The St. Vincent and the Grenadines Coast Guard Service (SVGCG) has been the beneficiary of two (2) donations recently. On Tuesday, March 31, 2020, the SVG Coast received a donation in the form of a tractor from the United States Embassy in Bridgetown, Barbados. According to Commander of the Coast Guard, Mr. Brenton Cain “The tractor will be used to aid in deploying and recovering vessels at the Coast Guard Base – mainly for service maintenance and vessel rotation.” Then on Monday, April 27, 2020, Mr. Neil Collinger, Captain of Sailing yacht (S.Y.) “NEMO and crew member, Ms. Samantha Barrow,…
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The Atlantic High Pressure System is dominant across the islands. On its south-western edge, a weak trough could result in increased low level-moisture across St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) with occasional cloudy skies and scattered showers by Tuesday afternoon into Wednesday morning. Trailing the trough, a few showers are possible Wednesday night into Thursday. Moderate to occasionally fresh (20 – 35 km/h) east north-easterly trade-winds could become gentle at times. A turn to east south-east is expected during Wednesday, as the trough crosses the islands. Slight to moderate (1.2 – 2.0 m) sea conditions are across…
Summary: On 11 March 2020, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak of a novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19 as a pandemic. As of April 22, there are 9098 cases in 33 countries/territories (including 24 CARPHA Member States), in the Caribbean Region. The risk of further importation of cases to the rest of the Caribbean remains Very High. (1) There is widespread debate on the need for community members to wear masks as a means of personal protection against COVID-19 infection. Many countries and leaders globally and in the Caribbean are adopting the widespread use of nonmedical masks…
Vincentian students currently taking advantage of scholarship opportunities de la Republica de Cuba are careful to note their gratitude even while voicing personal safety concerns as COVID-19 continues to spread through that Caribbean nation. Beleaguered by transnational political malevolence and its ensuing socio-economic hardships, the Cuban government has been faced with more than its fair share of woes since the Kennedy administration ran the U.S White House. Today, effects from recently tightened sanctions imposed by that singular global power broker are negatively impacting future Vincentian doctors’ learning experience in-country. They live with the constant threat of exposure to the dreaded…
Two men are dead and another hospitalized after a Sunday morning shootout subsided in a quiet Campden Park neighborhood. Police Sergeant 209 Philbert Chambers succumbed on the scene and was later said to have suffered a gunshot wound to his head. Gleason Lewis died while violently resisting arrest. A second officer, Police Constable 700 Verrol Sam, was also wounded in the gunfight but was rushed to the hospital. Asbert News Network understands that Lewis was a person of interest to the Questelles Police Station for some time. Sources say he returned to SVG “about a month ago” and has been…
St. Vincent and the Grenadines has recorded its fifteenth (15) positive COVID -19 case. This new case, is closely associated with numbers #13 and #14 reported on Tuesday, April 21 and Thursday 23, by the Caribbean Public Health Agency – CARPHA. Chief Medical Officer Dr Simone Keizer Beache, says investigations have determined that the last three reported cases of COVID-19 in St. Vincent and the Grenadines form part of a cluster, due to import related local spread. There are now eight (8) persons who have recovered from COVID-19, having each received the two negative COVID-19 tests required to be medically…
Prof. Wendy Grenade, Chair, Department of Government, Sociology, Social Work and Psychology at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus in Barbados, wrote a column on the COVID-19. Every politician in our region, especially our Prime Ministers, should read it, study then draw the relevant lessons. Prof. Grenade argued persuasively that ‘The dilemma in the quest to save lives may jeopardize livelihoods. Yet the imperative to preserve livelihoods may cost human lives. While economies can rebound, lost lives cannot.’ She noted the ominous warning from the Director of Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) that ‘COVID-19 has yet to…
Attorney Grant Connell, representing three nationals of Trinidad and Tobago, charged with entering the state illegally, told the Court on Wednesday, he could not understand how the men could be under quarantine, and be at a Police Station at the same time. Benjamin Lewis, Nareem Julien and Kenwyn Lambert are charged with entering the state by boat at Canouan on April 19, 2020, without passports.They are also charged with entering the state by boat on April 19, 2020, and disembarking at a place other than at a port of entry. When the men were called at the Kingstown Magistrate’s Court on…
Vincentian – Rodney ‘Chang’ Jack was named among a Caribbean Best XI, selected by Sports Max’s Editorial Team. Jack, who represented St Vincent and the Grenadines at the senior level from 1992 to 2004, was known for his lightning speed, that left many defenders having to chase his shadow.Bursting on to the regional scene in 1992 when still a student at the Bethel High School, Jack ripped through the Barbados defence to score all three goals for his country in a 3-2 in the Shell Caribbean Cup.Barbadian commentators referred to him, in the aftermath, as ‘Jack the Ripper’.On that performance, Jack…
By David Gumbs, James Fletcher & Justin Locke The global economy is on lockdown and the predictions are staggering. And, there is one regional economy where the long-term realities of the coronavirus are already clear: The Caribbean. Over the past three decades, nearly every economy in the region transformed to depend on tourism, and today the Caribbean economy is primarily reliant on this single sector. The region is also subject to repeated crises, with 10 Category 5 hurricanes hitting the region in the last 15 years, and five of those occurring in the last three years. The coronavirus has caused…