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Flow donates food vouchers to charities Article by December 23, 2020 Good tidings for Christmas and the New Year have arrived for families relying on the Barbados Cancer Society and the HIV Food Bank for assistance. In the face of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, both organisations recently received $7, 500 worth of supermarket vouchers from leading telecommunications provider Flow as part of the company’s annual support for the two agencies. “Flow is committed to empowering and improving our community, so for the last few years we have tried not only to make prudent don...

December 23, 2020 Former pilots of regional airline LIAT have renewed their calls for severance payments and other outstanding money’s due to them to be paid. Saying that nine months had passed since hundreds of workers had been laid off by the airline which has gone into administration, president of the Leeward Islands Airline Association (LIALPA), Patterson Thompson, said he believes it is high time his members receive whatever money they are owed. In a press release issued on Tuesday, Thompson said members were struggling financially. His comments have come three weeks after he...

December 21, 2020 PAHO/WHO Office for Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean Countries (ECC) said thank you to media recently, for their coverage of the COVID-19 vaccine. During a cocktail reception hosted for media houses, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Kenneth George, Permeant Secretary in the Ministry of Health Janet Phillips, PAHO/WHO Representative for Barbados and the ECC Dr. Yitades Gebre and PAHO/WHO Advisors, gathered to salute the media. The PAHO/WHO Representative also pledged continued collaboration with the media. “We will continue to work with our invited guests here to reach...

Red Advertising wins awards for breast cancer work Article by December 22, 2020 The Angels have smiled on Red Advertising this Christmas with the leading Barbados-based agency copping a major Gold Angel Award for its breast cancer-related work, among a total of three Gold and six Silver Awards won in the 2020 American Advertising Federation Angel Awards. Red was recognized with a special Gold Award for its body of work on breast cancer awareness across multiple clients, with two additional Gold Awards for its work on the Sagicor Breast Cancer Awareness campaign. Emerging...

December 22, 2020 Businesses are continuing to enforce strict COVID-19 protocols as hundreds of Barbadians rush to The City to do their last minute shopping. And managers of several of the larger stores told Barbados TODAY that while they expect the foot traffic to increase over the next few days, they won’t be ignoring or adjusting any of their strict protocols. Some businesses said they have no choice but to enforce the measures implemented, since members of the COVID-19 Monitoring Unit are out in their numbers visiting establishments, even advising where loop holes need to be ...