Minister for Health and Social Development Honourable Carvin Malone has called for a coordinated global voice to bring awareness to dementia during this month being observed as World Alzheimer’s Month.

A limited listing of approved businesses and establishments are allowed to operate under the Curfew Act, 2017, Imposition of a Curfew (No.28) Order, 2020 in the British Virgin Islands.

Minister for Health and Social Development Honourable Carvin Malone announced Cabinet’s decision to implement new curfew order after reporting five (5) new positive COVID-19 cases in the British Virgin Islands.

Minister for Health and Social Development Honourable Carvin Malone reported five new positive cases of COVID-19, bringing the total active cases to 17 in the British Virgin Islands.

Honourable Premier, Ladies and Gentlemen, a very pleasant good evening to everyone. Cabinet has met over the past two days and again tonight I am pleased to be joined by the Premier who will disclose the many decisions and initiatives debated and approved.

Ladies and gentlemen good evening, Let me first wish you Happy Emancipation Day. Today, August 1, 2020 marks 186 years since the Emancipation Proclamation was read.

Honourable Premier, our people of all these Virgin Islands;

Last evening I provided an update on the community quarantine and testing intervention that had been implemented on Jost Van Dyke as a precautionary measure against COVID-19.

Deputy Premier and Minister for Health and Social Development announced that 316 samples collected from Jost Van Dyke test negative for COVID-19.

A team of medical professionals from the Republic of Cuba will arrive in the Virgin Islands on Friday; this is an update from Premier and Minister of Finance, Honourable Andrew A. Fahie.

Mr Speaker, like many our countries in the world the outbreak of the COVID-19 Coronavirus, has severely impacted the economy of the British Virgin Islands.