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Thanks to India, 50,000 Barbadians will soon benefit from COVID-19 vaccinations. That is the word from Prime Minister Mia Mottley, who today revealed that India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi had agreed to give Barbados 100,000 vaccines. While not giving a specific timeline, Mottley said the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccines were expected on the island in short order. India is one of the three locations globally where the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine is being produced. She said Government was at the ...

Article by Social Share Minister of Home Affairs Wilfred Abrahams said on Monday that while quarantine and isolation rules prevented some prisoners who had completed their sentences from leaving Her Majesty’s Prison Dodds during the lockdown, all inmates who have completed their sentence and the programme for reintegration into society, have been released. In a statement from the COVID Communications Unit, Abrahams said while the delay in release of prisoners would have caused concern t...

Dodds cluster now beaten, say authorities Article by February 2, 2021 The COVID-19 outbreak at HMP Dodds is no more, the Government COVID Communications Unit declared Monday. The crisis at the island’s lone penal institution has been brought under control with only seven positive cases presently active, according to the authorities, who said that the island’s largest COVID-19 cluster had been neutralized. At its peak, the cluster at the St Philip prison totalled 363 infe...

ADB Country Manager bids farewell to President Bio  29 January 2021 at 17:54 |  776 views The Country Manager for the African Development Bank Group, Dr Peninah Wanjira Kariuka, has called on President Dr Julius Maada Bio at State House to bid farewell after three years of dedicated service in the West African nation. Sierra Leone’s Deputy Minister I in the Ministry of Finance, Dr. Patricia Nyanga Laverley, described the outgoing AfDB boss as a true friend of the country, whom she ...

The CEPEP Company assists the EMBD to restore lands earmarked for distribution to ex-Caroni workers January 28th, 2020 – The CEPEP Company Limited has agreed to assist the Estate Management & Business Development Company Limited (EMBD) by providing ground maintenance and restoration works for residential lands earmarked for distribution to ex-Caroni workers in Debe and Couva. The CEPEP Company embarked on the restoration project of one hundred and eleven (111) acres of land in Picton Settlem...

According to UNILAG's communication unit, all lectures will be carried out online.

The Senate of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) on Wednesday approved Jan. 25, for the resumption of lectures for the 2019/2020 academic session.

Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio Grants Citizenship to 22 African Americans State House, Freetown, Tuesday 5 January 2021 His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has granted Sierra Leonean citizenship to 22 African Americans who traced their origin to Sierra Leone through DNA results, most of them with roots to Bo and Tonkolili districts. While handing over the passports the President welcomed them home, noting that their coming was not just about sightseeing or just experiencin...

Four members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) have been suspended from duty after being arrested and charged with multiple offences in separate incidents, following rulings handed down by the Director of Public Prosecutions. The four officers, who were charged by investigators from the Inspectorate and Professional Standards Oversight Bureau, are Corporal Howard Richards, Corporal Andrew Tinker, Constable Headley Gray and Constable Orlando Webster, according to a release by the JCFs ...

A Freedom of Information request submitted soon after the story broke has unearthed a series of emails between Charlie Parker and NewRiver. Credit: ITV Channel TV I can reveal the Chief Executive of the Government of Jersey DID work on his second role as a non-executive director during hours he was paid to be the island’s top civil servant. A Freedom of Information request I submitted soon after the story broke, but only now responded to by government, has unearthed a series of emails between...