Regional News

(Jamaica Star) What started out as regular day last Monday for 21-year-old farmer Daniel Logan and his spouse, Mizira Mitchell, changed drastically in a matter of minutes after he was forced to deliver their second child on a dirt track.

(Trinidad Express) Fifteen year old Anushka Balkissoon was found on Sunday night, and has returned to her family.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaicans are found everywhere, and they tend to add flavour to life as they are currently doing in New York, the epicentre of the USA’s COVID-19 outbreak where there are nearing 1.5 million confirmed cases.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Andrew Holness has asserted that there would be a “serious” breach of good faith if Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines intends to sail to Jamaica without notice or approval.

(Trinidad Guardian) Public Utilities Minister Robert Le Hunte has confirmed that his resignation from Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley’s led administration was a result of professional conflict on policy positions.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Oliver Frederick Clarke, a quintessential media tycoon, Caribbean luminary, humanitarian and banker who had an almost inexhaustible list of accolades, died Saturday at his home at 9:45 p.m.

(Barbados Nation) A statement issued through the Barbados Government Information Service yesterday announced that the curfew imposed to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has been extended until May 31, 2020.

(Trinidad Guardian) After surveying 148 executives in T&T and the Caribbean in April, HRC Associates in collaboration with the T&T Chamber of Industry and Commerce has found that almost one third of the CEO’s are expecting staff severances in the coming months.

(Trinidad Express) Two brothers are suspected to have drowned at a pool at a quarrying site in Valencia.

No mask, no roti……no mask, no service! Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has advised citizens to obey public health regulations to wear masks when entering public places.

(Trinidad Guardian) Three persons are expected to appear before a Port of Spain Magistrate on May 18th charged with possession of counterfeit cards and card-making equipment.

(Jamaica Observer) Pastor of the King’s Seventh-day Adventist Church in Mount Salem, Charles Brevitt, yesterday warned members of his congregation to “cease and desist” from playing dominoes on the compound, arguing that if the Government is not allowing it to be played in bars, then members must not play the game on church premises.

(Jamaica Observer) Comfortable rooms, on time meals, lots of food, pleasant and professional staff, are some of the descriptions repeated by individuals quarantined at the Jewels Paradise Cove Hotel in this north eastern Jamaica parish.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Caribbean students still stuck at The University of the West Indies, Mona, are anxious to get home as the coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc across the globe.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Oliver Frederick Clarke, the media mogul who stood at the helm of The Gleaner as chairman and managing director for more than four decades, has died.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley announced yesterday a further ease up of the regulations related to the Covid-19 pandemic.

(Trinidad Express) Lurking among gatherings of people, there can be a super-spreader of the Covid-19 virus, who can transmit the virus exponentially to large numbers of the population.

(Trinidad Express) A Maraval man is expected to appear before a Port of Spain Magistrate tomorrow charged with the NY 12 murder of his brother, Atilola Josiah Herod. 

(Jamaica Star) From as early as 6 a.m., early childhood teacher Tandeka McKoy-Phipps can be seen making rounds in several St Andrew South communities, writing schoolwork on community notice boards or walls.

(Trinidad Express) Businessman Derek Chin says he is disappointed and hurt over distasteful comments that he is receiving special treatment at Cascadia Hotel and there was an “ulterior motive” in him picking up cancer patient Krissa Bissoon to return to Trinidad.