Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) Police have detained a man for the shooting death of a Assistant Superintendent of Police in Chaguanas yesterday.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro yesterday called for the reopening of the country’s borders, as he pushes to restart South America’s largest economy, but conceded he may be blamed if the new coronavirus outbreak worsens as a result.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley is chairing a team of experts—including former People’s National Movement and People’s Partnership finance minister economists Wendell Mottley and Winston Dookeran—who are drafting a recovery roadmap for Trinidad and Tobago following the COVID-19 crisis.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A federal judge has ordered a Florida-based company to stop selling a product that it says cures COVID-19 but prosecutors allege contains a powerful bleach that could make people sick when it is ingested, the Justice Department said yesterday.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombian startup Rappi is piloting deliveries by robots as a safe way of getting food to people forced to stay at home due to the coronavirus pandemic.

NEW DELHI/BENGALURU,  (Reuters) – Latin American countries including Brazil, Argentina and Colombia have scrapped import duties on some respiratory equipment from India as a temporary trade-relief measure to fight the new coronavirus, engineering exports body EEPC India said yesterday.

MEXICO CITY,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A judge ordered the Mexican government to extend its coronavirus protections to migrants, ruling that health care be guaranteed to detainees and temporary residence permits given to those especially vulnerable to the disease.

(Trinidad Express) As of yesterday, 38,000 people had applied for the Salary Relief Grant provided by the Government to ease the hardship suddenly inflic­ted on them by the COVID-19 pandemic.

(Trinidad Guardian) “One day you will give away your last breath.

(Trinidad Guardian) Television personality Ian Alleyne has withdrawn his emergency lawsuit over being detained after allegedly receiving an official discharge from the Caura Hospital, earlier this week. 

(Jamaica Gleaner) Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie has said that the Government’s decision to reject the use of the Cuban antiviral drug Interferon Alpha 2B to treat persons battling COVID-19 at this time was made after consultations with experts in the public-health sector.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica will be looking to tap into International Monetary Fund (IMF) for financial support amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Finance Ministry yesterday said.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Tough restrictions are now in place for business process outsourcing (BPO) operations over heightened concern that call centres are hubs for community transmission of COVID-19 even as it has been revealed that another firm has shuttered because an employee might have been exposed.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr Christopher Tufton has confirmed an additional 18 cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Jamaica.

(Jamaica Observer) MONTEGO BAY, St James — President of the Egg Industry Association Roy Baker says the shutdown of hotels due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has wiped out a third of the egg market, which he said represents almost seven million eggs per month.

Three men accused of hanging a dog has been granted $15,000 own bail.

(Trinidad Express) Five Trinidadian men and six Venezuelan nationals appeared in court today, charged under the Public Health [2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)] (No.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Clarendon community of Mitchell Town is reeling from the loss of three of their own in New York in the United States as countries across the globe continue to battle the coronavirus pandemic.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Naomi Thompson-Henry boiled with anger as she condemned as malicious a video that has emerged on social media linking her late husband’s death to COVID-19 and potentially putting their lives at risk.

(Trinidad Guardian) T&T’s healthcare system has been given a shot in the arm as the country will receive from the CAF—Development Bank of Latin America a loan of $340 million (US$50m) to mitigate the COVID-19 health crisis here.