{"id":122967,"date":"2021-01-24T11:47:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-24T15:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=122967"},"modified":"2021-01-24T11:47:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-24T15:47:18","slug":"gonsalves-admits-his-govt-should-have-stopped-international-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/gonsalves-admits-his-govt-should-have-stopped-international-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"Gonsalves admits his Gov\u2019t should have stopped international flights"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves says his government should have banned international flights during the Christmas season and should not have allowed the Nine Mornings festival, in an effort to prevent an escalation of the COVID-19 cases.<\/p>

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Over the holiday season, St. Vincent and the Grenadines continued to allow flights from COVID-19 hotspots, such as the United States and thousands of persons participated in Nine Mornings, a unique Vincentian festival.<\/p>\n

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And, since December 28, hundreds of Vincentians with no recent travel history have tested positive or COVID-19, with the number now standing at 597 of the 738 cases recorded in the country.<\/p>

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\u201cOf course, hindsight is always 2020 vision. Over the holidays, you should have banned the airlines, you should have [not]\u00a0allowed any Nine Mornings to take place,\u201d Gonsalves said on\u00a0NBC Radio<\/strong>\u00a0.<\/p>

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\u201cBut we had just had elections where both political parties had thousands upon thousands of people at rallies,\u201d he noted, speaking of the campaign for the November 5 general elections.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSo the persons who would have been doing the Nine Mornings would have said you could have 15,000 persons at one rally but now you don\u2019t want to have 400 or 500 at a Nine Morning event, or 200 or 100? And people came home with their families and we [saw] some of these gatherings,\u201d the prime minister reasoned.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cYou take, for instance, we banned Luke Boyea and\u00a0Skinny Fabulous<\/strong>\u00a0from having their big events, and other people, too. But that did not stop people using the\u00a0Facebook<\/strong>\u00a0for 20, 30, 40, people to say let\u2019s gather by Tom Browne house and Tom Browne organised a party and many of those parties were organised across this country,\u201d Gonsalves said.<\/p>

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iWitness News<\/strong>\u00a0understands that the cluster of cases in the Police Force emerged from a house party that several officers attended.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have, therefore, to have everybody buy into what we are doing. There are a lot of people involved in a lot of sophistry and petty fogging discussion. A lot of it is laced with political nonsense. Even take things which I have said before out of context and debating and arguing.\u201d<\/p>

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Gonsalves was speaking two days after he announced two holidays, this weekend, which he pitched as an opportunity for Vincentians to rejuvenate in light of the stresses brought on by the pandemic and the on-going effusive eruption of the La Soufriere volcano.<\/p>

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However, many Vincentians immediately concluded that the holidays were a veritable lockdown, aimed at restricting the movement of persons.<\/p>\n

The prime minister encouraged residents not to go to beaches and have picnics and other celebratory events that generally take place on holidays in the country.<\/p>\n

And, while no specific laws had been passed restricting movement or banning certain types of activities over the holiday weekend, the police issued a statement on Thursday saying they would be taking steps to enforce the COVID-19 protocols, which are largely Ministry of Health recommendations.<\/p>\n

In his comments, Gonsalves noted that up to December 27, the country had just about 110 cases of COVID-19, most of which were imported or import-related.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a spiral thereafter,\u201d he said, adding that the reasons for this \u201care straightforward.<\/p>\n

The prime minister said health authorities had suggested to him credible reasons for the spike in cases.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first one is the recurrent breach of the quarantine by several people \u2014 lot\u2019s of people. Secondly, over the festive season, you had a lot more people coming in than before \u2014 people come to see their families and so on. Thirdly, there were a number of social gatherings, including family gatherings of various sizes, and, fourthly, there has been until recently, a general non-adherence to the COVID protocols put forward by the Health Service Sub-Committee of NEMO.\u00a0 Taken together, we have this spiral,\u201d Gonsalves.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd they can\u2019t be taken single. They have to be taken together,\u201d he further stated.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn short, we have to analyse properly and see what is the best thing which we can do. We have been doing it\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0quite well and then those four factors which I just mentioned in a composite way allowed it to get out of hand,\u201d the prime minister said.\u00a0(iWitness News)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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