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There are six active cases of COVID-19 in Kahnawake, after an announcement on Saturday that a second student at Kahnawake Survival School (KSS) tested positive for the coronavirus. Lisa Westaway, the Executive Director of the Kateri Memorial Hospital Center (KMHC), says those cases have forced more than 12 times that many people into isolation. “That […]
Late Saturday the Kahnawake Education Center (KEC) announced that a student who attends Kahnawake Survival School (KSS) tested positive for COVID-19. It is the second student at the school to test positive for COVID-19 in the last two weeks according to Robin Delaronde the Director of Education at the KEC. “I want to first of […]
The Mercier Bridge will be down to one lane in either direction all weekend. The Southbound or Kahnàwake bound span will be shut down for work on the overhead steel structure, with the closure begins at 10 pm tonight and is expected to be back to 2 lanes in each direction on Monday morning at […]
With several Kahnawakero:non in isolation because of contact with two positive tests for COVID-19, one of those contacts has now developed the virus as well. That brings the total to three community members who are currently infected. The positive result is not related to the staff member who tested positive at the Kateri Memorial Hospital […]
Over objections from the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK), on Thursday Canadian Lawmakers passed bill C-218 to legalize single-event sports betting. The bill will permit betting on single games in sports. That is something that is currently against the law, except for horse racing. The Government says it is in a bid to protect and […]
Lisa Westaway from the KMHC confirming to K1037 this afternoon that the community has another positive Covid-19 case in its midst: “It’s just a regular case in the community, like whenever we announce an active case it’s in the community so it’s not one that is related to any existing cases.” Westaway on the procedures […]
Following Tuesday’s confirmation of an employees at the Kateri Memorial Hospital Centre (KMHC) testing positive, all seven in-patient residents on the second floor who were contacts of that positive case have tested negative for COVID-19. “We’re happy. We were hoping they would progress this way,” KMHC Executive Director Lisa Westaway said as she joined us […]
Following yesterday’s confirmation of a positive case of a Kateri Memorial Hospital Centre (KMHC) in-patient employee, all in-patient residents who were contacts of the positive case have now been screened for Covid-19. According to The Covid-19 Task Force, they have all tested negative. However, the in-patient residents will remain in isolation and will be re-tested […]
There is a new positive case of COVID-19 in Kahnawake, this time at the Kateri Memorial Hospital Center (KMHC). “This is an employee, not a resident,” Lisa Westaway, the Executive Director of the KMHC said Tuesday on Kahnawake 911 on Facebook. “I would like to clarify that this is not an outbreak as it is one […]
Angus L. Montour will be the Chief Electoral Officer this summer, working his fourth Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) election. Montour was acclaimed to the position after being the lone applicant. He previously was the Electoral Officer for the 2004, 2006 and 2018 elections, as well as two by-elections in 2019. “It certainly helps because […]