The US National Hurricane Centre (NHC) expects Tropical Depression (TD) 11 to intensify into a tropical storm later today. In its 11 am AST update, NHC said the centre of TD 11 was located over the tropical Atlantic Ocean about 1320 miles (2125 km) east-southeast of the Lesser Antilles. It’s moving toward the west near 14 mph (22 km/h), and this general motion is expected to continue today. A turn toward the west-northwest at a similar forward speed is expected tonight, with this motion continuing through the rest of the week. Maximum sustained winds are near 35 mph (55 km/h)…
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Minister of Education, Science and Technology Michael Browne is assuring the general public that everything will be done to create a safe environment for students when the new school year commences on Sept. 7. During a press conference on Tuesday to update the nation on plans for the new academic year in the COVID-19 era, the Education Minister said cognizant of the concerns being expressed by the general public, parents, and guardians about students’ health and safety when they return to school plants, consultations have been held with key stakeholders in developing a plan that aims to alleviate those anxieties.…
Barbados’ youngest COVID-19 patient is a one-year-old boy who arrived in the island on August 1 on a JetBlue flight, accompanied by his mother. The mother tested positive on arrival and both she and the child were in isolation at Harrison Point, St Lucy. He tested positive yesterday and both are asymptomatic. (Source: Nation News)
The country has seen a 25 percent drop in crime this year, with 64 fewer murders occurring, when compared with trends in 2019. That assertion from Commissioner of Police, Gary Griffith, as he commended all police officers “for their exemplary and professional conduct during the 2020 General Elections”. “At least 95 percent of police officers turned out for duty at Monday’s General Election,” Commissioner Griffith reports in an official statement released today by the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS). “That figure could have been higher, but several police officers had tested positive for the COVID-19 virus, while many others…
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced tonight that Jamaicans will go to the polls on Thursday, September 3. Nomination Day is Tuesday, August 18. “We will be quick, we will be efficient, we will be peaceful,” Holness told Parliament after making the announcement. “We’re having an election in a pandemic… the kind of campaign to which we’re accustomed may not be the kind of campaign that will materialise,” he said. Holness made the announcement in a relatively brief speech which followed the House of Representatives’ vote to end the current States of Emergency by August 17, fulfilling his…
A one-time Unity Labour Party prospective candidate was given the nod by New Democratic Party delegates in the Marriaqua primaries on Tuesday evening. In a surprising quirk, Kirk Da Silva, a founding partner at KDLT Chartered Certified Accountants, was voted as the most preferable candidate of the 4 contenders in the August 11, race. When the dust settled, Da Silva emerged triumphant with 15 of the 29 votes cast. Phillip Jackson, a widely favored choice, secured 4 of the delegates’ affirmation while longtime politician and former area MP Bernard Wyllie won 8 votes. Curtis Bowman, the NDP’s last offer to…
ST THOMAS — Police have arrested a woman after she admitted to having sex with a minor for several months. According to V.I.P.D. Public Information Officer Toby Derima, on Monday at approximately 3:00 p.m., police arrested 54-year-old Monique Turner of Bergs Homes and charged her with second-degree rape. Turner admitted to detectives that she engaged in sexual intercourse with a minor, a 16-year-old male, for several months. Unable to post bail of $100,000, Turner was remanded to the Bureau of Corrections pending her advisement hearing. This case is still under active investigation, according to the VIPD. Anyone having any information…
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — As drugmakers race to develop a vaccine against the coronavirus, several legal questions are emerging: could the government require people to get it? Could people who refuse to roll up their sleeves get banned from stores or lose their jobs? The short answer is yes, according to Dov Fox, a law professor and the director of the Center for Health Law Policy and Bioethics at the University of San Diego. “States can compel vaccinations in more or less intrusive ways,” he said in an interview. “They can limit access to schools or services or jobs if…
It took six months for the world to reach 10 million confirmed cases of the coronavirus. It took just over six weeks for that number to double. The worldwide count of known COVID-19 infections climbed past 20 million on Monday, with more than half of them from just three countries: the US, India and Brazil, according to the tally kept by Johns Hopkins University. The average number of new cases per day in the US has declined in recent weeks but is still running high at over 54,000, versus almost 59,000 in India and nearly 44,000 in Brazil. The severe…
Police have arrested and charged Cherrise Cuffy, a 41 year old programme Assistant of South Rivers with wounding. Investigations revealed that the accused allegedly unlawfully and maliciously inflicted grievous bodily harm on a 20 year old unemployed of the same address by striking her with a glass bottle on her forehead. The incident occurred at South Rivers on 25.07.20. The accused will appear before the Serious Offences Court to answer to the charge.