Caribbean L 20 ife, JULY 24-30, 2020
CARIBBEAN ROUNDUP
these areas in the last 14 days will also
be exempt from quarantine.
St. Lucia
St. Lucia recently received the
first international flight since the
border re-opened on June 4, 2020. A
total of 131 passengers comprising
nationals and visitors traveled into
St. Lucia.
As guided by the
established protocols
all arriving
passengers were
screened by the health team at the
Hewannora International Airport
Public Health Facility before entering
the airport terminal.
None of the passengers displayed
respiratory symptoms or had a fever,
according to the Ministry of Health.
Many processes were put in place
to ensure the efficient processing of
the arriving travelers at the airport
health facility.
The processing of the 131 passengers
on July 9 lasted for an hour and
a half in total.
The Ministry of Health said as of
July 10, 2020, St. Lucia has recorded
a total of 22 confirmed cases of
Covid-19 and 19 of these cases have
fully recovered with three currently
in care and progressing well.
Trinidad
Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley
said the Trinidad and Tobago government
will not step in to save the
cash-strapped regional airline, LIAT,
by reversing the country’s past surrender
of most of
its shareholding.
The COVID-
19 pandemic
financially hurt
LIAT which now
reportedly now has a debt of EC$35
million, far beyond the usual support
given by shareholders, the governments
of Barbados, Antigua and
Barbuda, St. Vincent and the Grenadines
and Dominica. LIAT is based
in Antigua and Barbuda.
CARICOM chairman, St. Vincent
and the Grenadines Prime Minister,
Dr. Ralph Gonsalves recently
said that LIAT’s Board under Owen
Arthur, former Barbados prime minister,
had said the airline cannot pay
the debts and should be wound up.
Dr. Rowley said T&T was once a
major shareholder in LIAT but overtime
the government of T&T took a
decision to get out of LIAT’s operations.
— Compiled by Azad Ali
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