Despite claims from the Keith Mitchell-led government that there is no shortage of food on the sister isle of Carriacou and Petite Martinique and no need for the involvement of neighbouring St. Vincent & The Grenadines, this seems to be far from the truth. THE NEW TODAY has information that a boat from St. Vincent has just landed in the port of Harvey Vale in Carriacou with food supplies and other goods for the small island that is administered from St. George’s. Two weeks ago, the ruling New National Party (NNP) administration had put out a release that there is no…
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St. Lucia’s Chief Medical Officer Dr Sharon Belmar-George has announced that all of St Lucia’s COVID-19 patients have now recovered, Loop News Barbados reports. “As of April 22, 2020, Saint Lucia has a total of 15 confirmed cases of COVID-19.” To date, all of the positive cases of COVID-19 in Saint Lucia have recovered, with the remaining two cases who were in isolation receiving negative COVID-19 test results and since discharged from hospital. This now places Saint Lucia at a 100 percent recovery of all COVID-19 cases. Among the 15 cases Saint Lucia recorded were individuals who fell within the category of…
Our communities, country and by large the world continue to be affected by the COVID-19pandemic, many families are left without access to their everyday basic essentials. The novel coronavirus, which has caused several to lose their source of income, coupled with the closures of most schools — which countless children rely on for regular meals and the travel restrictions for safety reasons, has left the vulnerable in our society struggling to survive without the risk of endangering their lives as well as those of their loved ones.On the heals of the We Care initiative in North Leeward, House of Ellis…
Press Release Three men who were detained in connection with a police drug bust on Saturday, 18 April 2020 have been formally charged. Rohan Primus, 28, Sailor of Union Island, and Shaun Blake, 28, Mason of Kingstown, (both Vincentians) along with Stephen Francis 27, Farmer of Grand Roy, St John were charged with Possession of a Controlled Drug and Trafficking in a Controlled Drug. Additional charges are expected to be laid against all 3 men. Police investigations are continuing. Office of Commissioner of Police
The Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment. wishes to advise the public that there is no evidence of community transmission relative to COVID-19, in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. On Tuesday, April 21, the Caribbean Public Health Agency CARPHA revealed a new positive COVID-19 case for St. Vincent and the Grenadines, the first since April 9, 2020. Since then, speculation has been rife, about the origin of this latest case. According to the Chief Medical Officer Dr Simone Keizer, ongoing preliminary investigations into the new case point to a possible local transmission, since the individual in question has no…
Washington, DC, April 21, 2020 (PAHO) – The Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Carissa F. Etienne, called to speed up and expand the tests for the new coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) in the countries of the Americas. “We need a clearer vision of where the virus is circulating and how many people have been infected to guide our actions,” he said. In a virtual press conference, Dr. Etienne indicated: “The pandemic continues to affect our region, and it is vital that all countries actively take preventive measures, while preparing for more cases, hospitalizations and deaths.” As of April…
Tuesday, April 21st, 2020 – Kingstown, Saint Vincent & the Grenadines: As Digicel responds to the COVID-19 pandemic, the health and safety of our customers and employees remain our top priority. “We regard the work we do as critical to the entire population of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and are committed to being there with our customers in these challenging times;” said Digicel’s Regional Marketing Manager- Jamisha Wright. Digicel therefore, wishes to advise the general public that our Corporate Office located at Fountain will remain closed until further notice; this closure took effect on Monday, 6th April 2020. Customers,…
In the normal scheme of things in-class instructions should have restarted on Monday 20, April but as concerns about the possible spread of the novel coronavirus continue to grow, schools across St. Vincent and the Grenadines are to remain closed for a further two weeks, the Education Minister advised. Following the promised review of the ongoing schools’ closure which was held on Tuesday, Education Minister Jimmy Prince told Asbert News Network, “we decided today that we’re not going to re-open immediately as we still have to put certain things in place first. And even if we opened, it would be…
T By Nathan Green, April 19, 2020 Recent accusations from the US government is that China knew there was a released virus problem as early as September 2019. They had hoped to control it and hide it, but it is so aggressive it is now attempting to wipe out the World. Even if it does not achieve that, the World will not be the same afterwards. COVID – 19 was very likely a SARS Corona virus manipulated in the Wuhan laboratory where the Chinese military have been experimenting with biological warfare. It really is too much of a coincidence that…
“I spoke with so many different persons asking them, from the highest level of government, the highest level of state administration asking them to drop the case because I knew the facts were not with them, the law was not with them but they don’t want to listen to reason or to law,” Jomo Thomas told Asbert News Network exclusively on the heels of his chambers’ most recent Courtroom victory. Earlier this month Madame Justice Esco Henry ruled against the State and announced “an important decision pertaining to official highhandedness and governmental overreach, in the case Public Service Union and…