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Flow donates food vouchers to charities Article by December 23, 2020 Good tidings for Christmas and the New Year have arrived for families relying on the Barbados Cancer Society and the HIV Food Bank for assistance. In the face of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, both organisations recently received $7, 500 worth of supermarket vouchers from leading telecommunications provider Flow as part of the company’s annual support for the two agencies. “Flow is committed to empoweri...

December 23, 2020 Barbados recorded another two cases of COVID-19 on Monday, while six persons were released from isolation. The new cases are a 22-year-old male visitor, who arrived on British Airways on December 19; and a 21-year-old female visitor, who came in on British Airways on December 20. Both of them were asymptomatic, and tested positive on their second tests. Theirs were the only positive tests among the 1,455 conducted by the Best-dos Santos Public Health Laboratory.   T...

December 23, 2020 Former pilots of regional airline LIAT have renewed their calls for severance payments and other outstanding money’s due to them to be paid. Saying that nine months had passed since hundreds of workers had been laid off by the airline which has gone into administration, president of the Leeward Islands Airline Association (LIALPA), Patterson Thompson, said he believes it is high time his members receive whatever money they are owed. In a press release issued on Tue...

December 21, 2020 PAHO/WHO Office for Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean Countries (ECC) said thank you to media recently, for their coverage of the COVID-19 vaccine. During a cocktail reception hosted for media houses, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Kenneth George, Permeant Secretary in the Ministry of Health Janet Phillips, PAHO/WHO Representative for Barbados and the ECC Dr. Yitades Gebre and PAHO/WHO Advisors, gathered to salute the media. The PAHO/WHO Representative also pledged conti...

Barbados Today December 22, 2020 SOURCE: CNN — Two passengers aboard a Delta flight bound for Atlanta opened a cabin door and activated the slide to exit the plane while it was taxiing to a runway at New York’s LaGuardia Airport Monday morning, Delta spokesman Morgan Durrant told CNN. The New York Times reported that a large service dog also deplaned with them. After they exited the plane, the aircraft returned to the gate and deplaned customers normally, Durrant said. He said th...

Red Advertising wins awards for breast cancer work Article by December 22, 2020 The Angels have smiled on Red Advertising this Christmas with the leading Barbados-based agency copping a major Gold Angel Award for its breast cancer-related work, among a total of three Gold and six Silver Awards won in the 2020 American Advertising Federation Angel Awards. Red was recognized with a special Gold Award for its body of work on breast cancer awareness across multiple clients, wi...

Man charged with rape Article by December 22, 2020 A 27-year-old conductor charged with three counts of sexual intercourse with a child was remanded to HMP Dodds over the weekend. Jamar Akeem Nathaniel Powlett, of Block 2A, Bottom Close, Wildey, St Michael is accused of committing the act on the 13-year-old girl, on August 16, November 2 and November 16. He could not plead to the indictable charges when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes on Saturday and the prose...

December 22, 2020 Businesses are continuing to enforce strict COVID-19 protocols as hundreds of Barbadians rush to The City to do their last minute shopping. And managers of several of the larger stores told Barbados TODAY that while they expect the foot traffic to increase over the next few days, they won’t be ignoring or adjusting any of their strict protocols. Some businesses said they have no choice but to enforce the measures implemented, since members of the COVID-19 Monitori...

December 19, 2020 It is becoming increasingly apparent that the global jostle for COVID-19 vaccines will be another battle of might and wealth over the needs of the world’s most vulnerable and at risk. Recently leaked documents have exposed deep concerns that countries like Barbados and other developing nations could find their access to the vital vaccinations stalled for another three years, thus stymying any chances of a smooth pathway out of the health and economic crisis now gri...

Their tests were among the 915 tests conducted by the Best-dos Santos Public Health Laboratory. The new cases are a 75-year-old Barbadian woman, who arrived on British Airways; a 54-year-old male visitor, who came in on American Airlines on December 11; a 23-year-old Barbadian woman, who arrived on American Airlines on December 12; and a 60-year-old male visitor, who came into the island on British Airways on December 14. Also adding to the tally of confirmed cases are a 32-year-old female visi...