Argyle Gardens, Wednesday July 8 2020. The Argyle International Airport Inc. is working towards the gradual commencement of full operations. As such, we welcome,the resumption of American Airlines weekly service out of Miami from Saturday July 11, 2020. One Caribbean’s scheduled flights from July 12, 2020, serving Grenada, St. Lucia, Dominica, St. Vincent, Barbados, Guyana and Tortola. SVG Air’s shared and private charters, serving the Grenadines and neighbouring islands and Mustique Airways with charter flights. More information on other scheduled flights will be released when confirmed. In keeping with the COVID-19 safety measures outlined by the Ministry of Health and…
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By Nathan ‘Jolly’Green. All those Cuban doctors and nurses arriving in the Caribbean are predominantly white. So where are the black doctors and nurses? The population of Cuba is 65% black, yet blacks have the worst housing, and the worst jobs, and are a minority in the Communist Party of Cuba. According to official Cuban figures, the black section of the population is only about 9%. With just over 1 million Cubans described as black, while 2.9 million considered being “mulatto” or “mestizo”. It is not unusual for Cuban figures to be massaged to suit the government; it happens in…
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday it was monitoring a case of bubonic plague in China after being notified by the authorities in Beijing. A herdsman in China’s northern Inner Mongolia region was confirmed at the weekend to have the bubonic plague. Two other cases were confirmed in Khovd province in neighbouring Mongolia last week involving brothers who had eaten marmot meat, China’s state news agency Xinhua said. “Bubonic plague has been with us and is always with us, for centuries,” WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris told reporters at a virtual briefing. “We are looking at…
Prime Minister Gaston Browne has given LIAT staff and unions until Friday to accept or reject suggestions that could possibly lead to the survival of the beleaguered carrier Browne made the suggestions during a closed-door meeting on Tuesday at the headquarters of the Antigua and Barbuda Workers’ Union. The nation’s leader was invited to the meeting to provide an update to workers concerned about their future amid plans to liquidate the airline. While several regional governments are exploring ways to fill the gap left by LIAT, Browne is adamant that the carrier’s collapse would be detrimental to Antigua and Barbuda…
(AFP) — West Indies great Brian Lara says the Caribbean side must try and beat “overwhelming favourites” England in four days because their batting is not strong enough to last five days. The three-Test series, which marks the return of international cricket after the coronavirus shutdown, starts on Wednesday in Southampton behind closed doors. Jason Holder’s tourists boast a powerful pace attack but their batsmen have struggled to post challenging totals in recent years. “They have to be able to pounce immediately,” Lara said in comments on BBC Sport. “England are not beaten very easily at home and are overwhelming…
(CMC) – Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves says the Kingstown-based One Caribbean airline could begin regional flights as soon as next Sunday as part of its efforts to fill the void left by cash-trapped regional carrier LIAT. The major shareholder governments of LIAT have, with the exception of Antigua and Barbuda, agreed to place the airline intp liquidation. St John’s has criticised the move and instead is urging support for the idea of a new company, LIAT 2020, to take over the operations of LIAT (1974) Limited, whose other major shareholder governments are Barbados, St Vincent and the Grenadine, and…
(AFP) — A HIV-positive man in remission may be the first patient effectively cured of the illness without needing a bone marrow transplant, researchers said Tuesday in a potential breakthrough. HIV affects tens of millions of people globally and while the disease is no longer the automatic death sentence it once was, patients need to take medication for life. In recent years two men — known as the “Berlin” and “London” patients — appear to have been cured of the disease after undergoing high-risk stem cell bone marrow transplants to treat cancer. Now an international team of researchers believe they…
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada (CMC) — Grenada today announced the lifting of the curfew that had been put in place to stem the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19), even as it said that citizens will have to comply with updated emergency powers regulations regarding congregation and the free movement of people. The updated regulation provides for the free movement of citizens from 11:59 pm (local time) on July 14, as part of the weekly strategy implemented by the government since the island declared a state of emergency in March. In April, Parliament approved for the state of emergency to be…
(The Hill) The U.S. has submitted its withdrawal notification to the United Nations secretary-general, the official said. Withdrawal requires a year’s notice, so it will not go into effect until July 6, 2021, raising the possibility the decision could be reversed. Sen. Bob Menendez (N.J.), the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, tweeted that the administration informed Congress of the withdrawal plans. “To call Trump’s response to COVID chaotic & incoherent doesn’t do it justice. This won’t protect American lives or interests — it leaves Americans sick & America alone,” the senator tweeted. The formal notification of withdrawal…
Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding a shooting incident that occurred at Clifton, Union Island on 6.07.2020 in which a 32 year old resident of Redemption Sharpes and a 20 year citizen of Grenada sustained gunshot injuries. According to investigations, the victims were asleep at home in a rented apartment on Clifton, Union Island when an unknown assailant(s) entered their apartment and shot them about their bodies. They were subsequently rushed to mainland, St. Vincent via the SVG Coast Guard Service to seek medical attention at the Milton Cato memorial Hospital (MCMH). Persons with information that can aid with the…