Kimalee Phillip is a Grenadian feminist and labour human rights activist and organizer who is part of the Caribbean Solidarity Network.
2021 is upon us. Arundhati Roy invited us to consider the pandemic as a portal, a portal through which we decide what ideas, patterns and baggage we want to take with us to the other side. Will we choose to carry with us old ways of being and seeing the world that no longer serve us, or are we ready to courageously make the leap, lighter and with more spaciousness to embrace something different? It worries to think that one of the things we may carry with us through this portal, into 2021, are these outdated, worn-out, old boys’ type of partisan politics that continue to insist that the people are the laughing stock and that those elected are untouchable.
Credit: Sandals
Until last week, Grenada was a rare bright spot in the COVID-19 pandemic an idyllic Caribbean island nation that had seen just 45 coronavirus cases and no deaths.
This week, officials in Grenada are tracing the contacts of 26 people with confirmed cases of COVID-19 that stem from a single all-inclusive resort, the Sandals Grenada. The cluster was discovered during routine employee testing on Friday and Saturday, Grenada’s Ministry of Health said in a statement.
The government had previously reported no more than six new coronavirus cases in a single day, according to data from the World Health Organization. Now, Grenada’s tally of total coronavirus cases has risen to 71.
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