On Saturday 5th September 2020, two teens from the Grenadine island of Bequia have been reported missing. Fourteen (14) year old student Sennice Kydd was reported missing by her mother Vanett Kidd around 2:45 pm. She reportedly left home in Paget Farm on Friday 4th September 2020 about 12:35pm about the district of Paget Farm to sell provision and has not yet returned. Sennice was last seen wearing a yellow head tie, a blue skirt, yellow top and a brown pair of slippers. She is said to be about 5ft 7inches tall, stoutly built and dark in complexion. The student…
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BBC Sports – Six-time champion Serena Williams battled through a challenging three-set test against Greek 15th seed Maria Sakkari to reach the US Open quarter-finals. Williams, 38, looked composed as she took the first set in 37 minutes. The third seed lost a close tie-break in the second and was forced to find her best tennis to come from a break down in the third and win 6-3 6-7 (6-8) 6-3 almost two hours later. “I just kept fighting,” Williams said. “She was doing so well. She was being so aggressive and I knew I needed to do the same…
BBC sports -The Boston Celtics beat the Toronto Raptors to take a 3-2 series lead in their Eastern Conference semi-final and leave the defending champions on the brink of NBA play-off elimination. A stellar defensive showing in the opening quarter put the Celtics 25-11 up and they pushed on to a 111-89 win. “The job isn’t done,” said the Celtics’ Jaylen Brown. “We’ve got to come out and play with the same intensity.” The Celtics can seal the best-of-seven series in game six on Wednesday. Raptors point-guard Kyle Lowry said: “They were very comfortable from the jump. We weren’t as…
AP) – A small outbreak of COVID-19 cases has prompted authorities to re-close schools in a central Cuban province only a week after they opened. Ciego de Avila schools director Bárbara Rodríguez said 75 of the province’s 90 schools would return to televised teaching on Monday. Students had returned to classrooms only on September 1 after a six-month break. The province has reported 30 new infections with the new coronavirus over the past 15 days. Cuba as a whole has reported 4,309 infections and 100 deaths from the disease since March. The largest outbreak has been in the capital, Havana,…
St. Vincent and the Grenadines today confirmed one (1) new COVID-19 case. The new case is a Vincentian national who arrived in St. Vincent and the Grenadines on September 5 from Jamaica. The inflight contacts of this person are in the process of being informed of their exposure. St. Vincent and the Grenadines has now recorded a total of sixty-two (62) COVID- 19 cases, fifty-eight (58) of which have recovered. There are now four (4) active COVID-19 cases. Due to the rapidly increasing number of cases of COVID-19 in some CARICOM member states, the ‘Protocol for the Entry of Travelers’…
(NY POST) – Five people were shot — including a 6-year-old boy — in Brooklyn early Monday during an outdoor J’Ouvert celebration, police and witnesses said. The gunfire rang out just before 3 a.m. at the corner of Nostrand Avenue and Crown Street in Crown Heights, where about 300 people had gathered for a pre-dawn West Indian Day celebration. “It was really crazy — everyone was in shock,” said Joshua Kristal, who was marching with the procession. Police sources identified the victims as Maxwell Cesc-Vinho, 6, his mother, Patricia Brathwaith, 47, Flavian Yves, 40, Bob Charlotin, 46, and Kelly Barthold,…
KINGSTON, Jamaica— Detectives in the St Ann police division have charged 36-year-old Craigian Rattray of Seville Heights in the parish for several crimes following an incident in the community on Sunday, August 2. Reports are that Rattray had a dispute with his wife, during which he set the family’s shop ablaze with them inside. The police and the fire department was summoned which rescued Rattray, his wife, and her 13-year-old brother who all received burns and were taken to hospital. Mrs Rattray succumbed to her injuries on Thursday, August 6, the police reported, while both her brother and her husband…
The Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department within the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital (MCMH) is in a much better position to provide care for patients with the donation of a brand new Cardiotocography (CTG) fetal heartbeat monitor and several other pieces of equipment and care packages. According to Head of the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department, Dr. Sheridan Slater, Ron Kilius, a Canadian businessman and friend of the late surgeon and former Governor General (GG) of St. Vincent and the Grenadines Sir Frederick Ballantyne, donated the CTG in his honour. Additionally, Agents of Change Organization Inc., a faith-based NGO in Canada, donated several…
St. Vincent and the Grenadines today confirmed one (1) new COVID-19 case. The new case is a Vincentian national who arrived in St. Vincent and the Grenadines on September 5 from Jamaica. The inflight contacts of this person are in the process of being informed of their exposure. St. Vincent and the Grenadines has now recorded a total of sixty-two (62) COVID- 19 cases, fifty-eight (58) of which have recovered. There are now four (4) active COVID-19 cases. Due to the rapidly increasing number of cases of COVID-19 in some CARICOM member states, the ‘Protocol for the Entry of Travelers’…
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — A couple’s plan to reveal their baby’s gender went up not in blue or pink smoke but in flames when the device they used sparked a wildfire that burned thousands of acres and forced people to flee from a city east of Los Angeles. The fire prompted evacuations in parts of Yucaipa, a city of 54,000, and the surrounding area. Water-dropping helicopters were brought in but the fire has proven stubborn — it grew to 11.5 square miles (30 square kilometres) by Monday morning and more than 500 firefighters on the scene only had minimal…