BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian health officials braced yesterday for President Jair Bolsonaro to fire his health minister over disagreements on how to handle the coronavirus outbreak, with at least one secretary offering his resignation in protest.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s government is employing harsher measures in one of Caracas’ largest barrios to ensure residents comply with a coronavirus quarantine, as many poor Venezuelans continue to head outside in search of scarce food and water.
(Trinidad Express) Ordinary Seaman Takeem Alexander has appeared before a Port of Spain Magistrate charged with the unlawful killing of his colleague, Ordinary Seaman Gyasi Richardson.
(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica – Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton a short while ago disclosed that test kit supplies for COVID-19 to Jamaica from the United States were blocked by that jurisdiction, and that the Government is now awaiting supplies from other sources.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti will reopen its key textile industry next week, Prime Minister Joseph Jouthe said yesterday, suggesting the impoverished nation had escaped the worst of the global coronavirus pandemic by imposing early on a state of emergency.
MANAUS, (Reuters) – A two-month-old baby born to Warao indigenous refugees from Venezuela has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the mayor’s office in the Brazilian city of Manaus said yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) A MAN who threatened to kill Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has been sent to jail.
(Jamaica Observer) Government yesterday announced a one-week lockdown of St Catherine, saying the strict measure was triggered by a big spike in the number of positive COVID-19 cases from 73 to 105.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Government’s strategies for controlling the spread of the coronavirus is wreaking havoc with the operations of small businesses such as bars and restaurants, and Mark Brooks is adamant that they need to be revisited to allow for some amount of business to continue, even as he supports the efforts to curb the spread of the deadly virus.
(Jamaica Star) Some residents of Denham Town in western Kingston have taken parties to the roofs of houses and atop high-rise buildings, despite restrictions on gatherings exceeding 10 people.
(Trinidad Guardian) Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) director and the World Health Organisation (WHO) regional director for the Americas, Dr Carissa Etienne, says they neither anticipated nor were they prepared for the magnitude of the current COVID-19 pandemic.
(Trinidad Guardian) With their savings running low, scores of unemployed people queued outside TTPost offices across the country to submit forms for Government’s Salary Relief Grant amidst the economic woes brought on by the COVID-19 crisis.
(Trinidad Express) Police mounted a search for four gunmen who killed a man in San Fernando on Monday afternoon.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Within “a week or two”, the Jamaican Government will have to accept dozens of deportees from the United States (US).
BRASILIA/RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazil likely has 12 times more cases of the new coronavirus than are being officially reported by the government, with too little testing and long waits to confirm the results, according to a study released yesterday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The second positive COVID-19 case at a Portmore call centre and the ordering of staff to self-quarantine have triggered more concern that business process outsourcing (BPO) companies – characterised by high-density office arrangements – may be incubators for the spread of the new coronavirus.
(Reuters) – Offshore oil and gas drilling operations in the U.S.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – The Brazilian government has banned non-indigenous people from entering tribal lands to stop the spread of coronavirus in their villages and will distribute masks, gloves, test kits and food to their communities, officials said yesterday.
(Barbados Nation) One more Barbadian has tested positive for novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
(Jamaica Observer) Five nurses and a former director of prisons are among several Jamaicans who have died in the United States as a result of the novel coronavirus pandemic, according to the Global Jamaica Diaspora Council and other well-placed sources.
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