PM Chastanet – ERRP Played Critical Role in Stimulating Economy
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SAINT Lucia’s Economic Recovery and Resilience Plan (ERRP) played a critical role in implementing measures geared to stimulate the economy as the island ‘dug deep’ to stay afloat in light of COVID-19.
While presenting the Appropriation Bill, this week, Prime Minister Allen Chastanet explained that three Recovery pillars and three Resilience pillars were utilized to strategise the ERRP program.
The program covered 32 interventions under the ERRP to sustain those recovery strategies.
He outlined a list of interventions that were undertaken to help cushion the resultant ‘economic shocks’ posed by COVID-19.
84 more homes to be completed in Barbuda under EU funded project
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Eighty-four more homes will be repaired or rebuilt in Barbuda under the European Union (EU) funded Housing Support to Barbuda Project.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), which is implementing the project, said the names of the 84 selected beneficiaries will be published by the Beneficiary Selection Committee (BSC) within the next month.
The UNDP said in a statement that the contract to repair and rebuild the houses was awarded to Harrigan Building Construction. The homes are due to be complete by the end of the project phase in June 2022.
NODS responds to claims of removing names from a beneficiaries list for housing in Barbuda
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The National Office of Disaster Services (NODS) is clearing the air regarding recent comments made about the list of persons benefiting from ongoing recovery projects in Barbuda following Hurricane Irma in 2017.
NODS has been accused of removing names from a beneficiaries list and Director Philmore Mullin believes this accusation is deliberate to remove responsibility from the guilty parties.
Mullin says there are two beneficiary select committees – one that deals with the European Union-funded project and the other that focuses on the Prince’s Foundation project. The Prince’s Foundation Committee is chaired by the Chairperson of the Barbuda Council, and is made up of a representative from NODS, a BPM member, an ALP Barbuda member, a Faith-based organization from Barbuda, and someone from the Prince’s Foundation usually takes part in the meetings. The EU Committee
Emmanuel Charles Cadet
March 8, 2021
Early Years
Charles Cadet was born in Castries, Saint Lucia on December 16, 1924. His father, Gerald Cadet, was an offspring of one of Saint Lucia’s early advocates of political advancement, who served on the Castries Town Board (now the Castries City Council) for several decades in the early part of the twentieth century. Emmanuel D. Cadet was also a member of the Castries Vestry of the Roman Catholic Church. The Cadet Pavilion at Victoria Park (now Mindoo Philip Park) was named after him.
Charles attended the foremost Roman Catholic School on the island, St. Aloysius Boys Primary on Brazil Street, Castries. He was under the tutelage of the renowned, strict disciplinarian Headmaster, Mr. Henry Belizaire, who was recognized as one of the few local British Caribbean educators to write a booklet on Geographical Terms. Charles showed promise academically at an early age, and so was admitted to the only secondary school on the island for boys,
Gov’t plans to vaccinate 80,000 in 35 days
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HURST REPORTS ON CABINET OF Thursday February 25 2021
The Cabinet met for more than seven continuous hours, six members using virtual means and seven meeting face-to-face. The Cabinet, as is customary, invited experts and officials to its weekly meeting in order to assist in enhancing decision-making.
1. The Cabinet invited seven experts from the Ministry of Health including the Chief Medical Officer, the Principal Nursing Officer, the Chief Health Inspector, the Ministry’s Technology Officer, and three members of the Technical Committee responsible for communicating new information to the public. The CMO shared the plan for vaccinating approximately 80,000 adults in 35 days. Five teams, each consisting of five staff and nurses, will be dispatched to several centers each day of the week (Saturday and Sunday also) during March and the first week of April 2021, to inoculate as many as 250 to 550 people each, daily for a