(Jamaica Star) The loved ones of William Montgomery Holmes, an elder of the Nyabinghi Order, are chanting fire after the 78-year-old’s beard was shaved while he was admitted at Linstead Hospital late last month.
(Trinidad Express) Thirty Trinidad and Tobago nationals currently in Guyana are now calling on Government to respond to their requests to be allowed home.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Indigenous leaders in Brazil have asked the World Health Organization (WHO) to set up an emergency fund to help protect their communities from the threat of the coronavirus pandemic.
Taxpayers will fork out $64 million to pay for accommodation and food for 330 Jamaicans stranded overseas by the COVID-19 pandemic who will arrive back home this week.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A number of expectant mothers are expressing fear as their delivery dates draw nearer due to the tragic sequence of events which resulted in the death of 23-year-old first-time mom Jodian Fearon over a week ago.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan authorities said eight people involved in a “mercenary incursion” were detained yesterday along the country’s coast, adding the suspects were part of a U.S.-backed
(Trinidad Guardian) Minister of Finance Colm Imbert says the Government has already monetised its shareholding in Republic Financial Holdings Limited (RFHL) and Angostura Holdings Limited (AHL) to provide funding to Government through the issue of National Investment Fund (NIF) Bonds.
(Trinidad Express) A Barrackpore man has captured a nighttime video showing vampire bats feeding on the blood of chickens roosting on a tree in his back yard.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazilian Health Minister Nelson Teich yesterday disputed the need to set up a new hospital to fight the coronavirus pandemic in hard-hit Manaus, even as the city’s hospitals are overwhelmed and officials have resorted to burying COVID-19 victims in mass graves.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Defense Ministry issued a relatively rare statement yesterday, saying the armed forces are dedicated to their constitutional mission and democracy and that violence against members of the press is not acceptable.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Two firefighters who were among 18 people nabbed by the police at a party on Saturday in breach of the nightly COVID curfew have been suspended with further disciplinary action in the works.
(Trinidad Express) A twenty four year-old doctor from San Fernando allegedly jumped to his death from a third-floor apartment in Champs Fleurs early yesterday morning after using a mixture of alcohol, LSD and marijuana.
A reported COVID-19 party in Las Cuevas ended in tragedy early Sunday when a Barataria woman lost her life and several others were injured when the vehicle they were returning home in crashed.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Moviegoers went to the now-defunct Harbour View Drive-in Cinema for film, frolic, and, ahem, more.
(Jamaica Observer) NEW YORK, USA — For one group of Jamaican nationals here the outbreak of the coronavirus may have already caused permanent economic damage.
(Jamaica Observer) The death toll among Jamaicans in the United States as a result of the coronavirus pandemic is showing signs of receding, according to usually reliable sources within the Global Jamaica Diaspora Council, as well as other well-placed sources here.
(Trinidad Express) There are only three COVID-positive patients in hospital as of Sunday night.
T&T’s archaic Education Act of 1966 could be one of the reasons why Ministry of Education officials are now seeking advice from the Chief Personnel Officer and Attorney General on how teachers can be made to account for their work while at home during the COVID-19 pandemic.
(Jamaica Observer) “I’VE totally given up on going home.” Those were the words of a Jamaican woman aboard the Caribbean Princess cruise ship now headed to the Dominican Republic, instead of Ocho Rios, after the captain announced that the Jamaican Government was not in a position to accept the Jamaican crew members.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The novel coronavirus which has been sweeping the globe and crippling economies as it unleashes a deadly assault had brought Cheryl Burnett face to face with scenarios that she never imagined would have unfolded in her lifetime.
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