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There are five active cases of COVID-19 in Kahnawake as of Tuesday evening. Three of those are from the Step By Step Child and Family Center outbreak that was announced on Saturday. “All are doing well,” Lisa Westaway, the Executive Director of the Kateri Memorial Hospital Center (KMHC), said Tuesday on Kahnawake 911. “The children […]

The Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke finally has their new Executive Director locating their new hire ‘in-house’ after an extensive search. Karlie Onerahtoktha Marquis was offered and accepted the job on Friday: “It’s a privilege, I guess I’m still speechless, but obviously very grateful and excited to take on this new role and lead our community […]

They are doing their own version of a Winter carnival this year at Karonhianónhnha school because of the pandemic. Sarah Kanietahawi Phillips is the Interim Principal: “We’re doing our own like mini carnival in the spirit of the winter carnival, because it’s usually a big thing for the community and we can’t really take part […]

A second and third person at Step By Step Child and Family Center in Kahnawake have tested positive for COVID-19. This follows the announcement that an educator tested positive on Tuesday February 2, 2021. In a press release from the COVID-19 Task Force in Kahnawake on Saturday evening, they stated that all children and their […]

A parade of support for students of Kahnawake Survival School is underway in the community with a caravan of 15 or so cars driven by KSS teachers winding their way from the school on the 132 down into the village area and around town. Jackie Leclaire is the Principal at KSS. She says they are […]

Two days after announcing that an educator at the Step By Step Child and Family Center tested positive for COVID-19,  public health is keeping the children from her classroom bubbles home for a period of at least 48 hours. The educator was last in contact with anyone at the daycare on Thursday January 28. Dawn […]

There are currently 5 covid-19 cases in Kahnawà:ke. Lloyd Phillips the Commissioner of Public Safety and head of the COVID-19 Task Force joined us on the Morning D today on K1037. He says the task Force has been closely following the directives in Quebec, especially the re-openings on non-essential businesses: “January 29th with the visitations […]

There are new cases of COVID-19 in Kahnawake. “We are at five active cases in the community. So there have been new cases identified today (Tuesday),” said Lisa Westaway, the Executive Director of the Kateri Memorial Hospital Centre who was appearing on Kahnawake 911 live on Facebook Tuesday afternoon. “We still want to make sure […]

The Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke has adopted new eligibility measures for current and future applicants regarding the KERM directive. MCK Elected Official Gina Deer explains: “It’s been brought to our attention through community members that there are people who have been not adhering to the the directives, so we wanted to address the issue. What […]

There have been 99 cases of COVID-19 in Kahnawake since the outset of the pandemic began. Dawn Montour Lazare Manager Outpatient care at the Kateri Memorial Hospital Center and husband, Arnold Lazare from the Covid-19 task Force joined in on the Morning D today on K1037: “Today we’re at 3 cases, not related to each […]