Regional News

(Jamaica Star) Ermine, a Jamaican who has lived in Brooklyn, New York, says she is extremely worried about COVID-19.

(Jamaica Star) After 10 months of planning for the perfect day to tie the knot, Gabrielle Leslie and her groom-to-be, John Osborne, have been forced to postpone their wedding.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Kamina Johnson Smith, says the government has stepped in to help Jamaican hospitality workers who were stranded at an airport in Atlanta, Georgia in the United States due to cancelled flights.

(Trinidad Express) The first COVID-19 victim to die in Trinidad and Tobago was Hansel “Hanny” Leon, a man who loved Carnival and well known for “beating the iron”.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados will be under a curfew from tomorrow  March 28 to Tuesday, April 14, 2020.

(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Mia Mottley will undergo a medical procedure this weekend.

(Trinidad Guardian) Minister of National Security Stuart Young has warned that Trinidad and Tobago nationals who recently returned home from abroad and have been told to self-quarantine will now face strong action if they breach the order.

(Jamaica Star) A man who fell from the roof of a house last Wednesday in Norwood, St James, died in the Falmouth Hospital two days later.

Bradshaw Singh, father of Miss World 2019 Toni-Ann Singh, is dispelling rumours that she is now in isolation after showing symptoms of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

(Jamaica Gleaner) Two Jamaican men are hungry and homeless after being stranded by Caribbean Airlines.

(Trinidad Express) The following is a statement issued last night by the Minister of Health Terrence Deyalsingh It is with great sadness that I announce that a patient, from Trinidad and Tobago, who tested positive for COVID-19, unfortunately died today, Wednesday 25th March 2020.

BRASILIA/SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – President Jair Bolsonaro yesterday blasted as criminals the governors and mayors of Brazil’s largest states and cities for imposing lockdowns to slow the coronavirus outbreak, as tensions with his health minister simmered.

SANTIAGO,  (Reuters) – Chile’s government yesterday announced a general quarantine for large parts of capital Santiago after the country surpassed 1,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus since the outbreak began locally at the start of March.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – A Brazilian doctor leading a clinical trial of a malaria drug and antibiotic combination to treat the coronavirus urged caution on Wednesday, saying initial results of the drug that U.S.

(Jamaica Observer) Actor Garfield “Bad Boy Trevor” Reid does not believe his arrest early Monday morning will have negative implications for his career.

(Jamaica Observer) Twenty-seven Jamaican contract workers are currently stranded at Newark International Airport in New Jersey after their flight to Montego Bay was cancelled this morning.

(Jamaica Star) Residents in the small farm community of Success in Hanover were sent into shock on Monday morning, after news surfaced that an elderly man was beaten to death with a sledgehammer by his younger brother, following a dispute.

(Jamaica Star) Shay Townsend, 35, has been living in Italy for six years.

(Trinidad Express) Flamboyant Crime Watch talk show host Ian Alleyne says he has tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus.

(Jamaica Observer) The Government has issued an appeal to Jamaicans for help in securing facilities to accommodate people recovering from the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in order to free up space in isolation wards at hospitals for patients in need of specialist care.