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The last place Andrea Lowe Garwood would have expected to be gunned down was inside a church, and certainly not as she sang and prayed in worship. Surely, hell had no place in this holy sanctuary. But death was no stranger to this woman of faith. Last December, she was still openly struggling to find a fitting way of memorialising the first Christmas without her husband, Jeffery Garwood, who had been killed six months before. The previous December she had lost her mother. The solution she came up with was a Christmas tree bedecked with photographs as ornaments. The 59-year…

In exercise of the powers conferred by the Price and Distribution of Goods Act (Cap 161), the following are the new maximum prices of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (GAS) as of Monday 1 February 2021: A 20lb gas will now sell for $33.95 in Area 1, $34.95 in Area 2, $35.95 Area 3 and $38.95 in Area 4, an increase of $3.10, since July 2020. A 25lb gas will now sell for $41.20 in Area 1, $42.20 in Area 2, $43.20 Area 3 and $46.20 in Area 4, an increase of $3.90, since July 2020. A 100lb gas will now sell…

St. Vincent and the Grenadines today confirmed fifty (50) new COVID-19 cases from samples collected between January 16th to 30th. Six (6) cases are travelers who entered St. Vincent and the Grenadines and tested positive during their fourteen days of mandatory quarantine. All of the other cases were detected during contact tracing and testing of persons with flu symptoms. There are now eight hundred and two (802) local cases of COVID-19, many of whom are linked as contacts of known positives. The total number of recoveries remains at two hundred and fifty-one (251) as there were no new recoveries. Six…

Today Barbados recorded the first double death from Covid-19 within a 24 hour period. Both deceased were patients of the Harrison Point Isolation Facility for a few days. The two Barbadians, a 55 year-old male and a 64 year-old female, died within an hour of each other this morning. Dr Corey Forde, Infectious Diseases Specialist and the Consultant in Charge of Harrison Point, noted the similarities between the two cases. Both patients suffered from pre-existing, chronic non-communicable diseases. Both were experiencing shortness of breath for some days before seeking medical help at the Accident and Emergency Department of the Queen…

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC)— President Irfaan Ali has sought to assure the nation that citizens will not be mandated to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Ali, who made the statement on Saturday during an address to the nation, also announced that the country will receive its first donation pledge of 20,000 COVID-19 vaccines from China. He added that while Guyana remains on the waiting list of several distributing countries and agencies, all vaccinations scheduled to enter the country have been fully approved by the World Health Organization/ Pan American Health Organization (WHO/PAHO). In addition to China, he said Guyana is also in…

TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands (CMC)— The British Virgin Islands has implemented a ban on flights from Brazil and South Africa in the wake of reports of new strains of COVID-19 emerging in both countries. The announcement was recently made by Health Minister Carvin Malone. This is in addition to a travel ban on flights from the Dominican Republic and the United Kingdom that came into effect on January 11. Health Minister Carvin Malone today announced that a travel ban has been imposed against travellers from Brazil and South Africa due to new strains of COVID-19 in these countries. “In a…

TRELAWNY, Jamaica— One church member was shot and killed this morning when a gunman entered the Agape Christian Fellowship Church in Falmouth and fired several shots during the usual Sunday morning worship. According to a worshipper, about 10:30 she heard explosions in the building and later saw a woman falling to the ground. “We were in the church singing and I heard several explosions and saw a woman falling to the ground,” she told OBSERVER ONLINE. The woman was taken to hospital where she was pronounced dead.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic push to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour has emerged as an early flashpoint in the fight for a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, testing President Joe Biden’s ability to bridge Washington’s partisan divides as he pursues his first major legislative victory. Biden called for a $15 hourly minimum wage during his campaign and has followed through by hitching it to a measure that, among other things, calls for $1,400 stimulus checks and $130 billion to help schools reopen. Biden argues that anyone who holds a full-time job shouldn’t live in poverty,…

By Jomo ‘Sanga’ Thomas The establishment media was horrified when the ‘Stop the Steal’ mob stormed the US Capitol on January 6, and the sentence was swift: President Donald Trump, with his baseless fraud allegations and refusal to concede defeat, was responsible for the mayhem. Corporate outlets have summarily denounced Trump’s bogus claims of vote fraud, though for years they have faithfully echoed similarly spurious accusations made about elections held by official enemies. But the media make no effort to account for years of hypocrisy and double standards. Venezuela’s December 6 parliamentary election offers an instructive case study, with corporate…

On Friday January 29, 2021, the Ministry of Health and Wellness received confirmation of eighty-nine new cases of COVID-19 from a batch of 356 tests conducted at the Ezra Long Laboratory. This batch consists of samples taken from January 21, 2021 to today January 29, 2021. The Ezra Long Laboratory continues to manage the backlog of COVID-19 samples. Confirmation was also received today of the recovery of thirty-two individuals diagnosed with COVID-19 bringing the total number of active cases in country to 562. One of the active cases is in critical care at the Respiratory Hospital and all of the…