The Government of the United Kingdom announced new support to help contain the spread of COVID-19 in the Caribbean.
This support includes £3 million to the Pan-American Health Organisation (PAHO) for the provision of essential medical supplies and management support to help public health systems around the region combat the virus.
A further £2 million will be used to scale up assistance for the most vulnerable households, and to help counter domestic violence against women and children.
UK Minister for the Caribbean Baroness Sugg said:
“The UK Government is committed to supporting our Caribbean friends and partners through this crisis. We all face unprecedented challenges with COVID19, and UK assistance is supporting vulnerable health systems in the Caribbean and across the world – to save lives, protect vital services and reduce the risk of future waves of infection globally. In addition to our multi-million funding to UN agencies and the WHO that benefits the Caribbean, this direct regional support will help Caribbean countries to cope with the coronavirus crisis, mitigate the wider social and economic impacts and protect the most vulnerable. The UK stands with you in these difficult times”.
As part of its wider response to COVID-19 in the region, the UK is also reallocating resources from its £400 million development programme to help tackle the crisis and support countries that are most at risk.
The UK is providing support to the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) Regional Response Mechanism (RRM).
This includes COVID-19 modelling and surveillance products for participating states being developed by University of the West Indies, through the George Alleyne Chronic Disease Research Centre.
As a leading donor to international efforts to slow the spread of coronavirus, the UK is taking urgent and essential global action in response to this pandemic. This includes the UK government’s £744 million commitment to support global efforts to stop the spread of coronavirus, find a vaccine and save lives around the world.
The UK government will continue to work with existing partners that are well placed to coordinate the regional and international response to the disease and help reduce the negative impacts on the economies and people of the region.
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This is Antigua. Not a penny will go further than whoever cashes that cheque.Look for new house ah build.
Facts
Read the article. Is any cash coming to Antigua and individual countries in the region? The majority of the funds are going to world organizations to help fight the corona virus. In the past most of the funds these organizations receive do not go to the people but instead pay bloated salaries to the management and inflated contracts. Think Haiti.
Is this 5 million earmarked for Antigua and Barbuda only or will it be shared with other Caribbean islands. The article is not clear?
Lol @bubble butt you are so right. We haven’t seen the $1 mil usd India donated haven’t we?
I agree with you bubble butt.
Most of that money is going towards paying salaries and wages, and pensioners. Whatever leave would goes towards building mansions on hilltop lands, sending wife and pickney and sidelines and bastards around the world for vacation and shopping trips. While the country infrastructure remains deteriorating.
I see most of these comments were made from reading the clickbait headlines and not actually reading the article its self…..smfh
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