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Thanks to India, 50,000 Barbadians will soon benefit from COVID-19 vaccinations. That is the word from Prime Minister Mia Mottley, who today revealed that India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi had agreed to give Barbados 100,000 vaccines. While not giving a specific timeline, Mottley said the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccines were expected on the island in short order. India is one of the three locations globally where the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine is being produced. She said Government was at the stage where logistics were being settled. “Let me at the outset first and foremost thank the Gover...

Article by Social Share Minister of Home Affairs Wilfred Abrahams said on Monday that while quarantine and isolation rules prevented some prisoners who had completed their sentences from leaving Her Majesty’s Prison Dodds during the lockdown, all inmates who have completed their sentence and the programme for reintegration into society, have been released. In a statement from the COVID Communications Unit, Abrahams said while the delay in release of prisoners would have caused concern to inmates and their loved ones, as well as to the families of prison officers, who similarly were no...

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 i...

ADB Country Manager bids farewell to President Bio  29 January 2021 at 17:54 |  776 views The Country Manager for the African Development Bank Group, Dr Peninah Wanjira Kariuka, has called on President Dr Julius Maada Bio at State House to bid farewell after three years of dedicated service in the West African nation. Sierra Leone’s Deputy Minister I in the Ministry of Finance, Dr. Patricia Nyanga Laverley, described the outgoing AfDB boss as a true friend of the country, whom she said had contributed greatly to its development. “Your Excellency, during her tenure at the AfD...

The CEPEP Company assists the EMBD to restore lands earmarked for distribution to ex-Caroni workers January 28th, 2020 – The CEPEP Company Limited has agreed to assist the Estate Management & Business Development Company Limited (EMBD) by providing ground maintenance and restoration works for residential lands earmarked for distribution to ex-Caroni workers in Debe and Couva. The CEPEP Company embarked on the restoration project of one hundred and eleven (111) acres of land in Picton Settlement, Debe and one hundred and forty-five (145) acres of land in Exchange, Couva This project commenc...