The Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP) and the Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) will be al­lowed to re­sume op­er­a­tions along with the re­tail sec­tor on Mon­day. 
The an­nounce­ment came from Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley dur­ing a press con­fer­ence on Sat­ur­day. The re­tail sec­tor re­open­ing was first an­nounced one week ago. How­ev­er, the Prime Min­is­ter said the coun­try was in a po­si­tion now to al­so al­low the san­i­ta­tion groups to re­sume op­er­a­tions. 
"We bring out our clean­ing and cleans­ing staff­—URP and CEPEP. Our roads and high­ways and by­ways are now be­com­ing over­grown, over­run. Be­cause they work­ing out­doors, it is the view they can come out now, join the work­force out­side and do the work that they do (while) main­tain­ing strict pro­to­cols at all times," he said.
He stressed that the pub­lic health pro­to­cols must be main­tained and asked that the or­gan­is­ers spread the work­ers out to avoid con­gre­ga­tion. 
"It can be done safe­ly and it should be done safe­ly be­cause we are now ac­knowl­edg­ing loud­ly and proud­ly that we are liv­ing with the virus but do­ing cer­tain things not to al­low the virus to get the bet­ter of us," he said.
He said per­son­al ser­vices such as bar­bers, hair sa­lons and spas will be al­lowed to re­sume op­er­a­tions next Mon­day, Au­gust 23. He asked that work­ers in these sec­tors con­tin­ue mak­ing ef­forts to get vac­ci­nat­ed be­fore it re­opens.
The re­open­ing of the re­tail sec­tor is a ma­jor step for the coun­try. How­ev­er, busi­ness heads have lament­ed the un­cer­tain­ty of do­ing busi­ness dur­ing the pan­dem­ic with lock­downs al­ways loom­ing. 
Asked by Guardian Me­dia if he could give any as­sur­ances that an­oth­er lock­down would not soon fol­low any ma­jor spikes in cas­es, Dr Row­ley said: "I can't give you any as­sur­ance. This is some­thing that is be­yond as­sur­ance."
He said the Gov­ern­ment was hop­ing pro­to­cols would be ad­hered to and that there will not be any surges in cas­es, but if there is, he said, "we'll cross that bridge when we get to it."