Three explosive eruptions rock St Vincent, as evacuations continue
Article by April 10, 2021
A Barbados Coast Guard ship and 40 sailors were steaming towards Kingstown overnight to deliver humanitarian aid after three explosive eruptions of the La Soufriere volcano filled the skies in and around St. Vincent with stony ash throughout Friday.
Here at home, authorities are closely monitoring local air quality and have pledged to provide early warning if atmospheric conditions worsen from the fallout.
Late into the night on Friday, the crew of HMBS Rudyard Lewis was busy loading about seven tonnes of supplies on to the vessel.
During the crew’s final preparations, Attorney General Dale Marshall and Minister of Home Affairs Wilfred Abrahams visited the base at HMBS Pelican to wish the sailors safe passage.
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TWO telecoms firms have been fined a combined £810,000 after service failures left Islanders unable to call 999 on six occasions last year.
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The Jersey Competition Regulatory Authority have issued JT with a £675,000 fine and Sure a penalty of £135,000 for ‘serious breaches’ of their licence obligations. The JCRA said there were several repeated failures between January and April 2020.
The cause of most of the disruption was, according to the regulator, JT’s call-handling agent infrastructure. On two occasions there were complete outages where no one could call 999, and on the other four occasions the States police had to step in and field emergency calls.