Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves, his government and health authorities are concerned about the rapidly rising cases of Covid-19 in this country. In a televised national address last night, Prime Minister Gonsalves looked at the statistics and how the cases were more constant in increase last year compared to the spiking situation so far this year over a short period. “The raw data on Covid-19 tell a worrying story even as the debate ensues as to whether St Vincent and the Grenadines, like St Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda or Barbados, for example, are situations of sporadic cases, or cluster of…
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Vincentians have been given a long weekend to refresh themselves and reflect on life and the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic which has seen a spike in cases in recent times. The two holidays are also aimed at limiting the movement of persons with a view to reducing the spread of infection of the virus. Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves made the announcement in a national address last night. “I sense that across our nation, the faces of men and women are strained and anxious about the increase in the local Covid cases, the effusive/oozing eruptions of La Soufriere,…
St. Vincent and the Grenadines today confirmed forty-six (46) new COVID-19 cases. Forty-four (44) of the cases are nationals with no history of recent travel. One case is a non-national who traveled from Germany and another from Brazil. Both adults arrived with negative results and tested positive subsequently. There are now four hundred and two (402) local cases of COVID-19 under investigation. These cases comprise residents from throughout St. Vincent and the Grenadines which have been linked to various types of clusters including work sites,churches and private parties. One hundred and nineteen (119) persons have recovered, four hundred and nineteen…
The WHO International Health Regulations (IHR) Regional Contact Focal Point has acknowledged the objection of St Vincent and the Grenadines National IHR Focal Point to its classification as having community transmission in respect of COVID- 19 and will now revert to the correct classification. This follows the January 15, 2021, change in categorization listed for St. Vincent and the Grenadines from ‘Sporadic Cases’ to Community transmission’ based on information gathered from a press release on January 10, 2021. This change in categorization by the WHO IHR Regional Contact Point (PAHO IHR) was made without the input of the IHR National…
The Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force (RSVGPF) wishes to advise the general public about a scam that is currently being perpetuated via Whatsapp, purportedly on the behalf of Samsung. Some users of Whatsapp, a multi-messaging platform, have received messages from one “Sarah Davis using cellular phone number 880 1629-845652. Ms. Davis purports to be a “Samsung promo active online agent.” The content of the messages states that the Samsung Company is currently running a promotional progarmme for Whatsapp members worldwide and participants were selected through random selection in Samsung’s computerized System, a database of over 80,000,000 users.…
St. Vincent and the Grenadines today recorded a second COVID-19 death. The eighty (80) year old male was admitted to the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital on Friday January 15, 2021, with complications of a chronic noncommunicable disease. The elderly gentleman tested positive for COVID-19 during the routine screening conducted on all admissions. The patient who was managed on the COVID-19 Isolation Ward became unstable and died at 430 am today, January 18, 2021. Four hundred and ninety-four (494) cases of COVID-19 have been reported in St. Vincent and the Grenadines as of January 17, 2021. One hundred and eighteen (118)…
It Prime Minister Dr Timothy Harris said the St Kitts and Nevis Citizenship by Investment programme continues to attract business to the Federation. During his Monthly Press Conference on January 14, 2021, at the National Emergency Management Agency’s (NEMA) conference room, he said that He said: “When we look in our local domain we see a number of businesses coming on stream by Chinese, the principals behind them are all citizens of St. Kitts and Nevis, and they have come through that particular route.” Prime Minister Harris noted that an example of this success is the principal of the Galaxy…
Norway expressed increasing concern about the safety of the Pfizer Inc. vaccine on elderly people with serious underlying health conditions after raising an estimate of the number who died after receiving inoculations to 29. The latest figure adds six to the number of known fatalities in Norway, and lowers the age group thought to be affected to 75 from 80. While it’s unclear exactly when the deaths occurred, Norway has given at least one dose to about 42,000 people and focused on those considered most at risk if they contract the virus, including the elderly. Until Friday, the vaccine produced…
Dallas City Council voted unanimously last Wednesday to rename part of S Lamar Street after slain Saint Lucian, Botham Jean. The street runs in front of Jack Evans Police Headquarters and the apartment complex where Jean lived and died. An off duty police officer, Amber Guyger, fatally shot the 26 year Botham Jean. He was in his own apartment at the time. But Guyger claimed she mistook Jean’s apartment for hers because they lived on different floors of the same complex. However, a court sentenced her to ten years in jail in connection with the September 2018 incident.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of President Donald Trump’s failed presidential campaign played key roles in orchestrating the Washington rally that spawned a deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol, according to an Associated Press review of records, undercutting claims the event was the brainchild of the president’s grassroots supporters. A pro-Trump nonprofit group called Women for America First hosted the “Save America Rally” on Jan. 6 at the Ellipse, an oval-shaped, federally owned patch of land near the White House. But an attachment to the National Park Service public gathering permit granted to the group lists more than half a dozen…