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Health and Wellness Minister, Dr Christopher Tufton, has disclosed that he will be heading to the United States next week, where several Memorandum of Understandings (MOU) are to be signed for local hospitals.
But, amid criticisms over the move by the Government to import nurses from the diaspora, Tufton has defended the decision, declaring that it will bring relief to patients waiting for extended periods for surgeries.
“I know there is a little backlash about whether or not we should be bringing in nurses into country, as opposed to fixing operating theatres, (and) whether we should be giving private sector work, as opposed to fixing and paying public sector nurses more, or doctors, where the cases may be,” he said.
“My view is that we have to find the optimal arrangement, given our objective of bringing relief to
Tufton was speaking at a ceremony where the Health and Wellness Ministry signed contracts with private hospitals at the Western Regional Health Authority’s office in St James, to facilitate elective surgeries in the public health system.
The surgeries will cost the Government some $70 million this year. The project is in the pilot phase, and persons selected will be among those waiting the longest for surgeries in the western health region. Based on the programme’s success, other health regions could benefit.
The minister outlined the other plans to further bring down the backlog of elective surgeries locally.
“Next week, I am off to the US, where we will be signing a few MOUs with a few hospitals, health systems, starting in Florida, then to New York (in the) Hartford area, which will see the other phase of the strategy materialising, where we will see some operating theatre nurses coming in to the public space,” said Tufton.
“One of the conversations we may need to have is whether or not they could come into private space also, but that’s another conversation that may have to take place,” he added.
Tufton reiterated that the healthcare professionals are experienced, and will work for short periods in the public health system locally.
“They are experienced, trained people, where they will be allowed some time to come in for a four or five days to work on a particular set of cases, and then go back to their substantive positions,” he indicated.
The recruitment of the healthcare professionals from overseas is being facilitated under the ministry’s CODE CARE programme, which is a project to improve the wait times for elective surgeries such as cataracts, oral and sinus cancers.
The announcement of the CODE CARE programme was first made by Tufton as he made his contribution to the 2022-2023 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives in May.
“Our special intervention this year, CODE CARE, will seek to do an additional 1,000 surgeries over the next 10 months to clear up most, if not all, backlogs,” the minister stated then.
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a major backlog of elective surgeries locally.
Also part of the strategy will be the provision of approximately $300 million to repair and, where necessary, maintain the island’s operating theatres “to operate more efficiently and longer hours to drive”.
This is in addition to partnering with private sector health facilities to provide surgery and recovery spaces to augment the existing public facilities.
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A tropical wave located several hundred miles east of the Windward Islands is producing an area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms.
Some gradual development of this system is possible during the next several days while the system approaches the Windward Islands toward the end of the week and moves over the eastern Caribbean sea over the weekend.
* Formation chance through 48 hours…low…near 0 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days…low…20 percent.
Forecaster Roberts
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STATEMENT FROM THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) ON DEVELOPMENTS IN HAITI
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is gravely concerned by the continuing deterioration of the security situation and the social circumstances in the Republic of Haiti.
The continued breakdown in law and order, and its distressing effect on the people of Haiti, is intensifying. The fraught situation is exacerbated by the inability of the Haitian security forces to address the ongoing violence.
The unrest is having a negative impact on the already weak economy leading to even more mass demonstrations. Especially the worsening social conditions and the limited availability of food require urgent and immediate attention from the international community.
This persistently distressing situation is untenable, and CARICOM calls for all stakeholders to engage meaningfully with the aim to find a way forward and to put country first and address the situation urgently.
CARICOM, following discussions in the past weeks, remains available to assist and work with international partners to mobilize financial and technical resources to facilitate a process towards normalization and ultimately the holding of free, fair and credible general elections.
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Armani Adams’ passion for science has secured him a spot in the annual Breakthrough Junior Challenge competition.
The Queen’s Royal College student, 17, from D’Abadie, is one of 30 semifinalists from thousands of applicants worldwide in the US-based contest for students between 13 and 18.
The form six student represents the TT/ South American region.
The NGO Breakthrough Prize Foundation, founded by technology investor and science philanthropist Yuri Milner, organised the event in keeping with its pledge to support science and the communication of scientific ideas.
Along with Milner, other board members include Mark Zuckerberg, Anne Wojcicki, and chairman Huda Yahya Zoghbi.
Adams recalled that a friend told him about the competition. He submitted an original video centred on the concept of light, identifying the different types and sharing their importance.
He told Newsday, “It’s an opportunity to be creative and share new and meaningful ideas. I believe that science is meaningful. We must engage in science education given how the world is advancing.”
Each student/applicant submitted a video explaining a challenging and important concept or theory in mathematics, life sciences, or physics.
Adams’s video focuses on photons and the electromagnetic spectrum, which is used in everyday activities like texting and heating food (microwaves).
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He said there are different types of light waves, such as radio, infrared, visible, ultraviolet, x-ray and gamma-ray.
Most people do not know what light is, he said.
Adams encourages viewers to look at atoms as a ladder. He said under the right condition, an electron can absorb kinetic energy making it jump to a higher energy level.
He added that when an electron releases energy, it falls to a lower energy level.
“The tiny bits of kinetic energy that electrons absorb or release of what is called a photon,” he explains in the video.
“They aren’t made of any matter, and with zero mass, they travel through space as electric fields and magnetic fields, creating an electromagnetic wave that moves so fast that no object in the universe can beat its speed record.”
The more energy the photons have, the shorter the length of their waves, creating a whole family of different light waves called the electromagnetic spectrum.
Adams said it ranges from radio waves being the size of buildings or even planets to gamma rays being smaller than atoms.
The Breakthrough Junior Challenge was founded in 2015 to “inspire creative thinking about science.”
The winner receives a college scholarship worth US$250,000.
The winner’s teacher, as nominated by the student, gets US$50,000, and the school receives a state-of-the-art science lab worth US$100,000.
Adams’s video, uploaded on YouTube and Facebook, has made it to the Popular Vote challenge.
He encourages the public to like it now to make it go straight to the final round before the September 20 deadline.
The video can be found on the links https://fb.watch/fDl2wAx3DV/ and https://youtu.be/u66d-DVg8jQ.
Besides science, Adams said he is passionate about filmmaking and graphic design.
Ra’Nasia Sangster, associate account executive of the PR firm Rubenstein, said Adams is the first from TT to be a semifinalist in the competition. Sangster is working with the organisers to promote the competition.
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Two Morvant men were gunned down while on their way to pick avocadoes near their home on Monday morning.
Police said Keston Baldwin, 35 and Rahim Greaves, were walking on Valley Road, Romain Lands, Morvant, at around 10.30 am when a silver Toyota Axio drove up.
Four men dressed in Muslim women’s clothes got out of the car and shot Baldwin and Greaves.
The gunmen got back in the car and drove off.
Nearby residents heard the gunshots and found both men bleeding. One man took Greaves to the Port of Spain General Hospital, where he was declared dead.
Morvant police visited the area with a district medical officer who declared Baldwin dead at the scene.
Newsday visited and tried to speak with a relative of the men but was unsuccessful.
Investigators said Baldwin had also been shot in June.
Police suspect the murders may be related to a gang war between criminals in Romain Lands and St Francois Valley Road.
The Homicide Bureau Region II is investigating.
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Commander for Regional Police Division Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni) Senior Superintendent Dion Moore has confirmed that the bodies of the two persons who were missing in an Essequibo River boat mishap have been found.
The bodies are at the Bartica Hospital’s mortuary awaiting postmortems which are scheduled for tomorrow.
The mishap occurred sometime between 18:45h and 19:00h on Saturday in the vicinity of Calf Island, Essequibo River.
The vessel was captained by 34-year-old Jermin Blackman of Two Miles Potaro Road, Bartica, Region Seven. His bowman was 18-year-old Lamuel Allen of Four Miles, Bartica.
In addition to the two boat operators, there were 10 passengers in the vessel at the time of the incident including popular entertainer, Darrel Romeo called ‘Magnum’.
Blackman told investigators that they left Parika Stelling en-route to Bartica and during the journey, the vessel while navigating around a damaged Beacon which is about 100 feet east of Calf Island in the Essequibo River, collided with the beacon.
This resulted in the boat being punctured and beginning to sink. The captain said he attempted to sail to shore but the vessel sunk before reaching shore.
As a result, the passengers began swimming to the shore for safety. Information was circulated and public-spirited persons from Bartica went to the location and assisted in rescuing the survivors.
Upon checking, however, it was discovered that two persons were unaccounted for.
Police say it is unclear at this stage whether all the passengers were wearing life jackets at the time of the incident.
Nevertheless, the survivors were taken to Bartica Regional Hospital to seek medical attention and are being assessed.
Both the Captain and Bowman are in custody assisting with investigations.
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Heavy weekend rain triggered land slippages in some areas of Saint Lucia, prompting an assessment of the situation by the Department of Infrastructure, Ports, and Transport and a warning to motorists.
On Monday, the Department reported land slippages on the Bocage – Cacao Girard and the Fond Canie – Guesneau roads.
The Department disclosed that due to the development, sections of the road in the affected areas may be reduced to single-lane traffic.
It urged motorists to exercise ‘extreme caution’ when traversing the affected areas and pay heed to associated signage.
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La compañía de manejo y disposición de desperdicios sólidos, EC Waste, anunció que ante el paso del huracán Fiona, las rutas que se encuentran en el Plan de Contingencia se encuentran operando de manera regular.
De igual forma, se informó que en la medida que el clima lo permita, las estaciones de transbordo de San Juan y Caguas, como los Sistema de Relleno Sanitario El Coquí Landfill en Humacao, Ponce Landfill y Salinas Landfill estarán operando de forma normal.
“Ciertamente la seguridad de todos nuestros empleados es prioridad. Reconocemos la importancia que tiene el servicio que ofrecemos a gran parte de la Isla y la relevancia que toma en momentos de emergencia como el que atravesamos en estos momentos”, explicó el director de Salud, Seguridad y Cumplimiento Ambiental de la empresa, Jorge Alexis Meléndez.
Meléndez añadió que “nuestra empresa cuenta con un Plan de Contingencia completo que contempla precisamente diversos escenarios y nos permite operar de manera regular”. La empresa recalcó que continuarán en la calle ofreciendo los servicios en la medida en que las condiciones del tiempo lo permitan, y velando siempre por la seguridad de los empleados. En tanto, la expectativa es que las operaciones se reanuden de manera regular el día de mañana.
“A nuestros empleados que día a día salen a asegurar que se brinde el servicio, extendemos el más sincero agradecimiento por su compromiso. De igual forma, a todos los empleados que se encuentran fuera por razones ajenas a su voluntad, les reiteramos nuestro apoyo”, concluyó Meléndez.
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Las carreteras PR 681, PR- 666 y la PR -2 así como la Carretera PR-2 intersección con la PR- 666 en Barceloneta se encuentran cerradas debido a inundaciones. Además, el Río Grande de Manatí se encuentra fuera de su cauce lo que podría provocar otras situaciones, informó la alcaldesa de Barceloneta, Wanda Soler Rosario.
“Tenemos varias carreteras estatales cerradas debido a las inundaciones provocadas por el Río Grande de Manatí. Nuestras brigadas están en la calle trabajando y visitando las comunidades para identificar otras situaciones”, informó Soler, quien solicitó a las personas mantenerse en sus hogares y de necesitar transitar por las carreteras mencionadas, identificar vías alternas.
Entre las comunidades más afectadas en Barceloneta se encuentran la Angostura, La Boca y la Playa, todas ubicadas cerca de la desembocadura del Río Grande de Manatí. Allí desalojaron a una familia compuesta por tres adultos y dos menores de edad. “Estas comunidades se afectaron debido a las inundaciones reportadas. Hasta el momento carezco del estimado en daños en el área”, mencionó Soler.
Al momento, carecen de refugiados registrados sin embargo Soler Rosario resaltó que están listos para atender cualquier persona que desee moverse hasta el refugio. “Nuestro refugio está listo para recibir a cualquier persona que lo necesite. De igual forma, coordinamos, de ser necesario la transportación para movilizarlos hasta el lugar”.
La alcaldesa resaltó que todavía el pueblo carece de servicio de energía eléctrica y de agua potable. Informó se encuentra en comunicación con los representantes de Luma Energy así como de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados para intercambiar información relacionada con el restablecimiento de ambos servicios. Recordó que para notificar cualquier emergencia deben comunicarse a la Oficina de Municipal de Manejo de Emergencias de Barceloneta al 787-943-3507, a la Policía Municipal de Barceloneta al 787-846-2915, 787-846-0990.
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