{"id":7671,"date":"2020-03-24T16:40:37","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T20:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/?p=7671"},"modified":"2020-03-24T16:40:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T20:40:37","slug":"ministry-of-commerce-covid-19-response-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/ministry-of-commerce-covid-19-response-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry of Commerce: COVID-19 Response Measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ministry of Commerce, International Trade, Investment, Enterprise Development and Consumer Affairs is cognizant of the precautionary measures necessary to mitigate the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19).\u00a0 In order to protect staff, clients, other stakeholders and the general public, it is advised that persons limit their visits to the Ministry. Effective immediately, the Ministry\u2019s offices and the Government Supply Warehouse will be open to serve you from <\/span><b>8:00 a.m to 12.30 p.m.<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Monday to Friday until April 03, 2020, in the first instance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Persons wishing to access the services of the Ministry are advised to contact us as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reception\/Administration: 468-4218<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Accounts Department: 468-4208 \/ 4257, 285-3222<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Commerce and Industry Department\u00a0 468-4238 \/4214, 285-7603<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Consumer Affairs Department (CAD): 468-4232 \/ 4226<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Government Supply Warehouse: 468-4253\/ 4255, 285-7398<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Import Monitoring Unit: 468-4200 \/ 4228, 486-3604<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Small Enterprise Development Unit (SEDU):\u00a0 468-4223 \/ 453-2891, 285-4611<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">International Trade Unit: 468-4570 \/ 484-1464<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Investment Coordination Unit: 468-4266 \/4265, 484-2887\/285-6725<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With respect to the purchase of bulk flour, rice and sugar from the Government Supply Warehouse, please note that no more than ten (10) patrons will be allowed on the compound and the sale of these items will be rationed with immediate effect.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ministry of Commerce solicits your cooperation and understanding as we implement measures to mitigate the adverse impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Commerce, International Trade, Investment, Enterprise Development and Consumer Affairs is cognizant of the precautionary measures necessary to mitigate the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19).\u00a0 In order to protect staff, clients, other stakeholders and the general public, it is advised that persons limit their visits to the Ministry. ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[147,68],"tags":[267,256],"class_list":["post-7671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","category-press-release","tag-commerce","tag-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7673,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7671\/revisions\/7673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}