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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, March 12, 2020 (CMC) – The Barbados-based Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO), has sought to assure Caribbean nationals, and visitors, that the “region remains open for business”, even as the organisation continues to closely monitor the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.  ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, March 12, 2020 (CMC) – Public Health Minister, Volda Lawrence, confirmed, today, that over 14 doctors and nurses at the Georgetown Hospital, have been ordered into self-quarantine, following the death of a 52 year old woman at the ...

GENEVA, Switzerland March12, 2020 (CMC) – The United Nations’ health agency appealed to Caribbean and other countries, yesterday, to “double-down” on their efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus, after announcing that the global emergency can now be described ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, March 12, 2020 (CMC) – National Security Minister, Stuart Young, has questioned reports, of a police raid, on the offices of the Trinidad Express newspaper. According to reports, a team, of at least ten ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, March 12, 2020 (CMC) – Health Minister, Dr. Christoper Tufton, has confirmed a second case of COVID-19 in the country. According to Tufton, the second case is a US Embassy employee, who had returned from the United Kingdom ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, March 12, 2020 (CMC) – President, David Granger, in a radio and television broadcast, last night, confirmed that a woman, who had been taken to the Georgetown Public Health Corporation (GPHC), on Tuesday night, had died of the ...

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, March 12, 2020 (CMC) – St. Vincent and the Grenadines announced, Wednesday night, that it has recorded its first case of the coronavirus (COVID-19), after a national returned to the island, on March 7, ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, March 12, 2020 (CMC) – Former Registrar of Deeds, Azeena Baksh, was found guilty, yesterday, almost three years after facing a fraud charge, for obtaining GUY$4.5 million, under false pretense, however, she will serve no jail time.  Instead, ...