The Ministry of Health and Wellness joins with the family and loved ones in mourning the passing of Barbados’ eleventh COVID-19 fatality, as reported earlier today. The female, 48, passed away at the Harrison Point Isolation Facility where she was a patient for just under two weeks. The Barbadian was on a ventilator as a result of respiratory complications from a range of health issues and comorbidities. The middle-aged woman …
January 28, 2021
The two-week lockdown has not gone down well with a key spokesman of the private sector, despite the full backing of the trade union movement, the medical profession and the island’s key political players.
While the business community has said it will adhere to the order for the country to halt all but essential business operations from Wednesday, Edward Clarke, the chairman of the Barbados Private Sector Association is adamant that the action by the Mia Mottley administration is unnecessary.
The position emerged from talks between the Social Partnership and Government in recent days.
On Tuesday night, the Prime Minister outlined several restrictions that would take effect from next Wednesday which are aimed at bringing community spread of the coronavirus under control.
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Barbados will not be returning to the alphabet system for shopping and banking. That was one of the decisions coming out of Saturday’s meeting of the Cabinet COVID-19 sub-committee. Prime Minister Mia Mottley mooted the idea during Friday’s COVID-19 management update from Ilaro Court, promising to hold discussions with the relevant stakeholders. There was a full meeting of the Social Partnership the following day, which included representatives from the Barbados …
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Barbados will soon have a dedicated health communications team to better inform the country about all matters related to the spread and treatment of COVID-19.
The team is being set up to ease some of the pressure off Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley, Minister of Health Jeffrey Bostic, chairman of the Cabinet COVID-19 Sub-committee Senator Dr Jerome Walcott, and public health officials.
Ambassador to the United Nations (UN), former minister of health Liz Thompson, is being brought back to the island to be part of the team, along with president of the Barbados Association of Medical Practitioners, Dr Lynda Williams; communications and marketing specialist Tyson Henry, who is based in Dominica, and a fourth person who is being targeted, Mottley said during a national address from Ilaro Court on Friday.