Due to changes in Barbados’s general COVID-19 posture, the U.S. Embassy Bridgetown has canceled all visa appointments from Wednesday, January 6 to Friday, January 15, 2021. Non-immigrant visa applicants having an appointment during this period may reschedule their appointment here: https://ais.usvisa-info.com/en-bb/niv. Your MRV fee remains valid. If you have an urgent need to travel to the United States, please e-mail [email protected].
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St. Vincent and the Grenadines today confirmed one (1) new COVID-19 positivecase. The adult non-national arrived on December 23, 2020 with a negative PCR, tested negative on entry screening and tested positive on day four (4) to seven (7) testing. The visitor will continue in isolation until cleared by two (2) negative tests. Contact tracing, retesting and quarantining of the December 28, 2020 cluster and wider screening of the Vincentian population for COVID-19 cases will continue during the week of January 4 to 8, 2021. The postponement of the opening of school for the January term will allow for a…
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Four passenger samples from the recent United Kingdom (UK) flight to Jamaica have been confirmed positive for the new strain of COVID-19, Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton just announced. The samples had been sent to the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) for further evaluation. Jamaica has restricted flights from the UK, until January 31. This particular flight arrived on December 21, the same day Government announced that it was restricting flights from the UK, due to an outbreak of the new COVID-19 strain there. Passengers from the flight were quarantined and tested, and 20 passengers from the…
Faith based organisations in Barbados agreed unanimously to discontinue face-to-face services with immediate effect, “out of an abundance of caution and in the interest of protecting the health of the country”. The decision, which received 100 per cent support from the leadership of the Barbados Evangelical Association (BEA), the Barbados Christian Council (BXC) and the Barbados Muslim Association (BMA) after a meeting with Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley on Saturday, was in keeping with the stance of the bodies that the current situation requires immediate and decisive attention. The leadership of the three organisations therefore called on heads of individual…
TORTOLA, BVI (CMC)— The government of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) has implemented a travel ban on people travelling from the United Kingdom to the territory. In making the recent announcement, Health Minister Carvin Malone said the ban will take effect on January 11. The ban will not apply to nationals, Belongers, residents, work permit holders, persons permitted to reside in the territory, diplomats, and persons employed by government and its statutory bodies. “Cabinet decided to implement a 14-day quadrant or quarantine period for all persons allowed to travel to the BVI under the previously-mentioned exceptions, provided that they undergo…
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP)— A group of Republican senators led by veteran lawmaker Ted Cruz said Saturday they would not vote next week to certify Joe Biden’s election win — the latest last-ditch move to support Donald Trump’s efforts to undermine the vote. The initiative, which appears certain to fail, flies in the face of rulings in dozens of courts, and the findings by officials in several key states, that there were no widespread voting problems. The Republicans’ statement, signed by Cruz and six other current senators along with four senators-elect, asserts that “allegations of fraud and irregularities in the…
Authorities in Barbados have confirmed 161 new cases of COVID-19 at Her Majesty’s Prison Dodds, including 113 inmates. Outside of the 161 cases connected to the prison, there have been a further 33 cases of COVID-19 identified in the past 48 hours. The authorities have indicated that the Pan American Health Organisation is carrying out genomic analysis to determine whether these cases include the new, more contagious form of the virus. The cases at the prison have been linked to the super-spreader bus crawl on Boxing Day. Health authorities say intensive contact-tracing continues into the bus crawl, with people in…
Minister of Health and Wellness, Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Bostic, tonight revealed 45 positive cases had been recorded today, a major uptick from Thursday’s five cases. Of that number, 32 are prison officers while four are members of the Barbados Defence Force. He revealed that more than half of them had attended a bus crawl held by prison officers on Boxing Day. Bostic said the bus crawl was now considered a “super spreader event”. With complete testing of the prison expected to be concluded by 2 a.m. tomorrow, more than 150 prison officers have already been placed in a quarantine facility.…
‘I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.’ Socrates ‘When the world goes mad, those who resist are denounced as lunatics.’ British journalist, George Monbiot. The year that was blindsided all of us. We started with promise and ended in the gloom. One thing is certain; the world we live in will never be the same again. Call us conspiracy theorist if you wish, but there is no credible evidence to convince any reasoned, fearless mind that the death and the fearmongering that pervades the world are not part of a grand design to reorder planet earth…
British tourists who have no ties to the British Virgin Islands will be prohibited from travelling to the territory as of January 11, 2021, until further notice. Minister for Health and Social Development Hon. Carvin Malone said the ban is in light of the prevalence of the new strain of the COVID-19 – SARS-CoV2, that is spreading rapidly and prompting high levels of concern in the neighbouring countries. Nonetheless, Hon. Malone added that persons who are nationals, belongers, residents, work permit holders, persons permitted to reside in the territory, diplomats, and persons employed by government and statutory bodies and agencies…