Picture: Stena Drilling A prominent Scottish oil services business has warned the requirement for people returning from overseas to spend 10 days in quarantine hotels could harm workers and the finances of many firms amid the downturn triggered by the coronavirus crisis. Stena Drilling has said the measure fails to take account of the extensive measures it has taken to ensure that people operating in countries the UK Government has deemed high risk, such as Guyana, are not exposed to the virus. The Aberdeen-based firm’s chief operations officer, Chris Carbaugh, said staff are required to stay in isolation in hotels before travelling to drillships offshore. Strict controls are in place during their journeys to and from the ships and on the facilities themselves. These have PCR test facilities.
By Shaquille Bourne
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, (DPI) – The government has proposed a $5.1 billion allocation in budget 2021 to bolster the nation s sea defences.
Senior minister within the office of the president with responsibility for finance, Dr Ashni Singh disclosed this during his budget presentation on Friday.
The $383.1 billion budget was presented under the theme: A Path to Recovery, Economic Dynamism, and Resilience . Earmarked for this year are the construction, rehabilitation and maintenance of sea and river defence infrastructure in areas including Dantzig, Prospect, Content, Fairfield, Zealand, Cane Garden, Uitvlugt, Anna Catherina, No. 63 Beach, Manila, and Bygeval, Dr Singh told the National Assembly.
Stena Drilling, an Aberdeen-based drilling firm, has employees working on two drillships off the coast of Suriname and Guyana, both of which are on the Government's red list of 33 countries.
Arrivals from certain countries will have to stay at designated quarantine hotels Eleven months after the coronavirus pandemic began, the UK government has introduced mandatory hotel quarantine for all arrivals from 33 “high-risk” countries from Monday 15 February. The tighter travel restrictions are designed to reduce the introduction and transmission of new variants of the virus. The strategy of using quarantine hotels or other.