Regional News

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Court of Appeal will on Friday morning deliver its judgment in the Vybz Kartel murder case. 

(Jamaica Observer) The Jamaican Government says it is unable to respond to the rescue plea for 36 Jamaican from the Cave Hill, Barbados, campus of The University of the West Indies who have been left stranded on that island after airports here were closed to incoming passengers on March 21 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

(Jamaica Gleaner) As the coronavirus pandemic spreads like a bush fire throughout the United States, several Jamaican healthcare professionals on the front line tell of a brutal grind of attrition that has seen COVID-19 infections creep towards the one-million mark and deaths topping 45,000.

(Jamaica Star) Jhonny Martin and his wife Louise from Murray Mountain, St Ann, were plunged into mourning last Monday after losing their daughter Loraine ‘Marvet’ Martin to cancer.

“I was allowed to give a brief blessing and prayer. It lasted about five minutes.

(Barbados Nation) A mandatory quarantine period for all visitors, restrictions on when to leave home, a ban on the sale of liquor and a change in the operating hours of all essential businesses are among the measures acting Prime Minister Santia Bradshaw announced in an address to the nation last night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Mere hours after the Ministry of Health announced the nation’s fourth death from the COVID-19 virus came news yesterday morning of a fifth death.

(Trinidad Express) Police Commissioner Gary Griffith’s threat to close banks, supermarkets and markets cannot be enforced.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – An indigenous woman in a village deep in the Amazon rainforest has contracted the novel coronavirus, the first case reported among Brazil’s more than 300 tribes, the Health Ministry’s indigenous health service Sesai said yesterday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The death of British reggae pioneer Delroy Washington, who passed away last Friday, is as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

(Trinidad Guardian) A prominent Debe pundit and his wife have tested positive for COVID-19.

(Jamaica Star) The Ministry of Health has announced that a second patient has died from the coronavirus.

(Trinidad Express) National Security Minister Stuart Young has announced that gatherings of more than five persons will not be allowed, as the Government moves to implemented stricter measures to slow the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Trump administration yesterday offered to begin lifting Venezuela sanctions if the opposition and members of President Nicolas Maduro’s Socialist Party form an interim government without him, marking a shift in a U.S.

(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad and Tobago has registered its fourth death from the COVID-19 virus yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) National Security Minister Stuart Young has announced that gatherings of more than five persons will not be allowed, as the Government moves to implemented stricter measures to slow the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus.

(Trinidad Guardian) The families of patients who die as a result of the COVID-19 virus will not be able to retain possession of their corpses.

(Trinidad Express) Just hours before the Trinidad and Tobago borders were officially closed at midnight last week Sunday, Princes Town MP Barry Padarath boarded a flight out of the country.

(Trinidad Express) Police are searching for a man who fled a hospital from quarantine after undergoing a test for the Covid 19 virus.

(Trinidad Express) The owner of a bar in California has been charged with opening to customers, in breach of the COVID-19 regulations.