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COVID-19 UPDATE: 82 cases were recorded on Monday, 43 discharged, two deaths

Published 9 February, 2021

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There were 82 new positive cases of COVID-19 recorded on Monday, February, 8.

These cases include positive results from January 29 to 31. Situations like this may occur occasionally as the Best-dos Santos Public Health Laboratory continues to try to clear the backlog created due to the use of manual extraction in the processing of samples. The Ministry of Health and Wellness is taking measures to have this issue rectified in the short term with the automated extractor reagent expected to arrive within a week.

Health, News, Regional News

WORLD – Japan to discard millions of Pfizer vaccine doses because it has wrong syringes

Published 9 February, 2021

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Article by
Barbados Today

SOURCE: The Guardian – Millions of people in Japan will not receive Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine as planned due to a shortage of specialist syringes – an oversight that could frustrate the country’s inoculation programme.

Crime/Justice, News, Regional News

Update: The case against Mr Leon Natta was withdrawn from the court.

Published 9th February 2021

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The case against Mr Leon Natta was withdrawn from the court.

DPP drops case against Leon Natta-Nelson in the middle of the prosecution’s case. The case was withdrawn after Natta-Nelson’s lawyers reveal in cross-examination, that high ranking political persons or their family members also failed to renew their firearms by the 31 Jan 2018 but were not charged.

Natta-Nelson’s lawyers pointed out that even if the DPP did not withdraw the case, it would have failed as the charge was statute bar having been laid outside six months limitation period.

Mr Leon Natta case was withdrawn from the court against the Team Unity. Mr Natta was formally arrested and charged for failing to renew his ” Firearm Users License in October 2018.

He was also suspended from work with half pay of his salary pending the investigation.

Information reaching this media house that the case was withdrawn .

More to follow on this developing story.

News, Regional News, Travel

Travel Ban lifted for Dominican Republic; PCR tests will be required.

Published 4 February, 2021

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News Source: SMN-News

PHILIPSBURG: — The Government of St. Maarten has decided to lift the travel ban that was placed on the Dominican Republic due to the spread of the COVID-19 variant. Minister of TEATT Ludmilla de Weever announced that the government has decided to lift the travel ban as of February 12th.

News, Regional News

CARICOM national jumps from boat and swims to better opportunities in Barbados

Published 4 February, 2021

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Article by
Barbados Today

It was an act of desperation and a chance to provide for his family that led a Guyanese man to jump off a cement boat and swim to shore.

That was the defence put forward by attorney-at-law Jamar Bourne as he mitigated on behalf of 36-year-old Colis Arlington Paul, of no fixed place of abode, but who said he lived at Rices, St Philip.