(Loop News Caribbean) – Just one week after a third of French schoolchildren went back to school in an easing of the coronavirus lockdown, there’s been a worrying flareup of about 70 COVID-19 cases linked to schools. Some schools were opened last week and a further 150,000 junior high students went back to the classroom Monday as further restrictions were loosened by the government. The move initially spelled relief: the end of homeschooling for many hundreds of thousands of exhausted French parents, many whom were also working from home. But French Education minister Jean-Michel Blanquer sounded the alarm Monday, telling…
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Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has announced that Dominica is now free of any active COVID-19 cases. He said in an address to the nation on Sunday evening that the last remaining active case of the novel coronavirus in the country has tested negative, DominicaNewsOnline reports. The number of confirmed cases remains at 16 where it has been for the past several weeks. However, PM Skerrit reminded Dominicans as did the Chief Medical Officer a few days before, that the battle against COVID-19 is far from over as additional threats lie on the horizon. “But we are determined to push on…
Crew members of the Royal Caribbean Cruise will be repatriating sailors to their various homes in the Caribbean, including this country – St. Vincent and the Grenadines. According to reliable information, The “Vision of The Seas” ship will be first docking in Basseterre St. Kitts on 19th May, Roseau Dominica on 20th May, Bridgetown Barbados 21st May from 12pm to 4pm, St. George’s Grenada on 22nd May and Castries St. Lucia May 25th. Some 400 sailors from St. Vincent and the Grenadines will be in the waters from May 26th – 28th and will dock at port Kingstown on Friday…
Basseterre- St Kitts/Nevis: A confident Prime Minister Dr Timothy Harris has announced that the people of St Kitts and Nevis will head to the polls on Friday, June 5 to choose a Government to lead the Federation for the next five years. In a televised address to the nation today Prime Minister Harris further revealed that the date for the nomination of candidates is Wednesday, May 27. “His Excellency has further advised that Writs of Election will be issued for the election of members to serve in the National Assembly. The date for nomination of candidates will be Wednesday and…
(Jamaica Observer ) THOUGH restricted in movement by the COVID-19 pandemic, Cuba-based Jamaican medical student Oraine Darren Lynch is biding his time, as he prepares for a final-round push towards a mission that will decide his future. On the verge of completing six years of a seven-year programme that would see him acquiring his bachelor’s degree in medicine and surgery, Lynch is already looking forward to working at the Spanish Town Hospital in the St Catherine parish capital, a place he has been using to familiarise himself with medical procedures over the last two summers, so that when he returns…
Martin ‘Jah son’ James, who was acquitted on charges of murder, attempted murder and wounding with intent almost two years ago, says he is fed up being the “biggest target on the streets,” and signaled that the problem is much larger than him. James, who gave his age as 50, hurled a barrage of telling remarks across the Court room on Monday, while awaiting the commencement of the Serious Offences Court where he was to answer a charge of possession of 1,145 grams of marijuana with intent to supply, stemming from a police raid at his Villa home on May 8.…
The St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) Embassy in Taiwan, on Friday, received a donation from Taiwan on behalf of the government and people of SVG. Taiwan donated two PCR machines/auto nuclei analysers valued at US$30,000 each; surgical masks; N95 masks; protective overalls; isolation gowns; infrared thermometers; auto temperature measurement stations and hydroquine tablets. The items were handed over by Ambassador Alexander Yui, Taiwan’s director general of Latin America and the Caribbean in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “Taiwan has been a distinct global leader in combatting the death toll, illness and devastating disruption caused by COVID-19,” Andrea Bowman, SVG’s…
St. Vincent and the Grenadines is a special place; a special place especially for young entrepreneurs like myself. Most of us have travelled and had the opportunity to witness how more developed economies and their systems are operating. As such, when we return to our home country, we try our best to model our it to at least an acceptable and first world way of doing business. Unfortunately, by the time we invest our hard-earned monies into a venture, especially one that’s new to Vincentians, a lot of their first sentiments are, “that venture would NEVER work in St. Vincent.”…
Mostly fair conditions will be experienced during the next 48 hours. On occasion, skies will get cloudy and a few shallow showers are likely over some portion of the country. A tropical wave will approach the islands around Tuesday, to affect Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Tuesday night into Wednesday. Model guidance is indicating a fair amount of moisture associated with this wave, therefore some moderate to heavy showers are forecast around Wednesday across SVG. In addition, haze intrusion across the islands is forecast to thin out around Tuesday. Breezy conditions will be experienced across the island chain during the…
Five years ago I met this wonderful lady, Sharon Pembreton. I hosted an event around that time to raise funds to aid my good friend who was the ULP candidate to which our dearly departed attended. And as she had a passion for cooking and baking, she contributed significantly to the event in those capacity. Our friendship eventually grew significantly and Sharon and I grew very close,. She would often talk about her children whom she loved dearly. She had a heart I can described as bigger than life itself. She was always there when I needed someone to talk…