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Image credit: Jason Briscoe This year the UK’s Global Future Cities Programme celebrates its one-year anniversary. Through its work the programme has promoted sustainable and inclusive economic growth with transformative projects in three municipalities, City of Cape Town, eThekwini Municipality (Durban), and City of Johannesburg, on transportation and mobility, urban planning, resilience and data innovation in South Africa. In April 2020 the Programme expanded and adapted in response...

Two men suspected of an armed hold-up at a Mosta store last December have been arrested by the police. One of them is also suspected to have carried out a furt

KUALA LUMPUR: The Communications and Multimedia Ministry (KKMM) is setting up a Communications Unit for Persons with Disabilities (PwD), which will be...

The number of Barbadians lost to coronavirus (COVID-19) rose to 36 yesterday, February 28, when three Barbadian women succumbed to the viral illness. The first was an 85-year-old resident of a nursing home who passed away at 1:15 p.m. Just over an hour later at 2:25 p.m., the second woman, a 64-year-old, died at Enmore. The third woman, an 88-year-old resident of a nursing home, died at 6 p.m. All …

Article by Social Share Co-coordinator of the National COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign Major David Clarke of the Barbados Defence Force a short while ago made an appeal for the public to honour the appointment system. “You will get vaccinated. Please, just honour the appointment system so that targeted senior citizens, the most vulnerable and frontline workers who are serving us all, get theirs first,” Clarke said in a statement issued by the COVID Communications Unit. The statement sai...

Barbados’ COVID-19 positivity rate is on the downward trend and the number of infections peaked about two weeks ago. This analysis was given yesterday by Senior Medical Officer in the Ministry of Health, Dr Anton Best, who explained that health experts had completed the sorting of months of backlogged tests, allowing for an accurate picture of where the country stands. Best also noted that the positivity rate was currently five …

Reports to Senior Director for Development and Communications Full time position with benefits, salary commensurate with experience Position Summary: The Donor Engagement Director, reporting to the Senior Director of Development and Communications, will raise revenue and expand UPA’s donor base. The director will ensure that donors experience superior-quality interface with UPA; expand donor engagement programs and activities; mange staff and oversee the processing and acknowledgement of dona...

Article by Social Share A 68-year-old Barbadian woman passed away today, becoming the 32nd person to succumb to coronavirus (COVID-19) in Barbados. She had been on a ventilator at Harrison Point for the last six days, having been transferred there from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. In a statement from the COVID Communications Unit (CCU), Minister of Health Jeffrey Bostic extended condolences to the family. Describing the number of positive cases as, “unprecedented”, the Minister said ...

Barbados Today By Geralyn Edward She has become the face and voice of the local medical fraternity, unafraid to challenge policymakers as she advocates for homegrown responses to the deadly COVID-19 pandemic now gripping the island. She is Dr Lynda Williams, a medical practitioner in general practice. But her passion and advanced studies has been in the specialised area of epidemiology. Dr Williams is a Masters’s degree graduate of the University of London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medic...

Article by Social Share A 93-year-old woman and a 60-year-old man, both with comorbidities, are the latest people to succumb to coronavirus (COVID-19) The woman passed away on February 18, at Enmore, after being admitted, first to the Accident and Emergency Department of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital on the February 17, and from there to Enmore. This morning, the 60-year-old-man passed away at Harrison Point where he had been a patient for a month, with the last 18 days spent on a ventilat...