{"id":7897,"date":"2020-04-17T20:16:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T00:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/?p=7897"},"modified":"2020-04-17T20:16:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T00:16:44","slug":"ministry-of-youth-development-and-sports-aids-in-covid-mitigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/ministry-of-youth-development-and-sports-aids-in-covid-mitigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry of Youth Development and Sports aids in Covid mitigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;\">As part of the mitigation efforts to reduce the transmission of the corona virus, the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports will be contributing thirty five thousand (35,000) disposable masks to young people across the island.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;\"><b>This\u00a0<\/b><b>\u00a0gesture signals the\u00a0recognition of April as Youth Mon<\/b>th as all\u00a0celebration\u00a0activities and events that would have attracted public gatherings have been cancelled. Minister responsible for\u00a0 Youth\u00a0Development and Sports,\u00a0Hon. Edmund Estephane through his Youth Month message has\u00a0encouraged\u00a0all\u00a0young people to model the behavior of wearing face masks to halt the spread of Covid-19.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;\">The disposable masks will be distributed across the island and will target\u00a0young people in essential services including other places of employment as well as voluntary organizations using\u00a0the services of young people.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;\">Youth Day is annually observed on April 14 during the observation of Youth month. In recent years the Saint Lucia National Youth Council has collaborated with the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports to execute a programme of activities in celebration of the island&#8217;s youth.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the mitigation efforts to reduce the transmission of the corona virus, the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports will be contributing thirty five thousand (35,000) disposable masks to young people across the island. \u00a0 This\u00a0\u00a0gesture signals the\u00a0recognition of April as Youth Month as all\u00a0celebration\u00a0activities and events that ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[256],"class_list":["post-7897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","tag-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7897","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=7897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7899,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7897\/revisions\/7899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}