In this season of Lent, let us all reflect on our shortcomings, infractions, misbehaviours and sins. Now is a good time to confess and repent. Jesus told the woman caught in adultery to go and sin no more. Sodom and Gomorra refused to repent and perished. Lot and his family had to flee for their lives. Mrs. Lot could not focus on looking ahead and did not escape as a result. Nineveh repented and the whole city was saved. Now back to the main story as recorded in the court records of St. John 8:1-11. Apparently, the man escaped, and…
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(PRESS RELEASE) — On Saturday, March 14, 2020, Saint Lucia recorded its second case of COVID-19. The patient is a fifty-three (53)-year-old male with an active travel history with France being his last port of departure. The patient arrived in Saint Lucia on Wednesday, March 11, 2020 in the company of colleagues.
On March 14th, 2020, the Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment was informed by the Argyle Airport Authority Administration that a passenger, who had a recent history of contact with a COVID-19 positive case, had arrived in St. Vincent and the Grenadines aboard LI771 en route to Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. As per International Health Regulations requirements, the passenger has been quarantined and will remain in quarantine for the next seven (7) days. While the passenger has not shown any signs or symptoms of COVID-19, a clinical sample has been taken for analysis. Contact tracing for all…
In an effort to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 and reduce the potential for transmission, the Department of Education, Innovation and Gender Relations, on the advice of the Ministry of Health, wishes to inform that ALL educational institutions on island will be closed from Monday, 16th March 2020 until 13th April 2020. This coincides with the Easter break. ALL school activities will also be suspended. Any further changes will be communicated as information
Trinidad Express – Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh has announced that from tomorrow, visiting hours at the country’s hospitals will be limited. At a news conference Saturday afternoon, the minister said that the existing situation of two visiting hours will be changed to just one visiting hour sesssion between the hours of 4 pm and 6 pm. The morning visiting hours have been suspended. The minister said that just one visitor will be allowed per patient. He added that exceptions can be made at the discretion of the health professionals on shift at the time. For paedeatric patients, just to parents…
We’ve been urged for so many years by our Caribbean reggae artistes to move away from the postcolonial mentality which we’ve embraced for decades. A mentality that has crippled us from reaching our fullest potential. We tend to look at ourselves as being incapable of broadening our horizons when compared to some of the world’s greatest countries. All of us can testify that we are not satisfied with our level of thinking and as a society we must do better. It is therefore incumbent on us, to work together as a nation, regardless of our political differences to achieve modern…
Employees at the Argyle International Airport have sounded an alarm about a suspected COVID-19 case being quarantined there. On Saturday afternoon, reports reaching Asbert News Network were that a person– was en route to Trinidad and Tobago and caused a LIAT flight to be grounded here after he presented COVID-19 like symptoms. ANN’s efforts to verify the information through Health Ministry officials are yet to bear fruit though a breaking news bulletin from the Searchlight Newspaper announced, “a team from the Ministry of Health has been dispatched to the Argyle International Airport (AIA) in a response to a COVID-19 situation…
While all available literature point to the importance of proper hand, cough and sneeze hygiene practices as being the first and very important line of attack against becoming infected with the COVID-19 disease, local medical and dietary experts agree: much of the foods grown locally can play a major part in your ultimate defense against the invading virus by helping to strengthen your body’s ability to resist it. Asbert News Network reached out to Nicole France, senior nutritionist at the local Health Ministry, to get a better appreciation for the role such foods can play. “Persons should use foods that…
The Beachcombers conference room was home to “the cream of” the St. Lucian export-ready crop of small and medium sized businesses last Monday evening. Some 13 St. Lucian enterprises were represented here on a two-day trade promotion mission. The objective was to expose their sundry products and services to potential wholesalers/brokers here. This came as the first in a series of reciprocal, relationship benefits between the local investment promotions agency Invest SVG and its St. Lucian counterpart, Export St. Lucia. This foray of trade promoters undoubtedly forms part of the recently launched St. Lucian five-year National Export Strategy that is…
The Honorable Prime Minister; Dr. Ralph E. Gonsalves, in his address at the National Heroes Day ceremony in Dorsetshire Hill stated the following with respect to #COVID-19: 1. 20-25 additional Vincentian nurses will be hired to assist with active surveillance and management of #COVID-19. 2. The Republic of Cuba will support Saint Vincent and the Grenadines’ active surveillance and management of #COVID-19 by sending 3 medical doctors and 12 nurses specializing in the management of infectious diseases. 3. The Republic of Cuba will provide 50 dosages of the drug Interferon. Interferons are a family of naturally-occurring proteins that are made…