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Consultant cardiologist Dr Richard Ishmael is the new chair of the Barbados Accreditation Council. Dr Ishmael, who is a director of Cardiovascular Diagnostics Inc. and Interventional Radiology and Cardiology Inc. at Bracebridge Medical Centre, brings several decades of leadership and corporate governance experience as he takes up his new position. In 1993, he pioneered the development of the Cardiac Catheterisation and Open Heart Surgical Programmes at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, and served as the first head of the Department of Cardiovascular Services as well as director of the Cardiac Cat...

. In this on-going series of 'in conversations' hear from leading individuals talk about how they use photography as artists, scientists, educators, publishers and curators. All our speakers are recent RPS Award recipients who have been recognised for their contribution to the medium. They are discussing their work with those who know them and their work. James Barnor is a Ghanaian photographer with a passionate interest in people and cultures with a remarkable career spanning more than six decades. He began his practice in the late 1940s in Accra, Ghana, soon setting up his own portrait st...

Dr Clyde Cave steady under strain Article by By Geralyn Edward He is the doctor who manages to elicit smiles from babies and children, even in the sometimes tension-filled environment of a hospital or his medical office. He is known for taking calls from frantic newbie parents at 2 in the morning, as calmly as he would at 2 in the afternoon.  Today, though, Dr Clyde Cave carries a different burden of responsibility that has thrust him into the spotlight during this COVID-19 pandemic, as Director of Medical Services at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH). As has been the case over hi...

As far as I can remember, Byzantine music has been part of my life. One of my earliest memories is of waking up to the smell of incense and listening to my grandmother chanting troparia as she censed the house. There was something mysterious about those sounds, the arcane words hinting at truths that needed to be unlocked, the lilting and eliding cadences, primordial and eternal, wrapping themselves around my ears like a protective comforting cocoon. This was more than the music of Heaven. It was the melodic narrative of the historical progression of an entire people. I was fifteen when I fir...

McKeon Re-Elected as PRII President for a Second Term December 11, 2020 Padraig McKeon has been re-elected to serve a second two-year term as President of The Public Relations Institute of Ireland (PRII) at its AGM this week. McKeon is an independent corporate communications consultant with over 30 years’ experience in Ireland and overseas including six years as managing director of Drury Communications. A Sligo native, he is also an Associate Lecturer on the MSc in Public Relations and Strategic Communications at Dublin City University, a Fellow of the PRII, and has Chartered Practitioner...