As parents and caretakers across the OECS grapple with home schooling and managing young students while at home, the OECS Member States have been working to ensure that instructive reading sessions are made accessible to all students from Kindergarten to Grade 3. Principals and teachers across the OECS have been hosting ‘Read Alouds’ on multiple […]
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Fellow citizens and residents of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU): I address you at a time of great adversity and anxiety for our region and our world. An Unprecedented Moment This moment is like no other. We have to go back more than 100 years to the 1918 Spanish flu to begin to comprehend […]
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NEW YORK CITY (WABC) — New York City public schools will be closed for the rest of the academic year because of the coronavirus crisis, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Saturday. De Blasio said it would not be viable or safe to bring schools back as the crisis continues to churn in New York, the […]
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(BBC) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been moved to intensive care in hospital after his coronavirus symptoms “worsened”, Downing Street has said. Mr Johnson has asked Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to deputise “where necessary”, a spokesman added. The prime minister, 55, was admitted to St Thomas’ Hospital in London with “persistent symptoms” on Sunday. […]
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ABC News: A tiger at the Bronx Zoo has tested positive for the new coronavirus, in what is believed to be the first known infection in an animal in the U.S. or a tiger anywhere, federal officials and the zoo said Sunday. The 4-year-old Malayan tiger named Nadia, and six other tigers and lions that […]
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BBC-Shenzhen has become the first Chinese city to ban the sale and consumption of dog and cat meat. It comes after the coronavirus outbreak was linked to wildlife meat, prompting Chinese authorities to ban the trade and consumption of wild animals. Shenzhen went a step further, extending the ban to dogs and cats. The new […]
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BBC-The total number of coronavirus deaths in Spain has now exceeded 10,000. The country, the second-worst hit in terms of deaths, has also lost nearly 900,000 jobs. The US on Friday said it saw a record 6.6 million new unemployment benefit claims The unemployment figures are another sign of the dire impact the pandemic is […]
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More than 33 countries, territories, and regional organizations participated in what was called the First Extraordinary Meeting of Health and Foreign Ministers of the ACS to address the danger that COVID-19 represents mainly for the Caribbean. The Health and Foreign Ministers of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) held Tuesday the first extraordinary meeting of […]
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Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the summer Olympics, set for Tokyo, will be postponed after reaching an agreement with the International Olympic Committee. “The leaders agreed that the Olympic Games in Tokyo could stand as a beacon of hope to the world during these troubled times and that the Olympic flame could become the […]
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As the Government of the [British] Virgin Islands (VI) intensifies its response to the global pandemic, Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), all airports and seaports in the Territory of the Virgin Islands will be closed to inbound passengers for 14 days, effective 11:59 pm, Sunday, March 22, 2020. Internally, all non-essential gatherings of 20 persons or more […]
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