Sunday Restrictions Outlined; AG Warns of Similar Measures If COVID-19 Continues to Spread
Michael Peyrefitte
When it comes to Sunday, the restrictions are tighter. As was announced over the weekend, about ninety-percent of the country goes into lockdown on Sundays. Most businesses are closed to the public, including supermarkets. If you are not too clear on which services remain operational on Sundays during non-curfew hours, today the Attorney General outlined those essential services that continue to operate and cautions the public that stricter measures could be implemented if the spread of the virus continues. Those measures – so strict that Monday to Saturday could start seeing the Sunday restrictions.
Michael Peyrefitte, Attorney General
“The only people who are allowed to move and open are the essential services people mentioned in schedule one. On Sunday, if you nuh work fi the Ministry of National. Security; Customs; Border Management and Immigration; If you are not a cabinet member or a member of the national assembly; if you don’t work in the medical field; if you don’t work for private security; if you don’t work for public utilities; if you are not a farmer or producer of water; if you are not a member of the media; port authority; governor general; national fire service; B.E.L., BWSL, Telemedia and Speednet – if you don’t work for any of those nineteen things that I just mentioned, then you can’t be on the street on a Sunday. In other words then, on a Sunday, everything wah close except deh nineteen things weh I just mention. It sounds like a lot but it is not a lot. So, restaurants, convenience stores, groceries, markets – everything close on Sunday and if you nuh work for the national security, customs, cabinet, hospital, security, B.T.L., B.E.L., BWSL, Port, Governor General and Media. You are not even allowed to be on the street. On a Sunday everything locked down except the essential services I just mentioned. If more people start to contract this disease, the regulations will get rougher than they are now because the government has to take steps to preserve life. So, if we don’t tighten up and more people contract this disease, then indeed everyday will be like Sunday because then the regulations that operate for Sunday will operate for everyday. So everything wah lockdown absolutely completely and then we will have to come up with ways for people to get their food and stuff in their homes and we are trying to prevent that.”
The twenty-four-hour businesses that continue to operate on a Sunday are the mills, oil production, sugar, citrus and public utilities and independent energy producers, as well as port operations.
