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Attorney General and parliamentary representative for St Joseph, Dale Marshall, in conversation with Prime Minister Mia Mottley at the opening of the St Joseph Outpatient Clinic. (Picture by Reco Moore) Social Share
The St Joseph Outpatient Clinic in Horse Hill was reopened earlier today after being closed on March 18, 2020.
During the opening ceremony, Minister of Health Jeffrey Bostic said the facility was in dire need of repairs for years before its closure.
Bostic said he had a commitment to make healthcare services more accessible to people in rural parts of the island, which was also a campaign promise of the current administration.
May 5, 2021
Over the last year, Barbados has been on the backfoot against challenges at every turn. The most unwelcomed of these challenges, the COVID-19 pandemic, claimed another Barbadian life, the 45th, while sickening 3,884 people to date.
Before COVID-19, the battle was already joined on the economic front. The virus has imperilled our health but it has also virtually severed the lifeblood of our economy, drying up foreign exchange, triggering massive job losses, cramping business activity, upending life.
The combat is far from over and hardly can we take any more foes.
But alas they ever lurk.
Over the last four days, the scourge of gun violence shattered any thought that senseless shootings were themselves on lockdown.
May 5, 2021
Christ Church West Central MP Adrian Forde on Tuesday told young people, especially men, that now is the “right time to do the right thing” as he paid tribute to a predecessor parliamentarian and mentor, Joseph Edghill.
Edghill, the prominent Oistins pharmacist who died on April 20, 2020, aged 73, represented the Barbados Labour Party in the riding from 1994 to 2008.
Hailed as the “Father of Gall Hill”, he was credited for his work in Christ Church West Central, particularly for being a founding member of the Pride of Gall Hill football club.
Forde told House of Assembly: “The first time Joe met me when I started canvassing the Christ Church West Central constituency, he gave me a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson stating, “You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. There is no right time to do the right thing”, and I am sure that were he alive today, he would share that with the young men of my con
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Police officers near the scene. The taxi in the background has a bulllet hole through the windscreen. (Picture by Lennox Devonish) Social Share
Another shooting incident in Gall Hill, Christ Church, yesterday has a still grieving mother appealing for peace.
While no one was killed, Kathy Brathwaite said the incident brought back painful memories of when she lost her 21-year-old son Kobea in 2010, and his brother Terrence Brathwaite in 2018, both victims of gun violence.
“As a mother, hearing about another shooting hurt me. Last year two bullets went through my place – one hit a washing machine and the other lodged in a window. I want to tell the gunmen to put down the guns. It is too hurtful to hear about this foolishness again,” she said.