THE GLEANER MINUTE: Nine new COVID cases…Currency decline…Remembering Eventide fire
May 20th, 2020 | Category: The Gleaner Minute | 1:55#Jamaica #Coronavirus #Gleaner MAY 20, 2020: Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton reports nine more COVID cases in Jamaica pushing the tally to 529 and 26 more recoveries… Forty years after 153 old and destitute women died in the infamous Eventide fire memorialised… Members of Parliaments Public Administration and Appropriations Committee ran into a major roadblock as they prepared to examine the first Supplementary Estimates of Expenditure… IN SPORTS: Jamaican Footballer Adrian Mariappa tested positive for the novel Coronavirus.
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