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High powered group ready to assist with vaccine financing

High powered group ready to assist with vaccine financing Article by March 3, 2021 A year-old, locally-owned private company made up of high-powered businessmen is anxiously standing by to invest in Government’s proposed national vaccination fund to purchase additional doses. Chairman of the COVID-19 Relief and Recovery (Barbados) Inc, Andrew Mallalieu revealed that the company is only awaiting word from Prime Minister Mottley – who last week suggested calling on the organisation. “We have people who have contributed for the purchase of the vaccination and that sum has been raised and as soon as the Prime Minister and her team are able to source and call on us to help with the funding, we will disburse the funds – but we have not had that call as yet. We are anxiously awaiting the call to say that she has managed to source it because I think she said last week until she knows for sure she will get it, she isn’t saying anything,” Mallalieu told

Alleged breachers hauled before Chief Magistrate today

Alleged ‘breachers’ hauled before Chief Magistrate today Article by February 18, 2021 The work of the COVID-19 Monitoring Unit is not to “lock up or charge” people says Ronald Chapman who has however put the public on notice that his officers would be going after persons who use social media to facilitate face-to-face business. Chapman sounded the warning after the monitoring unit brought the first batch of COVID-19 protocol breachers before the law court. “We had a young lady who decided during Valentine’s Day that she is going to go out and deliver cakes. Now we found out that she was positive. So I am sending her a clear signal now, I hope she knows, that she will be walking straight out of Harrisons Point straight before the laws courts. We are not accepting this sort of behaviour.”

QEH executive chairman clears air on hazard pay

Article by Social Share Management of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) today dismissed any notion that health care workers attached to the Martindales Road, St Michael facility have not been protected financially during the current COVID-19 pandemic. The hospital’s executive chairman, Juliet Bynoe-Sutherland, sent a statement to the media today to explain funds relating to hazard pay would become available this month, after a petition on social media warning of industrial action gained traction. “We have become aware through social media of a petition circulating about the need for hazard pay for health care workers and a reported threat by an official of NUPW [National Union of Public Workers] to call a national sick out of health care workers this coming Wednesday.

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