GAIA) Inc.
(Jamaica Star) In a valiant attempt to save the life of his four-year-old son, a firefighter has been hospitalised after suffering burns to his back and other parts of his body, after fire gutted a house at Mason Hall in Port Maria, St Mary.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Two men are nursing several gunshot wounds under police guard at the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) after they were disarmed and shot during a bizarre tussle with a man they abducted Saturday afternoon.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A major squabble has erupted between two Kingston hospitals over whether the death of a 23-year-old delivering mother was caused by a panicked breakdown in COVID-19 patient protocols by a medical team at the Andrews Memorial Hospital.
PUERTO ORDAZ/MARACAIBO, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Venezuelans reported paying above $2 per liter ($7.57 per gallon) for gasoline last week amid fuel shortages, one of the world’s highest rates and a dramatic reversal for an OPEC nation that long boasted of having the world’s cheapest fuel.
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