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…
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While Vincentians and nations across the world spent Saturday 18th April 2020 following the World Health Organization’s social distancing guidelines, members of Redroots, St. Vincent and the Grenadines roll out phase one of the project “Education through Grocery” in the communities of Green Hill and Diamond. The fifteen unemployed young mothers from the communities of Bequia, Kingstown, Owia, Green Hill, Diamond, and Chateaubelair, who are recipients of food baskets agreed by receiving to be part of project education through grocery. Education through grocery is the initiative of RedRoot SVG which is a non-profit non-governmental organization that is geared in the Empowerment of…
A pharmacist assigned to health centers in the Marriaqua Valley is said to be so cantankerous that clients at the clinics he serves are opting to suffer in pain rather than tangle with him. A Facebook post brought the plight of the Marriaqua constituents’ plight to ANN’s attention . Its author, Aretha Baptiste of Glenside Mesopotamia, was so moved because of a series of untoward run-ins she has had with the Pharmacist. According to her an altercation between the medicinal distributor and social media personality Peaches earlier this month was the catalyst for the latest confrontation between herself and the…
Minister of Transport and Works Senator Julian Francis has emphasized the importance of being organized to fight the corona virus also called COVD-19. Francis who was speaking on Star FM’s “ULP Speaks” programme on Tuesday 14th April said the vast majority of people are in sync with the approach to fight COVID-19 but it was important to keep in touch with the public. Francis revealed that the government has identified quarantine stations; one of which he said is being utilized and the other being prepared. Minister Francis further stated that another should be ready and available by weekend and a…
New Democratic Party weekly column 23/4 /2020 COVID- 19 pandemic has exposed the fragility of the economy of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. It is obvious that the Unity Labour Party (ULP) regime has mismanaged the economy. It has failed to diversify the economy. It has failed to develop the productive sectors. Had the ULP administration placed more emphasis into the agricultural sector; St. Vincent and the Grenadines would have been performing better economically during this crisis. Over the past fifteen years, the economy of St. Vincent and the Grenadines has been hinged mainly around the tourism industry. COVID- 19…
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton has just tweeted that a four-year-old has died from COVID-19 at the Cornwall Regional Hospital in Montego Bay, St James. The health minister did not say in his tweet whether the four-year-old was a boy or girl. The death of the four-year-old brings to total amount of deaths from COVID-19 to seven. The tweet from Dr Tufton reads as follows: “It is with a heavy heart, that we inform the nation of the death of a four-year-old, who was tested positive for COVID-19, and has died at the Cornwall…
St. Vincent and the Grenadines has recorded its fourteenth (14) positive COVID -19 case. Today’s new case is closely associated with the one which was reported on Tuesday, April 21, by the Caribbean Public Health Agency CARPHA, the first since April 9, 2020. Chief Medical Officer, Dr Simone Keizer Beache, says investigations of these cases are continuing and have been productive thus far. However, it is still too early to issue a definitive statement on the source of infections. On Wednesday April 22, results received medically cleared a fourth COVID-19 positive person, meaning that the individual is no longer exhibiting…
(Now Grenada )Two Vincentian nationals and a Grenadian were on Wednesday, 22 April 2020 remanded to prison, after they were charged for violating the Emergency Powers Regulations and other legislation. Rohan Primus of Union Island, who was allegedly involved in a 2018 kidnapping by Venezuelans, and Shaun Blake of Kingston, as well as Grenadian Stephen Francis of Grand Roy, were brought before the Gouyave Magistrates Court on Wednesday on several charges. They were caught with cannabis weighing 379 pounds and cash of almost EC$5,000. The cannabis which was caught and seized during a drug raid reportedly has a street value…
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The US state of Missouri has sued China’s leadership over the coronavirus, prompting an angry rebuke from Beijing Wednesday over the “absurd” claim. Missouri is seeking damages over what it described as deliberate deception and insufficient action to stop the pandemic. The first-of-a-kind state lawsuit comes amid calls in Congress to punish China and a campaign by President Donald Trump to focus on Beijing’s role as he faces criticism over his own handling of the crisis. Missouri — led by Trump’s Republican Party — filed a lawsuit in a federal court seeking an unspecified amount…
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – Two people who died in California in early and mid-February have been confirmed through autopsies as coronavirus cases — weeks before the first reported COVID-19 fatality in the United States. The deaths, on February 6 and February 17, push back the timeline for the entry of the virus on US soil, experts said. Given what we know about how long it takes for the virus to kill people, the disease began to spread in the US sometime between early and mid-January. And the fact that it took astute health officials to carry out post mortem…