BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Caribbean Examinations Council® (CXC®) is cognisant of the many challenges across the region at this time including the debilitating impact of COVID-19 on all areas of society, and all stakeholders operating within the education sector, coupled with the explosive volcanic activity on La Soufrière in St Vincent and the Grenadines. CXC® stands in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in St Vincent and the Grenadines at this time, and all our stakeholders across the region affected by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, CXC® stands ready to listen and to engage in dialogue with our…
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Argyle international airport, which has been forced to close because of ash generated from the April 9 eruption of La Soufreire, will reopen on Monday. Corsel Robertson, the airport’s chief executive officer, said on Friday (today) that due to significant ash deposits caused by the eruption of the La Soufriere volcano, all operations at the Argyle International Airport, have been suspended, until 4 p.m. on Monday. “The facility is undergoing rigorous cleanup of runways and apron to accommodate humanitarian flights as a priority,” Robertson said. The James Mitchell Airport, on Bequia, will remain closed until April 19. The Canouan, Union…
Monday 12 April 2021 – Kingstown,St. Vincent- Digital Operator, Digicel Group, today announced its donation of US$500,000 worth of much-needed items to support the urgent relief efforts in St. Vincent & the Grenadines caused by the Le Soufriere volcanic activity. With thousands of people evacuated from the red zone and housed in shelters and significant ash fall resulting from the explosive eruptions of La Soufriere affecting the entire island, the situation is developing and deteriorating. Leveraging its global reach and supply chains, Digicel will work with the Government of St. Vincent & the Grenadines to identify immediate needs – as…
One (1) new COVID-19 positive case was recorded from sixty-two samples processed on April 15th, 2021, resulting in a positivity rate of 1.6%. No new recoveries were recorded over the reporting period. The number of total recoveries remains at sixteen hundred and seventy-seven (1677). One hundred and thirty-two (132) cases are active and ten (10) persons with COVID-19 have died. One thousand, eight hundred and nineteen (1819) cases of COVID-19 have been reported in St. Vincent and the Grenadines since March 2020. The public is urged to continue to use masks, sanitize, physically distance and get vaccinated to reduce the…
WASHINGTON, USA (AP) — President Joe Biden is welcoming Japan’s prime minister to the White House today in his first face-to-face meeting with a foreign leader, a choice that reflects Biden’s emphasis on strengthening alliances to deal with a more assertive China and other global challenges. Biden and Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga also look to counter messaging from Chinese President Xi Jinping that America and democracies in general are on the decline, after the political turmoil and international withdrawal that marked Donald Trump’s presidency. The Biden administration calls managing US policies toward the Indo-Pacific, where China under Xi is flexing…
WASHINGTON, United States (AP) — The US is setting up a US$1.7 billion national network to identify and track worrisome coronavirus mutations whose spread could trigger another pandemic wave, the Biden administration announced Friday. White House officials unveiled a strategy that features three components: a major funding boost for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state health departments to ramp up coronavirus gene-mapping; the creation of six “centres of excellence” partnerships with universities to conduct research and develop technologies for gene-based surveillance of pathogens, and building a data system to better share and analyse information on emerging disease…
HAVANA (AP) — Raul Castro said Friday he is resigning as head of Cuba’s Communist Party, ending an era of formal leadership that began with his brother Fidel and country’s 1959 revolution. The 89-year-old Castro made the announcement n a speech at the opening of the eighth congress of the ruling party, the only one allowed on the island. He said he was retiring with the sense of having “fulfilled his mission and confident in the future of the fatherland.” “Nothing, nothing, nothing is forcing me to make this decision,” said Castro, part of whose speech to the closed Congress…
The man who killed eight people at an Indianapolis FedEx facility was identified Friday as 19-year-old former employee Brandon Scott Hole — who authorities said was questioned last year by the FBI. Hole’s mother had called police in 2020 saying she was worried he might try to commit suicide by cop, said Paul Keenan, special agent in charge at the FBI’s Indianapolis field office. According to a police report, Hole was arrested on March 3, 2020, when police “seized shotgun from dangerous person,” local station WTHR-TV reported. “Behavioral health unit initiated immediate detention,” according to the report. Hole had bought…
BBC- The rate of coronavirus infections in Canada’s biggest province has reached an all-time high as hospitals warn they are close to being overwhelmed. A panel of experts say infections in Ontario could increase by 600% by June if public health measures are weak and vaccination rates do not pick up. Last week, for the first time since the pandemic began, Canada registered more cases per million than the US. About 22% of Canadians have now received a first vaccine dose. That compares to 37% in the US.The public health experts advising the Ontario government say a stay-at-home order is…
A number of disturbing videos have been circulating on social media depicting persons stealing bottled water from water trucks tasked with the delivery of water to several communities. The Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force (RSVGPF) vehemently registers its displeasure with this criminal behaviour. While persons are distressed at this time and are in need of water and other food supplies, it must be done in an orderly manner. The RSVGPF takes a zero tolerance approach to this and all other kinds of unlawful acts; and therefore calls on the persons responsible to desist immediately or face prosecution.