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• $75.6 million for Saskatchewan Health Authority COVID pressures • $20 million for the Saskatchewan Small Business Emergency Payment Program • $17 million for Tourism supports • $14.2 million for Municipal Grants for Growth • $12.3 million for Public Safety response • $9.9 million for Custody Services • $5.5 million for the Chief Electoral Officer • $3.2 million for Court Service enhancements • $1.8 million for SaskPoly Dental Lab renovations • $500,000 for Conexu...

  Regina– When government spending not allocated within an approved budget takes place, the government must use “special warrants.” On March 1, the Government of Saskatchewan announced a number of these warrants.   Typically the provincial Legislature meets in February, and a budget is released in March. However, the first sitting of this spring’s session will be on April 6, which will also be budget day.    In the meantime, the government said in a release, “To help p...

To help protect Saskatchewan people and businesses through the global COVID-19 pandemic, the $200 million health and public safety contingency has been drawn down, with $160 million in new . . .

The Saskatchewan government has emptied its $200-million health and public safety contingency fund. After spending $40 million in the first quarter of the 2020-21 fiscal year to reopen schools during the COVID-19 pandemic, the government announced Monday it had issued another $160 million in what it called “new contingency allocations.” The government issued February special warrants totaling $322.8 million. “These special warrants are needed for pandemic-related costs, as well as for he...

NBC SVG Search for: The UWI Seismic Research Centre’s scientific team has donated equipment to assist in the monitoring of the La Soufriere volcano The UWI Seismic Research Centre’s (UWI-SRC) scientific team has increased its capacity to bolster seismic monitoring of La Soufriere volcano in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) through a donation of seismic stations and tele-metry equipment. The USGS-USAID Volcano Disaster Assistance Program (VDAP) recently donated equipment to build four sei...

American National Bankshares Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2020 Earnings DANVILLE, Va., Jan. 21, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — American National Bankshares Inc. (NASDAQ: AMNB) (“American National” or the “Company”) today reported fourth quarter 2020 earnings of $8.8 million, or $0.80 per diluted common share. Those results compare to $7.4 million, or $0.67 per diluted common share, during the same quarter in the prior year, and net income of $7.2 million, or $0.66 per diluted common ...

ASSET QUALITY Nonperforming assets (“NPAs”) totaled $3.7 million as of December 31, 2020, down from $4.6 million at September 30, 2020, and up slightly from $3.6 million at December 31, 2019. NPAs as a percentage of total assets were 0.12% at December 31, 2020, compared to 0.16% at September 30, 2020 and 0.15% at December 31, 2019. The provision for loan losses was $585 thousand for the fourth quarter of 2020, as compared to $2.6 million for the previous quarter and $462 thousand for the sa...