(FILE) Minister of Home Affairs, Information and Public Affairs, Wilfred Abrahams
Minister of Home Affairs, Information and Public Affairs, Wilfred Abrahams will be updating the public on the developments at Her Majesty Prison (HMP) Dodds.
The press briefing which is scheduled for 4 pm will occur on the outskirts of the prison. Superintendent of Prisons, Colonel John Nurse, Barbados Defence Force (BDF) Major Cedric Proverbs and Ministry of Health officials will also be in attendance.
Members of the public can watch via PMO Barbados on YouTube for live coverage.
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Major Cedric Proverbs, of the Barbados Defence Force, addressing yesterday’s press conference. He was called in to lead the prison for the 15 days Superintendent of Prisons Lieutenant Colonel John Nurse was in quarantine. (Picture by Lennox Devonish.) Social Share
Her Majesty’s Prisons Dodds and instead saluted the on-the-job officers.
He commended the men and women in the midst of swirling reports about morale being low, threats of lawsuits and claims of prisoners on edge.
He said the mere fact that 70 of the officers who were in quarantine responded to the call of duty under the circumstances of an outbreak at the prison was testimony to the morale at the prison.