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BASSETERRE, St. Kitts-Nevis, March 26, 2020 (CMC) – St. Kitts-Nevis, the only Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country not to have recorded a case of the coronavirus in recent days, announced, yesterday, two cases, as a result of the patients having recently ...

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua and Barbuda, March 26, 2020 (CMC) — The Antigua and Barbuda government says the V.C. Bird International Airport will be closed, to all incoming international commercial air traffic, emanating from North America and Europe, as of midnight, ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, March 26, 2020 (CMC) – Jamaica health authorities are warning businesses, against spraying customers’ hands with unknown solutions in bottles, prior to allowing them to enter their establishments, in a bid to prevent the spread of the coronavirus ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, March 24, 2020 (CMC) – The British government warned Guyana, today, that “any government sworn in, on the basis of non-credible results, will face strong international condemnation”, as the country still awaits the official results of the March ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, March 24, 2020 (CMC) – The Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) Special Rapporteur on Disability, Dr. Floyd Morris, is calling on regional governments to ensure that special measures are put in place, to protect persons with disabilities against the coronavirus ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, March 24, 2020 (CMC) – The Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), Manuel Otero, says the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic provides a situation for the Caribbean to develop food security strategies, and greater efforts ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, March 24, 2020 (CMC) – The Jamaican police force is investigating a spate of murders, including the death of 57-year-old Dalton Shippy, who was allegedly bludgeoned to death by his brother, in Ramble, Hanover, a parish on the ...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, March 23, 2020 (CMC) – Governor General, Sir Emmanuel Neville Cenac, declared a state of emergency in St. Lucia, today, saying that he is “satisfied that a public emergency has arisen”, as a result of the coronavirus ...

By Ifeanyi Nsofor Guest Contributor ABUJA, Nigeria March 23, 2020 (IPS) –– The Coronavirus (COVID-19) is now a pandemic, and the World Health Organization (WHO) considers Europe as its new epicenter. Italy, Spain and France are on lockdown, and several ...

ST.JOHN’S, Antigua and Barbuda, March 23, 2020 (CMC) – A High Court judge, today, sentenced a former senior pilot with Caribbean Helicopters, Colin Murraine, to a lengthy jail term, after he was found guilty of drug trafficking offences. Justice, Stanley ...