Caribbean L 24 ife, NOV. 26-DEC. 2, 2021
CARIBBEAN ROUNDUP
St. LUCIA
St. Lucia Prime Minister, Phillip J
Pierre joined his Caribbean (CARICOM)
colleagues in urging
the international community
to meet its
commitment to helping
Small Island Developing
States (SIDS) like
those in the Caribbean deal with climate
change.
Addressing the recent United Nations
Climate Conference (COP 26) in Scotland,
Glasgow, Pierre, one of the recently
elected heads of government in the
CARICOM region, said even as the global
community continues to battle the
COVID-19 pandemic, the presence of
so many world leaders “is testimony to
our recognition that we are at a critical
juncture, a tipping point.”
Pierre said that the SIDS, like his
island, St. Lucia, whose special circumstances
and needs were settled in Paris
in 2015, are in the midst of a crisis for
humanity.
TRINIDAD
Trinidad and Tobago recorded a
whopping 781 new COVID-19 cases, the
highest figure reported in a single day.
Until now, the highest daily reported
figure was 708 on May 21 from samples
taken over a seven-day period.
Epidemiologist Dr. Avery Hinds
warned that the country could begin
seeing near 1,000 new cases of COVID-
19 being recorded each day.
Over a five-day period a week ago,
close to 2,000 new cases had been
reported. The death toll has been closing
in to 2, 000 since the pandemic first
broke out in March last year — more
than 200 people have died of the virus
in the two weeks of this month.
Tobago has recorded close to 400
active cases.
Health officials fear
that now the state of
emergency and curfew
have been removed
there could be a greater
surge in positive cases.
In a 24-hour period last week-end,
T&T experienced the deadliest day of
the COVID-19 pandemic to date, with a
record 28 new deaths.
Last Wednesday PM Dr. Keith Rowley
got Parliament to approve the lifting the
State of Emergency — two weeks before
it was officially due to end.
Dr. Rowley said that the government
was stopping the SoE because it has
been accepted that while rising numbers
of infections would come as the
economy is opened up and more people
are moving around, it is hoped those
persons infected are vaccinated persons
who would not require hospital care.
— Compiled by Azad Ali
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