Regional News

(Jamaica Gleaner) A woman has been named by the police as a person of interest in the murder of businessman Roger Chang.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica has reported its first death from COVID-19. The 79-year-old male patient, who is from Lionel Town, Clarendon and recently returned from New York, died at an isolation facility at Mandeville Regional Hospital this afternoon.

(Trinidad Express) The Trinidad and Tobago nationals who returned home after being stranded on a cruise ship with passengers who tested positive for the COVID-19 virus, have been taken from the Piarco International Airport to a quarantine location in Toco.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The police have identified a man as a person of interest in the case of missing University of the West Indies, Mona student Jasmine Deen.

(Jamaica Star) “I would come back to Jamaica if I could,” said a terrified Janet, who left the country in search of a better life in the United Kingdom in 2018.

(Jamaica Star) Commercial sex workers who ply their trade on the popular ‘Back Road,’ in Portmore, St Catherine, say the area has become almost a ghost town since COVID-19 emerged in Jamaica.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Though issued a strict warning on the weekend that their licences could be confiscated, some taxi operators have continued to deny nurses their services.

(Trinidad Guardian) The two latest novel coronavirus (COVID-19) cases announced by the Ministry of Health on Tuesday night were two Trinidadian women who were aboard the Costa Favolosa cruise ship that was anchored off Martinique for several days.

(Trinidad Express) A man known to police for robbery offences was killed in Ste Madeleine on Tuesday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Republic Bank managing director Nigel Baptiste says the Finance Committee announced by the Prime Minister has met and had healthy discussions.

(Barbados Nation) Effective immediately, a limit will be placed on the quantity of toilet tissue to be purchased by a single customer.

(Jamaica Star) Would you buy a COVID DEAL? We are actually talking about food!

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica has another recorded another case of the coronavirus.

(Trinidad Express) Golden Grove Prison in Arouca was locked down on Tuesday, as prisoners attempted to escape claiming they were fearful of contracting the COVID-19 coronavirus.

(Trinidad Guardian) Tobago Police are probing the circumstances surrounding the death of a 56-year-old man who died at French Fort, Scarborough on Monday evening after having sexual intercourse with a woman in a WASA vehicle.

(Trinidad Express) A Manzanilla man was killed in a car crash in Sangre Grande on Monday night.

Minister of Health and Wellness Jeffrey Bostic has confirmed that Barbados recorded its first two cases of COVID-19.

(Jamaica Observer) The support Zandriann Maye gave her daughter Jahzan McLaughlin during Sunday night’s audition round of American Idol, was the perfect boost for the 18-year-old Jamaican singer.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidadians are far too complacent when it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic.

(Trinidad Guardian) Emergency isolation mode!   From midnight tonight, non-nationals won’t be allowed entry into Trinidad and Tobago for two weeks, schools will remain closed until April 20 and bars are being asked to close for two weeks to prevent novel coronavirus (COVID-19) spread.