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).
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BUT teachers say no resumption until new school year
Article by March 13, 2021
Sceptical of assurances on the control of the year-long COVID-19 pandemic, unionised teachers have rejected the Chief Medical Officer’s recommendation of a full-scale resumption of school, declaring there should be no return to face-to-face instruction until the new school year begins in September.
Barbados Union of Teachers (BUT) president Pedro Shepherd declared that at this stage the risk of contracting the coronavirus significantly outweighs the potential benefits of returning to face-to-face classes, despite the Government’s top doctor’s projections as the country races to vaccinate thousands of Barbadians each week and the rate of infection continues to taper off.
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March 11, 2021
One of Barbados’ leading hoteliers is sounding the alarm that two of his hotels could close in the coming months for an indefinite period and that Barbados could continue to witness a very depressed tourism product if steps are not urgently taken to ease COVID-19 measures and ensure improvements in the tourism industry by this November.
Gordon Seale, owner of the 130-room all-inclusive Sugar Bay Barbados Beach Resort and the over 100-room Bougainvillea Beach Resort, suggested that there needed to be some easing of the protocols soon including the length of time a visitor was required to wait in quarantine for the results of a second COVID-19 test.