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The Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment is appealing to Vincentians and other residents to pay close attention to the recently updated COVID19 entry protocols.
Lesley De Bique has more, in today’s COVID 19 Update.
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Personnel from the Forestry Service in the Ministry of Agriculture have been hosting public consultations with local hunters, to determine the way forward in relation to the 2022/23 Hunting Season.
Director of Forestry, Fitzgerald Providence said the Department is continuing to monitor the population of wildlife species, which were negatively impacted by last year’s explosive eruption of La Soufriere Volcano.
Mr. Providence said the 2021/2022 hunting season had been closed, due to the fact that these animal populations had significantly decreased, following the volcanic eruption
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Mr. Providence said the Forestry Service is continuing to monitor the situation and to host discussions with Hunters across the country to get a clearer picture of what is required.
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As final arrangements are put in place for the start of the new School year, the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Red Cross Society will collaborate with the Ministry of Health to host a Back to School Health Fair in Kingstown this weekend.
Operations Manager for the Red Cross Julia Simmons says the organization will be supporting the Ministry of Health in preparing the nation’s children for the new school year
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Miss Simmons said health officials will be on hand to disseminate information on a range of health issues.
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Operations Manager at the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Red Cross Society, Julia Simmons.
The Back to School Health Fair will be held this Saturday September 3rd at the Public Works Yard, from 9am to 2pm
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The Ministry of Health Wellness and the Environment says there are now 18 active cases of Covid 19 recorded in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
In its latest update, the Ministry says one new case was recorded on Wednesday August 31st, from Rapid Antigen Tests
Three persons are currently hospitalized with Covid 19; one is fully vaccinated and two are unvaccinated.
9,430 cases of Covid 19 and 9,297 recoveries have been reported in St. Vincent and the Grenadines to date. 115 people have died from the virus.
And, 72,537 Covid 19 vaccines have so far been administered locally. 37,151 persons have received their first dose; 31,258 have received their second dose and 4,128 persons have received boosters.
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Met Office issues flash flood notice; heavy showers expected Loop Barbados
Met Office issues flash flood notice; heavy showers expected
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The Barbados Meteorological Services (BMS) has issued a flash flood watch for the central parishes of the island.
According to BMS, the tropical disturbance in the central Atlantic has moved closer to the eastern Caribbean resulting in a decrease in wind speeds across Barbados. This has allowed localized activity to develop across the island.
As a result, maximum rainfall accumulations of 25.0 to 50.0 mm in heavy to violent showers are expected during the afternoon.
The alert is valid from 2:15 pm and will be terminated at 6 pm or sooner if conditions warrant.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The welcome and support for Venus Williams in Arthur Ashe Stadium on Tuesday afternoon were not the same as they were for her sister, Serena, a night earlier. Nor was the res
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With the numbers in the National Youth Steel Orchestra increasing, a home is needed says musical director Lowrey Worrell.
Worrell appealed for private sector assistance during a press conference at the National Cultural Foundation’s (NCF) West Terrace, St Michael headquarters on Wednesday.
The musical director reported the orchestra now has over 90 members, with an upsurge in applicants for the beginner’s programme and the orchestra following their stellar performances during the Crop Over Festival.
“We need the investment of private Barbados – the private sector – because pans are not cheap and as the programme is growing. We do need more pans, we do need more infrastructure. We are going to run out of space shortly. I mean St Leonard’s is a school, [but] we want to have our own home and it aids in better tutorship. We need to increase the tutors as the group is growing,” Worrell disclosed.
He acknowledged that the NCF was a major contributor to the orchestra’s success [the NCF invested $250, 000 in developmental programmes during this year’s Crop Over season] but stressed that private sector investment was also necessary.
“NCF has shown their support, [we] just need other persons to show their support.”
“We are being seen and being heard. after Pandemonium I was contacted by CEO of Republic Bank Exodus who said he watched the [Republic Bank Pandemonium]. He was amazed by the youngsters, and that is Trinidad the mecca of pan….If they can see the value, if Canada can see the value, it means the rest of the world can see the value in what we are doing,” Worrell insisted.
The musical director expressed that he was shocked by the overwhelming response to the orchestra at the National Botanical Gardens for Pandemonium. He pointed out that was an increased interest in the instrument in schools and concluded that the NCF’s developmental programme has thus been successful.
“The NCF has given us the task of developing pan through our students or through the community….[Through] the Pans In The School Programme which was initiated this year by the NCF and the music officer Kevin Moore, we have been able to draw from the school to include those members in the National Steel Orchestra, which does show that development of pan through the schools can work and it can aid wider country.”
“I am very pleased to say that the pan program is growing. From out of [Republic Bank] Pandemonium, we have had persons that have called and started in the beginner’s programme and also joined the orchestra because they liked what they saw,” Worrell added.
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US-born Swedish pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis thinks he can line up and win again five-time World 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce.
The current world record holder with a height of 6.21m made the statement on Thursday, a day before the world’s best athletes head to Brussels for the Allianz Memorial Van Damme for the final point-scoring opportunity in the 2022 Wanda Diamond League ahead of the series finale next week.
Duplantis didn’t initiate the trash talk. At a press conference ahead of Friday’s Brussels meet, Fraser-Pryce asked the pole vaulter: What would you do against me in a 100m?
“I would beat you,” said Duplantis.
Duplantis competing in a positive wind of 2.1 metres per second in Alexandria, USA, sped to 10.57 on April 26, 2018, which is a 10.67 with zero wind, a time Fraser-Pryce is capable of surpassing.
In Brussels, Fraser-Pryce and her Jamaican compatriot Shericka Jackson – who won the world 100m and 200m titles respectively – will face off over 100m for the third time this year.
Fraser-Pryce is undefeated over 100m this year, but Jackson finished right behind her in Oregon and Monaco.
All six of Fraser-Pryce’s 100m finals this year have been won in sub-10.70 times. If she continues that trend on Friday, she will break the meeting record of 10.72 she has held since 2013.
Other athletes in the field include Ivory Coast’s Marie-Josee Ta Lou, who set an African record of 10.72 earlier this year, USA’s Sha’Carri Richardson, and Aleia Hobbs, winner in Lausanne last week when Fraser-Pryce withdrew as a precaution at the last minute.
Duplantis will start as the overwhelming favourite in the men’s pole vault, having been undefeated for the whole of 2022 so far – a streak that includes the World Championships where he increased his world record to 6.21m.
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Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves says the Government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines remains committed to ensuring that all Vincentians have access to quality homes.
He re-stated this commitment, during NBC’S Face to Face program yesterday.
Twenty-seven houses, which were constructed by the Government for Families who were displaced by the eruption of La Soufriere Volcano last year, will be handed over during a ceremony at Orange Hill this afternoon, from 2:30
The Prime Minister noted that close to seven hundred houses have so far been repaired and the work is continuing, as part of the Volcano Recovery Project.
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This afternoon’s ceremony at Orange Hill will be broadcast live on NBC Radio and Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves is expected to deliver the feature address.
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