Incidentally, Haiti, under the just executed President, had rejected the AstraZeneca vaccine. The US and Canada, that I know of, are looking for foreign sources on which to dump AstraZeneca stockpiles. Haiti remains unvaccinated, the only such nation in the Americas.

https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/world/americas/2021-06-09-haiti-has-no-covid-19-vaccines/

#Haiti #Caribbean #covid19

This past Saturday, protesters came out against "vaccine" mandates in Antigua. They were met by police in riot gear and attacked with tear gas. Protests are spreading across the English-speaking and other parts of the Caribbean, including St. Vincent, Barbados, and Guadeloupe in this past week alone.

https://antiguaobserver.com/residents-protest-riot-police-try-to-disperse-crowd/

#covid19 #protests #AntiguaBarbuda #Caribbean

Statement from the leader of the opposition Democratic National Alliance in Antigua:

The Democratic National Alliance (DNA) denounces in the strongest terms the excessive use of force and the unprovoked responses by law enforcement officers that was unleashed on citizens and residents who gathered peacefully at the public market hours ago. All evidence points to citizens and residents who gathered to air their grievances and to demonstrate their opposition to the government’s responses to the management of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly the move to mandate vaccines for certain workers and the denial of civil liberties for the unvaccinated population. Further, the protestors voiced their serious opposition to the government’s plan to vaccinate children.

In a callous and vain display of state power, the brutal and oppressive crack down on peaceful protestors at the hands of officers in riot gear, was irresponsible and was executed indiscriminately, without care, compassion or concern for the protestors, who included children, on-lookers, bus operators, passersby and persons who reside in the area and who were in their homes....

....Further, the DNA notes the irony that the unfortunate events unfolded in front of the bust of the Father of the Nation who is credited and largely revered as having fought to secure the freedoms of the masses against the myriad of injustices exacted by the plantocrats who ruled our country with impunity! A trade unionist himself, many of his actions on behalf of workers also involved protests and acts of civil disobedience. Surely, Sir VC Bird must be rolling in his grave.

The DNA calls upon the people of Antigua and Barbuda to stand up against this autocratic regime which has shown nothing but contempt for our lives and livelihoods. We call upon civil society organizations, the churches, the unions, non-governmental organizations, citizens in the Diaspora, the international community to condemn the actions of the police and those who sanctioned them....

The DNA appreciates the psychological, financial and social violence with which our people have contended for well over eighteen months....

https://antiguaobserver.com/dna-denounces-excess-use-of-force-on-peaceful-protesters/

#covid19 #AntiguaBarbuda #Caribbean #protests

ANTI-MANDATED INJECTION PROTEST IN BARBADOS

EXTRACTS:

A groundswell of opposition to the COVID-19 vaccines and mandatory inoculation is taking a coordinated form, with activists and religious groups urging boycotts, protest and marches to coincide with similar movements in neighbouring Caribbean territories.

Self-styled social activist Winston Clarke, a Rastafarian group and the Nation of Islam are part of a newly formed coalition to press the authorities against introducing vaccine mandates.

A march, to be held on Saturday has been organized in response to plans by the Mia Mottley administration for possible mandated COVID-19 vaccinations among frontline workers. While members of the Social Partnership at large have expressed their support for regular testing and vaccinations, the topic of vaccine mandates has seen noted push back from a vocal sections of society.

Clarke called for a boycott of stores and restaurants that favour vaccine mandates, claiming his stance was the “majority” opinion.

“Instead of reacting, we need to be proactive,” said Clarke. “If you find that there are businesses that are going against the majority, because we are the majority, we need to maybe boycott some businesses. Businesses like Lionel C. Hill [supermarket], Tides [restaurant], we need to boycott them, and just stop and they will see the error of their ways because we are the majority.”

Clarke further suggested that Saturday’s march, from Pelican Village to Independence Square, is timed to coincide with similar protests in other CARICOM member states against mandatory vaccine legislation....

Emmanuel Beryllia of the Rastafarian Progressive Movement: “The idea is that if you reach a point now in Barbados that if you go against [and] decide you don’t want to be a part of this particular experience which is called the vaccine, same way how people have a right to choose to do it, there are others who have a right to choose not to. If you are going to mandate something that is experimental, which by the way is completely illegal, then it tells us we as a nation are headed in a direction that people need to start paying attention.

“What we are doing is bringing focus to the changes that are coming to the people, and our hope and nothing else is to educate the public. This is not a protest against the Government, this is not anti-anything, we are pro-life, and because we are pro-life, we are taking the choice to preserve life.”

https://barbadostoday.bb/2021/08/06/vax-protest/

#covid19 #Barbados #Caribbean #protests

A few more Caribbean resources follow next—some of the main forces of opposition to mandatory "vaccination" in the English-speaking Caribbean include Rastafarians, many Muslims, and breakaway organizations of Seventh Day Adventists. "Thusia SDA Global Sentinel," one such Seventh Day Adventist congregation in Trinidad & Tobago (present in Telegram), has certainly done its research on the policies surrounding "vaccination" as well as studies of the "vaccines" themselves.

In Canada, besides witnessing how informed consent has been rendered impossible and is dismissed by state-imposed "vaccine" mandates, I am also seeing that cultural and religious exemptions are not even momentarily considered. No wonder churches were among the first, and the longest, to be locked down: many are actual or potential centres of opposition. Given how much religion matters to particular cultural minorities, I fear that mandatory vaccination is becoming a thin cover for ethnocentrism.

I caught a short video of one of the Thusia SDA members fact-checking a so-called fact-checker who wanted to make an enormous issue of the difference between an "experimental" injectable and an "investigational" one. The so-called fact-checker—speaking with pompous pontification as usual—declared that the "vaccines" are "investigational". What are they "investigating," whether their labels are pretty enough? While not every investigation involves an experiment, every experiment is certainly an investigation. The Thusia SDA counter fact-checker went straight to the FDA, and pointed to the fact that the FDA itself uses the term "experimental" to define "investigational" (see the document)—case closed.

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/types-applications/investigational-new-drug-ind-application

#covid19 #Caribbean #religion

The Attorney Acting for the Responsible Parents Advocacy Group of Trinidad and Tobago (RPGTT), has filed this monumental action against the Government of Trinidad & Tobago: meticulous, logical, and backed by supporting documents (included in the file).

#covid19 #TrinidadAndTobago #Caribbean #Resistance