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(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad and Tobago has a fifth confirmed case of coronavirus COVID-19.

SANTO DOMINGO,  (Reuters) – The Dominican Republic has registered its first death from coronavirus, a 47-year-old woman who recently returned from Spain, the health ministry said yesterday.

(Jamaica Star) Track and field athletes Kemar Bailey-Cole and Ristananna Tracey have tied the knot.

(Jamaica Star) A 42-year-old Jamaican man was charged with overstaying his spousal permit when he appeared in a court in Bahamas on Friday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has announced that the country’s borders will be locked down to all outsiders for the next 14 days.

(Jamaica Star) Food and other necessities are reportedly running out in some of the households on Morales Drive in Seven Miles, Bull Bay, which is currently under quarantine.

(Jamaica Observer) New York, USA  – The Jamaican community here is hunkering down and treating the coronavirus pandemic “with the utmost seriousness that the situation deserves”, according to several nationals interviewed by the Jamaica Observer .

(Jamaica Gleaner) An American woman who is expecting to get married in Kingston in a couple of days is feeling the impact of the novel coronavirus as she expressed dismay that none of her bridal party or invited guests would be coming to the wedding.

(Jamaica Gleaner) In quarantine now for 64 days in China, Jamaican teacher Ashley Thompson could now claim rights to being an expert on resiliency and the inner workings of the human spirit.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Bahamas has confirmed its first case of COVID-19.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Businessman Roger Chang has been found murdered in Windsor Castle on the border of Portland and St Mary.

(Barbados Nation) The mothers of two sons who died just over half-hour apart are perplexed about their deaths.

(Trinidad Guardian) The country’s largest natural gas producer BPTT has decided to close its offices for a month as it response to the COVID-19 threat.

(Trinidad Express) The Ministry of Health, Trinidad and Tobago, yesterday advised the population of two more confirmed cases of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). 

(Trinidad Express) The Ministry of Health, Trinidad and Tobago, advises the population of two more confirmed cases of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). 

(Jamaica Observer) The Jamaica Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists is urging the pastor accused of sodomising a teenage boy in St Ann, in 2018, to turn himself in to the police.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Doris Fuller bore a distressed look as she pushed a supermarket cart through the chemical aisle at the Walmart Neighbourhood Market in Green Acres, West Palm Beach, Florida.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Relatives of the woman who became Jamaica’s first confirmed case of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have been getting death threats from angry residents in their community, two family members have revealed.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Taxi drivers across Jamaica are being warned by Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton that the Government may confiscate their licences if they continue to bar nurses from accessing their services, due to fear that COVID-19 may be transferred to them and other passengers.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 66-year-old man who travelled abroad less than 14 days ago is this country’s second confirmed case of COVID-19.