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KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, March 23, 2020 (CMC) – A Magistrate’s Court, today, granted an application for an individual in St. Vincent and the Grenadines to be placed in mandatory quarantine, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Kingstown Magistrate’s Court ...

ROSEAU, Dominica, March 23, 2020 (CMC) – Less than 24 hours after announcing its first case of the coronavirus (COVID-19), Dominican health authorities reported, today, that a 51-year-old man had become the island’s second positive case. The Ministry of Health, ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, March 21, 2020 (CMC) – Nearly three weeks after voters cast their ballots in the country’s recent, disputed general election, President David Granger is appealing for “calm”, as well as awaiting the ruling of the Supreme Court and ...

WASHINGTON, District of Columbia March 21, 2020 (CMC) – The Organisation of American States’ (OAS) General Assembly re-elected Uruguay-born Luis Almagro, as Secretary General, yesterday, for another five-year term, despite calls for a postponement of the election, in light of ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, March 21, 2020 (CMC) – The Trinidad and Tobago-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has provided its first advisory opinion, concerning the interpretation and application of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas (RTC), which governs ...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, March 21, 2020 (CMC) – The Grenada government has warned nationals to be prepared for “heightened measures, related to self-quarantine”, as it announced a series of economic and other measures, aimed at helping the island to limit ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, March 21, 2020 (CMC) – Health Minister, Terrence Deyalsingh, confirmed, today, that 40 of the 68 persons, who had been placed in quarantine, have tested positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19). As a result, the ...

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, March 21, 2020 (CMC) – The Roman Catholic bishops of the Antilles Episcopal Conference – which include the English-, Dutch- and French-speaking countries of the Caribbean — have expressed “alarm and dismay” at the post-election governance crisis ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, March 21, 2020 (CMC) – The US-based Carter Center, one of the many international groups that monitored the recent general election, here, announced, yesterday, its withdrawal from Guyana, “after careful consideration”. The decision comes, even as the latest ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, March 21, 2020 (CMC) – Calls are mounting, from various organisations, for a national recount of the ballots from the March 2 election. In a joint statement, yesterday, the main opposition People’s Progressive Party-Civic (PPP-C) and a group ...