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Superintendent of Prisons Lieutenant Colonel John Nurse has expressed gratitude for the outpouring of best wishes.
However, he has assured Barbadians that there is no need for alarm regarding his sudden illness, which resulted in him being admitted to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
Nurse, who is still hospitalised, told
Nation News today that while he wants to keep the nature of his illness private, it was not as serious as some reports had suggested. In fact, Nurse said that with a little rest, he plans to be back at work at Her Majesty’s Prison Dodds very soon.
Barbados TODAY has learned.
In confirming the development Friday night, Minister of Home Affairs Wilfred Abrahams said the problem was not COVID-related.
But when asked to respond to a report that claimed that Nurse had suffered a heart attack, Abrahams said it would be inappropriate for him to divulge the prison chief’s medical business, adding that the superintendent himself would do that as he saw fit at the right time.
The minister was also questioned whether Lt Col Nurse’s ailment would affect his ability to continue running the sole adult penal institution as Superintendent of Prisons. He has held the post for the past 20 years.
Dodds cluster now beaten, say authorities
Article by February 2, 2021
The COVID-19 outbreak at HMP Dodds is no more, the Government COVID Communications Unit declared Monday.
The crisis at the island’s lone penal institution has been brought under control with only seven positive cases presently active, according to the authorities, who said that the island’s largest COVID-19 cluster had been neutralized.
At its peak, the cluster at the St Philip prison totalled 363 infected people – 85 prison officers, 261 inmates and 17 staff members.
The communications unit said in a statement: “Today, only seven COVID-positive persons remain to be medically discharged. Operations at the prison have so returned to normalcy, that Virtual Court will resume from the Prison effective today, Monday, February 1.”
The first inmate to come out of HMP Dodds since COVID-19 struck the prison three weeks ago has described the situation there as “bare sufferation”. The woman, who served five years and 41 days for financial crimes, was due to be released on January 12. However, like the other 842 inmates, she was placed under lockdown from December 31 as Government instituted a “no one in, no one out” policy. …