Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) A 66-year-old man who travelled abroad less than 14 days ago is this country’s second confirmed case of COVID-19.

(Trinidad Express) The Prime Minister is exercising “caution” with respect to coronavirus after his recent travels.

(Trinidad Guardian) All Masses at the Catholic church have been suspended, according to a media release from the Archbishop of Port-of-Spain.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The first batch of 21 specialist nurses from Cuba will arrive in the island on March 24, to boost the capacity of the health system to deal with the coronavirus (COVID-19).

CARACAS/MARACAIBO (Reuters) – Venezuela on Friday confirmed its first two cases of coronavirus amid concerns that the economically struggling South American nation is unprepared to confront a pandemic that is spreading rapidly around the globe.

(Trinidad Express) Gasparillo mother Chandramatie Sammy-Rojan had purchased vitamins to boost her daughter’s immune system against COVID-19 and was walking back to her family’s home when she was gunned down on Thursday night.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Scores of angry residents from the communities of Wakefield and Friendship in Trelawny, took to the streets on Saturday morning to protest the shooting death of an elderly woman.

(Barbados Nation) A man succumbed to injuries hours after reporting to police that he was beaten by a group of men.

(Jamaica Observer) THE Government of Jamaica has increased the number of countries on which there is restricted travel from eight to nine in light of the COVID-19 outbreak.

(Trinidad Guardian) With her husband terminally ill, Gasparillo mother Chandramatee Sammy-Rojan was shot dead in a suspected hit by a relative who may now seek to inherit her home.

(Trinidad Guardian) Villagers of Fullerton Village, Cedros are concerned following the deaths of several animals within three days in the community.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Andrew Holness has declared all of Jamaica a disaster area amid the coronavirus. 

(Trinidad Express) The Ministry of Health, Trinidad and Tobago, advises of the country’s second confirmed case of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).

(Trinidad Express) Two police officers are expected to appear before a Port of Spain Magistrate today charged with misbehavior in public office to with robbing three Venezuelan nationals on Monday.

(Jamaica Star) Family members of Patient Zero, the first person to test positive for the novel conoravirus – COVID-19 – in Jamaica, say they have been subjected to harsh and unkind words by some members of the public.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica has confirmed six more cases of the Coronavirus (COVID-19).

(Trinidad Express) A dispute over land is the suspected motive for the killing of a woman in Gasparillo on Thursday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Phagwa celebrations across the country have been cancelled in light of confirmation yesterday that Trinidad and Tobago has its first COVID-19 case.

(Trinidad Guardian) At 2.45 pm yesterday, Trinidad and Tobago joined the list of over 150 countries across the world with a confirmed case of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – The Venezuelan government removed some six tonnes of gold from the central bank’s vaults between late 2019 and early 2020 to raise more hard currency for President Nicolas Maduro’s cash-strapped administration, according to two government sources familiar with the movement.