{"id":133211,"date":"2021-07-15T07:00:31","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=133211"},"modified":"2021-07-15T07:00:31","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T11:00:31","slug":"reports-on-cabinet-of-wednesday-july-14-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/reports-on-cabinet-of-wednesday-july-14-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORTS ON CABINET of Wednesday July 14, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"antig-2054824996\" class=\"antig-ecab antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/discoverflow.co\/web\/antigua\" aria-label=\"ANU CVP Digital Broadband 1200x400_1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"  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sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1200\" height=\"400\"   \/><\/a><\/div><p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">The Cabinet<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">, <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">led by the Honourable Gaston Browne<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">,<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">convened its weekly <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">me<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">e<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">t<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">ing, held<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\"> both virtually and face-to-face\u2014all members present. <\/span><\/span><\/p><div id=\"antig-3626751026\" class=\"antig-content_5 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ablpag\" aria-label=\"ABLP_Red-&#038;-Reddy_Web_1000x250\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1000\/h:250\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_Red-Reddy_Web_1000x250.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1000\/h:250\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_Red-Reddy_Web_1000x250.png 1000w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:75\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_Red-Reddy_Web_1000x250.png 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:192\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_Red-Reddy_Web_1000x250.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1000\" height=\"250\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">The Cabinet <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">members journeyed<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\"> to the home of Sir Lester Bird<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">, former Prime Minister and National Hero,<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">for a joint visit, <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">to <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">wish him well<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">;<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">the members<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\"> plan to return <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">with regularity <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">when <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">future<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\"> visit<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">s<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\"> can be arranged. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s5\">1. <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">The primary issue which occupied the Cabinet\u2019s attention is the Covid-19 pandemic, its impact on economic activity, and the slowing uptake of the vaccination required to combat its negative health consequences<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s5\">1. <\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">I. While congratulating all those who have been playing important roles in bringing Antigua and Barbuda to zero on new Covid-19 cases, over the past three weeks of reporting, the Cabinet was quick to point out that <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s2\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">an insufficient number of vaccinated adults still challenge the administration\u2019s vaccine program<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">. \u201cVaccine hesitancy\u201d is a phenomenon being experienced globally; in some places, the inadequacy of supply of vaccines has prevented many countries from reaching broad swaths of their populations. That is not the case in Antigua and Barbuda where vaccines are readily available but the un-vaccinated have not been taking the multiple daily opportunities to safeguard themselves from sickness and even death. <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s2\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">Cabinet continues to encourage all un-vaccinated adults to take the vaccine, especially as tourism resumes and many workers return to jobs that had disappeared since March 2020, when the cruise ships discontinued their visits, and very few flights entered Antigua<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s5\">1. <\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">ii. The announcements by both the airlines and the cruise ship operators foretell of a bumper season for tourism. A part of the reason for the expected success has been the <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s2\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">placement of Antigua and Barbuda on the \u201cgreen list\u201d which the British Government utilizes to guide its citizens to safe destinations; and for the Category 1 status accorded Antigua and Barbuda, which the U.S. Government utilizes to determine the safest places to which Americans can travel during these times.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\"> A pent-up demand for travel has fueled high levels of bookings for hotel rooms that have been recently triggered, even in the traditionally low-demand summer months. British Airways has already announced 9 flights weekly over the coming period, and American Airlines has also announced as many as four flights per day from multiple gateways in the U.S.A. Other airlines have shown a similar kind of interest in bringing passengers to Antigua.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s5\">1. <\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">iii. <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s2\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">The Cabinet insists that those government officials and private sector personnel who will be on the frontline to meet, greet and have contact with the arriving passengers, whether by sea or air, shall be vaccinated in order to avoid spread to co-workers, their family members<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\"> and others in their communities upon return to their living spaces after work. Those who choose not to be vaccinated will be required to take a Covid-19 test <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s2\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">at their own expense<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">at least twice per month. The Cabinet points to the evolving unwelcome situation in the British Virgin Islands where the Covid-19 disease has caused a lockdown and where contact-tracing has been abandoned because so many people there have contracted the disease, that it is not necessary to find the origin of the variant virus. The Cabinet will continue to rely upon rational persuasion, inducements, <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s2\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">and no mandatory sanctions in order to encourage all workers, who are likely to have direct or indirect contact with visitors, to take the vaccine. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s5\">1. <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">iv. <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s6\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">The Cabinet agreed that all persons entering Antigua and Barbuda who have not been fully vaccinated will be required, upon arrival, at their expense, to proceed to bio-secure places such as hotels, air BNBs and guest houses that have been certified<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s2\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\"> by the Central Board of Health<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s6\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">. The Cabinet discourages travel away from Antigua by residents and nationals who have not taken the vaccine&#8211;which is free. Upon return, they will be required to pay the hotels and other places where they will be compelled to stay; the Government will no longer be operating a quarantine center at the Jolly Beach after those who are there complete their quarantine. The hotel is to be put back into regular service in order to receive paying guests, discontinuing the practice of utilizing their rooms for housing un-vaccinated persons who are required to quarantine. This new policy takes effect almost immediately, in order to allow the hotel to begin sprucing up its property for the receipt of visiting guests. The Government will rely principally on rooms at the former U.S. Base to accommodate quarantined passengers.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s5\">1. <\/span><span class=\"s6\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">v. <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s2\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">The Promoters of Fetes and other mass events were invited to Cabinet alongside the Chief Medical Officer and the doctor responsible for the operation of the Laboratory at the Sir Lester Bird Mount St. John Medical Center, the Police Commissioner, his Deputies and other top brass, to assist the Cabinet in forging a rational policy governing authorized events and other large gatherings that are not authorized<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s6\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">. Following intense discussions, it was agreed that no authorized event may exceed 300 people although the authorized event of this coming Sunday, to be held at the Coolidge Cricket Grounds, was initially capped at 250 paying guests; the organizers and security will number about 50 people, thereby allowing a maximum of 300. \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s2\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s5\">1. <\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">vi. <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s2\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">The Minister of Health reported that the second 1,000 doses of the SputnikV is arriving Antigua next week; that will allow the commencement of the use of the SputnikV as another in the arsenal of vaccines that can be used to inoculate residents and nationals of Antigua and Barbuda. <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">The Chinese Sinopharm and the Oxford Astrazenica are the other two vaccines that are now available. Virtually all the supplies and the authorizations for use have been secured, allowing the Ministry to devise a use-policy that is intelligence-driven.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s5\">2. <\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) Governor and the Bank\u2019s Head of the Risk Assessment Department held an hour-long Zoom meeting with the Cabinet, in order to introduce the D-Cash system that the ECCB is introducing in its eight members\u2019 territories. The Governor made it clear that it is not a Crypto currency. It will utilize block and chain technology to record immutable uses of the card by those who will choose to use it. There are current limitations on the amounts that can be placed on the card, and the value does not change until used. No interest is paid on balances, but the convenience of use without having to carry large quantities of cash, whether by consumers or merchants, will make the D-Cash ECCB card very attractive. Many questions were posed by members of Cabinet, all of which were answered by the Governor or his Risk Assessment Manager, giving the clear impression that the introduction of the card has been clearly thought-out. A date for its launch in Antigua will shortly be announced.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s5\">3. <\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">It was reported to Cabinet, while in session, that Mehul Choksi was returned from Dominica. The extradition case brought against him and the case of his loss of Antigua and Barbuda citizenship will continue in Antigua. The Royal Police Force of Antigua and Barbuda continues to investigate Choksi\u2019s claim of kidnapping. \u00a0 <\/span><\/span><a name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"s9\">\n<div class=\"s8\">\n<p><a><span class=\"s7\"><span class=\"bumpedFont20\">1<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"antig-3440636685\" class=\"antig-in-comments_2 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/@hadeedmotorsltd\" aria-label=\"Hadeed_WEB_Banner_MG-2\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1000\/h:250\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Hadeed_WEB_Banner_MG-2.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1000\/h:250\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Hadeed_WEB_Banner_MG-2.png 1000w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:75\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Hadeed_WEB_Banner_MG-2.png 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:192\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Hadeed_WEB_Banner_MG-2.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1000\" height=\"250\"   \/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cabinet, led by the Honourable Gaston Browne,convened its weekly meeting, held both virtually and face-to-face\u2014all members present. The Cabinet members journeyed to the home of Sir Lester Bird, former Prime Minister and National Hero,for a joint visit, to wish him well; the members plan to return with regularity when future visits can be arranged. 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