Three#tropicalwaves are presently east of and approaching the LesserAntilles. The axis of the closest wave is presently about 200 miles east of the Islands…from east of Dominica southward to over Guyana and is expected to move through the islands tonight through tomorrow. – Scattered showers and thunderstorms are presently within the wave’s environment mainly from just southeast of and then about 150 miles east of Trinidad south-southeastward for about 750 miles – Although it is too early to tell specific timing and impacts (IF ANY) of the wave’s associated weather, an increase in cloudiness and some showers are POSSIBLE over…
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(Antigua NewsRoom) In a letter dated June 11, LIAT has advised the Leeward Islands Airline Pilots Association of the need to extend the temporary layoff of its pilots for three (3) months. The Human Resource Manage, Samantha May Francis, attributed this to the chronic fiscal turbulence experienced by the regional airline, now made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic. The airline has operated a limited-service, providing cargo and chartered flight. However, the correspondence obtained by our newsroom affirms that this is ‘insufficient to cover the company’s costs.’ The resulting reliance on bailouts from major shareholders to meet their day to day…
(The Guardian) Parts of Beijing have reimposed lockdown measures after a cluster of locally transmitted coronavirus cases emerged nearly two months after the Chinese capital appeared to have stamped out the virus.The outbreak, linked to a major wholesale food market, raised serious questions about the challenges of keeping the disease at bay, even in countries such as China where authoritarian rule allows harsh containment regulations and invasive tracing systems. The first case in the new outbreak was discovered on Thursday after a 52-year old man tested positive, prompting the district where he lives to raise its risk level to medium.Beijing…
A 63-year-old Trinidad and Tobago national tested positive for Covid-19 virus prior to boarding the aircraft in Venezuela to return home. The Express learnt the woman and two family members had shared a room in Margarita but the other relatives tested negative. The woman is in the high-risk category as she suffers with hypertension and diabetes. Relatives worried Immediately after the woman was tested positive she was removed from the group and placed in an isolated area. She was then put in full personal protective equipment (PPE) and seated at the rear of the aircraft. All 29 people from the…
St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves has said that the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) expects that the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) will honour the results of the national vote recount from Guyana’s March 2 polls and use them to declare a winner. “I am satisfied that CARICOM will not stand by idly and watch the recount– which was properly done–for the results to be set aside.” “We expect the CARICOM observer mission to deliver its report and we expect that what is the recount would be honoured and the Guyana Election Commission will honour that recount and declare…
Ennis Agustus Grant is a native of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. He is the son of Rudolph Carr (deceased) and Emreene Grant of Hopewell. In 1991 Ennis graduated from the Marriaqua Secondary School. He is also a former member of the St. Vincent Cadet Force and the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Coast Guard. According to an Instagram post by His Excellency Nigel Dakin, Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands: Lieutenant Colonel Ennis Grant has been appointed as the first commanding officer of the TCI Regiment. The veteran police officer and TC Islander has already started in the…
Regulations published under Public Health Act (Dangerous Infectious Disease) (Amendment) (No. 6) Regulations, 2020 will see visitors to Antigua & Barbuda paying US$ 100 for a covid-19 test. The regulations published on June 10, 2020 states that “All visitors to Antigua and Barbuda shall be tested for COVID-19 and shall pay a charge of One Hundred Dollars (US$100.00) United States Currency or its equivalent in Eastern Caribbean Dollars as a charge for the test.” It says the charge is payable to the Quarantine Authority and the money will paid into the Consolidated Fund. The updated regulations also reflect government’s decision…
By Jomo “Sanga” ThomasCharles Blow, a Black New York Times columnist, wrote a moving piece on May 27, 2020, entitled ‘How White women use themselves as instruments of terror’.It was a wicked reminder of the many ways in which Black people, especially Black men, are tormented and terrorized into knowing and staying in their place, normally an inferior place assigned to them by the racist society in which they live. To make his point, Blow angrily declared that ‘There are too many noosed necks, charred bodies and drowned souls for them, White women, to deny knowing precisely what they are…
White racism is oppressing the indigenous people of SVG. What is the point of having our independence, if we live in a country where there is one rule for the super-rich, white foreigners, and another rule for the indigenous people of SVG? For decades, successive white-led NDP and ULP governments have introduced and upheld laws and policies that favour the super-rich, white foreigners in SVG, and discriminates against the indigenous people of SVG. Our country’s black majority has been controlled by racist laws, propagating white wealth and black poverty, white economic supremacy and black destitution. White racism is perpetuating poverty…
The vigilance of a female Junior Customs Officer may have prevented a sizeable amount of cocaine from hitting the local market just over a year ago. Stacy Ann Adams, who has been employed with the Customs and Excise Department for ten years, and being Customs Officer for the past three years, made a sharp detection at the baggage room of the main branch at the Kingstown Port, which led to the seizure of 1,810 grams of cocaine contained in one-litre orchard orange juice boxes. Adams’ action also resulted in the arrest and conviction of 51-year-old Jilcina Susan Debique-Mason of Rose…