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The future of the Harrison Point Isolation Centre is yet to be decided, but a proposal is on the table for it to be converted to an end-of-life care facility. While COVID-19 patients are still being treated at the St Lucy location, Minister of Health and Wellness Dr the Most Honourable Jerome Walcott said that with millions having been spent to
‘F’ is for foolishness and that’s what Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Kerrie Symmonds suggests the leader of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP), Dr Ronnie Yearwood is saying when he gives the Mia Mottley government a failing grade.He delivered a scathing rebuke of Yearwood’s recent ‘failing grade’ criticism of the performance of the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) government over the last few years. The DLP leader said Barbados was no better off than when the BLP took over the reins of Government in 2018.But on Sunday, at a BLP joint meeting held at Queen’s College, Sym...
Senior Medical Officer of Health Dr Anton Best is reporting a slight increase in COVID-19 cases in Barbados as he updated the country on the lingering presence of the pandemic.“Up to December 18. There is a slight increase in the COVID-19 cases in terms of the numbers of new infections, in terms of the positivity rates,” Dr Best revealed on Wednesday during a press conference with Chief Medical Officer Dr The Most Honourable Kenneth George.“In the week 12 December to 18 December we diagnosed 318 cases and that was compared to 317 cases in the previous week. So for all intents and purpose...
If more Barbadians considered the number of institutions and businesses who are in possession of detailed personal and sensitive information about us, they would take the matter of cyber-attacks more seriously.This week, we learned from officials of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH), our primary health care institution, that it had been attacked by hackers, who succeeded in crippling some aspects of the hospital’s operations.If that was not bad enough, we later learned that the attack had also impacted operations of the Harrison Point Isolation Facility, which was established to care for th...
A mixed-use development off Route 28 in Harrison is expected to move forward in the spring after several years sitting dormant. Brian Clark, consultant for R&Z Harrison Properties, said site work and infrastructure are scheduled to begin on Harrison Point, a 162-acre development near the Tarentum interchange of the expressway