Those convicted of an offence under the Infectious Diseases Act or Stay Orders Regulations can be fined up to $10,000 and imprisoned for up to six months. - The Straits Times/ANN
SINGAPORE, March 15 (The Straits Times/ANN): The Health Ministry warned those with acute respiratory symptoms to comply with Covid-19 restrictions after five people were charged in court over allegedly committing coronavirus-related offences.
Of the five, two were charged in court on Monday (March 15) over allegedly visiting public areas despite being issued medical certificates (MC), thus exposing others to the risk of Covid-19 infection .
The first, Nick Foo Suan Rong, allegedly went to Ion Orchard, Orchard Central, Bugis MRT station and Admiralty station on Sept 16 last year.
The 37-year-old Singaporean had been issued with three five-day MCs - between July 22 and Aug 29 last year - that stated she was required to stay at home throughout the duration of her MCs.
Bawani was charged in court on Dec 28 last year for five counts under the Infectious Diseases Act and one count under the Infectious Diseases (Covid-19-Stay Orders) Regulations.
She appeared in court again on Feb 22 this year, and MOH said her case was scheduled for further mention in court next Monday.
Singaporean Foo Suan Rong Nick, 22, was diagnosed with acute respiratory infection and was given a three-day MC that required him to stay at home after he visited a polyclinic on Sept 16 last year.
In the hands of Lesyslie Rackard and her sewing sisters, quilts talk.
Listen to this story told by The Laundress, a quilt Rackard dedicated to her Auntie Maggie Bell Rackard, a domestic worker who migrated in the early 1940s from Daytona Beach, Florida, to Poughkeepsie, New York. Immortalized in fabric, her aunt stands at the ironing board, wearing a blue dress pieced from a scrap of her favorite house dress. Next to her is a laundry basket and washboard, honoring Lesyslieâs mother, also a domestic worker. Two quilts within the quilt tell more of the story: One, on the wall, depicts the North Star, symbolizing the Underground Railroad and the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to the North; the other, on the ironing board, represents the quilter herself.
What it takes to run the oldest cashmere mill in England
Oliver Platts left the luxury of Bond Street to return to Yorkshire – and take up the helm at Joshua Ellis & Co. Here he tells us what it takes to run the oldest cashmere mill in the land
Published: Thursday 25th February 2021
After six years in London working on Bond Street as the Sales Director for a prominent British Luxury brand, I was approached to take over as Managing Director of Joshua Ellis.
I had recently relocated back to my native Yorkshire with my family, and I knew the brand (as do most within the British Textile Industry).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at John F. Kennedy International Airport assigned to the Cargo Control and Enforcement Division last month seized more than 100,000 counterfeit 3M N95 masks in two shipments from Hong Kong, according to CBP officials.
CBP officers made their first interception on Dec. 2 with the second shipment intercepted on Dec. 8. CBP officers consulted with CBP Import Specialists to verify the authenticity of the merchandise and to confirm the possible trademark violations.
The Import Specialists from CBP’s Apparel Footwear & Textiles Center of Excellence and Expertise determined that both shipments were in fact counterfeit. CBP consulted with 3M who confirmed that the merchandise was not authentic. In total there were 144,000 pieces of counterfeit merchandise seized. If genuine, the goods would have had a Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price of $158,400.