good afternoon and fashion brown with
the midday news a special welcome if
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parliamentary opposition has given its
support to the government's plan to allo
for the resumption of some economic
activity as Jamaica continues to grapple
with a covert 19 pandemic calls have
also been made has all calls have also
come from the business community for a
kickstart of the economy with strict
kovat 19 protocols opposition leader dr.
Peter Phillips says reviving the economy
is important to relieve the hardship on
Jamaicans who've lost their source of
income however dr. Philips wants more
information on the plan to ensure that
the resumption of economic activity does
not result in a spike in cases of the
corona virus we have no idea what is the
level of additional inspections the rate
of new infections that they are
targeting before such a decision to
expand would take place that is being
done in all or most of the other
jurisdictions we have no idea as to the
testing facilities that a small business
operator could appeal to in order to
test their workers so they can know who
can come back to work who cannot come
back to work or what other inspection
measures are going to be put in place by
government so we need more of a plan a
clear-cut plan that we can all discuss
as a country at least one tourist
attraction in each area Santana is on a
daily basis counting its losses the
popular Dunn's River Falls and
attraction is losing in the millions of
Shane Masters reports that's how a
source of the Dunn's River Falls and
park attraction in st. Anne has
described with the situation at the
popular tourist attraction the property
which is owned by the Urban Development
Corporation UDC and operated by the cent
and development companies Sadko is
losing million
as a property was closed while its
overhead costs are still being paid in
giving an idea or source told us that
for one security is still essential at a
majority of the properties especially
now to protect against trespassers hence
they have to pay their bills in order to
retain at the service however TVJ news
on the sense that not all facilities
owned by the UDC are closed such as car
parks but what we have learnt is that
those properties do not bring in the
millions as does Dunn's River Falls
which is also a major foreign exchange
earner for the country in the meantime
it was also brought to the attention of
TV dia news that the doors of a false
and park attraction has retained its
over 900 staff complement which are
still being paid according to our source
it is not wise for the property to
continue operating in this manner as
there's no real way to see when the
country will reopen for business but for
Dora Falls it's even more troubling as
they depend on Cruise Lines for the
sales and with the government not yet
saying when tourists will be allowed to
enter the country the picture gets even
bleaker TVJ news was told that so far
the business has been able to survive on
subsidies from the government as
measures are put in place to reduce the
islands unemployment rate now earlier
this week Prime Minister Anja Hall has
hinted at plans to slowly reopened the
economy ocean masters TVJ news despite
the increase in the number of confirmed
covert 19 cases in the country health
minister dr. Christopher Tufton believes
there has been significant progress in
containing the virus speaking on TV
Jai's smile Jamaica via zoom this
morning dr. Tufton said the health
authorities are working to prevent the
sector from becoming overwhelmed as of
April 30 Jamaica recorded 422 confirmed
Cove in 19 cases most of which are
linked to the port more based call
centre allarakha 19 employees of the
Ministry of Health are also among the
confirm
cases but despite the high number of
cases health minister dr. Christopher
Tufton says the health authorities have
control of the virus the equipment and
the preparedness of hospitals I think we
have been fortunate to me good deal of
progress over the past two months we
have created these urban wards and
thankfully they are not all occupied so
so so there are beds available for
patients or of Jamaicans who need to be
hospitalized not everybody needs to be
what just in case they didn't need to be
we have ventilators a kind of being so I
think given we are coming from where we
are now we have made significant
progress he explains that the battle
against kovat 19 has been a challenging
one but he argued that health teams
across the country are committed there
are days when you feel like you really
need to just take a break and I think
that's healthy too but so far I think
the team has been able to hold off
despite ongoing pressures while
returning to a state of normalcy is the
primary goal dr. tough Turner says for
now the focus is on preventing the virus
from overwhelming the health sector
though even though the virus will be
with us will be opposition to manage
that process for a while and when we do
that move on get back to normality and
that that really is the ultimate
objective so I think we're able to cope
even with the cases that are increasing
and if we do our part then basically we
won't get to a point where the surge is
so strong that it overwhelms us Prince
more TVJ news now with Jamaica reporting
422 confirmed cases of kovat 19 on
Thursday there are no more questions
being raised about people labelled as
the most vulnerable in the society one
such group is persons living with HIV
currently over 32,000 persons in Jamaica
are HIV positive speaking last night on
the rgr greener groups of virtual town
hall meeting there were differing views
on whether persons with
HIV were at a greater risk of
contracting kovat 19 yes because they're
falling into the group that are on the
medications remember they're going to
have the various medications for HIV so
they will fall into that group being on
medication and virally suppressed
meaning you're taking your medications
and multi factors in the body is so low
that it can't be detected those persons
have the same risk as a general
population so not an increased risk and
from data a new Europe we've not found
that persons living with HIV or
over-represented in patients with bubut
but in Jamaica
majority of patients living with HIV are
not cared majority of the 36,000
persons living with HIV in Jamaica are
not in care for various reasons and so
those persons would not have a
suppressed family that wouldn't be
controlled and they are at increased
risk of contracting : 19 the
administration of the University
Hospital of the West Indies has
reportedly agreed to release the medical
records of 23 year old Jordan Ferran who
died two days after being refused
hospital admission while in labor the
attorney representing Miss Farren's
family ISAT Buchanan had been
complaining that the hospital had failed
to hand over the requested documents but
when our new center contacted him last
night
mr. Buchanan said the hospital's
attorney assured him the documents will
be released and he has assured me that
he will correspond with me tomorrow and
based on conversations the reports I
know forthcoming and I do take dr.
Gregg's word and we will be working to
get an amicable resolution to the access
of the report and certainly the outcome
Jody and Ferrand died at the University
Hospital in st. Andrew a few hours after
giving birth at the Spanish Don Hospital
in st. Catherine she was initially a
patient that the Angie's Memorial
Hospital
but was but a transfer was sought for
her to the University or Victory Jubilee
hospital after she developed symptoms
similar to those associated with
kovat 19 both refused to accept her a
family doctor who viewed the results of
miss Farren's autopsy said she died from
heart failure alone on the ground at the
University Hospital of the West Indies
the hospital insists the statement was
premature and contained misinformation
the Health Ministry has started a probe
into the matter while the police are
investigating to see if criminal charges
are applicable we now take a break on
the midday news ooh be right back please
stay with us
welcome back continuing the news no a
call this afternoon for the Minister of
Agriculture to fast-track its farmers
market program in rural parishes such as
Clarendon the mayor of a pen winston
mirage is keen to keep the crowd smaller
the parish capital he feels if residents
in communities across Clarendon had
access to food closer to them they would
not need to gather in the commercial
district with over 30 cases Clarendon
has the third highest number of
confirmed covered 19 cases in Jamaica
the ministry of agriculture has this
program which they should start soon
where they will be setting up farmers
markets sometimes something similar at
the farmers market in various
communities around a part so I did have
in discussions the minister to see how
quickly we can start that so that it
would pull somebody crowed away from the
town centre during this closure period
another of the prisoners who escaped
from the map and police lockup
has been recaptured this means three of
the five escapees are now back in
custody TVJ News spoke with the head of
the Clarendon police scene a
superintendent Glen fat Miller
he is a Yas Robinson afternoon
information yesterday about 6:15 the
police carried out an operation along
Brooks Avenue where he was held I'm
using this medium also to encourage the
citizens of Clarendon the continent to
support the efforts of the police and
assist us in recapturing these persons
thank you very much
now two of the escapees 25 year-old
Jevon idhaya who is charged with illegal
possession of a firearm and 18 year old
Colin Bailey who is charged with rape
remain at large a Haitian laksana Thani
who is awaiting trial for drug
trafficking is among those recaptured a
broken water main between independent
city and passage for tins and Catherine
has been damaging the road surface for
weeks it's understood that the pipe
supplies water to several areas of st.
Catherine on Tuesday our news team spoke
with a corporate public relations
manager at the National Water Commission
Andrew cannon who explained that fixing
the main would require a complete
shutdown of the system what you're
actually seeing are three leaks and they
are on an 18 inch transmission pipe or
transmission line if we work if they
those repairs know then it would mean
shutting down almost the entire port
more to deal with those leaks even
communities in Greater Baltimore will be
affected that kind of tells you the
depth or the length of the line and the
magnitude of the problem now in an
effort to prevent water disruptions
during the lockdown repairs were delayed
of a mr. Kanin says plans are being made
to have repairs done soon piers are
going to be affected as soon as the lock
tone you know is lifted or as soon as a
restrictions are lifted but until now we
have to manage the leaks as best as we
can we are aware of it we're managing it
and we will affect the repairs when
there is no longer any lock tone in
light of the cove in nineteen Cystic
helper who shared her story with our
news team earlier this week is this
afternoon responding to the support that
she's received from her fellow Jamaicans
of eight was aired on Monday I just want
to thank all Joey Khan's overseas
everybody I want to thank them from the
bottom of my heart I love everybody
thank you thank you thank you you guys
are the best and I appreciate all of it
thank you guys
now since the story of the single mother
of eight was aired on Monday there have
been an overwhelming there's been
overwhelming support from persons
locally and overseas I never knew that
our little Johnny karate Xavier was so
caring that they would like I get calls
from people that really don't have it
but still just want to give me a little
of what they have and you can join us
tonight at 7:00 in primetime news for
the full story from a reporter Anthony
log the World Health Organization whu-oh
has launched a study that will test the
effect of four drugs on Petkovic 19
patients in a be dose come up with a
theory therapeutic remedy for the virus
the study dubbed solidarity will be done
in conjunction with the Faculty of
Medical Sciences at the campuses of the
University of the West Indies UE
professor Terrence si Miguel Dean of the
Faculty of Medical Sciences you resent
Agustin campus said when the virus was
first detected in Trinidad in March the
University was approached by the chief
medical officer for the latest on the
therapy over he said of the report
forwarded to him on March 30 indicated
there was no real reliable active drug
that could be used to treat the virus it
is proposed that the study be done
throughout the countries where the
University of the West Indies campuses
are located 1004 sports current to
Jamaica tallow as assistant coach
Ramirez Arwen was on the receiving end
of scathing criticism from former Talas
captain Chris Gayle in a recent social
media post the left handed opener who is
set to join this inclusion
zooks for the 2020 CPL season held
nothing back as he lashed out at his
former teammate for what he called a
betrayal of trust here's daniel Blake
CEO of the Jamaica Tyler was Jeff Miller
wasn't the only one to bear the brunt of
Chris gales lengthy rant so when you're
a snake you're despicable
the worse than the coronavirus right now
those were directed at former West
Indies teammate and current ella was
assistant coach rom nourish Darwin the
40 year old accused the Guyanese of
causing division in the team which led
to the poor performances in 2019 the
mortal eyes Disgaea challenge under
players a Monday the manage team
management wasn't getting on sir I want
to be the manager you want to be the
coach but sour not the power for the
team because it sounds like he's one of
the owners put it up with sounds like an
owner for the team because the owners
not not going to be involved with it in
this thing is what's I won't go back
until Horner
Gill added that sar1 was causing
problems even before his return to the
team in 2019 and the amount of complaint
I get when I wasn't there because the
Jamaican guys I still have respect for
me so they'll still you know share a few
things with me the amount of problem
there I would say one roast was a
captain at the time there are motor
problems oven and the captain up and he
behind me keep me in behind the the
deputy captain back and all these other
teams that's the type of that's the type
of person I was gills displeasure with
sar1 dates all the way back to 1996
doing there on the 19 days we were
roommates we share the same room y'all
know the management staff to send me
home from Barbados I will never forget
nothing
I forgive what I never forget that you
tell the management team because it was
the slogan Bulmer Mars at a time that
you can't sleep Christian watching TV
too long are too late in the night
that's what I get sent home for and the
heart heater had a parting shot for sar1
dass don't deal in the a/c straight oh I
see in person I'll tell her that as well
- all right very deceitful and
disrespectful
we know friends all right you stay on
your side stay on my side social
distancing Daniel bleak TVJ sports
no one Wednesday Vitalis issued a
statement saying Saban wasn't involved
in the decision not to retain gale and
that's the midday news on Vashon brown
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