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‘Extra vigilance needed now more than ever, even when at home’, Offers 8 tips to increase safety

April 8, 2020, 2:40 pm
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By ZNS Bahamas

If there was a time when locking the bolt on the front door was all the sense of security you needed to get a good night’s sleep, that time may have passed. So says a security expert who offers additional tips to remain safe at home. Elston Bain, a 16-year veteran of the Royal Bahamas Police Force, and founder of Tactical Security and Investigators, suggests eight ways to beef up personal safety during a lockdown and extreme conditions resulting from what he calls the “all-important fight to beat COVID-19.”

“There is no question that the policies implemented in the battle to beat coronavirus or COVID-19 are all-important and require everyone’s full support and compliance,” said Bain. “But the flip side of that is with so many businesses closed, thousands suddenly find themselves out of work, many of them out of money. There are people walking around with less than one dollar in their pockets. As hunger increases and the fear of not being able to feed a hungry child increases with it, there will be a spike in break-ins as a result of desperation.”

Bain offers the following tips:  Read more >>
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Sumner: Fear among members of business community

April 8, 2020, 2:46 pm
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Edison Sumner

By Paige McCartney

There is a very real fear among members of the business community about their survival as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, an industry stakeholder revealed.

Principal of Sumner Strategic Partners and Vice Chair of the Bahamas Entrepreneurial Venture Fund Edison Sumner said the fear now being expressed by many in the business community – both in small and medium-sized enterprises as well as the larger companies – is the uncertainty of what is going to happen over the short term.

“There’s a very real fear from the business community about their survival in this economy. Not only during this time, but what’s going to happen after we’re out. That fear is real, but the fear doesn’t mean we have to go into panic mode,” he told Guardian Business.  Read more >>
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Dames: Don't Confront Police In These Difficult Times

April 8, 2020, 2:51 pm
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Marvin Dames, Minister of National Security

NATIONAL Security Minister Marvin Dames is urging Bahamians to not confront police when approached by officers during the country’s lockdown.

He said the social distancing measures are not to harm, but to keep Bahamians safe from the deadly COVID-19 threat.

“At the end of the day, if we’re going to succeed here - and you hear it a lot from the Prime Minister during his press briefings - if we’re going to succeed, it’s going to require each and every Bahamian to understand their role,” he told reporters outside Cabinet yesterday.

“Yes, I would’ve seen one or two of those video clips as well but you know these are very tense times and the thing is you’re not to try and create a confrontation…This is not about having a confrontation with the police, this is about taking measures to keep yourself safe and to keep your families safe.”

His comments came after several videos surfaced on social media earlier this week, showing angry confrontations between officers and locals after Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis ordered on Friday the weekend shutdown of all services in the country.  Read more >>
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Another COVID-19 patient dies

April 8, 2020, 2:58 pm
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Hon. Dr. Duane Sands, Minister of Health

By Royston Jones Jr.

Seven COVID-19 related deaths recorded.

NASSAU, BAHAMAS — There are four new confirmed COVID-19 cases, and among them is a 51-year-old woman who was tested after her death.

The woman, a Grand Bahama resident, died on Monday.

This brings the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 40.

Minister of Health Dr Duane Sands announced the new cases during a live broadcast at the Ministry of Health today.

This brings COVID-19 related deaths in The Bahamas up to seven.

During a virtual press conference, the minister extended condolences to the family.

As of Wednesday afternoon, there were 33 cases in New Providence, six in Grand Bahama and one in Bimini.

The ages of those patients ranged from 36 to 60.

He said the patients were comprised of two men and two women.

One patient has been admitted to Doctors Hospital West, while remain in isolation.

Overall, Sands said COVID-19 patients were doing well, but there were some who were very ill

Five patients recovered.

To date, 393 have been tested for COVID-19.

According to Sands, there was still “significant’ contact spread in New Providence and Grand Bahama and areas east of East Street in New Providence, remain a concern.

He said areas west of Sunset Highway; the immediate areas east of Lucaya and Williams Town were also areas of concerns in Grand Bahama.

The ministers said the deaths underscore the seriousness of the global pandemic.

A nationwide lockdown will take place tonight at 8 pm until Tuesday at 6 am, with the exception of essential workers.

Food stores will remain open for essential workers between 6 am and 10 pm.

Sands said too many people were finding ways to circumvent the orders — a major concern for health officials. (source)
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CULTURE CORNER - April 8, 2020

April 8, 2020, 5:18 pm
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Nearly 200 inmates rioted after officials announced coronavirus cases in a Washington state facility

April 9, 2020, 4:43 am
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Washington state inmates at a prison in Monroe protest after six prisoners test positive for the coronavirus.

By Andy Rose, CNN

(CNN) - Nearly 200 prisoners were involved in a conflict that broke out in Washington state's Monroe Correctional Complex Wednesday night, the Washington State Patrol said.

The revolt included inmates from multiple parts of the complex, including its minimum security facility where the state has said at least three inmates have been infected with coronavirus, Trooper Heather Axtman told CNN.

Earlier Wednesday, the Washington state Department of Corrections said six inmates in the facility had tested positive for the virus.

"All 6 are isolated from general population & receiving clinical monitoring & supportive care from a health care team," the department said in a statement.

It's not immediately clear what the motive is for the uprising, Axtman said.

Inmates have been threatening to set fires and "take prison guards," Axtman added, although she said law enforcement is not sure whether the prisoners were following through on their threats.  Read more >>
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A California nursing home was evacuated after its staff didn't show up

April 9, 2020, 4:47 am
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Ambulance personnel get ready to evacuate patients from the Magnolia Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Riverside, California.

By Cheri Mossburg, CNN

(CNN)Dozens of patients from a nursing home in Southern California were evacuated to other centers Wednesday after employees stopped showing up for work, officials say.

Magnolia Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center in Riverside, California has been hit hard by coronavirus, with at least 34 of 84 patients and five staff members testing positive, according to a news release from Riverside County Public Health Department.

Wednesday is the second day in a row employees didn't show up to care for patients. Thirty-three nurses were brought in by Riverside University Health and Kaiser Permanente to fill in on Tuesday, the release states.

Noting that rehab centers and nursing facilities present a particular challenge due to the age and health conditions of the residents, the county's health department said the centers receiving patients will follow strict Covid-19 containment procedures.  (source)
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Wuhan marks end of coronavirus lockdown with striking light show

April 9, 2020, 4:53 am
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By Joshua Rhett Miller

China celebrated the end of an 11-week lockdown in Wuhan with an elaborate light show on skyscrapers and bridges, video shows.

The dazzling display along the Yangtze River at midnight Wednesday came as city officials lifted a 76-day lockdown in Hubei’s provincial capital, where the coronavirus was first identified late last year.  Read more >>
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Pope says coronavirus could be ‘nature’s response’ to climate change

April 9, 2020, 4:58 am
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Pope Francis said the world had yet to respond to recent “partial catastrophes” related to the climate.

Pope Francis likened the coronavirus pandemic to recent fires and floods as one of “nature’s responses” to the world’s ambivalence to climate change.

“There is an expression in Spanish: ‘God always forgives, we forgive sometimes, but nature never forgives,'” the pope said in an interview published Wednesday in The Tablet, a United Kingdom-based Catholic weekly.

The pope, 83, was responding to whether he believed coronavirus could spur ecological conversion, the idea for people to lead more environmentally conscious lives through the understanding that the natural world is a creation of God.  Read more >>
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Chinese online retailers offer discounts on iPhone 11 as country recovers from coronavirus

April 9, 2020, 5:04 am
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People wearing protective masks are seen in an Apple Store, as China is hit by an outbreak of the new coronavirus, in Shanghai, China, January 29, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Several Chinese online retailers have offered discounts on Apple Inc’s iPhone 11, Reuters checks on Thursday revealed.

The price drops come as the hardware company braces for an uncertain year for the smartphone sector, as the global spread of the coronavirus dampens demand while Chinese rivals rush out 5G models.  Read more >>
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Super spreader: A funeral, a birthday party and a trail of death

April 9, 2020, 5:09 am
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A man who was unaware he had the COVID-19 illness set off a chain of transmissions that infected 15 other people, including three who died, the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said. AFP/File

Washington (AFP)

Back in late February, when the US thought it had sealed itself off from the coronavirus, a Chicago resident with mild respiratory symptoms went to pay his respects at a funeral as a friend of the family.

Three days later, he would celebrate at a birthday party with his own relatives.

The man, who was unaware he had the COVID-19 illness, set off a chain of transmissions that infected 15 other people, three of whom died, the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Wednesday.  Read more >>
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Australian police raid cruise ship linked to 600 coronavirus cases, 15 deaths

April 9, 2020, 5:16 am
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The Ruby Princess

Associated Press

SYDNEY-- Police wearing protective gear boarded a cruise ship to seize evidence and question crew members of the vessel linked to hundreds of coronavirus infections and 15 deaths across Australia.

About 2,700 passengers disembarked from the ship on March 19 in Sydney and it has since become the largest source of coronavirus infections in Australia. More than 600 cases of COVID-19 and 15 deaths are linked the to the ship, the Ruby Princess.

New South Wales police, which boarded the ship Wednesday night at Port Kembla south of Sydney, said it’s expected to remain in port for 10 days with its 1,040 crew undergoing medical assessments. About 200 crew have shown symptoms of COVID-19, while 18 have tested positive for the virus that causes it. The workers remaining on the ship are from 50 countries.  Read more >>
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An Instagram influencer was stranded on the Fyre Festival island as it locked down. She escaped to LA by hitching a private plane ride.

April 9, 2020, 5:24 am
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 23-year-old Kinsey Wolanski hasn't told her 3.7 million followers how she got home from the Bahamas yet. Screenshot Instagram/@kinsey, Kinsey Wolanski 

By Kat Tenbarge

Kinsey Wolanski didn't mean to spend almost a month in the Bahamas. But the 23-year-old Instagram influencer, known for stunts and pranks like streaking across the soccer field in a bodysuit during the 2019 Champions League finals, was trapped in a hotel room with three friends on Exuma – the same isle the failed Fyre Festival was held on – after the country instituted a 24-hour lockdown and border shutdown due to the coronavirus.

Wolanski told Insider that she was able to get back to LA after a stranger sent her a DM on Instagram offering to fly her to Fort Lauderdale on a tiny Cessna-style plane in exchange for $1,000 worth of gas money. It was a risk her friends, who are still on Exuma, weren't willing to take.  Read more >>
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10,000 Cases and 500 Deaths in Africa. Health Officials Say It's Just the Beginning

April 9, 2020, 5:29 am
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People get their temperatures taken at the border between Abuja and the Nasarawa State, Nigeria, on March 30. African countries are working to prepare for the rise in cases of COVID-19 as the coronavirus spreads on the continent. Kola Sulaimon/AFP via Getty Images

By Pien Huang

Coronavirus case counts are rising exponentially in Africa. Since the continent saw its first case, in Egypt in mid-February, some 10,000 cases and 500 deaths have been confirmed.

Public health officials think this is just the beginning, and they worry that the situation in the coming weeks will get much worse. "COVID-19 has the potential not only to cause thousands of deaths, but to also unleash economic and social devastation," Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, WHO regional director for Africa, said in a statement Wednesday.

There are several reasons why health officials are especially concerned about the impact of COVID-19 in African countries.  Read more >>
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What Is Maundy Thursday?

April 9, 2020, 5:32 am
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 Good Friday, we know. And Easter most certainly. But what is Maundy Thursday? Maundy Thursday is the Thursday before Easter, believed to be the day when Jesus celebrated his final Passover with His disciples. Most notably, that Passover meal was when Jesus washed the feet of His disciples in an extraordinary display of humility. He then commanded them to do the same for each other.  Read more >>
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First Coast couple locked down in their boat home in the Bahamas

April 9, 2020, 5:38 am
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A First Coast couple describes challenges of navigating - literally and figuratively - the COVID-19 crisis on their boat home while locked down in the Bahamas.

By Jeff Valin

ELEUTHERA SUR, The Bahamas — There are much less enviable places to be locked down than the Bahamas, but being that far from home carries anxieties. Just ask Joe Weathers and Lynne Muller.

“They’ve just froze the country,” Weathers told First Coast News Wednesday afternoon. “There’s no anything. No one can leave their house, their yard. No stores are open.”

The couple is accustomed to solitude – living on a 42-foot sailboat even while home and working on the First Coast, Weathers and Muller said the social distancing mandated by the worldwide coronavirus pandemic hasn’t been among their greater challenges lately.  Read more >>
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NBA Agent: Bahamas Floated As Possible Restart Destination

April 9, 2020, 5:44 am
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The NBA is considering a number of options in hopes of restarting the season.

By The DA Show

Major League Baseball is reportedly mulling a plan in which the entire 2020 season would occur in Arizona. 

Well, the NBA is reportedly mulling something similar.

“There’s different things that have been floated in conversations, but I don’t know if that’s hearsay,” NBA agent Todd Ramasar said on The DA Show. “There’s talk about having it one city, which isn’t so crazy. One thing that was different was having it in the Bahamas. Not a bad option at all. But it’s all a matter of logistics, too. When you get that many players and team personnel and NBA executives in one city, that’s where it could be challenging in terms of logistics and just managing everyone so that their health and safety is a priority.”

Whatever happens, and wherever it happens, Ramasar’s clients are eager to restart the regular season.  Read more >>
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Bahamas Esports Federation Host League Of Legends Community National Team Trials

April 9, 2020, 5:50 am
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THE Bahamas Esports Federation, which is now a part of the International Esports Federation, hosted its League of Legends community national team trials over the weekend.

The federation, which provides a form of sports competition using video games, noted in a press release that with thousands of eyes on their event from across the world and even in places like Nigeria and Japan, they were satisfied with their results.

“Based on player performances, mentality, passion and other factors, we have picked from those who played to be a part of both Team A Lusca and Team B Chickcharney,” the release said. “Together, these teams will improve and create a better Team Bahamas.

“Moving forward, we will continue to host national qualifiers and tryouts in different regions as the communities grow and as we expand our efforts into growing esports in the Bahamas. We will also continue to have official international scrims with countries, much of which from around the world are eager to compete against us.”  Read more >>
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What's The 'Game Plan' For Economic Revival?

April 9, 2020, 5:58 am
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Robert Myers

By NEIL HARTNELL
Tribune Business Editor
nhartnell@tribunemedia.net

The government must "come up with a game plan" for bringing The Bahamas out of COVID-19 lockdown and kickstarting economic recovery, a governance reformer urged yesterday.

Robert Myers, the Organisation for Responsible Governance's (ORG) principal, told Tribune Business that the government needed to lift its head from the immediate health crisis to communicate a strategy for social and economic revival once the pandemic threat had passed.

Warning that The Bahamas would immediately be threatened by other crises in COVID-19s immediate aftermath, Mr Myers said the government needed to bring both the private sector and ordinary citizens on board and give them an understanding of when business and daily life will start to open back up.  Read more >>
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Bahamas: 7th Virus Death, Highest Regional Percentage

April 9, 2020, 6:03 am
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By St. Kitts Observer

A 51-year-old woman on Grand Bahama was the seventh person to die of COVID-19 in The Bahamas, health officials confirmed today. The country has the highest death rate per cases in the Caribbean.

Minister of Health Dr. Duane Sands said there are now 40 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the country – 33 on New Providence, six on Grand Bahama and one on Bimini. Five people have recovered.

Sands said that of the three other new cases, one patient has been admitted to the hospital. The remaining two are in isolation.

The case fatality rate in The Bahamas has been hovering between 17 and 18 percent.  Read more >>
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