The journey of Barbados’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the health workers who were heroes is a story that needs to be told locally and internationally, says Acting Prime Minister Santia Bradshaw. The challenge to the management of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) was backed by acting Minister of Health Dr Sonia Browne who told attendees at the institution's Gold Awards ceremony, dubbed The Journey: People need to know …
Barbados needs to look at the underlying factors for the increase in gun related crime, particularly among the youth. That was the message from Democratic Labour Party (DLP) member Rasheed Belgrave on Sunday during a public meeting at the corner Pine Plantation Road, Collymore Rock, St Michael. He said it was “unfair” to criticise young men for choosing the path of violence without first acknowledging the circumstances that would cause …
Education authorities indicated that teaching will resume on Thursday at the Alleyne School in Belleplaine, St Andrew, after it was forced to close early the previous day, when strong winds associated with adverse weather blew off the newly installed roof of the library.
Instead of publicly vilifying them, Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley should have first talked with pharmacists, says president of the Barbados Pharmaceutical Society (BPS), Yolan Pantin. In responding to Mottley’s threat last Friday to cap the prices on pharmaceuticals, Pantin insisted that, through the Barbados Drug Service, there were already price controls. She said there were layers to the issue of pharmaceutical prices and a discussion with pharmacists would have …
With Barbados due to officially end its programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) at the end of this month, the Mia Amor Mottley-led administration has taken the decision to seek another arrangement with the Washington-based facility. Details on this latest development, which puts to rest weeks of speculation, were disclosed by Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley during a press conference hosted at the official residence Ilaro Court yesterday. The …