Mountaire Farms donates 420 cases of drumsticks to SVG
Left to right: Germano Douglas, Brenton Smith, Elton Bailey and Somorow Quashie Social Share
Delaware based poultry farm, Mountaire Farms, through local business, Foods SVG, has donated 420 cases of drumsticks to the humanitarian efforts in St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG).
One of the recipients of the generosity of the businesses, the Police Welfare Association, who collected 20 cases of the meat on Monday at SVG Foods’ Glen headquarters.
Station Sergeant Brenton Smith, chairman of the Police Welfare Association, collected the donation from Managing Director of Foods SVG Elton Bailey.
Standing in the company’s parking lot Sergeant Smith thanked Mountaire Farms and Foods SVG for coming to the police’s aid in the wake of La Soufriere eruption. He said the families of about 60 police officers will benefit.
Venezuelan humanitarian task force returns home
Commander and crew of the Venezuelan vessel Goajira, along with members of the Simón Bolivar International Task Force, head back to the ship Wednesday, after providing humanitarian assistance in the wake of the explosive eruption of the soufriere volcano. Social Share
Staff of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Mission in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Keisal Peters, bade farewell to the Commander, crew, and the members of the Simón Bolivar International Task Force, at a ceremony at the Grenadines wharf on Wednesday May 5. They were providing humanitarian assistance in the wake of the explosive eruption of the soufriere volcano.
La Soufriere alert level moves down to orange
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The decision on May 5 to move the alert level for La Soufriere from red to orange was made after discussion and consultation about monitoring techniques, data, and the current state of the volcano.
Volcano-seismologist Roderick Stewart of the University of the West Indies (UWI)-Seismic Research Centre (SRC), who was a guest on the Round Table Talk programme on VC3 on Wednesday said that the main reason the alert level was lowered is that the volcano has been quiet since its last eruption on April 22, in that very little seismic activity has been picked up. This is different to the period, between April 9 and 22, when the volcano had over 30 explosions.
Gregory Bardouille Country Manager SVG in (centre) presenting to NEMO Social Share
On Friday April 9, 2021, the government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines declared an order for evacuation of residents in the high-risk areas, described as the red zone, as the island was threatened by intensified volcanic activity at La Soufriere. Republic Bank immediately activated a local crisis management team to strategize and mitigate the likely impact of [the] situation. No doubt, having to deal with a natural disaster during a pandemic is no easy task.
As an indigenous Caribbean financial institution who cares about our people, the bank took a collective approach from the get-go to respond, and within a matter of days, the first shipment of the most precious commodity in a crisis – drinking water, a full 20 ft container landed on the island of St. Vincent. Thanks to the steadfastness of the banks Country Manager in St. Kitts and Nevis – Pamela Herbert Daniel who worked clos
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