The Government of the United Kingdom recently approved a £4.5 million contribution to the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) Special Development Fund to be used to support countries in the region with their COVID-19 recovery. The Special Development Fund is CDB’s largest pool of concessionary funds, which are used to address poverty and human development challenges throughout the Caribbean region. The UK is already the largest bilateral donor to the region and is the second largest contributor to the Special Development Fund. This new announcement follows CDB having recently successfully met agreed upon performance targets. This support also follows recent announcements…
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Arnos Vale, St. Vincent, August 24, 2020 – The Annual General Meeting of the Windward Islands Cricket Board (WICB) took place on Saturday, August 22, 2020. The Directors from the four Member States participated in the meeting via Zoom. The meeting was constitutionally due in May 2020, however, it was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With the uncertainty of regular air travel resumption, the board decided to have the meeting virtually. A critical outcome of the 5-hour long meeting was the adoption of a proposed revised constitution. The revision was done by former WICB director, Saint Lucian Patrick Felix…
St. Vincent and the Grenadines today confirmed two (2) new COVID-19 cases. The non-nationals arrived from Sweden entering St. Vincent and the Grenadines from Grenada with negative PCR results on August 19. Both adults have been isolated since receipt of their preliminary positive results which were confirmed today. Extensive testing of all possible contacts has not revealed any other positive cases or exposure to SARS-Cov-2. Further testing will continue. All passengers who arrived on Air Canada 980 on Thursday August 20, have been cleared. All passengers who arrived of AA 945 on Saturday August 22, have received their quarantine day…
Days after announcing his frustration with the leadership of the New Democratic Party (NDP), political commentator Kingsley Defreitas has been admonished by Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves to stay away from him and the ULP. Defrietas who called into the Prime Minister’s weekly radio programme on NBC radio St. Vincent and the Grenadines earlier today told the PM: “This election is an interesting election. This election is between the people of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Ralph Gonsalves, Camillo Gonsalves and Julian Francis.” Custom Text “And when you came in 2001, you ask for the job and you doing a…
Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves has announced that the barrel concession which was due to come to an end on August 31, 2020 will be extended. Speaking on NBC radio St. Vincent and the Grenadines during his weekly national update, he said: “Look, I got a call from someone at the port, a supervisor and she was telling me about a month ago, the barrel concession is really helping people”. Custom Text “There were hundreds and hundred of barrels we are clearing, she says its just amazing”, the Prime Minister reported to the nation. He went on further to say:…
Sometimes radio broadcasting is just a job. For E. Bernard John it was clearly a calling. E.B. the broadcaster demonstrated a natural and an abundant flair for key elements of the profession. Among them, a deep understanding of the unique relationship between the audience and the broadcaster; a keen awareness of popular public concerns; and critically, the ability to ‘be in the moment’, especially for Live broadcasts, when he move seamlessly from, for example, the solemn mood of a funeral broadcast, to the formal tone for a State ceremony, and then the festive hype for J’ouvert morning or Dimanche Gras.…
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — In the largest U.S. evacuation of the pandemic, more than half a million people were ordered to flee the Gulf Coast on Tuesday as Laura strengthened into a hurricane that forecasters said could slam Texas and Louisiana with ferocious winds, heavy flooding and the power to push seawater miles inland. More than 385,000 residents were told to flee the Texas cities of Beaumont, Galveston and Port Arthur, and another 200,000 were ordered to leave low-lying Calcasieu Parish in southwestern Louisiana, where forecasters said as much as 13 feet (3.96 meters) of storm surge topped by waves…
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — American Airlines said on Tuesday it will lay off 19,000 workers on October 1, in addition to thousands more who left the company or agreed to voluntary furloughs, unless Congress offers more aid. “Approximately 19,000 of our team members will be involuntarily furloughed or separated from the company on October 1,” American said in a regulatory filing, explaining the cuts are needed because flights have not recovered amid the coronavirus pandemic. However, the company said the job losses could be curbed if Congress extends a program under the CARES Act rescue package that helped…
The 10-month-old daughter of a Freeport woman who works at a private medical facility is one of the nation’s newest cases of COVID-19. According to reports, the baby’ mother, father, seven-year-old sister and three other family members have all tested positive for the virus There have been several other toddlers who have tested positive for the virus since the virus hit T&T’s shores. In its updates yesterday, the Ministry of Health confirmed 92 more cases of the virus, bringing the overall total number of positive tests in the country since March 12 to 1,099. Some 919 of these patients are…
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The National Works Agency (NWA) is reporting that roadways and road infrastructure in several parishes have been impacted overnight by the passage of Laura, which this morning upgraded from a tropical storm to a hurricane as it heads towards the US Gulf Cosat. NWA said that based on early assessments, the damage to roadways is mainly in the form of flooding, landslides, heavy siltation and fallen trees. According to the agency’s communications manager, Stephen Shaw, so far there have been reports of such events in the parishes of Kingtson and St Andrew, Clarendon, St Thomas, St Catherine,…