In the West Indies, will the postponement of the vaccination obligation be enough to lower the tension?

The night from Saturday to Sunday was rather calm in Guadeloupe, even if the historic dams were still there. Sébastien Lecornu, the Minister of Overseas Territories, is therefore on his way to Guadeloupe and Martinique. That’s what we learned this Sunday.

The government therefore announced, Friday, November 26, that it was postponing to December 31, the date of implementation in the West Indies of the vaccination obligation, a postponement valid for all the personnel concerned.

But this postponement was immediately denounced by the inter-union and other collectives, which still demand the outright withdrawal of the obligation, like the Lyannaj Santé in Guadeloupe, which brings together caregivers already suspended. Maryline, liberal nurse, testifies at the microphone of Guadeloupe La 1ère.

Another government announcement, that made by the Minister of Overseas Territories, Sébastien Lecornu, in a speech addressed Friday evening to Guadeloupe on the question of “the autonomy of the Island”. A statement that is already making a lot of noise, and not only in the West Indies.

Now let’s go to the field where, despite the curfew, the nights are still very agitated near the roadblocks. When it is daylight, however, the atmosphere changes, listen to this report by Christine Cupit in the south of Martinique.

There are also a lot of young people on the barricades. Who are they, what do they want? In the company of a member of the Martinique inter-union, two of them were able to meet, Friday afternoon, with the prefect Stanislas Cazelles, a meeting to try to start a dialogue. At the end of the interview, one of these young people, Terence, confided in the microphone of Pierre-Yves Honoré.

A last word, this time concerning the health situation which is improving in Guyana, since the Prefect Thierry Quéffélec announced the lifting of the curfew on the whole of the department on Monday, November 29.


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