Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) The number of local deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has risen to three.

(Barbados Nation) All businesses in Barbados, except those deemed as essential services, were to be closed for two weeks from 8 last night.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados is putting Bds$3 million into the operations of regional airline LIAT to keep it in the air during the COVID-19 crisis.

(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Mia Mottley has emerged from her medical procedure “in high spirits” and with the “assurance of success by her medical team”.

(Jamaica Observer) Several Jamaican teachers in the South Carolina county of Kershaw, which is the epicentre of the COVID-19 outbreak in that state, are hunkering down for a long haul with schools declared closed for at least two months as authorities there try to contain the spread.

(Jamaica Star) Prime Minister Andrew Holness has just announced that Jamaica now has an additional four COVID-19 cases.

(Jamaica Gleaner) At least one Jamaican living in South Korea has reported that xenophobia in the South East Asian nation has increased tremendously since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, leaving her and other Jamaicans feeling ostracised.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Paul Adolphous Brown, a director of Brown’s Funeral Home in Kingston, has been charged in connection with the recent discovery of hundreds of hospital gloves and masks at the establishment located next door to the Kingston Public Hospital.

(Trinidad Guardian) The public will still be able to go to the shop, grocery and drug store from Monday.

(Trinidad Express) CHANDRABHAN RAMROOP would do anything for his cousin, Seeta Bhagwandeen.

(Jamaica Observer) The  Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) has announced an eight-point pre-emptive monetary strategy to assure financial institutions and the public that there will be adequate access to both Jamaican dollar and foreign currency liquidity in wake of the escalating COVID-19 pandemic.

(Trinidad Express) An elderly man who was among the cruise ship passengers quarantined at Camp Balandra and then transferred to the Couva Hospital after falling ill, has died from complications as a result of the COVID-19 coronavirus.

(Trinidad Express) National Security Minister Stuart Young has listed what would be considered essential services as of Monday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Department of Correctional Services says sanctions are to be laid against murder convict Adidja Palmer, better known as Vybz Kartel, following the seizure of contraband in his cell.

(Jamaica Star) Veteran reggae singer, and prolific songwriter, Keith ‘Bob Andy’ Anderson, has died.

(Trinidad Express) Two people in a car were crushed to death by the trailer of a truck in Tableland on Thursday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Another person who was quarantined at Camp Balandra has tested positive for the COVID-19 virus.

(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.