The Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment wishes to advise the general public that as part of the its mosquito control programme for the adult Aedes aegypti mosquito, the Insect Vector Control Unit will be conducting fogging operations in the following areas commencing at 5:00 pm daily on the island of St. Vincent. Tuesday, 28th December 2021 – Arnos Vale, Penniston, Byera, Mount Young, Cedars and Rose Hall Wednesday, 29th December 2021 – Arnos Vale, Penniston, Gorse, Colonaire, South Union and Coull’s Hill Thursday, 30th December 2021 – Fairbane, Vermont, Colonaire, South Union and Cumberland Please take note of the following: Home and…
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A South African Cabinet minister on Friday urged the cancellation of an upcoming US auction of a key to the Robben Island prison cell where Nelson Mandela, the country’s first Black president, was long jailed for his opposition to apartheid. The key is among Mandela memorabilia being sold by Guernsey’s auction house in New York on January 28. Most of the items were provided by members of Mandela’s family to raise funds for a planned museum and garden around his grave, while the key is being sold by Mandela’s former jailer who became his friend. “It is unfathomable for Guernsey’s, which is clearly…
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist for racial justice and LGBT rights and retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, has died, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced Sunday. He was 90. An uncompromising foe of apartheid — South Africa’s brutal regime of oppression against the Black majority — Tutu worked tirelessly, though non-violently, for its downfall. The buoyant, blunt-spoken clergyman used his pulpit as the first Black bishop of Johannesburg and later Archbishop of Cape Town as well as frequent public demonstrations to galvanize public opinion against racial inequity both at home and globally. Tutu’s…
Twelve (12) new COVID-19 positive cases were reported from one hundred and two (102)samples collected on Thursday December 23rd, 2021, resulting in a positivity of 11.8%. Two (2) new rapid antigen positive results were reported from flu clinics on December 23rd, 2021. HOSPITAL ADMISSIONSThere are currently no patients admitted for COVID-19 at the Argyle Isolation Facility. Eight (8) patients are admitted to the COVID-19 ward at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital, all of whom are unvaccinated. COVID-19 DEATHSNo new deaths were recorded over the reporting period. COVID-19 SUMMARYThirty-four (34) recoveries were noted over the reporting period. Five hundred and seventy-four…
High Court Judge Brian Cottle has stressed the need to take care of the nation’s youth, especially the males. Justice Cottle made the point while delivering remarks at the closing of the High Court Criminal Assizes on Tuesday, December 21. In presenting the prison population statistics, which was prepared by Superintendant of Prisons Timothy Hazelwood, Justice Cottle noted there were 78 males between the ages of 30 and 35 behind bars, representing 21 percent of the prison population. In addition, there were 49 males between the ages of 26 and 29, 13 percent of the prison population; 35 between the ages…
President of the Joint Trade Union Movement (JTUM) Ancel Roget has called on the Government to pull back the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for public servants. He said that unless the policy is withdrawn, the JTUM will not have any further consultations with authorities. “For us to engage meaningfully going forward, we call for immediate rejection or removal of that position that was announced by the Prime Minister which is tantamount to mandatory vaccination,” Roget said. Last weekend, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley announced that all government workers, except those with exemptions for medical issues, will have to be vaccinated against…
“We have a duty to tell the stories of our leaders. Not just within the geographic boundaries of our islands, but across this Caribbean civilization.” The words of Barbadian Prime Minister, Mia Mottley, as she paid tribute to former Prime Minister Sir James Mitchell at the St. Mary’s Anglican Church in Port Elizabeth, Bequia, on December 18. The occasion was a second burial service for Sir James, the other being held on mainland St. Vincent.”I ask all of us in this region to recognize that we have been able to produce persons of great renown, and Sir James stood as…
Introduction The Christmas season is in full swing after a bit of a slow start but by the evidence of the hive of activity in capital city Kingstown, the presence of Christmas lights glowing brightly in communities across SVG, Sunday shopping and a restructured Nine Mornings Festival, things are definitely “heating” up. Reflecting this past year, the idea of our beloved country preparing to celebrate this season may not have crossed the minds of many as the impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic were compounded by an explosive eruption of the La Soufrière volcano. } Much like last year, we had…
Two women and one man will return to the Kingstown Magistrate’s Court on March 28, 2022 for trial, in connection with a recent burglary which reportedly netted La Soufrière eruption relief supplies to a value of thousands of dollars. Kay Sany Peters, 22, and Erisha Hull, 25, both domestic workers, and Stavias Diamond, a 41-year-old labourer, all of Campden Park, are jointly charged with entering the Community Centre at Campden Park between December 12 and 13, 2021, and stealing a quantity of foodstuff and household items including several packets of Ovaltine, tins of tuna in water and oil, several packets…
WASHINGTON, United States (CMC) – Jamaica is included in a list of five Caribbean countries that may not meet the goal of having 40 per cent of their populations vaccinated against COVID-19, according to the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO). PAHO said on Wednesday that while its projections are that most countries in the region will have reached or surpassed the WHO target of vaccinating 40 per cent of their eligible populations by the end of 2021, “the current estimates are that Haiti, Jamaica, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Guatemala, St Lucia, and Grenada may not attain that 40 per…