Regional News

RIO DE JANEIRO/MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – The number of coronavirus deaths in Brazil blew past Italy’s toll yesterday, while Mexico reported a record number of new cases, as regional leaders in Latin America push to end quarantine measures and kick their economies back into gear.

CARICOM states must develop greater food security and work towards reducing their food import bill.

(Jamaica Gleaner) If anyone had told Natalee Carty that Tuesday, June 2, would have been the last day she saw her 15-year-old son, Raheem Campbell, alive, she would not have believed it.

(Trinidad Express) Businessman Michael Patrick Aboud has apologised for comments he made on Facebook on Sunday regarding protests in the United States over the police killing of African American George Floyd last week.

(Trinidad Guardian) As hundreds of citizens request exemptions to re-enter Trinidad and Tobago, Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh says Government may consider asking people to pay for their COVID-19 quarantine stays.He

(Jamaica Observer) President of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association Owen Speid, claiming that with fewer educators dying since schools were shuttered in early March due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, says it might be an indication that the stress levels of the classroom have adversely impacted the health of teachers.

(Jamaica Observer) Major changes are coming to the operations of regional telecommunications giant Digicel, which has entered into a joint venture agreement in the French Caribbean and is reportedly considering selling its Papua New Guinea business.

(Trinidad Guardian) Overwhelmed by the outpouring of donations and support by the public over the last few weeks, Teeluckdharry Seemungal, exclaimed: “It comes like we’re living in a paradise now!”

(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley announced yesterday that the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved about BDS$280 million in support, and the money should be in Barbados’ account by today.

(Trinidad Express) Minister of Health Terrence Deyalsingh plans to have a meeting with heads of the maxi taxi and taxi associations over the wearing of masks.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazil registered a record number of daily deaths from the novel coronavirus for a second consecutive day, according to Health Ministry data released yesterday, even as city and state authorities move aggressively to open commerce back up.

(Jamaica Observer) Jamaica has recorded its 10th COVID-19 death. The deceased is an 87-year-old woman from Kingston and St Andrew.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Scientists using an aerial remote-sensing method have discovered the largest and oldest-known structure built by the ancient Maya civilization – a colossal rectangular elevated platform built between 1,000 and 800 BC in Mexico’s Tabasco state.

(Jamaica Observer) The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) is reporting that there are at least seven people who remain in the island’s prisons having already spent 40 or more years each, despite not being convicted for any crime.

(Jamaica Star) A woman in western Jamaica said she and her family are lucky to be alive, after the pastor of a church they used to attend possessed them with “bloodsucking demons”.

(Jamaica Observer) Several Jamaican entertainers and celebrities were part of yesterday’s Blackout Tuesday, the social media-driven protest aimed at bringing attention to discrimination and abuse of African Americans.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Policemen Kevin Shirley and Mark Williams are challenging the constitutionality of their appeal being held via the Zoom online platform.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A 32-year-old St Andrew woman is now on a murder charge after allegedly dousing a taxi operator with hot oil during a domestic dispute.

(Jamaica Gleaner) MATERNAL INSTINCT jolted Joan Watson into realising that something was wrong when her 17-year-old ­daughter Chrisey-Ann Davis had not returned from her room some time after eating a meal on Monday evening.

(Trinidad Guardian) Several birds drowned after they were thrown into the sea, when Coast Guard officers intercepted a pirogue off Cedros, this morning.