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TAROUBA, Trinidad (AP) — A 33-game Caribbean Premier League Twenty20 tournament will kick off next month with defending champion Barbados Tridents against St Kitts and Nevis Patriots and Guyana Amazon Warriors taking on the Trinbago Knight Riders. CPL chief executive Damien O’Donohoe said the August 18 to September 10 tournament would be staged in two venues in Trinidad and Tobago, with the Brian Lara Cricket Academy in Tarouba hosting 23 games, including the semifinals and final, and Queen’s Park Oval at Port of Spain hosting 10 games. The West Indies team contested the first international cricket since the lockdown for…

The Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment wishes to advise the general public that as part of the its mosquito control programme for the adult Aedes aegypti mosquito, the Insect Vector Control Unit will be conducting fogging operations in the following areas commencing at 5:30 pm daily. Monday, 27th July 2020 – Kingstown (Cruise Ship Berth and Stoney Grounds area) Tuesday, 28th July 2020 – Penniston Wednesday, 29th July 2020 – Penniston Motorists are kindly asked to take caution. Persons who are suffering from any respiratory illnesses are kindly asked to take the necessary precautionary measures.

Chairman of the Caribbean Community Vincentian Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves has paid glowing tribute to former Prime Minister. Below is the full text of his statement: Owen Seymour Arthur, the distinguished former Prime Minister of Barbados, a titan of regional integration, and a most esteemed son of our Caribbean civilization, passed away in the early minutes, today, July 27th, at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Barbados. He was 70 years old. Our Caribbean, our hemisphere, and our world have lost a statesman and intellect of the highest quality. We shall miss him. I shall miss my dear friend, Owen, a…

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) – Former Prime Minister of Barbados Owen Seymour Arthur died during the early hours of Monday, a brief government statement has confirmed. He was 70. It said that Arthur, the longest serving head of government, died at 12:26 am (local time). Arthur, an economist, had been hospitalised earlier this month at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital after suffering heart related complications. “The Government of Barbados extends sincerest condolences to his wife, Julie, his daughters Leah and Sabrna and his extended family,” the statement said, adding that Colin Jordan, the Minister of Labour and Social Partnership Relations “will be the…

WASHINGTON, United States (AP) — The world’s biggest COVID-19 vaccine study got underway Monday with the first of 30,000 planned volunteers helping to test shots created by the US government — one of several candidates in the final stretch of the global vaccine race. There’s still no guarantee that the experimental vaccine, developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc, will really protect. The needed proof: Volunteers won’t know if they’re getting the real shot or a dummy version. After two doses, scientists will closely track which group experiences more infections as they go about their daily routines,…

Police arrested and jointly charged Yvonne Patterson, 46yrs Bank Clerk of Green Hill and Fitzroy Douglas 27yrs Mechanic of Murray’s Village with the theft of Fifty-three thousand, five hundred and seventy-one dollars and ninety-five cent ($53,571.95 ECC), the property of the Bank of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The incident occurred at Kingstown on 18.06.2020. They were also jointly charged with the theft of three hundred and thirty-five thousand, five hundred and eight-four dollars ($335,584.00 ECC) the property of the aforementioned bank, stolen on 23.07.2020. Investigations have also led to Patterson being arrested and charged with two (2) counts of…

The Health Services Subcommittee of the National Emergency Committee has implemented a multitiered verification process to confirm new COVID-19 cases. This process involves the use of multiple tests to confirm the detection of, or exposure to SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes COVID-19. This new process has resulted in a recent delay in the reporting of new COVID-19 cases. This process also resulted in what appeared to be the “rapid recovery” of eight (8) cases who were classified as recovered by the verification process. There has however been no delay in notifying those persons with a preliminary positive COVID- 19 test…

Fair conditions could become occasionally cloudy overnight into Monday, as a tropical wave crosses the islands with scattered showers and thunderstorm activity across St.Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG). Thereafter, unstable conditions with occasional showers could linger across our islands, ahead of instability associated with an area of low pressure with a high (70 – 90%) chance for development into a tropical depression/tropical storm nearing the Lesser Antilles by late Wednesday. Moderate (~20 – 30 km/h) north north-easterly breeze are expected tonight, decreasing to gentle (~10 – 20 km/h) breeze during Monday and turning east south-easterly. East north-easterly moderate breeze could…

Barbados’ tally of COVID-19 cases now stands at 110, after two people tested positive for the viral illness on Saturday. A 28-year-old female visitor, who arrived on Air Canada on July 19, is the fourth person from that flight to test positive. The other confirmed case is a 38-year-old Barbadian/American, who arrived on a Jet Blue flight yesterday. There are now nine people in isolation at Harrison Point, St. Lucy. Ninety-four people have recovered and seven have died. The Best-dos Santos Public Health Laboratory has completed 10,403 tests.

(AFP) – West Indies coach Phil Simmons once again bemoaned the failure of his team’s batsmen to back up the bowlers in a gruelling schedule of three back-to-back Tests against England that marks international cricket’s return from the coronavirus lockdown. “We haven’t had any centuries in the series,” he said. “There are two days left to bat and someone needs to get themselves a big hundred.” “There is plenty of time in the game so we need to be more determined to get big scores.” West Indies were set 399 for victory by England on the third day of the…