Reggae Boyz Captain Andre Blake has confirmed that the players have rejected the Jamaica Football Federation’s offer on terms and wages for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers and CONCACAF Gold Cup saying that they are willing to boycott all those competitions as they seek respect and fairness from their local football authorities. “The players are prepared to go all the way,” Blake told Sportsmax.TV today. “They treat us like slaves and we are done being slaves!” The players had made an initial request of US$7000 per player per match for the World Cup qualifiers set to begin in September. The…
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KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica on Sunday recorded another daily high in COVID-19 infections with 878 new cases reported within a 24-hour period. Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr Christopher Tufton, made the disclosure on Twitter a short while ago. This is the third consecutive day that the island is seeing record numbers in cases of the virus. On Friday, there were 527 new infections and another 723 on Saturday. The numbers pushed Minister of Health Dr Christopher Tufton to take to social media on Sunday to warn Jamaicans that more people are going to die if more effort is not…
NEW YORK (AP) — Fully vaccinated Americans can gather with other vaccinated people indoors without wearing a mask or social distancing, according to long-awaited guidance from federal health officials. The recommendations also say that vaccinated people can come together in the same way — in a single household — with people considered at low-risk for severe disease, such as in the case of vaccinated grandparents visiting healthy children and grandchildren. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the guidance Monday. The guidance is designed to address a growing demand, as more adults have been getting vaccinated and wondering if…
St. Vincent and the Grenadines today reported no new positive cases from fifty-eight (58) samples received and processed on Saturday March 6, 2021. Four (4) persons were cleared bringing the number of total recoveries to one thousand and twenty-seven (1027). Six hundred and twenty-eight (628) cases remain active and eight (8) persons with COVID-19 have died. One thousand, six hundred and sixty-three (1663) cases of COVID-19 have been reported in St. Vincent and the Grenadines since March 2020. The public is urged to use a mask, sanitize, physically distance and get vaccinated to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in St.…
St. Vincent and the Grenadines today reported four (4) new positive cases from one hundred and fifty-nine (159) of the samples received and processed on Friday March 5, 2021. Two cases are contacts of known positives, one is the quarantine day 5 PCR result of a traveler from the USA, and the fourth was detected during community screening. None is linked to the Mental Health Rehabilitation Centre. The positivity rate for Friday March 5, 2021 is 2.5%. Eighteen (18) persons were cleared bringing the number of total recoveries to one thousand and twenty-three (1023). Six hundred and thirty-two (632) cases…
A few showers are forecast for tonight, with mostly fair conditions forecast for Sunday and Monday. By early Tuesday morning, some showers are likely across Saint Vincent and the Grenadines due to weak unstable conditions. Easterly winds at approximately 25km/h-35km/h will blow across SVG during the next 24 hours becoming mostly east north east (ENE) from Monday into Tuesday, and reducing slightly in speed. Seas will be slight to moderate in open waters, with swells peaking at 1.0m on the western coasts, and 2.0m on the eastern coasts. A deterioration will take place from Sunday night with swells peaking at…
By Chevanev A.Y Charles The Covid-19 pandemic has proven to be disastrous in the lives of many seafarers everywhere. Hundreds of thousands of these essential maritime workers have faced unemployment, strained working conditions, extended contracts and minimal mental health support. SVG seafarers are among those who have been gravely affected. After seafarers in SVG were brought back from abroad, many have not been working for several months. Fortunately, some have businesses in SVG to sustain themselves and their families but the vast majority are under significant financial stress and cannot support their loved ones. The cruise industry is still struggling…
Many persons who appear regularly before the Courts on criminal charges have been doing so since they were juveniles. And most of them continue to create problems for the rest of society, despite everything the Court has done ranging from non-custodial sentences to custodial sentences. The situation poses a challenge when the Court has to sentence such individuals. On such case surfaced at the Kingstown Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, and involved 37-year-old Renalto Bute of Edinboro, who pleaded guilty to stealing a brake pad valued at $57.50 from Richardson’s Motors at Arnos Vale, December 30 last year. The brakes pad…
No section of the Vincentian population works harder than those in the lower classes. Sadly, these very workers are grossly exploited and end up spending their entire lives preparing to live. And in the main, they do so without breaking the country’s laws and dutifully serving those in whose charge they are committed. We only have to look on the streets of Kingstown or the roadside across SVG to witness the entrepreneurial spirit, dedication, and commitment to the people’s hard work. We see it every day as they journey to the business houses or the homes of middle and upper-class…
Introduction Over the last year, the world has encountered unprecedented challenges as a consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic with some nations impacted more severely than others. This country has had to deal with our share of the challenges affecting the health of our people and the resulting demands of the health system, the economic fallout that has resulted in job losses, the social impacts that have caused among other things the extended closure of our schools as well as security issues that have also arisen. For the most part, the protocols put in place by the Health Services Subcommittee within…