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Countdown To Mars: Launch of the NASA 2020 Perseverance Rover – SciTechDaily

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This illustration shows the moment after liftoff of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The spacecraft begins the first part of its journey to Mars atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch vehicle. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Team with NASA to send off the Perseverance rover to Mars from the convenience of your own home. The mission launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida, this summer, and youre invited to participate remotely with a global, collective launch countdown where you can submit your own videos, take a photo on Mars or next to the rover, dive into an interactive launch packet, and sign up to send your name to Mars on a future space mission.

After a seven-month journey to the Red Planet, the rover will land in Jezero Crater, an ancient lakebed with intriguing geology. In its search for astrobiological evidence of ancient microbial life, Perseverance will gather rock and soil samples there for future return to Earth. It will also characterize the planets climate and geology and pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet.

In addition, Perseverance carries the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, a technology demonstration that marks the first attempt at powered, controlled flight on another planet.

During these challenging times, no matter where you are, you can participate in this launch and help send this robotic geologist on a mission to explore worlds beyond our own, said Michael Greene, the director for communications and education at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which manages the mission.

With local restrictions on public gatherings in place, NASA recommends watching the launch virtually. To learn how, use our launch toolkit. And heres a menu of options for sharing in the Perseverance launch:

CountdownToMars

You know that 5-4-3-2-1 right before a spacecraft blasts off? You can record your own version of a launch countdown video clip and tag it on social media using #CountdownToMars. Your clip may be featured on NASA social media or even on launch day. Heres how to participate.

Send Your Name to Mars, Again!

Perseverance carries three dime-size chips with 10.9 million names submitted worldwide to travel aboard the rover. The people who already signed up can get a special Now Boarding stamp and are ready for launch. If you missed that opportunity, you can soon sign up to send your name on a future mission to Mars.

Mars Photo Booth

While sharing the Mars Launch at Home virtually, take a souvenir photo with our virtual Mars Photo Booth. You can pose next to the mighty Atlas V rocket that will launch the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, strike a pose on Mars, or put yourself next to the rover in the JPL clean room where it was assembled. Just upload your favorite picture, choose a background, and download the new image.

Virtual Launch Packet

Get an interactive magazine-style booklet to enhance your launch-viewing experience. The flipbook includes information about the Perseverance rover launch and all the print products for the mission. You can also download it as a PDF.

Spacecraft 3D Rover Experience

Zoom in, rotate, and twirl around the Perseverance rover in an interactive 3D experience. Click and select different sections to learn all about the science tools and instruments that make up this mighty rover.

Watch the Launch and Share Your Excitement

Watch the mission briefings and other Mars 2020 programming on NASA TV, culminating with the launch on July 30. See the schedule for Perseverance programming.

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NASAs InSight lander is still stuck in the Martian soil – Yahoo News

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Theres more trouble on Mars for NASAs InSight lander, which has been fighting a battle to free its stuck heat probe (or mole) for more than a year.

The mole has been making progress recently, thanks to the use of the landers arm to push down on its back cap and embed it in the soil. However, NASA scientists now arent sure if it will be able to dig deep enough to collect the data on temperatures that is needed.

The problem is that the mole needs to dig down at least 3 meters (almost 10 feet) into the soil. Normally, it uses friction from the soil to push itself deeper with its self-hammering action. But the soil where InSight has landed is different from what was expected, and turns out to be tightly packed. The mole needs loose soil to create friction which allows it to move, but the soil where it is located is cement-like, according to NASA, consisting of duricrust with grains that tend to stick to each other.

This means the self-hammering action isnt working as well as it should, and the mole may not be able to dig deep into the soil.

The movement of sand grains in the scoop on the end of NASA InSights robotic arm suggests that the spacecrafts self-hammering mole, which is in the soil beneath the scoop, had begun tapping the bottom of the scoop while hammering on June 20, 2020. NASA/JPL-Caltech

Tilman Spohn, the principal investigator for InSights HP3 instrument, explained more in a blog post: The team continues to be determined, although we appreciate that the task is not likely to become easier, he wrote. The team had prepared for the possibility that their current plan would not work, so now they need to swing InSights arm out of the way so they can investigate the hole with InSights cameras.

We will be interested to see how deep in the Mole really is (it should be a centimeter or so below the surface), whether the morphology of the pit has changed and whether the sand that we had seen in the pit is still there or whether the pit has been drained by the hammering action, he wrote.

Even with these problems, InSight will still keep working. It will continue to use its other instruments, such as its seismometer for detecting marsquakes, which can tell scientists more about the activity below the planets surface.

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NASA has a Pretty Big Checklist for Boeing to Fix on Starliner – Universe Today

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In 2014, NASA contracted two major aerospace companies (Boeing and SpaceX) to help them restore domestic launch capability to the United States. As part of the Commercial Crew Program (CCE), Boeing and SpaceX developed the CST-100 Starliner the Crew Dragon spacecraft, respectively. But whereas the Crew Dragon finished testing and even carried astronauts to the ISS, the Starliner met with some problems.

During its first uncrewed test flight Orbital Flight Test-1 (OFT-1) in December 2019, the Starliner experienced some failures that prevented it from docking with the ISS. After a thorough investigation, the joint NASA-Boeing Independent Review team has completed its final assessment and identified 80 areas where corrections need to be made before the Starliner can conduct another orbital flight test.

This latest review was concerned with the intermittent space-to-ground communication issue that contributed to the Calypso (the Starliner used for the OFT-1 demo) experiencing a sustained premature burn that used up most of its fuel. Two other issues, which were coding errors, had previously been investigated by the review team, which recommended that 61 corrective actions be taken by Boeing to address them.

As associate administrator Steve Jurczyk explained in a recent NASA press release:

NASA and Boeing have completed a tremendous amount of work reviewing the issues experienced during the uncrewed flight test of Starliner. Ultimately, everything weve found will help us improve as we move forward in the development and testing of Starliner, and in our future work with commercial industry as a whole.

With the completion of the investigations third and final focus area, Boeing and NASA are now executing action plans for each recommendation. The full list of corrective and preventive actions is proprietary, and therefore not available to the public. However, the 80 actions were divided into five categories, which Boeing and NASA has shared with the public.

For the first, Testing and Simulation, 21 recommendations were made, which included the need for greater hardware and software integration testing, the performance of an end-to-end test prior to each flight, reviewing subsystem behaviors and limitations, and addressing any identified simulation or emulation gaps.

The second category, Requirements, included 10 recommendations, which recommended an assessment of all software requirements with multiple logic conditions to ensure test coverage. Next up was the Process and Operational Improvements, which included 35 recommendations for software, test data, and safety review processes.

A further 7 recommendations were made in the Software category, which called for the updating of software code and a more robust antenna selection algorithm to correct the elapsed timing error that led to the Calypsos premature engine burn, as well as the Service Module Disposal Burn anomaly that occurred during the crew and service module separation sequence.

Lastly, there were the 7 recommendations that fell into the Knowledge Capture and Hardware Modification. These included organizational changes to the safety reporting and Independent Validation and Verification (IV&V) approach, as well as the addition of an external Radio Frequency (RF) filter to prevent interference from satellites or other spacecraft in the vicinity.

Moving forward, the Independent Review Team has been asked to remain on board as Boeing and NASA execute their action plans. This past April, Boening indicated that once the corrective measures are complete, it will provide a second orbital test for free (which will including docking with the ISS) to demonstrate that the Starliner meets the needs of NASA and the CCP program. Said Jurczyk:

As vital as it is to understand the technical causes that resulted in the flight test not fulfilling all of its planned objectives, its equally as important to understand how those causes connect to organizational factors that could be contributors. Thats why NASA also decided to perform a high visibility close call review that looked at our combined teams.

In addition, NASA has completed its own high-visibility close call investigation into the test flight, which is required whenever a high-profile mission fails. This investigation reviewed the organizational factors within NASA and Boeing that may have contributed to the flight test anomalies and producing recommendations that would help avoid any future close calls.

Based on their findings, the team recommended that the NASA Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate incorporate a number of guidelines into future programs. These all came down to ensuring that NASA vets future contractors to ensure that their management and verification approaches meet the administrations standards and that NASAs and the contractors IV&V teams are on the same page.

Another important recommendation was for NASA to develop a best practices document for future programs so that they also implement the shared accountability model used by the CCP. Said Phil McAlister, director of commercial spaceflight development at NASA:

I cant stress enough how committed the Boeing team has been throughout this process. Boeing has worked collaboratively with NASA to perform these detailed assessments. To be clear, we have a lot more work ahead, but these significant steps help us move forward on the path toward resuming our flight tests.

No indication has been given as to when Boeing and NASA will make their second attempt to launch the Starliner to orbit and dock with the ISS aka. Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2). But with both the joint independent review and high visibility close call investigation complete and the implementation of fixes already underway, it shouldnt be long before the Starliner takes to space again!

The safety review process can be challenging and a bit of an ego-bruiser. But in the end, the verification process will ensure that Starliner is able to transport crews to and from space safely and effectively, providing NASA with domestic launch capability and ensuring its continued involvement with the ISS. Boeing is very close to that goal, and if future accidents can be prevented by some additional oversight, so much the better!

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VERITAS: Exploring the Deep Truths of Venus – Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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Under consideration to become the next Discovery Program mission, VERITAS would reveal the inner workings of Earth's mysterious "twin."

Imagine Earth. Now fill the skieswith thick, Sun-obscuring clouds of sulfuric acid; boil off the oceans bycranking up the temperature to 900 degrees Fahrenheit (nearly 500 degreesCelsius), and boost the air pressure high enough to flatten you like a pancake.What you now have is Venus, a rocky planet similar in size to Earth butdifferent in almost every other way.

How these "sister planets"evolved so differently has been a burning scientific question for decades, anda proposed mission called VERITAS seeks to provide answers by transforming ourunderstanding of the internal geodynamics that shaped the planet. The missioncould lend insights into our own planet's evolution and even help us better understandrocky planets orbiting other stars.

Short for Venus Emissivity,Radio Science, InSAR, Topography & Spectroscopy, VERITAS is beingconsidered for selection under NASA'sDiscovery Program and would be managed by NASA's Jet PropulsionLaboratory in Southern California. The project's partners include LockheedMartin, the Italian Space Agency, the German Space Agency, and the French SpaceAgency.

"Venus is like thiscosmic gift of an accident," said Suzanne Smrekar, principal investigatorof VERITAS at JPL. "You have these two planetary bodies - Earth and Venus -that started out nearly the same but have gone down two completely differentevolutionary paths, but we don't know why."

This interactive model compares the sizes of Venus (left) and Earth. To discover more about the similarities and differences of the two planets, zoom in and give them a spin, or use the search function at bottom for more. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. View the full interactive experience at Eyes on the Solar System. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

The last mission to study theplanet's surface, NASA's Magellan spacecraft, ended in 1994. While it providedtantalizing clues about Venus' geology, the instrumentation couldn't providecertitude as to the origin of many of the planet's surface features.

Proposed for a 2026 launch, VERITASwould orbit the planet and peer through the obscuring clouds with a powerful state-of-theart radar system to create 3D global maps and a near-infrared spectrometer to figureout what the surface is made of. It would also measure the planet'sgravitational field to determine the structure of Venus' interior. Together,the instruments would offer clues about the planet's past and present geologicprocesses, from its core to its surface.

AWindow Into Early Earth

Here on Earth, the rigid crustthat envelops the planet is broken into a jigsaw puzzle of tectonic plates atopthe mantle. Convection in the mantle helps drive motion of the surface plates. Assome plates descend into the interior - a process known as subduction - they melt,and volcanic outgassing releases volatiles (such as water, nitrogen, carbondioxide, and methane) into the atmosphere.

Learning more about thegeologic processes on Venus - where the warm crust is a good analogy for earlyEarth's, when the plates were just beginning to form - could offer a valuableglimpse into how these processes beganon Earth.

"The biggest mystery tome is the extent of deformation structures on Venus" - areas of rock onthe surface that have buckled under immense geologic pressure - "that couldbe studied to understand the nature of tectonic activity on the planet,"said science team member Joann Stock, a professor of geology and geophysics atCaltech's Seismological Laboratory in Pasadena.

Producing high-resolution 3Dtopographic maps VERITAS would bring into focus structures that have previouslybeen too small to resolve, added Stock. These structures could include raised topography on both sides of strike-slip faults,like the San Andreas Fault, which is an indicator of major tectonic activity.VERITAS would also look for active surface faulting using something called interferometricdeformation maps for the first time beyond Earth.

In addition, VERITAS wouldstudy vast deformation structures called tessera. These plateau-like featuresmay be analogous to Earth's continents. A leading theory is that Earth's continentsformed when iron-rich oceanic crust subducted and melted in the presence ofwater, producing huge volumes of new, less iron-rich continental crust that roseabove the ocean.

To determine if Venus' tesseraplateaus formed in a similar way to Earth's continents, VERITAS would constructthe first global multispectral maps of Venus' surface composition. If theircomposition resembles that of continental crust, we'd also gain informationabout Venus' wetter past.

AVolcanic World

On Earth, plate tectonics andvolcanism go hand in hand. But what about on Venus?

"Determining whetherVenus is actively undergoing volcanic activity and understanding what processis driving it is one of the really exciting questions I'd love to see answered,"said planetary scientist Jennifer Whitten, a VERITAS science team member atTulane University in New Orleans.

Using its spectrometer, VERITASwould determine which rocks recently formed from erupting magma, before interactionswith the atmosphere have had time to change their chemical composition. Inaddition, the spectrometer would search for hotspots from active eruptions,while the radar instrument would search for active faulting, an indication oftectonic activity.

In getting to know Venus'volcanoes and the geophysical processes causing them, scientists could also gaugetheir impact on the planet's climate and, perhaps, answer another key question:Does the planet's interior still contain large quantities of water like Earth'sdoes?

MakingPlanets Habitable

Plate tectonics and volcanism don'tjust affect how a planet takes shape; they are intimately tied to a planet's habitability.Plate tectonics strongly affects Earth's long-term climate by influencing theprocesses that keep the atmosphere in balance: volcanism, which releasevolatiles into the atmosphere, and subduction, which recycles volatiles back intothe interior. Also, the formation and erosion of Earth's continents have amajor influence on the composition of the oceans and atmosphere. Together,these processes provide the nutrients and a habitable climate for life tothrive.

But what is the delicate geodynamicbalance that ultimately makes a planet habitable? Considering the discovery ofthousands of exoplanets orbiting stars other than our Sun, the answer couldinform our understanding of their nature.

"To unwrap the mysteriesof Venus we have to look under the hood at Venus' interior; it is the enginefor global geologic and atmospheric evolution," said Smrekar. "AreVenus and Earth fundamentally unique worlds? Or are the differences betweenthese 'twins' only cosmetic? Answering this question is key to understandingwhat makes other rocky planets habitable and, ultimately, emerge with life."

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If Crypto Traders Abandoned Litecoin Why Are Investors Hoarding LTC? – Cointelegraph

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Price wise, Litecoin (LTC) has had a pretty rough year and currently the altcoin is down 51% over the past twelve months. The lack of GitHub activity and planned protocol upgrades have Litecoin co-founder Charlie Lee to admit 2019 saw a historic low in the number of developers working on Litecoin Core, the software behind network nodes.

The beginning of 2020 was no different and Charlie Lee asked for voluntary LTC miner donations to help boost development funding. Uncertainties regarding Litecoin's future have caused investors to lose interest in the project and this is reflected both on-chain and in LTCs trading metrics.

The interesting thing is, even though most would consider investors disinterest a negative driver, some have been quietly hoarding LTC.

Volume is the single most relevant indicator of traders' interest and Litecoin has been failing miserably in this area. Traded volume on major exchanges has been trending down for the past twelve months and has recently dropped to its lowest level in two years.

Litecoin 30-day average volume. Source: TradingView

Litecoin ranks third on Nomic transparent trading volume at $80 million per day. This is 50% above Bitcoin Cash (BCH), and EOS but the figure remains 45% below the previous eleven months when there was $146 million in daily volume on average.

A number of reasons could be behind the drastic change and it should be noted that even lower activity on exchanges does not necessarily translate to less blockchain usage, that has been the case.

On-chain metrics provide realistic insights into transfers, fees, active addresses, and many useful indicators that will be of interest to traders.

Transfer value is a leading on-chain indicator measuring user activity as it adds up all coins moved daily. CoinMetrics analysis provides more precise data by adjusting these figures to exclude mixers and transactions between the same entities.

Litecoin daily adjusted transfer sum 14-day average. Source: CoinMetrics

Daily adjusted transfers have been hovering around $20 million which is 83% below peak 2019 levels. The current level is comparable to Tezos (XTZ), a much newer and smaller cryptocurrency whose primary use-case has nothing to do with fast or cheap transactions.

Charlie Lee's proposal included smaller block intervals than Bitcoin (BTC) and a simpler algorithm which removed the signature from the original data for a higher transaction output.

Such a move might have brought substantial interest in Litecoin (LTC) in the past but it is no longer valid as users became aware that 270 confirmations were required to match the computing power behind 3 Bitcoin mined blocks, according to Luke Childs' How Many Confirmations analysis.

Litecoin mean fees per transaction 14-day average (USD). Source: Coinmetrics

LTCs mean fees per transaction dropped to $0.011 which is the lowest level since October 2015. Although many reasons could be behind this, including 75% SegWit usage, the previous daily transfer value analysis points to weak demand from its users.

While Bitcoins median block size exceeds 1.2 megabytes most of the time, Litecoin averages below 0.2 megabytes despite both having similar capacity.

Low usage translates to small fees, reducing miners' interest and resulting in a negative feedback loop as investors pay attention to the processing power behind each blockchain.

Litecoin hashrate. Source: CoinWarz

The Litecoin hashrate decreased by 45% since its October 2019 halving, which usually raises concerns of 51% attacks. This unused processing power capability could theoretically be used to compete with honest miners.

Either way, there's no positive read of fewer miners directing investments towards Litecoin. Unlike trading, mining activity is exclusively a long-term commitment as the payout usually exceeds a quarter and sometimes an entire year.

After so many negative indicators, one would expect holders' activity to display weakness as both the price and network usage have been trending down for over a year.

One could also mention the lackluster performance of recent code advancements, including the MimbleWimble-technology privacy capability proposed in October 2019.

Litecoin unspent UTXO age. Source: Investificar.com.br

Oddly enough, the opposite holds, as 63.8% of Litecoin supply remains untouched in the past 12 months. In fact, this is the highest level ever.

According to the above Hodl Wave chart, also known as the UTXO age distribution chart, the percentage of coins that haven't moved is increasing at an extraordinary pace.

The number of coins unmoved for 12 or more months at the beginning of 2020 stood at 56.7%. This additional 7% held by long term-investors is currently valued at $209 million which is enough to acquire 30% of the entire DASH supply.

There's no way to assure the rationale behind such hoarding activity, but its impact over circulating supply is a net positive.

This activity doesn't change the fact that the same amount of LTC will continue to be mined every day until next halving in 2023, nevertheless it provides a critical price support level.

Recently, investors have been speculating about a potential Litecoin integration with Cardano (ADA) and if true, this could be a bullish factor for Litecoin.

There is also the possibility of a crypto-market bull trend occurring and as investors begin to speak about an alt season starting, Litecoin might face increased odds of large pumps as long-term investors tend to be less tempted to sell at the first price move.

The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Cointelegraph. Every investment and trading move involves risk. You should conduct your own research when making a decision.

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Litecoin, Stellars Lumen, and Trons TRX Daily Analysis July 9th, 2020 – Yahoo Finance

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Litecoin rallied by 4.47% on Wednesday. Reversing a 1.54% fall from Tuesday, Litecoin ended the day at $45.33.

A mixed start to the day saw Litecoin fall to an early morning intraday low $43.11 before making a move.

Steering clear of the first major support level at $42.65, Litecoin rallied to a late intraday high $45.63.

Litecoin broke through the first major resistance level at $44.27 and the second major resistance level at $45.18.

The second major resistance level at $45.18 delivered support late in the day.

At the time of writing, Litecoin was down by 0.93% to $44.91. A bearish start to the day saw Litecoin fall from an early morning high $45.42 to a low $44.75.

Litecoin left the major support and resistance levels untested early in the day.

Litecoin would need to avoid a fall through the $44.69 pivot to support a run at the first major resistance level at $46.27.

Support from the broader market would be needed, however, for Litecoin to break out from Wednesdays high $45.63.

Barring another crypto rally, the first major resistance level would likely cap any upside.

Failure to avoid a fall through the $44.69 pivot would bring the first major support level at $43.75 into play.

Barring an extended crypto sell-off, however, Litecoin should steer clear of sub-$43 levels. The second major support level sits at $42.17.

Major Support Level: $43.75

Major Resistance Level: $46.27

23.6% FIB Retracement Level: $62

38.2% FIB Retracement Level: $78

62% FIB Retracement Level: $104

Stellars Lumen jumped by 15.61% on Wednesday. Following on from a 2.76% gain on Tuesday, Stellars Lumen ended the day at $0.08537.

It was a particularly bullish day. Stellars Lumen rallied from an early morning intraday low $0.073852 to a late intraday high $0.085486.

Stellars Lumen broke through the days major resistance levels to hit its highest level since $0.086 on 4th June.

At the time of writing, Stellars Lumen was up by 1.32% to $0.086510. A mixed start to the day saw Stellars Lumen fall to an early morning low $0.084334 before striking a high $0.086979.

Stellars Lumen left the major support and resistance levels untested early on.

Stellars Lumen would need to avoid a fall through the $0.08157 pivot to support a run at the first major resistance level at $0.08929.

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Support from the broader market would be needed, however, for Stellars Lumen to break out from the morning high $0.086979.

Barring another broad-based crypto rally, the first major resistance level at $0.08929 would likely limit any upside.

Failure to avoid a fall through the $0.08157 pivot could see Stellars Lumen struggle throughout the day.

A pullback through to sub-$0.080 levels would bring the first major support level at $0.07766 into play.

Barring an extended crypto sell-off, however, Stellars Lumen should avoid sub-$0.080 levels.

Major Support Level: $0.07766

Major Resistance Level: $0.08929

23.6% FIB Retracement Level: $0.1051

38% FIB Retracement Level: $0.14336518

62% FIB Retracement Level: $0.2050

Trons TRX rallied by 4.64% on Wednesday. Recovering from Tuesdays 4.81% slide, Trons TRX ended the day at $0.017942.

It was a mixed start to the day. Trons TRX fell to an early morning intraday low $0.016865 before making a move.

Finding support at the first major support level at $0.01686, Trons TRX rallied to a late afternoon intraday high $0.018168.

Trons TRX broke through the first major resistance level at $0.01790 to revisit $0.018 levels before easing back.

While finding support at the first major resistance level, Trons TRX failed to wrap up the day at $0.018 levels.

At the time of writing, Trons TRX was down by 1.09% to $0.017747. A bearish start to the day saw Trons TRX fall from an early morning high $0.017960 to a low $0.017715.

Trons TRX tested the first major support level at $0.01686 early on.

Trons TRX would need to avoid a fall through the $0.01766 pivot level to support a run at the first major resistance level at $0.01845.

Support from the broader market would be needed, however, for Trons TRX to break out from Wednesdays high $0.018168.

Barring another extended crypto rally, the first major resistance level would likely cap any upside.

Failure to avoid a fall through the $0.01766 pivot level would bring the first major support level at $0.01715 into play.

Barring an extended crypto sell-off, Trons TRX should steer clear of sub-$0.017 levels. The second major support level sits at $0.01636.

Major Support Level: $0.01715

Major Resistance Level: $0.01845

23.6% FIB Retracement Level: $0.0322

38.2% FIB Retracement Level: $0.0452

62% FIB Retracement Level: $0.0663

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Litecoin fell by 1.31% on Sunday. Reversing a 0.22% gain from Saturday, Litecoin ended the week up by 0.60% to $41.59.

A mixed start to the day saw Litecoin rise to an early morning intraday high $42.22 before hitting reverse.

Litecoin broke through the first major resistance level at $42.55 before hitting reverse.

The reversal saw Litecoin slide to a late intraday low $40.75.

Litecoin fell through the first major support level at $41.08 before recovering to $41.5 levels.

At the time of writing, Litecoin was up by 0.46% to $41.78. A mixed start to the day saw Litecoin fall to an early morning low $41.53 before rising to a high $41.82.

Litecoin left the major support and resistance levels untested early in the day.

Litecoin would need to avoid a fall through the $41.5 pivot to support a run at the first major resistance level at $42.29.

Support from the broader market would be needed, however, for Litecoin to break back through to $42 levels.

Barring another crypto rally, the first major resistance level and Sundays high $42.22 would likely cap any upside.

Failure to avoid a fall through the $41.15 pivot would bring the first major support level at $40.82 into play.

Barring an extended crypto sell-off, Litecoin should steer clear of sub-$40 levels. The second major support level at $40.05 should limit any downside.

Major Support Level: $40.82

Major Resistance Level: $42.29

23.6% FIB Retracement Level: $62

38.2% FIB Retracement Level: $78

62% FIB Retracement Level: $104

Stellars Lumen fell by 0.95% on Sunday. Reversing a 0.61% gain from Saturday, Stellars Lumen ended the week up by 4.40% to $0.067170.

A mixed start to the day saw Stellars Lumen rise to an early morning intraday high $0.067813 before taking a hit.

Coming up short of the first major resistance level at $0.06860, Stellars Lumen fell to a late intraday low $0.065227.

Stellars Lumen fell through the first major support level at $0.06684 and the second major support level at $0.06588.

Finding late support, Stellars Lumen move back through the major support levels to wrap up the week at $0.067 levels.

At the time of writing, Stellars Lumen was down by 0.12% to $0.067092. A bearish start to the day saw Stellars Lumen fall from an early morning high $0.067239 to a low $0.067092.

Stellars Lumen left the major support and resistance levels untested early on.

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Stellars Lumen would need to avoid a fall through the $0.06675 pivot to support a run at the first major resistance level at $0.06824.

Support from the broader market would be needed, however, for Stellars Lumen to break out from Sundays high $0.067813.

Barring another broad-based crypto rally, the first major resistance level and Sundays high would likely limit any upside.

Failure to avoid a fall through the $0.06675 pivot could see Stellars Lumen struggle throughout the day.

A pullback through to sub-$0.066 levels would bring the first major support level at $0.06565 into play.

Barring an extended crypto sell-off, however, Stellars Lumen should steer clear of the second major support level at $0.06415.

Major Support Level: $0.06565

Major Resistance Level: $0.06824

23.6% FIB Retracement Level: $0.1051

38% FIB Retracement Level: $0.14336518

62% FIB Retracement Level: $0.2050

Trons TRX rose by 0.79% on Sunday. Following on from a 1.06% gain on Saturday, Trons TRX ended the week up by 7.56% to $0.016983.

Tracking the broader market, Trons TRX rose to an early morning high $0.016850 before hitting reverse.

Falling short of the first major resistance level at $0.01694, Trons TRX slid to a late morning intraday low $0.016355.

Trons TRX fell through the first major support level at $0.01661 and the second major support level at $0.01643.

A choppy 2nd half of the day saw Trons TRX fall back from $0.0166 levels to sub-$0.0164 levels before a late rebound. The rebound saw Trons TRX strike an intraday high $0.017001 before easing back.

Trons TRX broke through the first major resistance level at $0.01694 in the final hour.

At the time of writing, Trons TRX was up by 3.87% to $0.017639. A particularly bullish start to the day saw Trons TRX rally from an early morning low $0.016980 to a high $0.017649.

Trons TRX broke through the first major resistance level at $0.01720 and the second major resistance level at $0.01743 early on.

Trons TRX would need to avoid a fall back through the second major resistance to support a run at the third major resistance level at $0.01807.

Support from the broader market would be needed, however, for Trons TRX to break through to $0.018 levels.

Barring an extended crypto rally, the third major resistance level would likely cap any upside.

Failure to avoid a fall through the second major resistance level would bring sub-$0.017 levels back into play.

Barring another extended crypto sell-off, Trons TRX should steer clear of the first major support level at $0.01656.

Major Support Level: $0.01656

Major Resistance Level: $0.01720

23.6% FIB Retracement Level: $0.0322

38.2% FIB Retracement Level: $0.0452

62% FIB Retracement Level: $0.0663

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Litecoin, Stellars Lumen, and Trons TRX Daily Analysis July 6th, 2020 - Yahoo Finance

Litecoin (LTC) Down $0.23 On 4 Hour Chart, Started Today Down 0.18%; in an Uptrend Over Past 14 Days – CFDTrading

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Litecoin 4 Hour Price Update

Updated July 11, 2020 11:18 AM GMT (07:18 AM EST)

Litecoin is down 0.52% ($0.23) since the previous 4 hours, marking a reversal from the candle prior and the end of a 3 four-hour candle positive run. Litecoin outperformed all 5 assets in the Top Cryptos asset class since the previous 4 hours.

Litecoin is down 0.18% ($0.08) since the previous day, marking the 2nd day in a row it has gone down. The change in price came along side change in volume that was down 36.48% from previous day, but up 64.94% from the Friday of last week. Relative to other instruments in the Top Cryptos asset class, Litecoin ranked 3rd since the previous day in terms of percentage price change. Below is a daily price chart of Litecoin.

Notably, the current price of Litecoin is sitting close to its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages; moving average crosses often indicate a change in momentum, so this may be worth keeping an eye on. The clearest trend exists on the 14 day timeframe, which shows price moving up over that time. Also of note is that on a 90 day basis price appears to be forming a base which could the stage for it being a support/resistance level going forward. Or to view things another way, note that out of the past 30 days Litecoins price has gone down 16 them. Also, candlestick traders! Note we see pin bar pattern appearing here as well.

For laughs, fights, or genuinely useful information, lets see what the most popular tweets pertaining to Litecoin for the past day were:

@Cardano_Guy @CryptoIRELAND1 @litecoin @IOHK_Charles @_Cardano_ADA @HukAleksandra @TheCryptoLark Completely agree. Co-operation is what is required in the eco-system. Lets get rid of these squabbles and start to build the future; as long as were part of the ecosystem; after all, thats why this is blockchain 3.0

It seems like the spirit of the Cypherpunk Manifesto is in favor of experimentation and sharing of code to make a better world so forks & alts fit that.Again very different story if there was a fundraise that changes things a lot Im talking Litecoin, Monero etc.

This cryptocurrency, Dogecoin: shit started as a joke back in 2013, right?actually a pretty solid crypto with a silly name attached to it running on a similar code as Litecoin without a cap so its very volatile/reliable & low exchange fees

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Cardanos ADA recently overtook Litecoin (LTC) in market capitalization. Now it may have passed Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV) as well, depending on how the metric is calculated.

BCH, BSV, ADA & LTC. Source: CoinMarketCap.

At the time of this writing, CoinMarketCap, or CMC, shows ADA in seventh spot, while Nomics has it at sixth - just ahead of BSV. The controversy stems from the circulating supply - CMC reports 25,927,070,538, while Nomics has the figure at 31,112,484,646. This represents a five billion ADA discrepancy. Blockchair, a blockchain search and analytics engine, agrees with Nomics.

Nomics CTO Nick Gauthier pointed out that the difference comes from the fact that his company includes ADAs allocated to the Cardano Foundation, IOHK, and Emurgo in the circulating supply, while, apparently CMC does not. According to a cached copy of the Cardano Foundation website, the three entities were given 648,176,761, 2,463,071,701 and 2,074,165,644 ADA tokens respectively. These numbers add up to 5,185,414,106 - precisely the difference between the amount reported by various data providers. Based on the current ADA price, these tokens are worth about $590 million.

The question still arises of whether these tokens should be included in the circulating supply. This should probably depend on the lockup mechanisms, if any, for the tokens remaining with those organizations. Presumably, some of the tokens have been spent and thus have become part of the circulating supply. The updated version of the site does not have any information on token distribution.

Cointelegraph reached out to IOHK for clarification, but did not receive a response in time for publication.

The ADA spring bull run. Source: Nomics.

Regardless of the circulating supply issue, ADA has been on a remarkable bull run that ensued after Black Thursday. On March 11. At that time, the price of ADA was $0.024; as of this writing, it is $0.114. The difference represents a 475% appreciation. It is still far below its all-time high of $1.16, set in January 2018.

IOHK, the Cardano development company, has reached a number of key milestones and public announcements during this time. The biggest news was the launch of the Shelley mainnet. Around the same time, a decentralized identity solution, Atala PRISM, was unveiled. There was also news about ADA holders being able to stake their coins while in Coinbase custody, and speculation on the likelihood of it being listed on the exchange by the end of 2020.

This momentum also comes on the heels of the Cardano Virtual Summit. According to Charles Hoskison was bigger than Consensus, having been a host to more than 10,000 guests.

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The Bahamas, archipelago and country on the northwestern edge of the West Indies. Formerly a British colony, The Bahamas became an independent country within the Commonwealth in 1973.

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Its All in the Name

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The name Bahamas is of Lucayan Taino (Arawakan) derivation, although some historians believe it is from the Spanish bajamar, meaning shallow water. The islands occupy a position commanding the gateway to the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, and the entire Central American region. Their strategic location has given the history of The Bahamas a unique and often striking character. It was there that Christopher Columbus made his original landfall in the Americas. The subsequent fate of the peaceful original inhabitants remains one of the more tragic episodes in the development of the entire region, while the early attempts at European-dominated settlement were marked by intense national rivalries, interspersed with long periods of lawlessness and piracy. As a result, the society and culture that has evolved in The Bahamas is a distinctive blend of European and African heritages, the latter a legacy of the slave trade and the introduction of the plantation system using African slaves. The islands, lacking natural resources other than their agreeable climate and picturesque beaches, have become heavily dependent on the income generated by the extensive tourist facilities and the financial sector that have been developed, often as a result of the injection of foreign capital. The continued popularity of the islands with tourists, largely from North America, has helped to maintain a relatively high standard of living among the population, most of whom are of African descent. The capital, Nassau, is located on small but important New Providence Island.

Lying to the north of Cuba and Hispaniola, the archipelago comprises nearly 700 islands and cays, only about 30 of which are inhabited, and more than 2,000 low, barren rock formations. It stretches more than 500 miles (800 km) southeast-northwest between Grand Bahama Island, which has an area of 530 square miles (1,373 square km) and lies about 60 miles (100 km) off the southeastern coast of the U.S. state of Florida, and Great Inagua Island, some 50 miles (80 km) from the eastern tip of Cuba. The islands other than New Providence are known collectively as the Out (Family) Islands. They include Grand Bahama, which contains the major settlements of Freeport and West End; Andros (2,300 square miles [6,000 square km]), the largest island of The Bahamas; Abaco, or Great Abaco, (372 square miles [963 square km]); and Eleuthera (187 square miles [484 square km]), the site of one of the early attempts at colonization.

The Bahamas occupies an irregular submarine tableland that rises out of the depths of the Atlantic Ocean and is separated from nearby lands to the south and west by deepwater channels. Extensive areas of flatland, generally a few feet in elevation, are the dominant topographic features of the major islands; the Bimini group (9 square miles [23 square km]), for example, has a maximum elevation of only 20 feet (6 metres). A number of islands fronting the Atlantic have a range or series of ranges of hills on the northeastern side that parallel the longer axes of the islands. These ranges are formed of sand washed ashore and blown inland by the trade winds. The newer hills adjacent to the seashore are normally sand dunes. Solidity increases toward the interior, where the particles become cemented to form Bahama limestone. Eleuthera and Long Island (230 square miles [596 square km]) have the greatest number of hills exceeding 100 feet (30 metres). The highest point in The Bahamas, Mount Alvernia, at 206 feet (63 metres), is on Cat Island (150 square miles [388 square km]). Beneath the soil, the islands are composed of limestone rock and skeletal remains of coral fossils and other marine organisms. There are no rivers, but several islandsparticularly New Providence, San Salvador (63 square miles [163 square km]), and Great Inaguahave large lakes. There is abundant fresh water on Andros Island.

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NASSAU, Bahamas, July 9, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The Ministry of Health wishes to advise the public that travelers must complete a Bahamas Health Visa application and present a negative COVID-19 RT-PCR test with a sample taken within ten (10) days of arrival.

Effective immediately, all travelers will be required to complete an electronic Bahamas Health Visa application before departure from the place of embarkation. This can be found at travel.gov.bs. Travelers are required to upload a negative COVID-19 RT-PCR test and provide contact information.

The Government of The Bahamas will accept the negative COVID-19 RT-PCR (swab) test if the sample was taken within (10) ten days of arrival. Tests over ten (10) days old will not be accepted.

An automated response will be provided once the application is completed. The only persons approved to travel are those who have received a green color-coded response, as proof of approval. This confirmation must be presented upon arrival in The Bahamas. The Health Visa application process will take twenty-four to forty-eight (24-48) hours and should be completed with adequate lead time.

Failure to comply with the stated requirements will result in denied entry. It is recommended that all travelers interested in visiting The Bahamas review requirements applicable to each member of their traveling party at http://www.bahamas.com/travelupdates before booking a trip.

For more information, or to view the Tourism Readiness and Recovery Plan, please visit http://www.bahamas.com/travelupdates. You may also contact the Ministry of Tourism COVID-19 travel hotline at (242) 502-0829 Monday to Friday, 8 AM 6 PM, or email at healthvisa@bahamas.com.

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Nassau and Paradise Island celebrated its reopening when the Bahamas began welcoming international travelers on July 1.

A sampling of the 3,000 rooms now available in the area includes the British Colonial Hilton, Graycliff Hotel and Breezes Resort & Spa in Nassau; and Bay View Suites Paradise Island, the Paradise Island Beach Club, Sunrise Beach Club & Villas and the Ocean Club, a Four Seasons Resort, on Paradise Island.

The 3,000 room number does not include Atlantis, which reopens July 30 with more than 2,100 rooms at The Royal, The Cove and Harborside Resort. Baha Mar in Nassau is scheduled to reopen its 3,000 rooms in October.

Nonstop air service on American, BahamasAir, Delta, JetBlue, Silver, Southwest and United resumed from Newark and New York JFK; Charlotte, N.C.; Baltimore and Atlanta, in addition to gateways in Florida. Nonstop flights from Chicago-O'Hare and Denver will resume in August.

Upon arrival, all visitors must complete and submit a Health Visa application and submit proof of a negative Covid-19 swab test taken within seven days of the travel date. Travelers who show symptoms of Covid upon arrival are transferred to an onsite quarantine area for further testing and evaluation.

Masks are required in public spaces and at attractions; inside dining in restaurants is permitted.

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The popular Atlantis resort is located on Paradise Island, Bahamas.

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The Bahamas officially reopened to the public last week with a handful of new coronavirus guidelines.

When you pack your sunscreen and bathing suit, make sure you have your mask ready as well.

Phase 2 allows for international travel. Earlier this month, the country allowed international boaters, yachters and private aviation as part of Phase 1.

If you plan on visiting the Bahamas, you must present a negative COVID-19 swab test upon arrival.

Travelers will also be required to complete an electronic health visa prior to departure and present proof of confirmation at their destination.

At airports and seaports, all visitors will undergo temperature checks conducted by health care personnel.

Any travelers who show COVID-19 symptoms will be transferred to a separate area for further testing and evaluation.

Visitors will be required to wear face masks in any situation where it is necessary to enforce physical distancing guidelines.

In addition to airports and sea terminals, travelers must wear masks in taxis, whilechecking in at hotels, standing in line at attractions and before being seated at restaurants.

Failure to comply with the countrys mask guidelines could result in a $200 fine or onemonth imprisonment.

JetBlue resumed daily service between Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Nassau last week, while American Airlines resumed flights twice a day between Miami and Nassau on Tuesday.

The Bahamas will continue its mandatory curfew from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m., so travelers must return to their housing accommodations during that time. Visitors will be allowed to move freely throughout their hotel and resort properties during curfew.

One of the most popular hotels, Atlantis resumed operations on Tuesday. While the casino slot machines will be open 24/7, table games and sports betting will have revised hours.

Beginning July 13, the Bahamas will enter Phase 3 of its reopening, which allows for attractions, excursions and tours to resume. Phase 4, which begins July 27, will allow vendors and jet ski operators to reopen.

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The Anguilla Tourist Board (ATB) is pleased to announce that for the fourth consecutive year in a row, Anguilla is ranked No. 1 on the Travel + Leisure 2020 Worlds Best Awards list of the Top Islands in the Caribbean, Bermuda, and the Bahamas. Readers rated islands on the following characteristics: Natural attractions/beaches, activities/sights, restaurants/food, people/friendliness, value. Anguilla also ranked #7 on the Top 25 Islands in the World, the only Caribbean island to make the list.

We are very proud to receive this Award for four years in a row it is a tribute to the people of Anguilla and the extraordinary product that we offer, declared the Hon. Haydn Hughes, Minister of Tourism for Anguilla. Anguilla offers this amazing combination of truly spectacular beaches, fabulous cuisine, stunning boutique resorts and genuine hospitality, which keep our guests coming back year after year, he continued.

In celebration of the 25th Anniversary, Travel + Leisure will host a global, social media Toast + Post that will run from July 8 when the winners are released through August 31. Readers and winners around the world are encouraged to TOAST raise a glass to the very best in travel and then POST to take a photo or video of the moment and post it on social media, using the hashtags #TLToast and #TLWorldsBest along with their brands. Anguilla fans are encouraged to post on all the ATBs social platforms using the Hashtag #MyAnguilla.

On Wednesday, July 8, at 5:00PM EST, the Hon. Haydn Hughes will join Jacqueline Gifford, Travel+ Leisures Editor in Chief, for an Instagram Live interview on @TravelandLeisure to officially kick off the celebration, one of only five winners invited to do so.

Each year, for the past 25 years, the readers of Travel + Leisure the largest travel media brand in the United States, with an audience of 6.7 million share their thoughts on destinations, hotels, resorts, spas, airlines, cruise lines, tour operators, rental-car agencies, and more in their annual survey. The full results and report about the awards can be viewed at http://www.travelandleisure.com/worldsbest .

For information on Anguilla, please visit the official website of the Anguilla Tourist Board: http://www.IvisitAnguilla.com ; follow on Facebook: Facebook.com/AnguillaOfficial ; Instagram:

@Anguilla_Tourism ; Twitter: @Anguilla_Trsm ; Hashtag: #MyAnguilla.

Tucked away in the northern Caribbean, Anguilla is a shy beauty with a warm smile. A slender length of coral and limestone fringed with green, the island is ringed with 33 beaches, considered by savvy travelers and top travel magazines, to be the most beautiful in the world.

Anguilla lies just off the beaten path, so it has retained a charming character and appeal. Yet because it can be conveniently reached from two major gateways: Puerto Rico and St. Martin, and by private air, its a hop and a skip away.

Romance? Barefoot elegance? Unfussy chic? And untrammeled bliss? Anguilla is Beyond Extraordinary.

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Health insurer’s Bahamas exit to be ‘orderly’ – Bahamas Tribune

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By YOURI KEMP

Tribune Business Reporter

ykemp@tribunemedia.net

Regulators yesterday said they expect a very orderly wind-down of a Bahamas-based health insurer as it readies to exit the market by December 2021.

Michele Fields, the Insurance Commissions superintendent, confirmed to Tribune Business that Generali Worldwide had given formal notice of its intention to cease doing business in The Bahamas and leave the jurisdiction.

Generali Worldwide have given us advice that they plan to leave the jurisdiction, she said. I think it will be over a course of a year, so they will not renew policies after a certain date.

Their policies are generally one-year policies, and so as policies expire they wont renew them. This will be a very orderly exit from the market. Generali executives declined to comment when contacted by this newspaper yesterday, but insurance industry sources confirmed it had notified both clients and the industry of its plans.

Generali entered the Bahamian health insurance market in 2007 when it acquired the client portfolio previously owned by the former British American Insurance Company. That followed a management-led buyout of the latter that was spearheaded by now-opposition deputy leader, Chester Cooper.

The underwriter, which focuses on group or employer-sponsored plans, has struggled to make major inroads into the market it competing against long-entrenched competitors such as Atlantic Medical, Colina Insurance Company and Family Guardian.

They have notified their clients, one insurance sector contact, speaking on condition of anonymity, said. When they came into the market they bought British Americans portfolio, which was low, low level.

That portfolio had been losing money left, right and centre, and as soon as their [BAF Financials] non-compete clause was over they re-entered the health market with a more suitably-priced health product.

The source suggested that Generali had managed to clean-up the portfolio it inherited, and had sought to attract clients by offering deep premium discounts, but there appeared to be little interest from Bahamas-based rivals in acquiring it ahead of the companys planned December 2021 departure.

They added that remaining health insurers seemed to be waiting for Generali clients to come to them, adding that the company seemed to be an ill-suited fit for its new parent, Utmost Worldwide, an insurance-based investments product provider, which acquired the formers global operations in 2018.

Utmosts latest published financial statements, for the 12 months to year-end 2018, showed that Generalis Bahamas business generated $3.209m in net profits that year based on $29.422m worth of gross premiums.

That represented an improvement on the prior years $286,000 net loss on the back of $25.965m in gross premiums written.

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Beaches and parks closed for holiday weekend – EyeWitness News

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NASSAU, BAHAMAS Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis announced the closure of beaches and parks in New Providence, Paradise Island and Grand Bahama over the Independence holiday weekend.

The closure will take effect at 10pm on Thursday, until 5am on July 13.

Addressing Parliament, Minnis underscored the ongoing surge in coronavirus cases in the United States, particularly Florida, Texas, and Arizona.

Minnis said: We are quite aware of the surge of the COVID-19 virus thats occurring in the United States, particularly Florida, Texas, Arizona, which I will speak to later, and we are also aware of what may have contributed to some of the surge.

He said: Taking these matters into consideration, so as to avoid such activities within The Bahamas and possibility of introduction and subsequently spread, the beaches and parks of New Providence, Paradise Island and the surrounding cays and Grand Bahama will close on the 9th of July at 10pm until the 13th of July 5am on Monday.

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Immigration fears over handling of COVID-19 positive migrant – EyeWitness News

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NASSAU, BAHAMAS Immigration officers in Grand Bahama have raised alarm over exposure risks due to the handling of a COVID-19 positive migrant.

Eyewitness News understands the undocumented migrant is a 20-year-old Haitian national, who had been living in Eight Mile Rock since March.

The migrant was reportedly apprehended by the US Coast Guard and was turned over to Bahamian authorities on July 5, and tested for the virus the following day.

Yesterday, Deron Brooks, Vice President of TheBahamasCustoms andImmigrationAllied WorkersUnion (BCIAWU), said more than a dozen Immigration officers have been potentially exposed while the migrant remains at the C A Smith building.

Brooks said the migrant is being held in a cell with other migrants who are awaiting repatriation, noting the government complex also housed several other agencies.

[Immigration officers] have a legitimate concern but I think our employers need to have an action plan and I dont know that they have one, Brooks said.

I think this was an eventuality that should have been considered given the nature of the global environment and Im not at all sure that they sufficiently planned for it.

Brooks said his members are demanding to be recognized as frontline workers and afforded benefits similar to doctors and nurses.

Calls placed to Dr Frank Bartlett, head of the islands COVID-19 task force, were not returned up to press time.

Now the unimaginable has happened, Brooks said.

The fact that those persons were brought to our country by the US Coast Guard is nothing new. What is new is officers now have to detain a person that has tested positive in a place that was not designed for that, and the department was not prepared for this eventuality.

The officers are now saying that they would like to have something similar to what doctors and nurses are getting. If they would die as a result of exposure, the same compensation for their families that doctors and nurses were afforded a few months ago.

Brooks said: Its a mammoths task something the average person could only imagine. They are under a lot of pressure right now. They were told they have to self-quarantine, the Ministry of Health told them that they cannot test them as yet.

The officers would like to know for peace of mind and safety of their families, if they go home to their families they dont know what they will take with them. The next concern is that if they have to self quarantine, some of their residences are not conducive to that.

Eyewitness News understands the department is preparing to repatriate 34 Haitian migrants on Monday.

Yesterday, Brooks said the COVID-19 positive migrant was not being detained in isolation.

Hes not in there alone because we dont have the space for that, he said.

Whats going on now we have not anticipated or they had not anticipated it happening the way it did. When we get people in, we try to make arrangements tp quickly to get them into Nassau. But in this instance, you cant take them into population of New Providence and expose other officers and so what they are trying to do is fly them from Freeport straight to Haiti.

Brooks is currently posted in Bimini; however, he noted several union officials have inspected the building like Commonwealth of the Bahamas Trade Union Congress vice president, Kirk Russell.

Yesterday, Russell said he was told the migrant was also taken to court for a hearing on Monday.

Moving forward, he said the congress has recommended officials consider virtual hearings for all detainees.

Russell said: If we are going to detain individuals, those individuals should be quarantined somewhere other than that building. To put them in that environment, no, we need a secure quarantine facility for those individuals. These are some things that must be addressed.

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‘Father of Labour’ named National Hero – EyeWitness News

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NASSAU, BAHAMAS Father of Labour Sir Randol Fawkes has been awarded the nations top honor of the Order of National Hero.

Fawkes was instrumental in establishing the trade union movement in The Bahamas, and piloted a bill to make Labour Day an official public holiday.

He played a pivotal role in the countrys track to majority rule during the 1967 general elections. Fawkes won his seat as leader of the Labour Party, and used his vote to support the Progressive Liberal Party forming a coalition government.

The recipients of the National Honours Awards 2020 were announced as the country marked its 47th anniversary of independence on Friday.

Renowned Bahamian psychiatrist Dr David Allen also tops the list of recipients awarded national honours.

Allen was made an Officer of the Order of Distinction, which recognizes exemplary service provided to The Bahamas.

Former Senate president and Leader of the Free National Movement Henry Bostwick was made Companion of the Order of The Bahamas; while former Attorney General Paul Adderley, and former Speaker of the House of Assembly Sir Alvin Braynen were awarded posthumously.

Justices Claire Hepburn, Jeanne Thompson, and Rhonda Bain were made Officers of the Order of The Bahamas.

Businessman Frank Crothers received the Order of Excellence.

Educator Roselda Woodside was appointed a Member of the Order of Merit.

This is the third year the National Honours have been bestowed.

The awards will be presented on National Heroes Day, which will be observed on October 13 this year.

There was no selection for the category of National Hero or Order of the Nation last year.

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When it comes to beaches, I think Caesar had it right – Bahamas Tribune

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EDITOR, The Tribune

During my short stint in politics, the party with which I was affiliated, the SDP fought a by-election in South Eleuthera. At the time we found ourselves fighting not only the PLP, but also the BDP/FNM, but that is a story for another day.

One of my colleagues in the Senate was the late venerable Dr Cleveland Eneas, Sr. In his maiden campaign speech in Tarpum Bay, he began with the quotation from Shakespeares Julius Caesar

Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. After seeing the blank faces in the audience the leader, the late Norman Solomon, cautioned the learned doctor to use very simple language and images as he didnt think the crowd got the message.

Dr Eneas quotation seems very apt in todays Bahamas with the competent authoritys decision yesterday to close the beaches. We could almost hear Marie Antoinette telling the people to eat cake when they could not afford bread.

After opening the borders and beaches, without any uptick in virus numbers, and no protests from the doctors, I can only perceive this action as madness. What will the tourists do. How will the Bahamians cool temperatures and tempers.

JEANNE THOMPSON

Nassau,

July 7, 2020.

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