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Another 15 persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus in the last 24 hours.

This now takes active cases in Guyana to 386 including two patients in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and the remaining persons in either home (371) or institutional (13) isolation.

Four more other persons are also in institutional quarantine.

Guyana’s COVID-19 death toll remains at 1278 while some 69,152 persons have since recovered from the life-threatening virus in the country.

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The U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) will deploy to the U.S. Southern Command area of operations this fall as part of U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S. 4th Fleet’s Continuing Promise 2022 mission.

Detailed planning is currently underway for the Comfort to visit Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, and Honduras.

During these mission stops, Continuing Promise medical teams will focus on working alongside partner nation medical personnel to provide care on board and at land-based medical sites to increase medical readiness, strengthen partnerships, and enhance the combined capabilities of the U.S. Navy and partner nations to respond to public health disasters and humanitarian crises.

“No mission better demonstrates our enduring commitment to the region as we work collaboratively with likeminded nations to ensure a secure, free, and prosperous hemisphere,” said Rear Adm. Jim Aiken, commander of U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S. 4th Fleet.

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“Today, more than ever, our fates are inextricably linked in the Western Hemisphere. Continuing Promise provides valuable training for U.S. and partner nation personnel to learn from each other and to work side by side to improve the medical readiness of our neighborhood while also collectively being prepared to meet regional challenges.”

The Continuing Promise 2022 main planning conference (MPC) took place in Jacksonville, Fla. July 6-7, and included over 100 participants from across the U.S. armed forces, Department of State, non-governmental organizations, and partner nation military members.

The conference allowed participants to discuss details of the mission including medical planning, training, logistics, and security for the ship and personnel while in host nation ports.

Capt. Bryan Carmichael, commodore of Amphibious Squadron (PHIBRON) 4 will serve as mission commander for Continuing Promise 2022.

“I look forward to getting out there on Comfort and doing great things for America and our partners in the U.S. Southern Command area of responsibility,” said Carmichael. “The mission helps show those who live in this part of the world they can turn to the United States for help whenever needed. Medical services is a big part of this mission but we are also building relationships with these countries and their people that will have lasting impacts.”

The Continuing Promise mission will include providing direct medical care and expeditionary veterinary care, conducting training and subject matter expert exchanges on various medical and humanitarian assistance/disaster relief topics, and leading seminars on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS).

WPS is a United Nations initiative that started with UNSCR 1325 signed in 2000. It was a public acknowledgement that women are more adversely impacted by conflict and crisis, and that including women in security planning will lead to a more peaceful world. The Department of Defense (DoD) signed the WPS Implementation Plan in 2020. It outlines defense objectives and goals that the DoD will strive to achieve in order to move the bar toward full WPS implementation. USSOUTHCOM and USNAVSO/4th Fleet are dedicated to WPS and the promotion of gendered perspectives.

Continuing Promise 2022 marks the twelfth mission to the region since 2007 and the seventh mission involving USNS Comfort. The mission will also foster goodwill, strengthen existing partnerships with partner nations, and encourage the establishment of new partnerships among countries, non-government organizations, and international organizations.

“We are incredibly excited by the opportunities presented by Continuing Promise 22,” said Capt. Bradford Smith, USNAVSO/U.S. 4th Fleet Surgeon. “In addition to providing world class care to those in need, we are looking forward to strengthening relationships with our partner nations through subject matter expert exchanges as well as humanitarian relief and disaster exercises to build capacity and resilience during times of crisis.”

A U.S. Navy hospital ship has the capacity to provide afloat, mobile, acute surgical medical facilities to the U.S. military and partners.

The medical and dental capabilities provided during this deployment will assist communities with a wide range of health services including general adult care, pediatric care, dental treatment, and optometry.

Additionally, limited surgical procedures will be offered in coordination with partner personnel.

The final planning conference will take place in September, which will finalize details of the mission. Additional details on the upcoming deployment will be released at a later date.

U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S. 4th Fleet supports U.S. Southern Command’s joint and combined military operations by employing maritime forces in cooperative maritime security operations to maintain access, enhance interoperability, and build enduring partnerships in order to enhance regional security and promote peace, stability and prosperity in the Caribbean, Central and South American region.

SOURCE: U.S Southern Command

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Heavy rains, with the potential to cause flash flooding, is in the forecast from the US National Hurricane Centre (NHC) for south Texas and north-eastern Mexico as Potential Tropical Depression Four nears land.

The disturbance is located about 200 miles (325 km) south-southeast from land.

On the forecast track, the disturbance is expected to reach the coast of north-eastern Mexico late this afternoon and then move across the Rio Grande Valley tonight and Sunday.

A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for:

The Gulf coast of Mexico from Boca de Catan northward to the Mouth of the Rio Grande. The Lower Texas coast from Port Mansfield southward to the Mouth of the Rio Grande.

The disturbance has maximum sustained winds that are near 35 mph (55 km/h).

NHC said there is a chance for the disturbance to strengthen slightly and become a tropical storm later today.

If that does occur, the storm will be named Danielle.

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PARAMARIBO — Donovan Wisse blijft kickboks wereldkampioen. In zijn eerste titelverdediging sinds hij op 4 september 2021 tijdens Glory 78

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Young people across the country, and especially those in region 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice), who attended the National Youth Culture Camp during the August holiday inthe region, have been reminded of the many opportunities being made available to themfor their own development and advancement.

The reminder came from Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill, who delivered the featured address at the closing ceremony of the three (3) weeks camp held in each region of the county.

Minister Edghill told the youths that the government is providing opportunities forthem so that they can be the very best that they can be.

“The government has put aside money for young people, that people whohave creativity they could get a grant for culture and innovation to developthemselves to the highest level… This camp was designed to help you to discover for yourself and to help some of your guardians and your superiors discover talents.”

He went onto say, “Diamonds that people wear on their hands or as broaches, they are very expensive and very valuable, nicely polished and shining, but you don’t find them looking like that in the backdam, you have to have an idea to know that is a good piece of diamond, as it is in the rock. Then you take that diamond and you polish it and cut it, Queens and Kings, billionaires and noblemen use those diamonds, but when they were first discovered, they look like a piece of dirt, they look like nothing.

“Today, me addressing you, do you know how I see you, as diamonds in the rough, and once properly polished, once properly processed, you will be valuable, you will end up before Kings and Queens and Governments, the sky is the limit,” the Minister added.

Minister Edghill also noted his happiness at the fact that one’s circumstances no longerdetermined one’s value.

“How the world has it, only a special group of people or kinds of people could reach certain heights, I am happy today that in Guyana that no longer prevails, provision and opportunity have been created for young people despite where they live, what is their family name, if they come from two-parent family or single parent family, don’t matter what is their religion, or their colour, once they can do it, the road to success is laid out for you by the government.”

During the three weeks of the camp, participants were instructed in the subject area ofSocial Studies, learning about Guyana’s rich cultural history. They also learned differentart forms including, painting, sketching, dance, and drumming.

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