SOURCE: St Lucia Times – Yesterday, February 5, 2021, the Ministry of Health and Wellness received confirmation from the Ezra Long Laboratory of 257 new cases of COVID-19. This is from a batch of 886 tests conducted on samples taken during the period January 25 to February 2, 2021. February 2, 2021: a total of 222 tests were conducted with 32 confirmed positiveWednesday February 3, 2021: a total of 255 tests were conducted with 90 confirmed positiveThursday February 4, 2021: a total of 409 tests were conducted with 135 confirmed positive These individuals were seen at various respiratory clinics where they…
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The Jamaican governmenthas ordered the immediate shutdown of the Reggae Boyz training camp at the Captain Horace Burrell Centre of Excellence at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus. The demand has come in the wake of news that Jamaica recorded 263 new cases of infections, the highest numbers since the pandemic began almost a year ago. Jamaica has recorded more than 355 deaths in that time. Recent reports also said a number of players in the camp have also been infected by the Covid-19 virus. With those concerns in mind, Olivia Grange, Jamaica’s Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment…
Leader of SVG Green Party, Warrant Officer Ivan Bertie O’Neal BSc (Hons), MSc, MBA, says the ULP regime needs to do much more to protect the health of Vincentians. Covid-19 and dengue fever are spreading around the country and taking Vincentians’ lives, yet the ULP regime still does not adequately fund this country’s health and medical services. For many years, the nation’s health service has been starved by Gonsalves, with as little as $88.20 per person, per year, being budgeted to be spent on health. Whilst Vincentians’ lives are needlessly being lost, Gonsalves still gives the super-rich of Mustique and…
What is life in a hopeless society is a question that a significant section of continues to ask. With poverty levels of 37 percent and unemployment among our youth more than 40 percent, the prospects going into this year cannot be bright. SVG is in the throes of a dengue and coronavirus epidemic. Last week, the chief volcanologist made the ominous disclosure that the La Soufriere volcano could erupt at a moment notice. Last Monday, Finance Minister Camillo Gonsalves made a brave attempt to spin gold out of straw. While delivering his $1.2 billion budget, he labelled 2020 as a…
Introduction The opening of the First Session of the Eleventh Parliament occurred on Monday February 1, 2021, and coincided with the presentation of the National Budget presentation by Minister of Finance, Hon. Camillo Gonsalves. This was a well-crafted budget under the theme “SVG Stronger Together; Overcoming Today’s Challenges, Building Resilience, Strengthening Social Protection, Creating Jobs and Accelerating Transformational Development”. The year 2020 presented this country with many challenges that required innovative and creative policy responses by this government to address those challenges, be they unforeseen or reasonably predictable. That experience of 2020, coupled with the ongoing challenges of the global…
Atilon Campbell and Marlon Chance received the sentences for having entered the apartment of two female American medical students during the night of March 2017, armed with guns and knives, and stole items, including laptops, demanded oral sex, and locked the women in a room before leaving. The youngsters were part of a four-member group, all masked, who had launched the attack. Atilon Campbell was sentenced to 17 years in prison on each of two counts of aggravated burglars, 15 years each on two counts of possession of a firearm to aid in the commission of an offence, and 18…
Though Shenedon Isha Matthews had $200 in her purse, the 38-year-old business woman still saw it fit to steal household items from Massy Stores, Kingstown, on Friday, January 29. “You had money on you, why not pay for them,” Senior Magistrate Rickie Burnett told the woman, adding, “Yet they have people (who) will make a case for her and tell you she had a need.” The Senior Magistrate comments came after fining the woman $500 to be paid by February 26 or six months in prison, and ordering her to pay compensation of $211.38 to the store. Matthews, who was…
Minister of Finance and Economic Planning Camillo Gonsalves his government is moving to redress existing shortcomings at the prisons as an investigation has revealed troubling deficiencies in management structures in the system. Presenting the 2021 budget address in parliament on Monday, Gonsalves recalled the prison break on December 9th when high-profile double murder accused Veron Primus, 33, and Ulrick Hanson, 28, who was also on remand for murder. Gonsalves said the prison system was the unfortunate focus of attention when the two dangerous criminals briefly escaped from Her Majesty’s Prison. He noted they were subsequently apprehended without endangering the public.…
(Excerpts of Dr. Friday’s Presentation on the Debate of Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure) The Context The Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure sets out what we are going to do throughout the course of the year in terms of programs that the government intends to implement and how those will be financed; to make judgement about what it indicates as to the government’s priorities or lack thereof. That is the nature of the exercise, but we are doing it in unprecedented time. The context for the debate has to be framed for us to understand what we mean when we…
As efforts are ramped-up to increase fisher folk’s capacity to harvest more seafood and to expand the market, the government has allocated $1.5 million toward the construction of the Barrouallie Blackfish market. Word on this came from Minister of Finance and Economic Planning Camillo Gonsalves on Monday in his 2021 budget presentation in parliament. Gonsalves said work on the construction of the new facility has been delayed because of the Covid-19 pandemic and the $1.5 million is to accelerate construction. “While we have acquired and cleared the land for construction of this facility, Covid complications prevented our Japanese partners and…