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A Wednesday to Remember
Wednesday was a busy day for me.
A Venezuelan navy supply ship left here Wednesday for St. Vincent and the Grenadines with supplies from Saint Lucia, Cuba and Venezuela.
It was another of those newsworthy events that wasn’t deemed worthy enough to attract local media interest, but it was welcome news elsewhere, including St. Vincent, Cuba and Venezuela.
Not that it was a quickie, as the Venezuelan ship spent all of five days in Port Castries.
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But while the media continued monitoring COVID-19 numbers in 2021 just the same old way like in 2020 and speculating on when the Prime Minister may call the next election, NEMO, SLASPA, the Cuban and Venezuelan Embassies in Castries and the Government of Saint Lucia worked to ensure water, special rubber masks and other essential emergency supplies were loaded onto the large vessel – including six Cuban doctors.