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Minister of Tourism, Culture and the Arts Randall Mitchell has welcomed the call of Couva North MP Rudranath Indarsingh for the public to get vaccinated, while criticising the opposition's stance on vaccination.
Speaking during the UNC's media briefing on Sunday, Indarsingh urged the public and Carnival stakeholders to do their part in getting the national festival returned by being vaccinated.
In a media release on Monday, Mitchell said while Indarsingh's endorsement of the government's vaccination drive was "tardy," it was appreciated, and said his ministry was involved in the government's vaccination drive through various initiatives.
He said his ministry "has continued for over the last several months to ensure that all participants and stakeholders in the tourism and creative sectors continue to be healthy, maintain safe working spaces in anticipation of welcoming visitors and audiences through the resumption of the tourism, entertainment, and hospitality sectors."
Among these programmes, the Ministry of Tourism together with the Ministry of Health, he said, began several operations aimed at accommodating tourists while observing health protocols.
These included vaccination drives for the tourism and creative arts sectors, developing tourism health protocols with various tourist stakeholder agencies, training these agencies, attaining safety travel stamps from the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) and continuing discussions with practitioners on plans for recovery.
To date over 2,000 entertainers, promoters, tour operators, tour guides, tourism transport providers, community tourism groups and hotel staff have been immunised.
Mitchell emphasised the importance of tourism and the creative arts as contributors to economic growth and providing income for citizens.
He said his ministry was committed to both sectors and would continue to support the continued operation of these sectors in post-covid Trinidad and Tobago.
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South Africa is one of the hardest-hit countries in Africa with over 740,000 infections.
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Former St Kitts-Nevis prime minister, Sir Kennedy Simmonds, is among 14 people who will receive honorary degrees from The University of the West Indies (UWI) at its 2020 graduation ceremonies early next year.
Trinidad and Tobago has preceded the rest of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in officially launching SheTrades, an initiative inaugurated by the International Trade Centre (ITC) that seeks to provide women entrepreneurs and women-owned small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with opportunities to become affiliated to a network and platform that connects them to markets globally.
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The National Assembly has adopted a motion that recognises the role of farm workers, farm dwellers and farmers in the agricultural sector.
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[New Times] France's return to total lockdown has forced Paris Saint-Germain to again delay opening its football academy in Rwanda.
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By Victor Trammell Photo credits: Sipa USA via AP Images The U.S.-based battle against the new novel coronavirus reached a new tide after Big Pharma announced on Monday (November 9) that it has favorable data to back up preliminary COVID-19 vaccination results. In an extended joint-press release, Pfizer and BioNTech claimed that a human guinea […]
On Tuesday the FF Plus said the Western Cape should consider secession from the rest of the country and become an independent state.
More Mummies Discovered
Around a hundred ancient coffins - Colorful, sealed sarcophagi and statues, were discovered in Egypt as announced on Saturday. They are believed to have been buried over 2,500 years ago and some of them even hold mummies inside. The Tourism and Antiquities Minister Khaled el-Anany informed the public by way of a news conference that the artefacts date back the Ptolemaic dynasty that ruled Egypt for some 300 years — from around 320 B.C. to about 30 B.C., and the Late Period spanning between 664 to 332 B.C.
Dr Mostafa Waziri, the Secretary-General of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, gives the cultural backstory to the artefacts, \"Those guys because they were rich, they were elite, high-rank people, that's why they could buy coffins gilded. they could afford it. So we have another shaft full of coffins well gilded, well painted, well decorated.\"
African Archaeological Treasures
The coffins are currently on display in a makeshift exhibit at the famed Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara and will be later moved to at least three Cairo museums - including the Grand Egyptian Museum being built near the famed Giza Pyramids.
The discovery in Saqqara necropolis is the latest in a series of archaeological finds in Egypt since September as antiquities authorities have revealed over 140 sealed sarcophagi - with mummies inside most of them, in the same area of Saqqara. A site which is part of the necropolis at Egypt's ancient capital of Memphis that includes the famed Giza Pyramids as well as smaller pyramids at Abu Sir, Dahshur and Abu Ruwaysh.
The ruins of Memphis were designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in the 1970s.
Tourism and the Pandemic
Egypt frequently touts its archaeological discoveries in hopes of seeing its vital tourism industry thrive. An industry that has suffered ever since the political crisis in 2011 - only to be hit even harder in light of the Covid-19 pandemic’s travel and sanctuary restrictions.
A top official linked to the Olympic Games suggested on Thursday that a cheering ban could be put in place in Tokyo to limit the spread of COVID-19.
Dr Dayton Campbell and Dr Angela Brown Burke are the front-runners to take over the positions of general secretary and chairman, respectively, of the Opposition People's National Party (PNP) when its National Executive Committee (NEC) convenes on November 29, the Jamaica Observer has been reliably informed.
The best option for the Western Cape is to improve the current dispensation, but also to work towards an independent Western Cape, FF Plus Western Cape leader Corné Mulder said.
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