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Coalition of Forces for Next Elections Could Be Grenada's Greatest Page 1.qxp_Page 1 05/08/2021 6:27 PM Page 1 “The Pen Is Always Mightier” VOL. 13 NO. 38 Week Ending Fri., AUGUST 06, 2021 LAYNE AND CORNWALL IDENTIFIED AS THE PERSONS WHO PUT MAURICE STORY ON PAGE 3 BISHOP UNDER HOUSE ARREST Major Leon “Bogo” Cornwall – a key member of the secretive hardline Marxist-Leninist cell group known as OREL Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard – identified as too power hungry and the one who paved the way for the destruction of Lieutenant-Colonel Ewart Layne – fingers are the Grenada Revolution pointing at him for the house Arrest of the former Prime Minister Prime Minister Maurice Bishop – executed by his own political colleagues Page 2.qxp_page 2 05/08/2021 3:29 PM Page 1 Page 02 THE NEW TODAY Fri., Aug 06, 2021 REGIONAL NEWS Hanover, Westmoreland hospitals buckling under COVID pressure INVITATION TO TENDER (BID) The Nature Conservancy (TNC) together with the In ternational Federation of the Red Cr oss and Red Cr escent Societies (IFRC) are implementing Resilient Islands (RI): In tegrating Ec osystem and Community-based Approaches to Enhance Climate Change Adaptation in the Caribbean. Sponsored by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conserva tion and Nuclear Safety (BMU), the project’ s long-term goal is to achieve Resilient Islands in the Caribbean, with strong empowered communities and governments signicantly increasing investments at the local and national level to address protection and restoration of key ecosystems and natural areas, while reducing risk and vulnerability to meet national adaptation and develop- ment goals. Dr. Patrice Monthrope BY ANTHONY LEWIS were 14 extra patients in Being implemented on the islands of the Dominican Republic, Grenada and Jamaica, Resilient Islands also aims to integra te the Savanna-la-Mar community and ecosystem-based adaptation into local and national decision-making and policies, to reduce climate vulner- Hanover, Jamaica -- Hospital's 18-bed ability, boost adaptive capacity and, advance disaster risk reduction decisions by providing a platform for broad scale replicabil- With COVID-19 wards COVID-19 ward. Other crammed beyond capac- sections of the medical ity of project activities. In Grenada, several interventions are being undertaken in the Grenville Bay Ar ea (GBA), one of which ity, the Noel Holmes facility are being used to includes the design, construction, and commission of a Climate Smart Fisher Facility in Soubise, St . Andrew. The design targets Hospital in Hanover and absorb the overflow. the needs of Fishers, providing the following benets to Fishers, Community Members, and other stakeholders: the Savanna-la-Mar “The key messages are, Public Hospital in [one], follow the proto- Westmoreland, Jamaica cols. Persons of all t &D PGSJFOEMZDPOTUSVDUFEMPDLFSTXJUIQJFSKFUUZBDDFTT are buckling under pres- ages, especially our t *NQSPW FEOFBSTIPSFIBCJUBU SFEVDFEFSPTJPO BOEöMUFSFESVOPòUISPVHIUIFJNQMFNFOUBUJPOB-JWJOH sure from the current younger ones, [should] spike in cases. follow the protocols [as] Shoreline According to senior more and more younger t &OIBODFEBSFBTGPSDPNNVOJUZHBUIFSJOHTBOESFDSFBUJPO medical officer of health persons in for the Noel Holmes Westmoreland are need- Hospital, Dr. Patrice ing hospital space,” TNC and IFRC through the Grenada Red Cr oss Society (GRCS) hereby invite contractors to bid on one or more of the following Monthrope, the COVID- appealed the parish's three lots for the Climate Smart Fisher Facility at Soubise St. Andrew. 19 ward can accommo- medical officer of health date 11 individuals. Dr Marcia Graham. However, between 15 “Two, we are asking Lot 1: Implementation of a "Living Shoreline" with Hybrid Infrastructure (Rock Armor Sea Defenses, Drains, and 16 are currently that persons with chron- Shoreline Revegetation, and the like) being admitted. As has ic diseases try as much been the case with pre- as possible to manage vious spikes, people them and to keep them Lot 2: Construction of Climate Smart Lockers for Fishers with mild symptoms are under control so that cared for at home if their they don't need to be Lot 3: Supply and installation of a Floating Jetty living conditions allow. hospitalised,” she Others for whom this added. would pose a challenge She explained that they Firms, whether applying individually or in the form of a Joint Venture, must: are sent to a have seen an increase Government-run quaran- in people being admitted tine facility in St James. for non-COVID cases (a) be legally incorporat ed or otherwise organised in and have their principal place of business in a CARICOM country. Dr. Monthrope and that has been expressed concern that, putting a strain on the C CFNPSFUIBOöGUZ QFSDFOUCFOFöDJBMMZP XOFECZBDJUJ[FOPSDJUJ[FOTBOEPSBCPOBöEFSFTJEFOUPSSFTJEFOUTPG if things worsen, the hospital. Social cases hospital's ability to pro- taking up well-needed an Eligible CARICOM Country, or by a body corporat e or bodies meeting these requirements, as far as the ownership vide effective care could bed space are also a can be reasonably determined; and be threatened. concern. “If we don't try to con- “Twenty-three of them trol it, we are going to be are here [and] we need (c) have no arrangement and undertake not to make any arrangement whereby the majority of the nancial benets of losing our other ser- the families to take them the contract, i.e. more than fty (50) percent of the value of the contract, will accrue or be paid to sub-c ontractors or vices,” he warned. home so that we have sub-c onsultants that are not from an Eligible Country. He was critical of those those beds available to who have failed to follow take care of persons safety protocols and is who need medical care,” Qualication requirements include but is not limited to: urging greater take-up of said Dr Graham. the vaccine. Both the Noel Holmes (a) demonstrable cash ow (including access to lines of credit) as dened in the Bidding Documents; and “If all the measures and the Savanna-la-Mar were adhered to before, hospitals fall under the it would help; but it is Western Regional (b) demonstrat ed experience with similar projects as dened in the Bidding Documents. pretty bad right now. I Health Authority mean [COVID] is every- (WRHA), which is keep- where,” she said. ing a watchful eye on For additional information, and or bidding documents (available via email only) contact: “At this point in time, the COVID-19 numbers. she added. [for] persons who have “In recent times the L Ms. Nealla Frederick - Climate Adaptation Specialist vaccine hesitancy, now numbers have been might be a good time to going down but over the The Nature Conservancy rethink and get your vac- last couple of weeks, if Old Fort Road cine. We are not sure if you notice since the cur- St . George’s , Grenada the Delta variant, which few [measures were is much more infectious, relaxed in June], things 1-473-449-6016 is here. So all those have started to trickle [email protected] older persons, if they are back up. So we... are not vaccinated, need to watching our numbers,” consider getting vacci- said St Andrade Sinclair, All Bids must be submitted by 5pm Loc al Time, on 10th August 2021. nated.” regional director for the Like Hanover, WRHA. Bids must be submitted electronically to email address: [email protected]. T he “Subject” eld of the email message must Westmoreland has fac- tored significantly in the (Reproduced from the read: "Bid for Climate Smart Fisher Facility". T he submission will be deemed to have been received at the time that it is climbing number of August 5, 2021 issue received by Ms. Frederick. infections in recent of the Jamaica weeks. Observer) Up to Tuesday, there Page 3.qxp_page 3 05/08/2021 3:40 PM Page 1 LOCAL NEWS THE NEW TODAY Fri., Aug 06, 2021 Page 03 Minister Steele’s u that “peo- LAYNE AND CORNWALL IDENTIFIED p We sug- We urge each g i AS THE PERSONS WHO PUT MAURICE This a General Hudson Austin phoned to ask for dis- police station. Whiteman, Education Bishop and Whiteman cussions to continue Within minutes, Layne Minister Jacqueline and the others should has identified two of the former top brassBISHOP in the UNDERwith the Coard HOUSE clique to took the decision to dis-ARRESTCreft, Housing Minister be placed squarely at resolve the internal cri- patch three armoured Norris Bain and busi- the feet of Coard, army, Lieutenant- Letter July 6th It is ironic that Colonel Ewart Layne sis within the NJM lead- cars to Fort Rupert to nessmen, Evelyn “Brat” Layne, Cornwall, James ership. recapture it from Bishop Bullen, Evelyn Maitland and others who were f e and Major Leon “Bogo” Cornwall along with Ex- Whiteman and Noel and his supporters. and Keith “Pumphead” members of a secretive rejected the offer and The Prime Minister was Hayling and machine cell group within the Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard as the instructed St. Bernard taken into custody and gunned to death. NJM known as the to go and inform Layne, then lined up against a General Austin has Organisation of ones who took the deci- sion to put Prime James and Cornwall to wall on the Top Square maintained that the Revolutionary Education surrender to the nearest of the fort along with decision to execute and Liberation (OREL). The The letter advised Minister Maurice Bishop E A COVID-19 Vaccine being administered to an individual t under house arrest amidst a power struggle He indicated Where workers for control of the New t a Certainly, it is a Jewel Movement-led 1979-83 Grenada c Revolution. In an exclusive 3-hour The interview with THE NEW TODAY, the ex- l army commander said he first heard that Bishop was ordered not to leave his home at a top party meeting in Butler House, where the office of the Prime Minister was then locat- General Hudson Austin – identified those who Has government p ed.
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