At a recent event held to mark the official opening of the New Democratic Party’s South Central Windward newest constituency office, MP Daniel Cummings compared the developmental paths of the incumbent MP Saboto Caesar and MP hopeful and Opposition Senator Israel Bruce. “Tonight I want to look at two contrasting stories. I want to look at a young man who, through the agricultural programmes of the New Democratic Party, was able to go to school and become a lawyer. And who, for a number of years, has been given the responsibility to oversee agriculture in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.” Although Caesar, who also serves as Agriculture Minister was not…
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(Jamaica Observer )WASHINGTON, United States — The Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Carissa F Etienne, is urging Caribbean countries to prepare to manage outbreaks of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) for the next two years. “In the absence of effective treatments or a widely available vaccine, we expect that over the next two years the Region of the Americas will experience recurring COVID-19 outbreaks, which may be interspersed with periods of limited transmission,” Etienne said during a press briefing today. “In the face of a fast-changing pandemic, leadership will make or break our response. Now is the time…
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (CMC)— President Jovenel Moise has pardoned 415 prisoners in a bid to reduce overcrowding at prisons across the country as a senior United Nations official said that the French-speaking Caribbean Community (Caricom) country had experienced an overall increase in gang-related and criminal activity during the first six months of the year. A government statement said that Moise had, acting on the recommendation of Justice Minister, Lucmane Délile exercised his right to pardon and commute sentences and issued the official order releasing the 415 ordinary prisoners. “These detainees come from 17 penitentiaries across the country, and their…
(NBC News)WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump keeps spinning a tale about COVID-19 that is at odds with his own administration’s disease experts and data compiled by his own coronavirus task force, which was obtained exclusively by NBC News. In Trump’s telling, the deadly pandemic isn’t really a serious threat to the public and rising infection rates are simply due to increased testing. “It’s going away,” he said Tuesday at an event in Phoenix. But on the same day, the coronavirus task force produced an internal document showing that Phoenix had the highest number of new cases among the 10 metropolitan…
LIAT‘s commercial passenger services will remain suspended until 15th July 2020, due to the continued impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Chief Executive Officer, Mrs Julie Reifer-Jones noted that while territories have begun to announce reopening dates, there are extended quarantine restrictions and protocols which are impacting the demand for travel. The CEO noted that the airline’s Management and Board of Directors will continue to monitor the situation and will review the decision in July as more information becomes available. Passengers booked during the extended period of suspension will automatically have their bookings cancelled and will receive full airline credit for…
New Democratic Party officials have opted for a shared resources policy that would see the South Central Windward constituency benefiting from the electioneering resources of its Central Kingstown counterpart. This announcement came as MP for the Central Kingstown seat, Major St. Clair Leacock, addressed the SCW constituency office launch, last Saturday. Major Leacock pledged his constituency’s finely tuned campaign assets even as he underpinned the importance of winning the largely agricultural district. Senator Israel Bruce is the area candidate endorsed by the main opposition force, the NDP, going into the next General Elections which are constitutionally due by March 2021. “Simply put it means…
(Jamaica Observer )KINSHASA, DR Congo -DR Congo’s government on Thursday officially declared an end to an Ebola epidemic that broke out in the east of the troubled country in August 2018 and went on to claim 2,277 lives. The outbreak was “the longest, most complex and deadliest” in the 60-year history of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Health Minister Eteni Longondo said. It has only been surpassed by the 2013-16 Ebola epidemic in West Africa that killed 11,300 people. On June 1, as the epidemic in the east waned, a new outbreak — the DRC’s 11th since Ebola was identified…
Eastern Arizona Courier-After six years of service as Safford’s City Manager, Horatio Skeete has turned a new leaf. Retiring as city manager in mid-June, he now helps the city as a management consultant on a monthly basis. Skeete, who hails from the Caribbean country of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, was hired as Safford City Manager in April 2014. Before that he served 13 years as Litchfield Park’s city manager and four years as assistant city manager in Glendale. Skeete was Glendale’s interim city manager for a short time in 2012. “The significant difference was just everyday intensity,” he said.…
(Barbados Today )After suffering a US$29 million net income loss to shareholders for the first quarter of this year, insurance giant Sagicor Financial Corporation is giving the assurance that it will not be engaging in any “wholesale” retrenchment or closure of any of its branches. During the January to March review period, total revenue declined 33 per cent to $343 million as asset devaluations dramatically lowered net investment income. Group Chief Operating Officer Ravi Rambarran said while the company honoured its commitment not to restructure during the March – June period of the COVID-19 pandemic, there will be an ongoing…
Prime Minister Gaston Browne has given more details about the 39 new coronavirus cases announced today. In a statement, Browne said he was addressing fears that may have arisen from the information, provided by the Ministry of Health, that 39 new cases of imported COVID-1 He stresses that” none of these cases is a threat to the community at this time, and that, through our identification, tracing and quarantining process, the Ministry of Health is containing and treating affected persons.” The prime minister revealed that the 39 new cases are persons, in which in excess of half are returning nationals…