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BAHAMAS
A 38-year-old Bahamian mother of
seven was sentenced to four years in
jail, after she failed to report the abuse
of two young children.
Senior Magistrate Carolyn Vogt-
Evans sentenced the woman, whose
name has been withheld to protect the
identity of her children, after she failed
to notify officers of the abuse of her
five-year-old son in July.
She appeared in
court with a man who
was accused of assaulting
the woman’s five
year-old and four yearold
sons in a manner
causing them unnecessary suffering
and injury.
The man denied two counts of cruelty
to the children, while the mother
pleaded guilty to failing to report child
abuse.
A report was made to the police
about the physical abuse.
In passing sentence, Magistrate Vogt-
Evans said she found a custodial sentence
in the “very disturbing case”
because she believed failing to report
child abuse was child cruelty itself.
Her co-accused denied the allegations
and his case was adjourned to October
for trial. He was granted US$5,000 bail
and ordered not to have contact with
the children.
CARIBBEAN
Former chairman and publisher of
the Jamaica Observer newspaper, Gordon
“Butch” Stewart, was inducted into
the Caribbean Media Hall of Fame,
during a recent virtual ceremony marking
the 52nd Annual General Assembly
of the Caribbean Broadcasting Union
(CBU).
Chairman of the
selection panel for
the awards, Vic Fernandes,
who is also the
longest-serving CBU president, said his
panel of adjudicators said Stewart had
made a significant contribution at both
the national and international level,
which qualified him for their recommendation.
Stewart, who died in June was also
hailed for his contribution at the highest
level to other media organizations
including the Trinidad Express newspaper
and Caribbean Communications
Network (CCN), part of One Caribbean
Media (OCM).
It was also noted that Sandals Resorts,
which Stewart founded, also operated
an Environmental Media Awards program
for several years honoring journalists
for work done in reporting on
ecological matters and how they affected
the region’s ecosystems.
DOMINICA
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Prime Minister of Dominica Roosevelt Skerrit addresses the United Nations General Assembly, Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017, at U.N. headquarters.
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Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has
issued an appeal to Dominicans to take
all the necessary steps to fight the
pandemic that has led
to one death on the
island.
Dominica recently
recorded its first death
linked to the COVID-
19 pandemic, as the authorities extended
the curfew put in place as part of
them efforts to curb the spread of the
virus.
Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has
issued an appeal to all Dominicans to
take all the necessary steps to fight the
pandemic that has, to date, led to one
death on the island.
In his address to the nation last
week, Skerrit said that citizens should
use “simple, old common sense to fight
its way out of the clutches of this disease
and back to a position of normality
in numbers.”
Skerrit told the nation that he will
not be going to Parliament to pass a law
to make it mandatory for anybody to
take the vaccine.
GRENADA
The Grenada government last week
increased the hours of an existing
curfew as well as rescinded approvals
granted for various social events for the
next two weeks, as the island moves to
combat an upsurge in COVID-19 cases.
Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell
said in a radio and television broadcast
that the measures are not intended to
be punitive, they are necessary actions
which we believe will help contain the
spread of COVID-19 here in Grenada.
He said the changes to the existing
COVID-19 regulations
will take effect from
midnight on Aug. 21,
2021. The curfew will
be implemented at 9
pm and end at 5 am daily.
He said all approvals already granted
for social events, including private parties,
bus tours and boat rides, within the
next two weeks, have been rescinded.
He said the measures will remain in
effect until Sept. 5.
Grenada has recorded 211 cases since
the start of the pandemic in March
2020. Currently there are 30 active
cases and 20 of those persons have no
recent travel history, Mitchell said.
A release from the Ministry of Health
on Monday, Aug. 30 noted that there
were 104 new cases recorded on that
day. Grenada now has 461 confirmed
cases with 122 imported and recorded
its second death.
JAMAICA
The Jamaica government has
announced seven non-movement days
in the country, in a bid to curb the latest
surge in Covid-19 cases.
According to the government, the
days are Monday, and
Tuesday last week;
Sunday, Aug. 29 to
Tuesday, Aug. 31, and
Sunday, Sept 5.
The government
said the tightening of the current cur-
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