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Trinidad: Couva Hospital on lockdown after 40 COVID-19 positive tests

The Couva Hospital is now on total lockdown after receiving 40 new patients who have tested positive for the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) yesterday. The patients...

Trinidad & Tobago Now have 49 positive COVID-19 cases

Minister of Health Terrence Deyalsingh has confirmed that there are 40 new cases of the novel coronavirus in Trinidad and Tobago, taking the overall...

Jamaica now has 19 confirmed cases of COVID-19

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced three more confirmed cases of COVID-19. This pushes the total number of cases in Jamaica to 19. The new cases...

Haiti declares emergency over coronavirus, imposes curfew, shuts borders

Haiti’s government on Thursday declared a state of emergency over the coronavirus outbreak, closing the borders of the Americas’ poorest nation and imposing a...

Trinidad: Cop commits suicide while on duty

Police are confirming the death by suicide of Police Constable Ryan Ameer Ramsaran, who was attached to the Inter-Agency Task Force, Operation Hope. Ramsaran, 26,...

Jamaica confirms 16th COVID case, Corn Piece community now under quarantine

Jamaica has confirmed another case of the Coronavirus. This has pushed to 16, the number of confirmed cases. The patient travelled from New York on March...

Jamaican man beaten, thrown off minibus after sneezing

A 38-year-old farmer from Bethel Town, Westmoreland, said that he was beaten and thrown off a bus on Monday, after he sneezed multiple times...

Trinidad & Tobago now at 9 confirmed COVID-19 cases

The Ministry of Health, Trinidad and Tobago, advises the population of two additional confirmed cases of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). One patient is a male...

IMF rejects Venezuela’s request for $5-billion loan to fight coronavirus

The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday rejected economically devastated Venezuela’s request for a $5 billion loan to help it cope with the onslaught of...

Jamaica’s Reggae Girlz trapped in coronavirus-hit regions

As the world continues to grapple with the blow of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID- 19) outbreak, Reggae Girlz defender Sashana “Pete” Campbell fears...

Trinidad and Tobago now has 7 confirmed coronavirus-COVID-19 cases

The Ministry of Health, Trinidad and Tobago advises the population of two new confirmed cases of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). Thus, in total, seven persons...

St. Vincent: Anti-viral drug ordered from Cuba to treat COVID-19 patients

St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) has ordered stocks of Interferon, a drug designed to strengthen the immune system, which is being used in...
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Barbados recorded 37 new COVID-19 cases

There were 37 new positive COVID-19 cases on Sunday, out of the 1,436 tests conducted by the Best-dos Santos Public Health Laboratory. They comprised both...

A Visitor form UK died in Jamaica of COVID-19

Jamaica on Monday recorded one more COVID-19 death, pushing the tally to 305. The deceased is a 77-year-old male from the United Kingdom. Meanwhile, there were...

Sandals founder Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart dies aged 79 following ‘short battle with illness’

Travel pioneer Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart, who founded Jamaica's Sandals resort, has died. Stewart was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1941. He grew up on...

Barbados Confirms 161 New COVID-19 Cases

Barbados has announced 161 cases of COVID-19 at the Island’s Dodds prison. The discovery has prompted a massive contact tracing exercise. Authorities say the cases relate...