The Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment, wishes to advise that routine clinic and other services offered at the Richland Park Health Center will be relocated effective Monday, December 14th, 2020 – Monday December 28th, 2020. This temporary relocation is due to minor construction work currently being done on the facility. Alternatively, clients can access clinics and pharmacy services at Levi Latham Poly clinic. The Ministry regrets any inconvenience.
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The Rotaract Club of Kingstown is about to set off on it’s Eighth Annual One Wish Project. This One Wish project seeks to provide care packages to the less fortunate households during this holiday season, and even more so now during the current pandemic. Each year the club collaborates with the Social Welfare Department to identify less fortunate families/individuals who would be assisted through the project by receiving food/care packages. Last year, the Club was able to provide over 60 packages to individuals, so while you shop this Christmas, please look out for us at Massy Stores (Arnos Vale) and…
St. Vincent and the Grenadines today recorded four (4) new COVID-19 cases. Three cases are returning nationals who arrived with negative PCR test results from the UK on November 28, 2020 and tested negative for SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes COVID-19 on entry screening and day 5 testing. The three adults tested positive for COVID-19 during their nine (9) to fourteen (14) day quarantine period or after their five (5) day mandatory hotel quarantine. The fourth case is also a returning national who also arrived on Monday, December 7 from Canada with a negative PCR test result, tested negative on…
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has donated a quantity of supplies to the Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment in support of the fight against COVID-19 and Dengue here. The handing over ceremony was held at the Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment Conference room on Wednesday 9th December, 2020. The equipment and supplies are valued at $US 264,472.63 and include: twenty-three air conditioning units, PCR kits, vector supplies, a laptop and six tablets, thermometers, I.T. equipment, oxygen concentrators and developmental toys for children with special needs among other items. Praising PAHO for the assistance provided, Minister…
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP)— US President Donald Trump’s White House reportedly told the head of the country’s drug regulator to approve Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID vaccine by the end of Friday or resign, after indications the first immunizations were imminent. The threat reported by The Washington Post came on the same day Trump tweeted that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was a “big, old, slow turtle” and told its commissioner, Stephen Hahn, to “Get the dam(n) vaccines out NOW.” The Post reported that White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows had delivered the resignation threat to Hahn.null The report followed comments by…
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC)— The Barbados government says the medicinal cannabis industry will get underway in January next year, giving the assurances also that interested individuals will be allowed to enter the sector, but not at the same time. Agriculture and Food Security Minister, Indar Weir, also made it clear that when the industry gets started, it will not be a repeat of the sugar industry. “The industry must get started…. people will be allowed to enter, [but] not everybody is going to be able to start at the same time,” he told a public forum on the medicinal cannabis industry.…
Twenty-nine year old Shadene Farrel of Lowmans Leeward says she had unprotected sexual intercourse with double-murder accused Veron Prison while he was at her home soon after he escaped prison. Farrel said she had the sexual intercourse with Primus while he and another fugitive, Ulric Hanson, were hiding at her home. Farrel also admitted she had phone sex with Primus on occasions while he was in prison. Farrel was jailed for one year this morning after she pleaded guilty to a charge of doing an act to impede the apprehension, prosecution of escaped prisoners Veron Primus and Ulric Hanson between…
Twenty-nine year old Shadene Farrell of Lowmans Leeward sentenced to one year on prison for impeding the apprehension of escape prisoners Veron Primus and Ulric Hanson. Primus and Hanson were discovered missing from the prison facility in capital Kingstown at about 6 a.m on Wednesday 9th December, 2020. Farrel was charged that between December 9th and 10th at Lowmans Leeward, knowing Primus and Hanson to be guilty of escaping lawful custody, she without lawful authority and reasonable excuse did an act to impede their apprehension or prosecution. Farrel pleaded guilty to the charge this morning, Friday, when she appeared before…
Antigua Observer – Talks between LIAT and the governments of Barbados and St Vincent and the Grenadines continue, days after the airline was forced to cancel commercial services to both islands on the grounds that it needed new authorisation to operate. The airline’s court-appointed Administrator, Cleveland Seaforth, provided the update during an interview on state television Tuesday night. He also revealed that matter has attracted the attention of the wider CARICOM grouping. Regarding St Vincent and the Grenadines, Seaforth said the authorities at Argyle International Airport want to assume responsibility for accepting and dealing with arriving passengers, instead of the…
Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Dr Ralph Gonsalves, has moved to explain why this country was removed from a plan by a ‘new’ LIAT, to commence a commercial service to seven Caribbean territories, among which it was included. An entity calling itself LIAT, comprised of what the Government of Antigua and Barbuda took control of arising out of the collapse of LIAT (1974) Ltd., announced that it was ready to commence a commercial service to seven territories on Nov. 30. However, the flights to Barbados and St. Vincent and the Grenadines were aborted after approval for landing…