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PRESORTED Haew STANDARD U.S. POSTAGE PAID JANUARY 2021 MIAMI, FL PERMIT NO. 7315 Tel: (305) 238-2868 1-800-605-7516 [email protected] 3232 [email protected] We cover your world Vol. 32 No. 2 www.caribbeantoday.com THE MULTI-AWARD WINNING NEWS MAGAZINE WITH THE LARGEST PROVEN CIRCULATION IN FLORIDA GUARANTEED Caribbean COVID-19 These Caribbean Immigrants Are Getting The Job Done And Making History... 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Sandals Resorts in NEMO says that all Barbados, Grenada and Saint citizens and residents Lucia are in a face-off with the must ensure that any government there over some information regarding the guests disregard for COVID-19 La Soufrière Volcano and rules or for outbreaks on the current emergency are properties. from credible and official In Barbados, the resort on sources only – including Dover Beach is in a faceoff with NEMO and the UWI the government over “verified Seismic Research Center, breaches” of COVID protocol, (SRC). Barbados Today reported. The “We continue to country’s Ministry of Health monitor the ongoing and Wellness will delist the activity at the La Sandals Barbados Resort and Soufriere volcano with Spa as a designated quarantine assistance from the team hotel after three tourists who of experts from the UWI broke quarantine. Two removed SRC, led by Professor their quarantine wristbands and Richard Robinson and another falsified documents and would update the nation are being held by authorities. of any change in status as In Grenada and Saint soon as this occurs,” the Lucia, health officials have tied statement on Sunday said. COVID-19 outbreaks to Sandals The government properties. Sandals Resorts Gets In Hot Water With Three Regional Governments. raised the alert level to The Sandals Grenada is orange for the volcano closed until Feb. 3 after several Adam Stewart, the chain’s to support COVID-19 response La Soufriere, after steam, cases traced back to the resort deputy chairman, told Travel LOAN FOR COVID-19 projects in the Organization gas and a volcanic dome, formed played a role in triggering a Pulse, a tourism website, that FIGHT of Eastern Caribbean States, by lava that reaches the Earth’s partial lockdown of the island in the resort is putting up the The Caribbean (OECS) Member States. surface, were seen over La mid-December. The government guests who had been booked for Development Bank (CDB) and The loan will provide Soufriere, located in the northern put restrictions in place after 26 the Grenada property at other the Inter-American Development economic resources to OECS area of St. Vincent island, the cases nationwide popped up in Sandals in the Caribbean that Bank, (IDB) have signed a Member States – Antigua and Caribbean Disaster Emergency one day. they choose. US$50 million loan agreement Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Management Agency said. St Kitts Nevis, St Lucia and St Persons were advised to remain Vincent and the Grenadines. alert and listen to all advisories. The loan agreement signed An eruption by La Soufriere will finance a program to help in 1902 killed more than 1,000 reduce mortality and morbidity people. from COVID-19 and ensure minimum levels of quality of life TURKS & CAICOS and health for vulnerable people Voters in the Turks & in the countries mentioned. In Caicos will go to the polls addition, it will provide support early this year to select a new for Micro, Small and Medium- government. The House of Sized Enterprises, (MSMEs). Assembly in the Turks and The news comes as The Caicos was dissolved on Dec. Economic Commission for Latin 24, 2020, paving the way for America and the Caribbean general elections within 90 days. (ECLAC) forecasts that the Premier Sharlene Caribbean will experience Cartwright-Robinson, in making positive growth this year, despite the announcement, said that the COVID-19 pandemic. she had advised the territory’s In a new report ECLAC said governor to dissolve the House the region will have a positive immediately. The Premier, growth rate of 3.7 percent in however, did not announce a 2021 “due mainly to a statistical date for the poll, stating it will rebound that will, nonetheless, be announced this year. General be insufficient for recovering elections were last held in this the economic activity levels British Overseas territory on seen prior to the coronavirus December 15, 2016. The result pandemic (in 2019).” was a victory for the People’s Democratic Movement, with ST. VINCENT AND THE Cartwright-Robinson becoming Leading. GRENADINES the islands’ first female Premier. Officials in St. Vincent More than 100 years ago, Jackson Health System made a promise to provide quality and The Grenadines have been GUYANA care to everyone in our community. We’re proud that so many of our goals — to forced to denounce as “fake ExxonMobile Guyana perform groundbreaking research, provide advanced services, and expand news,” reports that citizens were completed its first year of oil county-wide facilities — have been achieved. Our commitment to the community advised to evacuate their homes production from the Liza field continues, as we find new, innovative ways to expand these efforts in the new year. after a volcano, dormant for offshore late last month. decades, came back to life and In December, the Liza Call 305-585-4JMG for a Jackson specialist near you. began spewing ash. Destiny Floating Production The National Emergency Storage and Offloading (FPSO) Management Organization said vessel reached full capacity of that no evacuation order has 120,000 barrels of oil per day been issued to any section of the and successfully commissioned population. the gas injection system. Several media outlets both locally and internationally (CONTINUED ON PAGE 3) BSP Job #: JHSA-20-C118_Family_CaribbeanToday_Affinity_JAN_v2 Client: JHS-Affinity 6:36PM 12.22.20 GU Description: 1/3 PG Trim: 6" x 7" Color: 4c Date: December 22, 2020 6:36 PM Mech Person: GU Issue: JAN Over 11,246,000 copies printed and delivered in 31 years CARIBBEAN TODAY • JAUARY 2021 • 3 NEWS Caribbean COVID-19 Warriors Caribbean Immigrants Were At All Levels Of The COVID-19 Vaccine – From Co-Creator, To Administering And Receiving It It was definitely an all- Caribbean American affair when it came to the US’ first COVID-19 vaccine administered on Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. Not only were the first person to receive the shot a Caribbean immigrant, but the doctor who administered the shot was also from a CARICOM country and one of the principal scientists who worked on the Pfizer BNT162b2 vaccine, was also born in the CARICOM region. Pfizer’s principal research scientist, Vidia Surendra Roopchand, was born in the Pfizer’s principal research scientist, Vidia Surendra Roopchand of Guyana. Jamaican born nurse Sandra Lindsay, left, gets inoculated with the COVID-19 CARICOM South American vaccine by Guyanese Dr. Michelle Chester, December 14, 2020 in New York nation of Guyana. Dr. Michelle is also an embodiment of the world and representatives from City. (Photo by Mark Lennihan - Pool/Getty Images) Chester, the corporate director of the American dream and the the anti-vaccine movement as Employee Health Services great things that are possible in well,” said Roopchand. “The She then went on to work American communities. at Northwell Health, who America,” he added. data from the clinical trials are at Northwell Health. “We all She attended community administered the shot was also Asked for his message to available in the public domain should give this vaccine a college and then to Lehman born in Guyana and the nurse immigrants and people of color so people can see for themselves chance to propel us into the new College in the Bronx for her who became the first person who because of past history, are what the regulatory agencies had beginning of ending Covid-19,” nursing degree and went on to in the US vaccinated for the hesitant about the vaccine and to say. There are also interviews said Dr. Chester, who will work at Lenox Hill Hospital coronavirus was Sandra Lindsay, taking it when it becomes more with vaccine recipients which bring congratulations on behalf in Manhattan and rose through born in Jamaica. widely available, Roopchand are available.” of all frontline health care the ranks until she became the Asked how he feels to be said that “for every successful He revealed that as far as workers at the Invest Caribbean director of critical care nursing making history as an immigrant vaccine that I have worked on side-effects, vaccinated subjects inauguration celebration for at Long Island Jewish Medical and a Caribbean immigrant from during my career at Pfizer, I should anticipate potentially Vice-President-elect Kamala Center, part of the Northwell Guyana, as part of the team have always asked myself the feeling fatigued or experiencing Harris on Jan. 17, 2021, said she Health network, in 2016. to deliver the first vaccine to following question. ‘Would I headache, chills or muscle pain is confident the administration “We are courageous, but possibly help curb the COVID-19 take this vaccine, and would I shortly after getting immunized. “will put health care on the obviously, the team is fearful.