Minnis Set To Extend Lockdown
Nassau, The Bahamas - THE country is set to experience more time under Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis’ emergency orders to combat spread of COVID-19.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Peter Turnquest is expected delivered his much anticipated budget communication in the House of Assembly on Wednesday, but Prime Minister Dr Minnis spoke to the extension of his emergency orders which will expire at the end of this month.
Parliamentarians will debate a resolution in the House of Assembly today. This newspaper further understands that Prime Minister Dr Minnis will announce some relaxation of restrictions on business activities that will take effect sometime in the week after the Whit Monday holiday on June 1.
The country has just began the transition to phase two of the government’s reopening plan, with family islands gradually reopening and church services gradually resuming.
July 1st has been identified as a key date for the country, with officials hoping to resume commercial flights by then and resuscitate the ailing economy.
New Providence and Grand Bahama have been recording few new cases of COVID-19 in recent weeks and no new case was recorded in the country yesterday for the third consecutive day.
Critics, however, fear that health officials are not testing enough people to give an accurate sense of the spread of COVID-19 in communities.
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