Caribbean L 52 ife, June 4-10, 2021
CARIBBEAN ROUNDUP
people, employed in the Volcano Red
Zone will get income support of either
EC$500 or EC $400 per month for
the rest of the year to help cope with
the lost of income as a
result of the eruption of
La Soufriere volcano.
Minister of Finance,
Camillo Gonsalves said
manly of those individuals
faced lengthy periods of reduced
income before they can restore their
earning capacity, or their ability to
independently support their families.
He said a banana farmer could take
a year before reaping his first bunch,
while root crop farmers might have to
wait six to seven months.
“So their are people who are deeply
affected for months to come, the minister
of finance said as he presented
an EC$117.9 million supplementary
budget.
The fiscal package contains EC$18.8
million in income support for more
than 14,000 Vincentians across the
country.
TRINIDAD
Some three months after Trinidad
and Tobago was commended by the
Director General of the World Health
Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom
Ghebreyesus for its handling of
the Covid-19 pandemic, T&T is now one
of five countries with the highest numbers
of Covid-19 infections.
Trinidad and Tobago, Haiti and the
Bahamas are now three countries in
the Caribbean with the highest numbers
of infections.
Speaking at a press conference, Pan
American Health Organization (PAHO)
Dr. Carissa Etienne said these three
nations have seen Covid-19 deaths double
.Trinidad and Tobago recorded the
highest death toll alone for the month
of May (306) pushing
the death toll to over
470 more than 23,000
positive cases of Covid-
19.
For the first 19 days of May, a total of
162 people died from the virus.
The deaths for the month of May
have already surpassed the number of
Covid-19 deaths recorded in all of 2020
— 127.
It was only as of May 12 Dr. Etienne
said PAHO was worried, as the infections
and deaths had soared in Americas
and the Caribbean.
She had also singled out Trinidad
and Tobago, saying, “Cuba continues
to drive most of the infections in the
Caribbean, although smaller countries
like T&T are experiencing significant
jumps.”
— Compiled by Azad Ali
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