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Page:1 The St.Kitts Nevis Observer - Friday June 18th, 2021 NEWS Page:2 The St.Kitts Nevis Observer - Friday June 18th, 2021 LOCALNEWS NEWS Education Ministry announces CXC protocols By Loshaun Dixon having any symptoms, He said however that if and said the time period a student misses the ex- The Ministry of for which they are to do amination nothing can Education has announced so is one to five hours be done, and that student protocols for students before arriving at these will have to register for sitting CXC exams that institutions. another examination began this week, in the period. form of assessments for “We expect persons to be various subject areas honest, and realise that “The student would be should you be experienc- allowed to register at the National Examinations ing any of the symptoms, next available sitting, free Registrar in the Ministry please stay at home. We of cost for that exam.” of Education, Solomon ask that you arrive at your Claxton, announced sev- respective locations one Permanent Secretary in eral schedule changes hour before, realising that the Ministry of Education, for oral and practical ex- we have measures to go William Hodge, said the aminations as a result of through before you are teachers have worked COVID-19, noting that admitted to the particular diligently and extremely only eight students would venue.” hard over the past school be allowed for these ex- year to prepare students ams at a time After the online survey, for exams, and all citizens he said when students get should provide support in “We attempted to go the to the centre, an in-person the process. route of least disruption interview will take place National Exams Registrar in the Ministry of Education, Solomon Claxton as possible, and that is along with temperature “We call on our country, why in some instances checks. our citizens, to be sup- Case Number :NEVHPB2021/0029 “We are using Microsoft Teams, Submitted Date:16/06/2021 09:43 and at the school level they will Filed Date:16/06/2021 09:43 communicate with the students Fees Paid:52.00 and they would complete a survey.” there was no move- Claxton disclosed that portive of the process. ment, because it was not students who are in quar- Our parents in particu- necessary. Orals will be antine or diagnose with lar. Adults who live in a completed on June 18 as COVID-19 would be household where there previously stated, and is able to have their assess- are children taking exam- now scheduled for the ments at a later date. inations, you have to do period June 15 to June 18 your own part to support “Once we receive com- your children; this is their According to Claxton, as munications from the future.” part of the process there various schools that a is a screening mechanism student is in quarantine or He said part of the sup- for students, hours before is a confirmed case, once port is to get vaccinated to they travel to the exami- that student recovers, we protect the children under nation centres. will make the necessary your care. arrangements for the “We are using Microsoft student to receive what “These young people Teams, and at the school assessments would have cannot take the vaccine, level they will communi- been missed. and are depending on us cate with the students and to do this for them.” they would complete a “Once we receive the all- survey.” clear, we would facilitate Exams began June 15 and the student missing any are expected to run until He said the survey would of these assessments dur- the end of July. be a checklist to deter- ing the specified period.” mine if any student is LOCALNEWS NEWS The St.Kitts Nevis Observer - Friday June 18th, 2021 Page:3 State of emergency declared in St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Dr. Timothy Harris By Loshaun Dixon empowered to be able to ground, the Cabinet has including its impact on “My advice to those not But in order to get there, put through policies that agreed that we needed people’s lives and liveli- yet vaccinated is to do we need more persons St. Kitts and Nevis is it would normally not be to restrict the movement hoods – in particular on so tomorrow. We are all vaccinated.” now under a State of permitted to do in a de- of people, to contain the the self-employed, on in this together; there is Emergency, issued by mocracy, for the safety movement of the virus. persons working in the no them and us. Until all He said the current mea- Governor General Sir and protection of its citi- We will therefore place entertainment and hospi- are vaccinated we have sures are critical, as they S.W. Tapley Seaton, zens. A government can the Country under lock- tality sectors, and within to exercise caution and are focusing on protecting GCMG, CVO, QC, JP, declare such a state during down as of Saturday, other areas of the private common sense.” the health of the people. LL.D, and dated June 15, a natural disaster, civil un- 12th June from 6:00 pm sector.” 2021. rest, armed conflict, medi- for fourteen (14) days to The Prime Minister said He said should more per- cal pandemic or epidemic Saturday, 26th June in the Dr Harris said that they the Federation has the sons become vaccinated According to a or other biosecurity risks. first instance.” have been learning from best testing rates in the re- in the next week, “the Government release, States of Emergency can experiences around the gion, and one of the best Federation will be out of “The State of Emergency also be used as a rationale Dr Harris said that un- world and in the re- contact tracing mecha- the shadows - with more comes about in the wake or pretext for suspend- der this lockdown, the gion, never to become nisms in place. persons back to work in a of a new wave of rising ing rights and freedoms Cabinet has determined complacent. safer environment, earn- COVID-19 infections, guaranteed under a coun- that people should stay at “It will help us to receive ing incomes and putting brought about by commu- try’s constitution or basic home over the aforemen- “COVID-19 does not play maximum benefit from bread on the table of their nity spread, that has seen law, sometimes through tioned two-week period, by rules. The Coronavirus our testing efforts.” loved ones”. to date 244 confirmed martial law or revoking and there shall be a cur- is an invisible enemy, and cases of COVID-19, habeas corpus. few daily from 6:00pm to we must never think that Dr Harris commended “For visitors and locals with 180 active cases, 5:00am. it is gone. It has been ly- the medical professionals alike who are fully vacci- 64 recovered cases, and The State of Emergency ing low, waiting for a prey and hailed those who pro- nated, we will reduce the zero deaths. The govern- (SoE) runs in the first- in The lockdowns provide to infect, to hurt, and re- vided support. quarantine requirements, ment is engaged in a war stance from 6 pm Tuesday for essential businesses to grettably kill. We have to as the environment will against the COVID-19 15th June, 2021, until be opened and limiting of be united and cohesive.” “I am encouraged that at be safe. This will allow pandemic that if not con- 11:59 pm on Tuesday 6th travel. the end of the current 14 fully vaccinated individu- tained, threatens the lives July, 2021. Dr Harris said all must be days of partial lockdown, als to access many more and livelihoods of its “Our approach to lock- prepared to make short that new policies would opportunities, and to en- citizens, thus the govern- The state of emergency down takes into account term sacrifices for a stron- be implemented to ensure joy life in as near normal ment has to act swiftly follows last Friday’s our experiences of the ger and safer future. we are in a better position a setting as they did be- to save lives in this time National Address by past year, and the reality to live with COVID-19. fore COVID-19. of the global and deadly Prime Minister Dr that we have one of the “We cannot think of our- We will have new quar- pandemic.” Timothy Harris, when best vaccination rollout selves only, but also of antine measures and he announced a partial programmes so far in the others.” maybe a shorter quar- It said that a State of lockdown. region. antine period. We will “We must get vaccinated Emergency or Emergency He urged all to get vacci- have more benefits for thefor our precious children Powers is a situation in “After a thorough evalua- “We understand the chal- nated, reminding no one vaccinated. We will have who we want to see grow which a government is tion of the situation on the lenges of a lockdown, is safe until all are safe. more businesses opening. into adulthood.” Page:4 The St.Kitts Nevis Observer - Friday June 18th, 2021 EDITORIALNEWS EDITORIAL An ounce of prevention Benjamin Franklin in 1736 coined the phrase, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure". One would think that it had something to do with The people of the Federation have been begged for months to take the health - why the American printer and publisher, author, inventor and vaccine, in an effort to get St.