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Visitors with jab invited under new protocol

Article by Social Share Vaccinated visitors will be welcome to Barbados under a new public health protocol from May 8. Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley said yesterday the decision was one backed by science, and based on a combination of the country’s decreasing positivity rate of COVID-19, continuation of the National Vaccine Programme, and its improved capacity to do more testing if required. In a nationally televised address, she said it was important the country got its economic engines turning again, and there was no better place to start than with its biggest income earner, tourism. “That thing that sustains a large part, 45 per of our economic activity, is tourism. That cannot remain shut down and closed, particularly because since the beginning of this year there has been a large number of persons in our traditional source markets who have been vaccinated, and who have expressed a determination to travel later in this year,” Mottley said.

Cuban COVID team to stay another six months

Cuban COVID team to stay another six months Article by April 8, 2021 A year after arriving here to join the frontline battle against the coronavirus,  the Cuban medical team is to stay here until early October, at the request of Barbadian authorities. To seal the deal, representatives of the Ministry of Health and the government in Havana, Wednesday signed yet another six-month extension agreement – the third – at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Culloden Road. In this Cuban embassy photo, Juliette Bynoe-Sutherland (second from left), executive chairman of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, signed the agreement with Cuba’s Ambassador Sergio Pastrana, flanked by Barbados’ Ambassador to CARICOM David Comissiong (left) and Chief Medical Officer Dr Kenneth George (right).

Airport deputy CEO quits - Barbados Today

Airport deputy CEO quits Article by April 8, 2021 The deputy head of the Grantley Adams International Airport (GAIA) Terry Layne has quit his post to take up new duties at the catering company that serves the airport, in yet another high-profile departure of a public official at the helm of tourism. Layne, whose resignation as deputy chief executive officer takes effect at the end of May, is to move to GCG Catering, the Goddard Enterprises flight kitchen subsidiary that serves 24 locations across the Caribbean and Latin America. Layne will be joining a firm of 3,000 employees that produces 23 million meals per year servicing more than 75 per cent of the world’s leading airlines and an extensive portfolio of 140 industrial clients.

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