Regional News

(Trinidad Express) A Canadian couple, who returned to Trinidad for Carnival celebrations, drowned at a beach in Cumana, Toco, on Sunday.

(Jamaica Star) After two failed pregnancies, Angela Cole, 61, and her husband, 61-year-old Lambert, welcomed their only child, Lamaro Cole, in January of 1997.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Santa Cruz police are lamenting that constant gridlock in the St Elizabeth town’s streets is hampering their efforts to maintain law and order, as it facilitates an easy escape for hoodlums on motorcycles fleeing crime scenes.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The children of 65-year-old Patsy Donaldson-Powell are in shock and have been overcome with grief after finding their mother with her throat slashed allegedly by a 76-year-old farmer who lives with his wife and children in Junction, St Elizabeth, but has a child with the deceased.

Health officials have confirmed some cases of the coronavirus (Covid-19) in the Caribbean. Dr Carissa F.

SANTO DOMINGO,  (Reuters) – Health authorities in the Dominican Republic said today that they had confirmed the first case of coronavirus in the country, a tourist visiting from Italy.

(Trinidad Express) A woman and her seven-year-old daughter have been reported missing.

(Trinidad Guardian) Arthur Patrick, 29, is a To­bag­on­ian chef whose lo­cal flavoured meals have been siz­zling among sev­er­al celebri­ties in­ter­na­tion­al­ly.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Hope is the only thing keeping Errol Wisdom going these days.

(Jamaica Gleaner) For the past three years Marlene* has been living like a fugitive.

A United States citi­zen was one of two men killed in separate shooting incidents between Friday night and yesterday ­morning.

(Trinidad Express) Oropouche East MP Dr Roodal Moonilal and two UNC deputy political leaders, one of whom is a senator and another who used to be managing director of the Housing Development Corporation, have been named in evidence given to the Joint Select Committee on National Security as having connections with known criminal gang leaders.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil’s Health Ministry yesterday confirmed the country’s second case of the fast-spreading new coronavirus, diagnosed in a 32-year-old patient in São Paulo who had recently visited Italy and arrived on Thursday.

QUITO (Reuters) – Ecuador has confirmed the first case of a fast-spreading new coronavirus in the Andean country, its health minister said yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The man who mur­dered three peo­ple in a house at Guapo on Thurs­day be­fore setting it ablaze with gaso­line may have used a cut­lass and a hoe to ex­e­cute his bru­tal at­tack, po­lice said.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The baby who was rescued from a pit latrine in October last year in Cox Piece, St Mary, and subsequently dubbed ‘Baby Moses’ by residents is out of hospital and has found a new home in St James.

(Jamaica Observer) The body of 16-year-old William Knibb Memorial High School grade 11 student Jonathan Eccleston was yesterday removed from a river here, a day after he fell into the water while fishing with friends.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Italians aboard the Costa Luminosa cruise ship were restricted from disembarking on Jamaican soil when the ship docked at the Ocho Rios terminal in St Ann yesterday.

QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuador has confirmed the first case of a fast-spreading new coronavirus in the Andean country, its health minister said on Saturday.

(Trinidad Guardian) A shal­low mag­ni­tude 4.8 earth­quake struck 113 kilo­me­tres west of Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and To­ba­go at a depth of 10 kilo­me­tres at 10.25 pm Fri­day.