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Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley speaking during the BLP Stan Home Rally on May 23, 2021. (GP) Social Share
Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley isn’t fooling herself.
The Barbados Labour Party leader on Sunday night boasted of many things her administration had been able to achieve in the first three years in office, but said there was still plenty to be done.
Mottley, addressing the Stan’ Home Political Mass Rally, said while the COVID-19 pandemic will only make it harder, she believes the manifesto the Bees sold to the country back in 2018 is a social contract, and one they plan to honour.
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Minister of Health and Wellness, Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Bostic announced on Sunday that the upgraded Accident and Emergency Department (A&E) at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) will be opening in another three weeks.
Speaking at the Barbados Labour Party’s Stan’ Home Political Mass Rally held virtually for the most part, he said that “the weekend of June 12” was the date set for the full reopening to the public, while he noted that construction had ended, and it was in the snagging stages now.
“This is very important,” he said to applause from people at The Lester Vaughan School from where the rally was streamed “live”.
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Barbados Today May 10, 2021
SOURCE: CMC – Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana and Jamaica recorded deaths from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic over the last 24 hours, while Antigua and Barbuda and Barbados reported new cases of the virus.
In the case of Barbados, education and health authorities announced new measures had been put in place as students from two schools where positive tests had been recorded, were preparing to return to their classrooms this week.
The death toll in Trinidad and Tobago reached 211 on Sunday after eight more deaths were recorded.
The Ministry of Health said that one young adult was among the eight new deaths and that a further 233 people have been registered as newly infected, bringing the number of active cases to 3,907.