good afternoon I am Andrea Chism with the midday news a special welcome if
you're watching on one spot media dot , despite the health ministers declaration
that Tuesday's case at the University Hospital of the West Indies was not a
suspected Corona case members of the opposition took him to task on issue
during yesterday's a sitting of the house of parliament there is something
going on the straight simple answer to that is that we are acting out of an
abundance of caution and that's the responsible thing to do dr. Campbell
also questioned the state of the health sector given the patient's history the
patient traveled from China arrived in Jamaica 14 days ago and now has symptoms
suspect needs there's that but you don't test every patient for everything your
system and the diagnosis to the University have symptoms and you are
going to do a test you are doing that test because dr. Topton insists the
different levels of risk which will attract different levels of responses
but dr. Campbell had a different opinion on the matter China on the 30th of this
month and in keeping with that 14-day period that
they started displaying symptoms last night I went to seek care what are the
different protocols and procedures that we are putting in University Hospital to
treat with this matter the acting chief medical officer dr. Karen Webster Carr
has responded to concerns raised by the na J president about surveillance
activities at the country's airports on Monday mrs. Carmen Johnson said the
screening process for fever is complicated but the nurses have no
digital thermometer we don't really recommend the personal touch so what we
have is the handheld scanners and well the one at Norman Manley provided bad
health is was stolen we do have access to the others at at the airport so there
is thermal scanning done as well as handheld scanning there is that
possibility if we need it so we are working to replace the ones we had in
health dr. Webster car also insisted that adequate measures are in place for
nurses at airports to do surveillance you do notice that public health nurses
walk the line and just check your immigration particulates to see if you
give a history of coming from any place of interest and so the staff in is in
that is there at the moment is adequate because
it's a referral system I mean many of us travel elsewhere have you ever seen a
public health persons from any other country you are referred so your
question by border per second then referred as necessary
the government is ramping up its vector control efforts to contain the dengue
outbreak ten new vector control vehicles were handed over to the Western Regional
Health Authority speaking at the ceremony yesterday Regional Director
Errol green said the vehicles will be assigned to the for Western parishes
Mitsubishi and eight Toyotas three pickup trucks will be sent to the
parish of st. James three to the part of Westmoreland and the two each to Jelani
almost a month ago each of the four parishes received two new vehicles mr.
Green said the purchase of the vehicles is one of the greatest investments in
the health sector he is therefore cautioning parish managers for health to
ensure they are maintained I'm gonna be asking that the maintenance schedule for
these new vehicles be meant to be will be dutifully adhered to if you don't
maintain them then that's none of time the more popular
we spend so much money to move these things on the vehicles buy brand new
vehicles they are not mentioned and when you hear from the showed why - because
it's working RJ R 94 FM is now what radio Jamaica the company says the
rebranding initiative is part of its strategic focus to improve radio
services which will now be driven by technology TV Jays Andrew lately
was at the launch after 70 years of iconic service RJ R is repositioning
itself as radio Jamaica now standing by to speak with me about the rebranding is
the general manager for radio and television services in the RJ R Gleaner
Communications Group mrs. Clare grant I'm going to invite her to speak with me
now mrs. grant why is it important that the RG r repositions itself as really
jamming canal well we've looked at a couple of things looked at a lot of
things to do with the brand and look at a lot of things to do with the industry
of radio in Jamaica as the very first commercial radio station we think it is
time for a number of things to change and that includes ourselves so our gr is
know your radio Jamaica and in that is something that we hoped to be a catalyst
for change because as our new tagline says we're active for the good of our
control what are some of the other imports and aspects of the rebranding
that you think Jamaicans should be aware of well certainly we're embracing the
technology right so our calendar which is a remarkable calendar we were very
very proud of it also has QR codes that allows you to hear the actual movements
that took place so many years ago the first broadcast that famous fight
between George Foreman and Joe Frazer the raising of our plant the very first
raising of the flag and of course Millie small my boy lollipop so though that is
just a taste of what is to come in the future for Radio Jamaica they have a
general manager for radio and the television services in the Argentina
communique group and of course we'll continue to
track the developments in the radio Jamaica rebranding Thank You Andrew and
it's time for a break but stay with us here on the midday news we have more
stories right after these messages
welcome back and we're continuing the news cane cutters who were made
redundant and small farmers will benefit from a 200 million dollar assistance
program given that the demand for sugarcane has decreased Agriculture
Minister Ali Shah says more needs to be done to help small farmers improve the
industry during a meeting at the Golden Grove Sugar Factory in duckenfield in
Saint Thomas on Friday Agriculture Minister Audley Shah assured farmers
that the funds will not be given to farmers he noted that while some of the
funds will be distributed to cane cutters who were recently made redundant
the rest will be used for planting new crops meanwhile he encouraged farmers
who need land to come forward he advised them to present their plans to the rural
agricultural development authority which will share them with the ministry
because your hard work is so the ones that you want to take this
the Golden Grove sugar factory was closed in 2019 by manufacturing
companies separate which took over the business in 2009 with the hope of
reviving the ailing sugar operation and relatedly TVJ news minister without
portfolio in the office of the prime minister McHenry says more should be
done to reduce the impact of a climate change he was speaking yesterday at a
contractors and consultants seminar hosted by the Jamaica social investment
fund mr. Henry says at least 80 percent of the economy is at risk because we
fail to recognize that 80 percent our economy lies along the coast and if 80
percent is wiped out if indeed tourism is the ministers doing such a great job
it is damaged then the growth and the development will also be affected and
time now for a preview of what's coming up in this evenings health report the
next edition of the health report will look at the new coronavirus we know that
there is some spread from person to person based on their testing they don't
think that there's a lot of potential for a direct person-to-person spread
like we had with SARS which if you had limited contacts you could still catch
it very easily with this one they think you need closer personal contact that's
the health report this evening in primetime news and to know for today's
healthy living tip wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20
seconds avoid touching your eyes nose and mouth with unwashed hands avoid
close contact with people who are sick stay home when you're sick and cover
your cough or sneeze with a tissue then throw the tissue in the trash and in
sports head coach of Jamaica's rugby sevens team Stephen Lewis says he's
confident about confident about their chances of advancing from their group in
the inaugural Challenger Series in Chile next month the Crocs have been
in Group B alongside Hong Kong Columbia and Papua New Guinea
absolutely I think we we've been quite fortunate we've avoided some of the
bigger names Japan Tonga Chile so we have a good chance to get out of this
group Hong Kong will be tricky there a professional team there full-time
Colombia and Papua New Guinea I think we can take both of those who would give
Hong Kong a good game talk to go through so we just need to make get out of the
group and then it's all to play for Luis also sees the competition as
valuable pepper ation for the Intercontinental playoffs for the
Olympic Games so the key thing this year is still the
Olympic qualification repechage tournament in France and June as you say
so that's the main thing this is fantastic because it gives us 10 days
together almost like a professional team we eat together we train together we
play in two tournaments so we really help at a preparation prior to that the
first leg of the series will kick off from February 15 to 16 and that's the
midday news I'm Andrea Chisholm join us at 7:00 for the prime time news package
on behalf of the news sports and production teams with afternoon