(Jamaica Star) Retailers and shopkeepers across the island are reportedly rationing chicken due to a shortage of poultry meat in the market place. Shannon West of Molynes Freshly Cut Meat and Grocery said he has no other choice except to limit the amount of chicken that he sells to any one customer. “I usually have […]
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Features Melissa Doughty 6 Hrs Ago TT’s Daniela Fifi is now chief curator at the National Gallery of the Bahamas. – Dr Daniela Fifi believes that the art and artifacts one experiences in a museum collections can help frame difficult conversations about cultural and social inequity and help people shape what is happening around them. […]
A 53-year-old Swedish visitor is Barbados’ latest case of COVID-19. He arrived from Sweden on a charter flight on September 3, and tested positive for the viral illness on his second test, five days later. His was the only positive result among the 164 tests performed by the Best-dos Santos Public Health Laboratory yesterday. Meanwhile, […]
Ahead of tomorrow’s emergency budget presentation, President Irfaan Ali yesterday announced a slew of relief measures, including a $25,000 per household cash transfer to cushion the effects of COVID-19. “We are hoping that this can help in some way to support families, many of whom do not have enough food to put on the table […]
Features Corey Connelly 5 Hrs Ago The Tobago Festivals Commission last month hosted an Emancipation Day concert as part of its Tobago Heritage Festival celebrations. – Tobago Festivals Commission Tobago Festivals Commission Ltd (TFCL) chairman Dr Denise Tsoiafatt Angus says managing the 2020 edition of the Tobago Heritage Festival during the covid19 pandemic has been […]
(Jamaica Observer) There were unconfirmed reports last night that the final count for the Westmoreland Eastern constituency has produced a tie. On election day, last Thursday, the Jamaica Labour Party’s Daniel Lawrence polled 4,837 votes, to the 4,823 gained by the People’s National Party’s Luther Buchanan. But yesterday it emerged that both candidates had polled […]
Features Janelle De Souza 5 Hrs Ago Ayanna Webster-Roy is proud of the work she has done over the past five years as MP for Tobago East, as well as minister in the Office of the Prime Minister, and is thankful that she will get to continue working in both roles. When she was re-elected […]
One person will be discharged from isolation today after testing negative for COVID-19 yesterday. This result was among 226 tests conducted by the Best-dos Santos Public Health Laboratory, which were all negative for the viral illness. As a consequence, the numbers in isolation are reduced to 17, and recoveries have increased to 154. The total […]
Features Paula Lindo 7 Hrs Ago The second-placed team, Tech Girls, proudly display prizes. From left are Danara Sahadeo, Digicel Business general manager Liam Donnelly, Karishma Ramsamooj and Shreya Rajpaulsingh. – Photo courtesy Digicel Foundation THE winners of the Digicel TT Foundation’s Hackathon, the Ryu Dan Dojo Conquerors, presented a concept of using mixed realities […]
There was one positive test result for COVID-19 among the 302 tests done by the Best-dos Santos Public Health Laboratory yesterday. The new case is a 26-year-old Barbadian woman who arrived on Jet Blue on August 29, and was positive for COVID-19 when retested yesterday. Meanwhile, three people will leave the isolation facility at Harrison […]