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Tourism Minister welcomes first yacht arrivals in Grenada under new protocols

Carriacou to welcome yachts from Monday, 25 May 2020

This story was posted 11 months ago
23 May 2020
in Business, PRESS RELEASE, Travel/Tourism
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The Ministry of Tourism is pleased to announce that on Wednesday, 20 May Grenada welcomed its first yacht arrivals, since the closing of seaports to recreational vessels in late March.

After much preparation, government had announced last week that it would facilitate yacht arrivals, with strict adherence to health and safety protocols to continue to safeguard the State of Grenada against the contraction and spread of Covid-19.

Ministry of Health officials were present on Wednesday to perform screenings, including temperature testing for yachts passengers arriving at a designated dock at Camper & Nicholson’s Port Louis Marina.

As required, the entering yachts were all pre-registered into the GRENADA LIMA database before being given pre-clearance. They were immediately placed on the requisite 14-day quarantine at 2 approved locations. At the end of the quarantine period, crew will be given formal clearance by Immigration and Customs, only after receiving a negative Covid-19 test result and health clearance from the Ministry of Health.

The designated entities, the Marine & Yachting Association of Grenada (MAYAG) in Grenada, and the Carriacou Marine Tyrell Bay Marina in Carriacou, as well as the Immigration Department and the Royal Grenada Police Force, are responsible for collecting and sharing all yacht arrival pre-registration information. Following the receipt of the information, yachts are then provided with authorised entry dates from the Grenada Immigration Department.

Minister for Tourism and Civil Aviation, Hon. Dr Clarice Modeste-Curwen, led a delegation, which included the Chairman of the Grenada Tourism Authority (GTA), Brenda Hood, to welcome 2 of the yachts into Grenada on Wednesday, and expressed her gratitude to the government agencies and private sector partners for their successful collaboration in preparing and operationalising the integrated yacht arrivals sequencing protocol.

According to the minister, “The Cabinet and National Covid-19 Response Team are satisfied that the implemented health and safety protocols will allow yachts a safe-haven in Grenada for the hurricane season, while ensuring the safety of all citizens, and contributing to the rebound of our economy.”

Provisioning protocols have been prepared for implementation at the Port Louis Marina, Grenada, and at Carriacou Marine for yachts needing water, essential supplies and fuel during quarantine.

Just over 700 yachts are registered and scheduled, and will be facilitated through this plan over the coming months.

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  1. Terence Joyette says:
    11 months ago

    You can come and be advised there is a test for you and the other couple and a14day grace period as to when you can start mingling with the Grenadian People whom you love so much :). Thanks.

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  2. Robin Woodward says:
    11 months ago

    I left Grenadan on the 18th of March, after spending almost 6 months. At the airport I was made to feel responsible for this virus! Which is obviously impossible. So I am pleased to hear the return of any tourism back to the island, Economy needs it. so I hope on my return home again I am treated Better by the authorities than when I left.

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  3. Robin Woodward says:
    11 months ago

    I left Grenadan on the 18th of March, after spending almost 6 months. At the airport I was made to feel responsible for this virus! Which is obviously impossible. So I am pleased to hear the return of any tourism back to the island, Economy needs it. so I hope on my return home again I am treated Better by the authorities than when I left.

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  4. John Thomas says:
    11 months ago

    Just when we, Indigenous Grenadians, thought that we had seen the most absurd and inappropriate sort of behaviour from these good-for-nothing people who proclaim to represent our interests, they then engage in something else unimaginable and that beats all cock fight.

    These good-for-nothing people have actively worked day and night, jumping hills and valleys to ensure that Indigenous Grenadians are dispossessed, when it comes to anything of value and consequence on this island where our ancestors were dumped in chains under chattel slavery. This is partly why our young males and females are left to drink rum and peddle weed as hopeless solutions.

    Now, these good-for-nothing people are going all out to ensure that Indigenous Grenadians are potentially put at tremendous risk by allowing people on yachts to enter our island at this critical time.

    What is the value and benefits to Indigenous Grenadian of such reckless and misguided actions? These same good-for-nothing people have given away all of the marinas and sea coast to foreigners so any yacht entering this island is of little or no benefits to Indigenous Grenadians. Yet, Indigenous Grenadians will have to face all the potential and real risks associated with this decision.

    It is ironic that these good-for-nothing people are telling us to sit by and relax because suddenly they have become world experts in heath care and disease prevention. Maybe the Car Sales person in the Ministry of Health, who seems to despise Indigenous Grenadians so much, received some emergency health-care credentials via email.

    These good-for-nothing people seem to forgot that right now families of Indigenous Grenadians’ Patients have to walk, with vials of blood in their hands under 35 degrees Celsius, from the General Hospital to the nearest private medical laboratory, in order for relevant tests to be conducted.

    The Cubans, whom we continue to run to for endless decades of health crises and non-crises, and who are probably fed-up with us and our non-sense, are in a better position to deal with this COVID thing. Yet, the Cubans are not allowing foreigners to enter their island currently.

    North Americans and Europeans, whom we claim are in better positions to deal with this COVID thing are not allowing foreigners to enter their counties unnecessarily.

    So how come these go-for-nothing people, who claim to represent the interest of Indigenous Grenadians, are jumping up, frolicking and having a carnival over additional potential risk being imposed on Indigenous Grenadian, who will benefit the least from the presence of any yachts on our island.

    At this critical time, Indigenous Grenadians are left to wonder whether this/we is/are the latest joke on the world market or these good-for-nothing people are setting us up for the nightmare to come.

    It is time that we, Indigenous Grenadians, recognize and change the fact that tourism in Grenada is truly everybody’s business except Indigenous Grenadians business. Way to go Dr. Minister of Tourism!

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  5. Tiney says:
    11 months ago

    Agree wholeheartedly with Linda’s comments.

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  6. Linda says:
    11 months ago

    I’m having a very hard time understanding the decision to let tourist in when so many of our fellow Grenadians are stranded abroad.
    If we are going to risk people coming in, let the first be those who live on the island so they can return to their homes and families.
    Why risk a second outbreak from tourist to then have to extend the time Grenadian nationals remain stranded outside if the country has to go into another lockdown.

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  7. Daniel Panebianco says:
    11 months ago

    Hola, cómo regresan a sus países las tripulaciones de los yates?? Yo estoy en Grenada sin poder viajar desde el 08 de marzo. Quedo en contacto. Gracias

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    • DuBose says:
      11 months ago

      Would two American couples be welcomed at the Mount Cinnamon resort in July? I’d rather not go if the local population was hostile to us coming.

      Reply

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