BRADES, Montserrat, CMC – Montserrat has announced a 10-hour curfew and the closure of its borders from Thursday as the British Overseas Territory reacts to the confirmation of two cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19. Premier Easton Taylor-...
CARICOM chairman Mia Mottley is to take a break from Government to undergo a medical procedure. Mottley, who is also the Prime Minister of Barbados, made the disclosure in a national broadcast on Thursday night. She did not provide details but said...
Barbados is to impose nightly curfews on the island as the number of coronavirus cases continues to rise. In a national broadcast on Thursday evening, Prime Minister Mia Mottley said her government intends to go to Parliament to amend the...
A 24-hour curfew has been imposed in the Cayman Islands as the country fights COVID-19. The restriction started at 7: 00 p.m. Wednesday night and will run until 5:00 a.m. In making the announcement, Premier Alden McLaughlin said the...
BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – St Kitts-Nevis, the only Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country not to have recorded a case of the coronavirus in recent days, Wednesday announced two cases as a result of patients having recently travelled to the...
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, CMC – The Cayman Islands government Tuesday extended the existing curfew by three additional hours after the British Overseas Territory announced it had recorded another case of the coronavirus (COVID-19). Premier...
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe’s public hospital doctors and nurses went on strike Wednesday over a lack of protective gear as the coronavirus begins to spread in a country whose health system has almost collapsed. It...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago government Tuesday defended its decision not to reopen its borders to accommodate 35 nationals stranded in Barbados, insisting that the measure is part of an overall effort to prevent the...
BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – Governor General, Sir Colville Young, has declared a state of emergency for Ambergris Caye, the largest island of Belize, located northeast of the country’s mainland, after the country recorded its first case of...
CASTRIES, St Lucia, , CMC – Governor General Sir Neville Cenac Monday declared a state of emergency in St Lucia saying that he is “satisfied that a public emergency has arisen” as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19). The...
The Turks and Caicos Islands has recorded its first COVID-19 case. This was revealed by Premier Sharlene Cartwright-Robinson. She said the country had been preparing for the virus and that it instituted measures to mitigate risks. Members of the...
BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – St Kitts-Nevis, the only Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country not to record any positive case of the coronavirus (COVID-19) to date, has announced a series of measures, including pumping an additional EC$16.9...
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC –President of Haiti Jovenel Moïse on Thursday declared a state of health emergency following the confirmation of two cases of COVID-19 in the French speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member state....
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – The Bahamas government Thursday announced an eight hour curfew, while businesses, with limited exceptions, have been called on to suspend operations for an 11-day period as the country rolled more measures to deal with...
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Grenada Thursday said it would refuse entry into the island, non-nationals who have visited Iran, South Korea, China or anywhere in Europe including the United Kingdom, where the coronavirus (COVID-19) has...
HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – The Bermuda government has announced the closure of the LF Wade International Airport, the seaport, and schools, as the island reacted to the first two confirmed cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19). Premier David Burt...
HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC — The police have arrested two men after a 28-year-old man died in a hail of bullets in Hamilton on Tuesday. Another man was injured in the shooting and remains in hospital but his condition is unknown. It was the...
SANTIAGO, Chile, CMC – The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is warning of the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) on the school feeding programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). It is calling for LAC countries to...
The Bahamas has declared a state of emergency after confirming two more COVID-19 cases. This has pushed to three, the number of cases in the Caribbean country. Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis announced today that the patients were identified...
CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – Prime Minister Allen Chastanet has tested negative for the coronavirus (COVID-19) after he had been experiencing a “mild cough following a recent travel history to Miami for medical attention” the ...
Guyana, the only Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country to have recorded a fatal coronavirus (COVID-19) case, on Tuesday announced the closure of its international airports as well as a ban on self-imposed quarantine as it deals with the impact of...
Montserrat has confirmed its first case of the Coronavirus. According to Health Minister Charles Kirnon, the patient arrived in the Caribbean island on March 10, 2020 from the United Kingdom. The patient's sample was sent to the...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Guyana, the only Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country to have recorded a fatal coronavirus (COVID-19) case, Tuesday announced the closure of its international airports as well as a ban on self-imposed quarantine as...
CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – Prime Minister Allen Chastanet is awaiting results after he was tested for the coronavirus (COVID-19), according to a statement from the Office of the Prime Minister. In a brief statement Tuesday, a spokesperson said...
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) finance ministers held talks Monday with the Director of the Western Hemisphere Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Dr Alejandro Werner, as the region seeks relief...
