PORT OF SPAIN- Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley says the borders of the twin island republic will remain closed as long as health requirements related to COVID-19 remain in place. Speaking during a media conference in Tobago on Saturday, the Prime Minister said while some Caribbean countries have started to reopen their borders, his administration is determined to take a cautious approach. “We want to keep our borders where it is because the pandemic is raging. The closure of the borders is not meant to penalise anybody, it’s not meant to lock us in here and make us prisoners. It’s…
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Hi Crystal Clear, I’m currently in a two year relationship. At first everything was amazing, the sex was great and still is, he provides me with financial and emotional support, we are best friends and lovers. However, for the past six months I have been having this gut feeling that my partner was not being faithful, so I finally decided to act on it and searched his phone one night whilst he was asleep, I was not prepared for what I read, it was so disturbing. There were nudes that other women have been sending to him, he also sent…
Black Sands Swim Squad (BSSS) swimmers have spent the last 6 weeks resetting some of St. Vincent’s national swimming records. With the support of the SVG Swimming Federation, BSSS hosted time trials event for 6 consecutive weekends from 9th May – 13th June. Complying with the recommended social distancing and event holding guidelines in relation to Covid-19, 34 swimmers participated in the time trials which resulted in a total of 14 national records being broken. Jamie Joachim, the youngest of the Joachim swimming family, broke a total of 5 national records in the Girls’ 11-12 age group as follows: 100m…
Barcelona slipped up with a 0-0 draw at Sevilla to hand Real Madrid a huge LaLiga title boost, as Lionel Messi was kept waiting for his 700th career goal. Messi had scored 37 in his 38 previous outings against Sevilla, more than against any other team, but a series of threatening free-kicks were repelled by the home side this time. Antoine Griezmann was surprisingly left out of Barcelona’s starting line-up for the clash with third-placed opposition, as Martin Braithwaite was preferred, and the visitors lacked penetration. The draw leaves them still top of the table, but Real Madrid, with a…
By Unity Labour Party Introduction During the debate in the House of Assembly, on the 2020 Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure, the Minister of Finance, Hon. Camillo Gonsalves unveiled a very innovative initiative, “PRYME,” (Promoting Youth Micro Enterprise), intended to foster the entrepreneurial spirit of our youths. While members of the opposition NDP in their presentations spoke positively of PRYME, when the time came to vote on the Bill, there was a loud “NAY!” from the Leader of the Opposition, Dr. The Hon. Godwin Friday, trumpeting their rejection of the Bill. Indeed, not a single member of the Opposition present,…
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP)— Brazil passed the bleak milestone of one million coronavirus cases Friday, reporting a new one-day record number of infections as the pandemic continues to surge in Latin America’s largest country. The health ministry said it had recorded 54,771 new infections, a jump it said was largely due to “instability” in its reporting system during the week, which meant some states were reporting figures from multiple days at once. That brought the total number of infections in Brazil to 1,032,913, with 48,954 deaths – second only to the United States worldwide. Experts say under-testing means the…
The calculated murder of Black people in the United States have captured the attention of the entire world. People are shocked into a reality that black people are forced to live every day. They saw Ahmaud Arbery running down a street and shot to death by two white men; they saw George Floyd strangled to death by a white police officer, even as he beseeched him to remove his knee from his neck, with the plaintive plea ‘I can’t breathe’; and they saw pictures of two black men hanging by the neck from trees in Texas in the year 2020.…
Stealing $225 from a co-worker has triggered a criminal record for 20-year-old Neeka Jack of Campden Park, and the possibility of him losing his job. Appearing at the Serious Offences Court on Wednesday, Jack pleaded guilty to stealing $225 from Jarron Fox of Largo Height. The facts, as presented by Court Clerk Corporal Atnel Ash revealed that both men were employed at the Packaging Department of the St. Vincent Brewery at Campden Park. On June 12, Fox received his pay package of $240 from the Company. He took out $15, and put the remaining $225 in a bag which he…
Caribbean Online Weather 7:00 pm – Jun 19, 2020 Three significant areas of strong thunderstorms presently building about 120 miles east of #Martinique and about 150 miles east of #Barbados with this update Scattered moderate convection is also noted mainly over and or around Barbados and east of the entire #WindwardIslands moving westward
Caribbean Online Weather-11:00 am – Jun 19, 2020 The axis of a #tropicalwave is presently from over the Virgin Islands southward to over the Caribbean Sea and Venezuela. Two more tropical waves are over the Atlantic Ocean, one from just east of the #LesserAntilles and the other about 900 miles west of the African mainland moving westward. Conditions associated with the wave just east of the Lesser Antilles are already affecting areas within the CAI with scattered clouds and showers in some areas and an increase in conditions can be expected over and or around some islands this afternoon through…