NEW DELHI (AP) — When the coronavirus pandemic took hold in India, there were fears it would sink the fragile health system of the world’s second-most populous country. Infections climbed dramatically for months and at one point India looked like it might overtake the United States as the country with the highest case toll. But infections began to plummet in September, and now the country is reporting about 11,000 new cases a day, compared to a peak of nearly 100,000, leaving experts perplexed. They have suggested many possible explanations for the sudden drop — seen in almost every region —…
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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A senior Democratic congressman sued former president Donald Trump Tuesday, accusing him of violating the 19th century “Ku Klux Klan Act” by supporting the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. Bennie Thompson accused Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani, and extremist groups the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers of violating the 1871 act by supporting efforts to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden as the new US president. Thompson, who is Black and the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, cited a law originally created to protect the rights of African Americans after the…
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC)— Lawmen within special units within the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) will be equipped with body cameras, Minister of National Security Stuart Young said on Monday as it was also announced that a full-scale investigation is being conducted into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of two suspects while in police custody. Young said he had been informed by Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith at a meeting earlier in the day, that the Special Operations Response Team (SORT), the Inter-Agency Task Force and Guard and Emergency Branch would be among the first to get uniforms…
St. Vincent and the Grenadines today registered five (5) new COVID-19 cases from thesamples taken on February 12th, 13th and 15th. One case is a traveler who tested positive on quarantine day 7. The other cases are from contacts of known positives. The positivity rate for February 12th is now 6.2%, February 13th is now 11.9%, February 14th remains at 5% and February 15th is now 2.4%.There were no reported positive cases for Tuesday February 16, 2021 at the time of the preparation of this release. Twenty (20) persons were cleared bringing the number of total recoveries to six hundred…
Hope International Football Club’s manager Akin John has expressed his team’s disappointment that “not a single member” made it to the list of 23 footballers selected for training as the national team, Vincy Heat, prepares to compete in the upcoming Group C Concacaf Qualifiers for the World Cup 2022. The St Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation (SVGFF) name the 23-member training squad in a media release dated Saturday 13th February, 2020. When ANN contacted John on Monday for comment, he stated: “Our players have put in stellar individual and team performances on the field of play over the last…
Shawhiel Moore, twenty six (26) years unemployed of New Montrose has been sentenced to five (5) years and two (2) months for possession of unlawful firearm and three (3) rounds of ammunition, respectively. The sentenced was handed down on 12.2.2021 at the Serious Offences Court by Chief Magistrate, Ms. Rechanne Browne, after the defendant was found guilty at the end of the trial. Moore was arrested and charged on 30.6.2019 when members of the Rapid Response Unit (RRU) executed a search warrant at his home and found one 9mm pistol and three rounds of 9mm ammunition. The sentences will run…
By Heidi Badenock Having heard a lot about the benefits of therapy, it has never been so clearly put as now by psychologist Kimberley Cambridge. Therapy should be to us as doing our nails or having alone time. Accordingly, it was important to begin this series in a place of wholeness and positivity, particularly when we are all individually and collectively faced with so much fear and doubt in this period of uncertainty. Kimberley Cambridge is a psychologist attached to the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital where she works with children who are autistic and have speech impairments, young persons with…
Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves is urging Vincentians to take the Covid-19 vaccine but he is frowning on reluctance of some even as he indicates a right to decide. “Is either we’re going to believe in superstition, or we’re going to believe in the science. “Everybody knows, or, in my view, every reasonable person knows that if you didn’t have vaccines people’s life span would have been much shorter. This is another vaccine. And, it’s a vaccine for a virus which is not an automatic death sentence. “It’s a killer, to be sure, but we see the persons who have…
St. Vincent and the Grenadines today registered four (4) new COVID-19 cases. Three (3) cases are from rapid antigen tests done today, Monday 15, 2021 on persons who presented with flu-like symptoms. The fourth (4th) is a contact of a known case from a PCR done on Sunday 14, 2021. Thirteen (13) persons were cleared bringing the number of total recoveries to six hundred and twelve (612). Eight hundred and thirty-nine (839) cases remain active and six (6) persons with COVID-19 have died. One thousand, four hundred and fifty- seven (1457) cases of COVID-19 have been reported in St. Vincent…
Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)Guinea declared an Ebola outbreak in one of its regions on Sunday, after the West African nation confirmed at least seven cases of the disease, including three deaths, the country’s National Security and Health Agency (ANSS) said. Health officials in the southeastern N’Zerekore district said seven people who attended the funeral of a nurse tested positive for the disease and experienced symptoms such as diarrhea, vomiting and bleeding. Three of them died following the February 1 funeral. It is unclear if the nurse, who worked at the local health center, died from Ebola.Five dead in newest Ebola outbreak…