Grocery shopping this weekend will be conducted in 2 groups on each day according your surname. Photo ID will be required.
Saturday, 11 April 2020:
- 8 am to 12 noon: A to M
- 1 pm to 5 pm: N to Z
Sunday, 12 April 2020:
- 8 am to 12 noon: N to Z
- 1 pm to 5 pm: A to M
You will only be permitted to be out on a given day and time based on your surname and your need to purchase food.
Please adhere to social distancing protocols and the wearing of masks or face-covering.
The Royal Grenada Police Force explains the procedure:
I really don’t think the powers that be are thinking this through at all. The volume of community spread in the US is very high, yet we do not have all these restrictions. Grenada has 12 cases and no community spread. While I understand prevention is better than cure, many of us outside of Grenada send money home regularly. Today many young and old had to WALK quite a distance going and coming to get money transfers so they can buy food on the shopping days. It is very disconcerting to know people have this level of struggle to get to town. Not everyone has a car. Additionally, if people are allowed to shop regularly, it is quite possible there would not be as many people in the store at once. Moreover, has it been considered the average citizen does not have enough money to “stock up” before now and really needed transportation to get to Western Union or Money Gram today instead of walking miles to town, standing in a long line, and walking miles back home in the blazing sun!! We all know physical distancing is necessary but compassion for humanity has always been what has seen humanity through the most challenging times in human history.
I would like to know what make Saturday and Sunday different from the other days of the week, seeing that’s the only specify days we are allowed to shop. Why couldn’t be Wednesday or Friday. My dear friends look up for our redemsion draweth neigh.we are living in the last days of Earths history.
How many of us would adhere to the ” social distance” rule? Humans are unpredictable creatures, so, for the first time, Keith made me proud.
I think it’s better 2 be safe than sorry …where as provision must be made 4 d elderly and the differently abled….but if Grenada do get an out break would they able 2 handle it given the health care situation and the location off persons on this lovely island it’s not a matter of monkey c monkey do it’s a matter of using rubbers b4 its 2 late. I applaud the decision I am sure we will thank the relevant authorities after it’s all over…stay safe
No national ID no grocery : for real
Am Grenadian
No thought for the elderly and vulnerable here I am 68 years old. Not being a person who drives a car, I took comfort in knowing that my neighbor had offered to take me in his car to the supermarket this weekend. This was before the “alphabet soup” was announced. Now I find that because the neighbor’s surname first letter is at one end of the alphabet and mine at the other, the arrangement for transport can no longer be.
So what can I do? My partner, whose surname first letter falls into the same sector as that of my neighbor has offered to take my place but, she is 72 years of age and suffers from an autoimmune disease and therefore would be very vulnerable to covid19 infection. The thought of her standing in a queue for hours on end in the blazing sun is completely out of the question.
My request to the authorities for special dispensation to allow me to take up my neighbor’s offer of transport was met with a blank. “Rules are rules” I was told. Thoughtless and ridiculous!!
Why not allow the elderly to go shopping at any time during the given opening hours of supermarkets this weekend or at least, offer them a time slot regardless of their surname?
I am sure I am not the only person on Grenada with a transport predicament posed by these new rules.
More insanity from a Tyrannical Government. There is no justification for 21 days of House Arrest and Curfew in Grenada, there is no Covid19 outbreak in Grenada that requires mass isolation. Just more callous Political monkey see monkey do power abuse on the Freedom of poor people who are being treated like children.
Are you waiting or wanting an outbreak of the COVID-19 in Grenaada to do house atrest and curfew by then it will definitely be too late. It’s far better to be safe than to be sorry. I honestly see your comment as short sightedness tinged with a but if selfishness
Well written.
Our government has gone completely crazy. They’re obviously panicking, not thinking anymore. Open grocery shops every day. Open gas stations every day. Spread people as much as possible instead of spreading the virus by making people come all at the same time.
Our goverment is actively encouraging infections, hoarding and hysteria buying. They must keep their heads and THINK in these times instead of this constant knee-jerking.
Word!
I agree. Spread the people, not the virus!!!
Yep, Plenty educated donkeys in Politics making a bad situation worse.
I find social distancing was much easier before the curfew, when one could shop whenever needed. No ques. Now everyone going hysterical with what they buy, time limited, lining up in the hot sun, not keeping distance. Pretty good way to spread the virus.
As we saw yesterday in Carriacou people still in que 11am and the shop were supposed to close at noon. I waited 1,5h so I know it would have been impossible for the last ones to even get inside of the shop if they hadn’t decided to keep it open until 2pm.
The day the shop was open 8am to 5pm atleast I didn’t expetience a que so maybe should stick to that? Or was everyone there at 8am to get the fresh stuff? Probably.
Grenada is a small Island and if you wait for an outbreak to act it will be too late. However I think the elders should have a chance to shop at an earlier regardless of last name ,to avoid the crowd .