FRIDAY, AUGUST 26,
2022
VOLUME 116, No.34
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Cricket stalwart passes Page 11
EC$1.50
Vincy USA Picnic Page 12&13
Police gets guide Page 24
SUGAR PRICES GOING UP GIVEN THE CHALLENGES ASSOCIATED at source, cannot supply brown sugar to SVG Even when a regular supply train of sugar resumes, including the prices quoted, retail price for sugar here until November. consumers here should brace themselves for a increase in the could well see an authorized, appreciable increase. retial price of sugar. This is the warning that Prime Minister Dr. Continue on page 3 Ralph Gonslaves gave during his now weekly Wednesday morning interactive programme on NBC Radio. Gonsalves, after he had given a detail account of what is on offer with respect to this county’s the National Emergency Management Organization — options as far as sources of sugar NEMO, the protocol for entry of unvaccinated travelers to are concerned, went as far as to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines was revised on August 18, say that given what is on offer, “… 2022. white sugar would be about $2.40 The Cabinet-approved document states that, per pound and the brown sugar “Unvaccinated travelers to St. Vincent and the Grenadines about $2.05… .” MUST ARRIVE WITH a negative SARS-Cov-2COVID-19 test This compares with a current result.” $1.90 per pound for white sugar The test must be either a negative result of a COVID-19 and $1.75 for brown sugar when RT-PCR done no more than seventy-two (72) hours or three available. days before arrival, or a negative SARS-CoV-2 antigen test In detailing the challenges that done 24 hours before arrival. this country faces with respect to Unvaccinated persons “may be retested for COVID-19 on the import of sugar, Gonsalves arrival in SVG,” the document says. referenced what is on offer from The Cabinet-approved document further states that, this country’s traditional suppliers “unvaccinated travelers to St. Vincent and the - the Guyana Sugar Corporation Grenadines WILL NOT be required to quarantine in a (GuySuCo). Tourism Authority/MOHWE approved facility once the GuySuCo, he said, supplied UNVACCINATED TRAVELERS TO Saint Vincent and the arrival COVID-19 test is negative.” Grenadines who have tested negative for COVID-19 will not be SVG with brown sugar at a price Unvaccinated travelers are also not required to fill out the required to quarantine as of August 30, 2022. of US$560 per metric tonne FOB pre-arrival health form. The move comes as draft entry protocols were “Seen, (free on board), with the additional The changed entry protocols are set to take effect on accepted and approved today in Cabinet,” Government August 30, 2022. fright cost of US$64 per metric Senator and Parliamentary Secretary in the Office of the The protocol may be revised at any time at the discretion tonne. Prime Minister, Foreign Affairs, National Security, Legal of the Health Services Subcommittee, the document stated. Already, Gonslaves disclosed, Affairs and Information, Rochard Ballah said on Tuesday. (Source: ann svg) GuySuCo has indicated that it In the document by the Health Services Subcommittee of
Quarantine lifted on condition