Day: 27 May 2020

As local businesses and community groups emerge from lockdown with relief, the team at Douglas News Network look at the lessons we have learned, and how we are forging a way forward. Today, Jayne Miller chats with Miss Saskia Turner, owner of the beloved Bodies In Motion Dance School…

President Donald Trump’s assertion this week that the US having the world’s most COVID-19 cases should be seen as a “badge of honour” epitomised all the failings of irrational, autocratic decision-making.

Remember we are only a little over three months into a pandemic caused by a completely new virus. So much remains unknown about COVID.

An appreciation of history often changes the way we think about the present and the future. On the weekend, Natalie Johnson took her 14-year-old daughter for a stroll back through time, guided by the Douglas Shire Historical Society’s “Port Douglas Village” self-guided map.

With health and wellness in mind, today Jayne interviews the ever-inspiring Noeline, from Port Douglas Yoga.

Douglas Shire Council has adopted further measures to help local businesses as economic predictions reveal the Gross Regional Product could decline by 25.3% this quarter due to COVID-19 lockdown restrictions.

In a Press Conference, Dr. Mike Ryan, the Executive Director of the WHO Health Emergencies Program, today clarified the difference between pandemic “second waves” and “second peaks in the first wave.”