NEWS784: October 15 is the deadline for chairpersons and members of boards of all statutory enterprises, state-owned companies, and public enterprises to take the COVID-19 vaccine or demit office.
Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves made the announcement during a call to the Issues at Hand program on We Fm.
The announcement would be the most forceful yet from the government since the start of the pandemic.
“I drafted a letter, a memorandum to the chairpersons and members of the boards of all statutory enterprises and state-owned companies and public enterprises generally that they have also been given a choice to be vaccinated by October 15 or demit their offices, to take their first vaccine by then, if they haven’t taken it yet, I know many of them have”. Gonsalves said.
“I don’t see how we could have the Cabinet vaccinated, and we are asking frontline workers, for instance in the port and airports to be vaccinated, and then the people who are running these statutory enterprises or public companies are not vaccinated, so they also have to lead by example in that regard”. He said.
As of Wednesday, September 29, nine hundred and eighty-four cases are currently active, and nineteen (19) persons with COVID-19 have died.
(3423) cases of COVID-19 and (2420) recoveries have been recorded in St. Vincent and the Grenadines since March 2020.
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Fight fire with fire….
What about the frontline health worker.
Let the msjmc nurses resign….Let the nurses at the cato hospital resign.
If nurses dont take vaccine, go after them first
People dying for real and you’re playing pissing contest.. smh
Yes cause the borders wide open so health care standards must be maintained for everyone. This shows that there is no multiprong approach.This shows that government is compromising big time and in the worse way while people dying for real
https://antiguanewsroom.com/letter-desist-from-lying-to-the-public-immediately/
Take a look at the article above…..
Typical @advice block, when its not what you want to hear, then block .
The reality is this is a game of charades Getting covid while seeking care can happen. High risk workers taking covid home happens IF THEY CANNOT MANDATE NURSES TO TAKE THE VACCINE, THEN THEY LOOK FOOLISH MANDATING OTHERS.
https://antiguanewsroom.com/letter-desist-from-lying-to-the-public-immediately/
Take a look at the article above….
This is SVG, not anu. Get your airport codes correct! Ralph is their PM. Different hospital.
Not well. You need to go do your research before commenting.
I agree, if the nurses in any country don’t want the vaccine and since the days of florence nitengale it is a job requirement, let them be the first to resign.
Nurse. Doctor Emergency Medical Service
Then this mandate will appear fair but both Gaston and Ralph know what will happen if they start there.
Guy that’s where we we are going but that’s something you need more control over (have replacements ready) unless you wish to see much more deaths. You well know currently the hospital due to the covid is overwhelmed.
the truth is the American approach to mandating is best
Gaston Browne,Ralphy Gonsalves think they are the fathers of the people. The populations are their children. Do as I say or else you would not have work to feed your families. People of Antigua and Barbuda remembered what transpired in 1968.We the people stood up to guns,bullets and teargas. We did not darn well back down.
Well, if you didn’t know, as a child your parents decide what’s best until your teen hood or adulthood and at that stage until you die the government takes the parental role. Your parents use the “rod of correction” but the government uses the law to correct unruly behavior.
Except it’s the people that gave birth to the government, not the other way around…
You can call the goverment mommy and daddy, no government ever made sure I was alright. Take on what parental role…
@Butch-er: No damn Governments took parental control of me,myself and I. My motto is like that of the State of New Hampshire,”Live Free or Die”.
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