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COVID Relief Page 3 Attorney Mystified! Page 4 Dr. Malcolm Samuel Page FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 2021 VOLUME 115, No.10 www.thevincentian.com EC$1.50 More COVID Attorney Dr. Malcolm Soufrière Minibus woes relief mystified! Samuel feature continue Page 3 Page 4 Page 11 Page 12-13 Page 24 Up to the end of last week, there were 118 cases of COVID-19 among patients at the MHRC. Pictured at left below: The Glad Tidings (Bible) Camp Site - officially an isolation Centre for those patients of the Mental Health Centre who have tested positive for the coronavirus. by DAYLE DA SILVA making that Site an He added that the two official Isolation Centre, floors were being occupied PRIME MINISTER DR. specific to patients of the — one for males and the RALPH GONSALVES has MHR. other for females. dismissed as “falsehoods” Speaking last Sunday According to Gonsalves, the claims by the Public on his now usual spot on there were 75 males and Service Union (PSU), the Sunday morning 28 females at the Camp including one that alleged interactive programme Site then, but there was some of the patients at the aired on WE FM, Dr. enough space to Mental Health Gonsalves dismissed this accommodate up to at Rehabilitation Centre claim and others made by least 80 more patients, if (MHRC), who had been the Union as “falsehoods, the situation presented relocated to the Glad mingled with really lots of itself. Tidings Bible Camp Site at mischief.” There were platforms Queen’s Drive, were Addressing the where mattresses were sleeping on the floor. allegations that patients placed and were being Since a cluster of were sleeping on the floor, used as makeshift beds, COVID-19 cases had Dr. Gonslaves said, “If you but none of the patients emerged at the MHRC at know the campsite, there were made to sleep on the Glen, affected patients is a lot of space on both floor, Gonsalves have been relocated to the floors and there are spaces emphasized. Glad Tiding’s Camp Site to put particular persons.” located at Queen’s Drive, Continued on Page 3. 2. FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 2021 . THE VINCENTIAN V Business CIBC donates to Chief Executive Officer of the bank and Chair of the foundation vaccine drive Colette Delaney. (Photo Source: Loop News) Ten countries across the region will get a key weapons in the arsenal major boost to their COVID-19 against COVID-19 and we vaccination programmes as a result of a are delighted to assist US$500,000 donation from regional governments and public bank many of whom bank CIBC FirstCaribbean. health officials in ensuring remain on the frontlines, The donation to national that everyone who wants as well ensuring that vaccination programmes is being made the vaccine can have access clients and customers by the bank through its charitable arm to it”. continue to have access the First Caribbean International She said the global to banking services even Comtrust Foundation and will support community and medical under very difficult the purchase of vaccines in Antigua, experts have made great circumstances. Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, strides in the past year in This latest assistance Grenada, Jamaica, St Kitts, St Lucia, response to the COVID-19 to aid the COVID-19 St Vincent and the Grenadines and virus and they noted that an fight in the region Trinidad and Tobago. effective vaccine was follows the bank’s Additionally, the bank is providing “critical to protect The Region seems to be moving steadily and swiftly towards donation last March of a separate contribution of US$250,000 individuals, families and having the greater percent of their populations vaccinated. USD$250,000 spread to cover the cost of vaccinating communities and re-open The CIBC donation will only bolster that drive. across its 16-member members of its 2,500 staff who wish to our economies”. regional footprint, to avail themselves of the vaccine in The CEO noted that just those who are immune”. assist health officials in purchasing those countries, bringing its total public health officials “advise that as Delaney praised the “brave men and testing supplies, Personal Protective contribution to the regional many people as possible must be women working on the frontlines all Equipment (PPE) and other supplies. vaccination effort to US$750,000. vaccinated to achieve a level of across the region to stem the spread of To date, the region has received Chief Executive Officer of the bank immunity that makes the spread of the disease and now who are ensuring donations of vaccines from India and Chair of the foundation Colette the virus from person to person the smooth rollout of mass vaccination (Caribbean), Chine (Guyana) and Delaney in announcing the donation unlikely. As a result, the whole campaigns”. Russia (St. Vincent and the said, “Vaccination remains one of the community becomes protected — not She also praised the staff of the Grenadines. (Source: Loop News) V News 3 THE VINCENTIAN. FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 2021. 3. More COVID relief AS OF LAST TUESDAY, Prime to consumers who pay off Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves their bills in full going was awaiting a response from forward, and a five percent VINLEC, to a request that it discount to those who clear reintroduce a moratorium on half of their bills. disconnections of electricity VINLEC, the Prime Delinquent service, to help ease the burden Minister said, has proposed consumers will have imposed by the COVID-19 to offer a similarly a reprieve on their pandemic on persons from all conditioned ten percent electricity service the Consumers will have some walks of life. discount. end of May. reprieve when the CWSA Dr. Gonsalves said then This hand of compassion, introduces a moratorium on that he had had a positive the Prime Minister warned, National Insurance Services The discussion will also disconnects that is expected response from the Central was not a signal for persons to (NIS)- Stewart Haynes, to address provision for cash to last until the middle of the Water and Sewerage stop paying their bills. discuss the continuation of the payments to affected sea year. Authority (CWSA) to a similar “The point is this, I want $300.00 per month relief that farers and, as announced around schools and who have request but none from persons to bear in mind that was paid to persons who were previously by the Minister of been severely affected by the VINLEC. CWSA has taken a significant laid off or substantially Finance Camillo Gonsalves, to closure of schools. (DD) By Wednesday, however, hit and they have taken the retrenched. those who vend near and the Prime Minister announced measures to encourage via NBC radio, that VINLEC persons to pay to keep cash had agreed to a similar flow going,” Gonsalves said. arrangement. The CWSA extended the The moratorium on moratorium for the entire year disconnections of water, in 2020, extending it beyond available to domestic the originally announced consumers only, will run from three-month period. Those March 15 until June 30. A consumers who were similar moratorium on disconnected during that electricity disconnections was period were those who made expected to run from March 1 either one or no payments. to May 31, for domestic, Regarding another area of commercial and industrial COVID-19 relief, the prime consumers. minister announced that he Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Additionally, the CWSA will was expected to meet with the Gonsalves has extend a ten percent discount Executive Director of the MHRC: PM dismissed as “falsehoods” the claims dismisses by the Public Service Union (PSU), including one that alleged some An appeal for help PSU claims of the patients at the Mental Health ROHAN PROVIDENCE, research and Continued from Front page. Rehabilitation Centre President of the SVG guidance (MHRC), who had been Basketball Federation received, at He disclosed, though, that it relocated to the Glad (SVGBF) is reaching out to the John Hopkins was reported that two male Tidings Bible Camp Site general public on behalf of his Medicine in patients had left their beds at Queen’s Drive, were wife - Ancilla Nicolette Snagg- the USA.” and taken to the floor. sleeping on the floor. Providence. The appeal This was the patients’ Snagg-Providence is said further, choice, not something currently fighting a rare form “We have to persons who are not at that occasioned by a shortage of professional level but from of cancer - spindle cell raise over bed space, Dr. Gonsalves those who have their personal sarcoma cancer, which, as per 275K USD assured, and added that and sometimes political an Oxford University (US$275,000). sleeping on the floor was a Hospitals’ leaflet is ‘a grouses.” Even though common practice among Dr. Gonslaves also disposed malignant cancer which can the figure is a patients at institutions for the develop in the bone or soft of any truth in the PSU claim huge one and mentally ill, including our that there were only two shifts tissue. It can arise in any part we have no own. of the body but is most for workers at the Camp Site, means of doing And as for the PSU claim with the explanation that the common in the limbs (arms this on our about the shortage of personal and legs)’. 27 staff members assigned to own, we protective equipment for staff, According to a Facebook the Camp Site worked “three believe the including face masks, Prime shifts — 7am to 2pm, 2pm to posting on Providence’s page, Minister Gonsalves referenced in January 2019 his wife was God we serve Rohan Providence and his 7pm and 7pm to 7am daily.” is going to work on the hearts a document dated February 27 And the call by the PSU for issued a very serious diagnosis wife Ancilla Nicolette Snagg- and prepared by the MHRC that warranted her having two of the people we are reaching Providence.
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