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“People seem to want to stay home.
But they had that option, but if they don’t
want to take up that option, fine. We have
to make a decision sometime this afternoon,
maybe early tomorrow as to whether
we just tell the cruise vessels, the cruise
companies, thanks for their help because
people want to stay home rather than be
evacuated to another jurisdiction,” he told
broadcaster NBC.
The ships had the option of temporarily
keeping evacuees on board or ferrying
them to several neighboring islands which
had offered to help but Gonsalves said the
latter option was fraught with complications
as authorities there had demanded
negative PCR COVID-19 tests and even
quarantining for arriving passengers. He
said only a very small number of persons
had opted to leave the island.
There were no reported deaths or serious
injuries from the latest round of eruptions
officials said.
As the prime minister toured state
emergency shelters much of Tuesday,
experts reported a massive explosion late
Tuesday, following up on another that was
recorded early Monday. Volcanologist Professor
Richard Robertson said the danger
is far from over and murderously hot pyroclastic
flows are now heading down the
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mounting sides and into valleys in several
directions, even reaching some local rivers
and plains.
This is as Caribbean neighbors, from
Guyana to The Bahamas, held government
ceremonies at ports where hundreds of
tons of relief supplies, potable water especially,
were being shipped off to St. Vincent.
Authorities there report a dire shortage of
water as the system is down along with
some parts of the electricity grid.
As La Soufriere continues to spew ash,
host explosions and deliver flows down the
mountain side, frustrated Barbadians are
wondering whether it is worth the effort
to continue a massive cleaning exercise
as sooty ash continues to drop from the
sky on an island 118 miles away from St.
Vincent. Schools and some business enterprises
remained closed up to midweek as
staff struggled to clear away ash pile ups.
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from an officer.
“With every loss, we learn the parameters
of our so-called liberties, rights, but
also the inequities within the criminal
justice system,” she continued. “Despite
the video footage and police training, we
find ourselves in a perpetual cycle of violence
unable to grieve our brothers and
sisters gone too soon.
“Although we are forced to live in fear,
we will persist with peaceful protests
calling for police accountability because
Black lives matter – period,” Louis said.
Williams, the son of Grenadian immigrants,
also told Caribbean Life: “From
the borough of Brooklyn to Brooklyn
Center in Minneapolis, we lift up our
brother Daunte Wright. Black and Brown
communities all across this country are
sandwiched.
“They are sandwiched by gun violence
on the street on one side, and over-policing
and police violence on the other,”
he said. “They are stuck in the middle of
that screaming and yelling for help and
resources.
“But they are just sent more police,
and this tragedy is the horrible, predictable,
unacceptable result,” Williams
added.
Officer Kimberly A. Potter was in the
midst of a routine training day on Sunday,
demonstrating her decades of policing
know-how to less experienced officers
in the Brooklyn Center Police Department,
according to the New York Times.
“But that training came to an abrupt
and horrifying end when Officer Potter,
who is white, shot Daunte Wright, a
Black 20-year-old man, in his car as he
tried to avoid arrest,” it said.
“Body camera video shows that the
officer shouted ‘Taser!’ while pointing
a handgun at Mr. Wright, who was
unarmed; she then fired a single round
into his chest, killing him, in what the
authorities in Minnesota have described
as a deadly mistake,” it added.
With protests escalating each night
in Brooklyn Center, the Times reported
that Officer Potter, a veteran officer of
26 years, and Tim Gannon, the department’s
police chief, both resigned their
posts on Tuesday.
The abrupt departures came a day
after the city manager who oversaw the
department was fired, and as the city of
30,000 residents remained boarded up,
the Times said.
It said National Guard troops stood
with guns outside of the city’s police station,
which has been the center of nightly
clashes.
In her resignation letter dispatched to
city officials on Tuesday, Officer Potter
said she had “loved every minute of being
a police officer and serving this community
to the best of my ability, but I believe
it is in the best interest of the community,
the department and my fellow officers
if I resign immediately.”
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