As Dengue fever numbers rise to become the highest in recent SVG history, St. Vincent Brewery Limited strengthens its commitment to collaborate in the fight against the mosquito borne disease in St. Vincent. Trade Marketing Supervisor, Kelvin Franklyn, outlined the company’s long history of helping the communities it serves and its desire to continue that work in this crisis. Highlighting why the Vitamalt donation to the blood-bank was the right strategy to help save lives, he explained, “Dengue attacks the blood count, heightening the need for blood donations. In turn the brewery donates cases of Vitamalt each month to the…
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Vincentian entrepreneur Andie Jackson has launched a marketing and promotions program aimed at identifying and exposing Vincentian sporting talent to the world. In a recent interview with ANN, Jackson said he had identified a need for exposure and to create greater opportunities for talented athletes in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, hence his decision to launch the program Expose SVG. “Too often we have seen many national athletes struggle financially and academically in their respective discipline and that’s why I launched the Marketing program. “As a young Entrepreneur we are faced with many problems in St. Vincent – financial support,…
St. Vincent and the Grenadines today confirmed twenty-five (25) new COVID-19 cases. These positive results are for persons tested between February 10th and 11th during contact tracing and testing of persons with flu symptoms. There are now one thousand, two hundred and forty-four (1244) local cases of COVID-19. Sixty-eight (68) persons were cleared bringing the number of total recoveries to five hundred and thirty-five (535). Eight hundred and fifty-four (854) cases remain active and six (6) persons with COVID-19 have died. One thousand, three hundred and ninety-five (1395) cases of COVID-19 have been reported in St. Vincent and the Grenadines…
On Tuesday, February 9, 2021, officers attached to the Rapid Response Unit (RRU) conducted a successful operation which resulted in the arrest and charges being laid against one Vincentian and one Jamaican national for possession of illegal drugs and unlicensed firearm and ammunition respectively. Acting on information received, a party of officers was dispatched on mobile patrol duty about Central Division in search of a motor vehicle which was allegedly occupied by three (3) males. The vehicle in question was spotted in Rillan Hill heading in the direction of Kingstown. The officers followed the vehicle and ordered it to stop…
A Covid-infected woman had three fingers amputated after the disease ravaged her blood vessels. Gruesome pictures published in a medical journal showed how the unidentified 86-year-old’s digits turned black. Doctors in Italy, who had to cut off her gangrenous fingers, called her case a ‘severe manifestation’ of coronavirus. Covid has been found in many patients to cause severe damage to blood vessels, causing dangerous blockages known as blood clots. While experts are unsure why the virus causes the blockages, the prevailing theory is that it is the result of an immune overreaction called a ‘cytokine storm’, which sees the body…
DALLAS (AP) — At least five people were killed and dozens injured Thursday in a massive crash involving 75 to 100 vehicles on an icy Texas interstate, police said, as a winter storm dropped freezing rain, sleet and snow on parts of the U.S. At the scene of the crash on Interstate 35 near downtown Fort Worth, a tangle of semitrailers, cars and trucks had crashed into each other and had turned every which way, with some vehicles on top of others. “The vehicles are just mangled,” said Matt Zavadsky, spokesman for MedStar, which provides the ambulance service for the…
US President Joe Biden has rescinded the national emergency order used to fund Donald Trump’s border wall. In a letter to Congress on Thursday, Mr Biden wrote that the order was “unwarranted” and said that no further tax dollars will be spent on the wall. Mr Trump declared a state of emergency over the southern border in 2019, which allowed him to bypass Congress and use military funds for its construction. The announcement from President Biden is the latest in a series of executive orders that have rolled back key parts of the former president’s agenda. Last week, Mr Biden…
China has banned BBC World News from broadcasting on its territory, according to a decision announced on Thursday by its broadcasting regulator. China has criticised the BBC for its reporting on coronavirus and the persecution of ethnic minority Uighurs. The BBC said it was “disappointed” by the decision. It follows British media regulator Ofcom revoking state broadcaster China Global Television Network’s (CGTN) licence to broadcast in the UK Ofcom’s decision earlier this month came after it found that CGTN’s licence was wrongfully held by Star China Media Ltd. CGTN was also found in breach of British broadcasting regulations last year,…
St. Vincent and the Grenadines today confirmed thirty (30) new COVID-19 cases. One (1) case was from February 8th, twenty-six (26) cases were from February 9th and three (3) from February 10th. These cases were detected during exit screening, contact tracing and testing of persons with flu symptoms. There are now one thousand, two hundred and nineteen (1219) local cases of COVID-19. Thirteen (13) persons were cleared bringing the number of total recoveries to four hundred and sixty-seven (467). Eight hundred and ninety-seven (897) cases remain active and six (6) persons with COVID-19 have died. One thousand, three hundred and…
St. Vincent and the Grenadines today confirmed thirty (30) new COVID-19 cases. One (1) case was from February 8th, twenty-six (26) cases were from February 9th and three (3) from February 10th. These cases were detected during exit screening, contact tracing and testing of persons with flu symptoms. There are now one thousand, two hundred and nineteen (1219) local cases of COVID-19. Thirteen (13) persons were cleared bringing the number of total recoveries to four hundred and sixty-seven (467). Eight hundred and ninety-seven (897) cases remain active and six (6) persons with COVID-19 have died. One thousand, three hundred and…