good afternoon I'm Milton Walker with the midday news a special welcome if you
are watching on one spot Mediacom the post-mortem for Jody and fern which
was shed you reschedule for today has been delayed again TVJ News was informed
by attorney-at-law I said Buckhannon a short while ago that
the dockets related to miss fern from the Spanish stone and Andrews Memorial
Hospital's were not delivered mr. Buckhannon says the recommendation
to delay was made by the independent pathologist dr. Jeff's afford it is
important that the docket is made available so we have all the facts
before us before we proceed to the postmortem
this is only further delay and with each delay the body is decomposed and
information to seeking the truth is is lost however as I as I've said that we
are told that they're in the process of getting the documents and so we are wait
who know it hasn't been possible not yet as we are insisting that these dockets
calm and if it's not here certainly by twelve o'clock we are hoping that
everything will be here by today so they can resume again tomorrow but precious
time is being wasted by this delay miss fern miss fern died over the weekend
ours after delivering a baby at the Spanish Don hospital she was initially a
patient at the privately run Andrews Memorial Hospital but was transferred to
the Spanish stone hospital after she began to show respiratory symptoms
thought to be due to Cove in 1900 vide nineteen test was negative before she
was accepted at the Spanish Don Hospital attempts to transfer to the victor of
Jubilee or the Spanish in the University Hospital were turned down her death and
denial of care are now the subject of several investigations the Ministry of
Health is reporting 17 additional positive cases of kovat 19 bring in the
islands tally no 2 381 the information was revealed last night
the ministries jam kovat 19 website of the number of cases 232 are females
while 149 are males the ministry also noted that there are no 29 recoveries in
the meantime the Kingston and Santana Health Department yesterday served a
closure notice on center field media located on Trinidad Terrace in New
Kingston it said center field media was ordered
closed for non-compliance under the disaster risk management order the
Health Department said the closure notice will remain in effect until
further notice and the offices of the Ministry of Education will remain closed
for at least a second day after a member of staff was placed in quarantine
permanent secretary and Education Ministry dr. grace McLean said the
offices were closed yesterday and sanitization Anna sanitization exercise
carried out as a precautionary measure after she was informed that a staff
member was placed in quarantine the staff member is a contact of a confirmed
case a sample has been taken from the staff member the result is not yet in
it's believed that the staff member came in contact with other staff at the
Ministry of Education dr. MacLean said the ministry had already implemented its
work-from-home policy and will continue to do so a decision will be made later
today on when the offices will be reopened the closure affected a planned
online press briefing at the ministry yesterday
when a number of implemented measures for the education of the nation's
children Jamaica Teachers Association believes
that the current term is not lost details in this report there's no need
to extend the school year that's the word from president of Jamaica Teachers
Association JTA Owen speed questions have been raised about whether the
school term will be extended due to the cove 819 pandemic which has forced the
closure of schools but mr. speed in an interview with the tbj News says that is
not necessary based on the measures that have been instituted these include
distance learning and the collaboration between TVJ and the
education ministers school Santos program which is air two daily is also a
possibility that is covert linguist then we'll have to take that into
consideration but what about students who should be moving on to high school
cop September mr. speed put forward this suggestion in
terms of depth there's no need to go into having another sitting for Pitt
because we have the grade five scores and we have one school from grade 6 so
they can use those two squares put them together average them or whatever means
they need to use to come up with the placement scores for high school as for
students in rural areas without Wi-Fi services and poor television reception
what will happen to them for the new school year
he says that's a decision that must be made by the Education Ministry
ministry's remit to determine what is going to happen with the children yes we
can have our saying and if we are brought to the table then we will have
discussions with the officials from the Ministry of Education but as it stands
we are awaiting word from the Ministry of Education and we believe that it is
long overdue for them to hold a press conference so that these questions can
be fielded and we the society at large and of meaningful responses coming forth
from the officials at the Ministry of Education in the meantime the JTA
president says he's hoping that the distance learning mechanism which is
being used to know will not be forgotten when Koval passes I am hoping that the
Ministry of Education and our teachers our parents and everybody concerned will
be looking at allowing this online virtual learning to be something that is
sustainable for quite some time I mean nothing substitutes for the face-to-face
interactions but at the same time this would serve as I would complete
main supplement call it what it me to the the full aspect of first of his
interactions in teaching and learning so I am hoping and praying that good
investment will be made machine masters TVJ news the Health Ministry is
reporting that up to Sunday April 26 over 100 persons are in hospitals due to
Cove in 1913 Easter dr. Christopher Thornton gave an update in Parliament
yesterday suspected and confirmed cases of Cove in nineteen have been managed in
hospitals across the island since the first suspected case was admitted at the
sedan's Bay Hospital in February 2020 there are presently mr. speaker some 114
cases in hospitals as at Sunday April 26 2020 are there cases in the suddam our
hospital as we speak Kobe 19 cases and if they are are they from the parish of
West Mullan or they are just been hosts there because of the city I was in
Westmoreland this past weekend at the hospital and there were about three or
four patients in isolation I need to check to be sure that they were there
waiting on test results or there was a confirmed case with the tourism sector
struggling to cope with the economic fallout from kovat 19 the parliamentary
opposition is concerned about the registration of workers in the pension
fund Parliament yesterday approved regulations for the fund the issue was
raised by opposition spokesman and tourism thought to become at Neil
what we need to get from the fund managers from the board is whether or
not registrations way to start know the terms how they're going to do it I think
a new timetable has to be put in place with regard to that as of today we know
160,000 people of work were employed in the industry 120 thousand have been laid
off but 40,000 are still working and they are working two days three days a
week and they are paid you know a stipend in addition they are self
employed who are still functioning so there is a basis for registration to
actually begin on the basis of those who are still in full employed at this time
how we take a break now midday news we'll be right back welcome back
normalcy has been restored in Lake Swenson Katherine following a protest
yesterday afternoon the residents protested after two-year-old was hit by
a stone they claim was thrown by a police officer the details in the
support a team from the st. Catherine north police division conducted an
operation in the lake spent community on Tuesday afternoon the operation was to
ensure that residents were adhering to the loan orders which were implemented
by the government to help stem the spread of kovat 19 however the operation
resulted in a two-year-old being hit with a stone and a damaged bridge it's
understood that while driving through the community the police found several
men working on a front-end loader the police approached the men and a few
minutes later an altercation ensued ammidon I'm all some ears from Conchata
fire when murano that police them runned over a seminoma fix them tractor them
run go over there arrest a man drove all the truck to drive out the back almost
kill after you the most an operator the policeman planting gone Fermi over
the sarcomere videos I'm avid life from a fun and enjoy - enough for me I say we
do the video in Flint one boss so mean I have no time before going to me add him
to come back to me when moco Minami Jana we had funny meme look for me I'm for
another vehicle I'm not so not more to me and in me residents claimed that one
of the lawmen tried to remove the heavy duty vehicle because you see guys like
you want to scare them so it's like you get older country and cannot manage it
so that's how a tariff a bridge policeman I try to promote on you know
know what angle graduate so me come out with my friends and I said get a reader
the bridge camera no ultimately so one come on I said gonna grind on of oil
some except to deliver one Cy Young once said to in say sube madrasah be jealous
of everybody I ran in different direction carnitine and I'm a few years
after the ordeal the residents blocked the road and set tires ablaze the
Spanish town fire station was alerted and the blaze was put out and the road
cleared burns more TVJ news the latest statistics from the
John OP Kings coronavirus resource center shows that the number of
confirmed covert 19 cases in Latin America and the Caribbean
continues to climb the according to the centre Brazil has the highest number of
confirmed kovat 19 cases with a record of 70 3235 the Dominique on Republic has
the most confirmed cases among the Caribbean countries with 6416 Cuba has
1467 cases Honduras 738 Jamaica 381 and Trinidad 116 cases Barbados and Bahamas
both recorded a TK is Haiti and Guyana 76 and 74 cases
respectively other countries in the region would confirm covert 19 cases are
Antigua and Barbuda 24 Grenada with 19 and Dominica with 16 st. Kitts Nevis
Saint Lucia and st. Vincent and the Grenadines all recorded 15 confirmed
cases Suriname has the lowest number of confirmed cases in the region with pin
and here is a preview of what's coming up in this evenings health report the
next edition of the health report we'll look at stigma and Co feed 19 it is
ensure that you do you have at all times practice at all times the measures which
have been sent have been put on radio television as where you everyone average
American should know those measures that we are introduced for prevention that's
the health report this evening in primetime news I didn't know for today's
health 11 tip nor the facts about how Co feed 19 spreads and the risk of
infection understand that anyone can contract kovat 19 and don't be afraid to
seek help to manage your stress in sports to local sport in our
administrators and a national coach iron agreement were the president of the
Tokyo Olympic Games organizing committee that if the Olympics cannot be held next
year then the games should be scrapped Simon Preston reports Japanese health
experts are doubtful on whether the games could be held in next summer
without a vaccine or effective drugs to treat kovat 19 president of the Jamaica
athletics Administrative Association dr. Warren Blake who is also medical doctor
with over 40 years experience agrees with Morrie that the Olympic Games
should be scrapped if it cannot be held in 2021
however Blake says that the organising committee should not rush before making
a decision on the go ahead of the Olympics next year he'll find out
when difficult as it would be with you a little bit no option of this still a
significant enough problem but you would wait and see exactly what happens next
year what is taking place in most business or trying to view of very
fundamental make a decision about an event that is more than 14 months away
is really difficult to do at this time national coach Maurice Wilson says it
would be a major blow to the athletes if the Olympics are scrapped next year it
is meet for track and field petitioners for Chuck and field is the world
championships and Olympic I can understand if it doesn't get to next
year the sentiments because a lot of preparation would have been put in place
and they lost a lot of earnings starting from this year and then for that next
year and then to put meanwhile president of the aquatic sports association of
Jamaica Martin Lynn says he would be disappointed for swimmer alia Atkinson
who is preparing for her fifth appearance at the Olympics if the games
are canceled another four years however with determination and it would
be okay on March 24 the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games were postponed until 2021
the games are now slated for July 23 to August 8 next year if the games are
eventually scrapped the next Olympic Games would be 2024 in Paris
Simon Preston reporting for TVJ sports a Maximillian news I'm Melvin Walker join
us at 7:00 for primetime news on behalf of the news forest and production teams
good afternoon