PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — Trinidad and Tobago has been allocated an initial 100,000 to 120,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine via the COVAX Facility, which will be delivered by March, according to Minister of Health Terrence Deyalsingh. He said over the weekend that this initial allocation will provide vaccines for at least 50,000 people, as half of the vaccines will be reserved to ensure that each recipient receives the required two doses. The Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine has proven to be effective and can be stored in the standard vaccine refrigerator, which maintains a temperature of two to…
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People in Martinique took to the streets on Sunday to back demands for the authorities to permit a ‘traditional’ carnival. Hundreds took part.The group, accompanied by music, strolled through the streets of the Martinique capital, Fort de France. They stopped at the official residence of the Prefect for while. But no one was at the residence at the time. Martinique 1 Ere quoted one of the organisers of the activity as saying that carnival is too important to Martinique culture for the authorities to scrap it. According to the on line publication, many who took part in the demonstration wore…
Address: Sion Hill, Arnos Vale, Belvedere, Ottley Hall Complexion: DarkOccupation: Labourer Build: MediumHeight: 5’ 11” Chin: RoundLips: Thick Nose: LargeEyes: Brown Hair: DreadlocksFace: Round The Royal Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force is carrying out investigations into a series of reported Burglaries where the subject is a person of interest. Subject is a Vincentian National. The Police is soliciting your assistance in locating the subject. If seen, please contact any police station or the Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of Crimes at Telephone number 1784-456-1339 or 457-1211 ext. 217 or Officer in charge South Central Division at 1784-458-4200.…
Whether it was a ploy simply to discredit the opposition’s contributions to the debate on the 2021 budget estimate while, at the same time, getting at the Leader of the Opposition Dr Godwin Friday and new East Kingstown MP Dwight Fitz Bramble, both of whom have replaced Arnhim Eustace in those capacities, is anybody’s guess. Dr Friday replaced Eustace as Leader of the Opposition and president of the NDP in 2017; and Bramble replace Eustace as MP for East Kingstown last year. Eustace served as Leader of the opposition from 2001 and serve as East Kingstown MP from 1998 when…
“Well, if you think you can block road against ‘De Comrade,’ try that, you try that, try that, you try that,” Dr Gonsalves, popularly called ‘De Comrade,’ dared the Leader of the Opposition. Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves dared Leader of the Opposition and president of the New Democratic Party Dr Godwin Friday during his contribution to the debate of the 2021 budget estimates last Wednesday. Dr Gonsalves was at the time responding to a reference by Dr Friday about the blocking of roads between 1999 and 2000 which has come to be called the ‘Roadblock Revolution’ – which cut-short…
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…