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The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has joined with the regional and international community in expressing solidarity with St. Vincent and the Grenadines
The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has joined with the regional and international community in expressing solidarity with St. Vincent and the Grenadines, as the country continues to be impacted by the explosive eruption of La Soufriere Volcano.
The CDB said it is greatly concerned about the multitude of challenges which the country now faces, as it grapples with the current catastrophic event and the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Bank said its team is now actively co-ordinating a multi-tiered response, intended to effectively support ongoing efforts to address citizens, residents, and organisations’ immediate, medium and longer-term needs.
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Over the last year a number of businesses in St. Vincent and the Grenadines have been taking a beating. Since March 2020, local businesses have encountered waves of external challenges that have the potential to be detrimental. Most recently is the explosive eruption of the La Soufriere volcano. Although this volcano was erupting effusively since December 2020, many hoped that an explosive eruption would have occurred later rather than sooner. As we grapple with the extent of the devastation that awaits when the ashes settle; many businesses are battling to conduct normal business operations with limited public transportation, employees that are distracted and overwhelmed and no pipe-borne water, while being ‘neck deep’ in ashes. These challenges are enough to bring the strongest of us to our knees.
Update on Trinidad and Tobago s assistance to St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Port of Spain: Seventy-five (75) Trinidad and Tobago nationals who were in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, were successfully repatriated to this country this morning via the Galleons Passage. These persons are currently under quarantine in accordance with the Ministry of Health’s COVID-19 protocols.
Two hundred and sixty (260) tonnes of relief items collected by the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Management (ODPM) were successfully transported to Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines via the Galleons Passage and the C26 Aircraft attached to the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force.
Being tested not a requirement for admission into emergency shelters – CMO
CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER Simone Keizer-Beache Social Share WHILE TESTING FOR Covid-19 and vaccination against the virus are voluntary, persons who have evacuated from the danger zone of La Soufriere are strongly being encouraged to do both. Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Simone Keizer-Beache yesterday rejected as falsehoods, reports that in order to be admitted to an emergency shelter, one would have to take a test for Covid-19.
“There is absolutely no truth in that; absolutely no truth. You come into the shelter because you need to be there. We are not going to say that you can’t go in. That is not true at all. That is not how it is. We ask that you be tested at some point; we ask … and if you are willing, we can vaccinate you. There is no testing or vaccination requirement to get into any shelter in St Vincent and the Grenadines,” the CMO reiterated while speaking on NBC Radio on Thu
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St. Vincent and the Grenadines will be receiving US$100,000 in Disaster Relief from the US Agency for International Development (USAID)
St. Vincent and the Grenadines will be receiving
US$100,000 in Disaster Relief from the US Agency for International Development (USAID), to help persons affected by the explosive eruption of the La Soufriere Volcano
In a statement yesterday, USAID said this assistance follows the support it has already provided to the country’s National Emergency Management Organisation (NEMO) for evacuation efforts, as well as humanitarian needs through the Red Cross.
The release said USAID is working with the local Red Cross society, to provide immediate assistance to evacuees, including thousands of people in emergency evacuation shelters.