Lowe: Water scarcity has always been an issue
BAC announces semi-finalists in Secondary Schools’ Debate Competition
water relief

Krystal Grant showing members of the media that the water is back on in Horse Hill, St Joseph.
Golden Soca helps BARP

From left to right: Michael Goodman of Golden Soca team; Veteran Calypsonian, Cutloose; Producer, Peter Boyce; BARP President, Ed Bushell; and BARP Business Development Officer, Karen Barker.
Be careful

Some of the business owners and professionals during the panel discussion entitled “The Role of The Private Sector in Managing Disaster”, which was hosted by the Barbados Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI), at the Hilton Resort yesterday. INSET: Former Director of Emergency Services, Clive Lorde.

A warning has gone out to media practitioners in Barbados, who brave tropical storms and other bad weather to give coverage to the damage brought by these weather systems.
Clive Lorde, a former Director of Emergency Services in Barbados, is telling media personnel that they run the risk of putting themselves in danger when covering the damages wrought by weather systems.
He said that it is unfortunate that there is an attempt by some media personnel in Barbados to emulate the external media outlets like CNN, MSNBC and other networks in the USA.
Lorde cautioned that news personnel from those networks tend to make sure that they are on safe ground and positioned themselves very close to buildings which can give them protection in the event of a mishap. So here you have to be cautious, he advised.
“There is a difference between what you (in Barbados) do and what CNN does – they know what they are doing,” he advised.
In supporting Lorde, Melony Jones of the Barbados Employers’ Confederation suggested that the vehicles which local personnel are using to get around need to be inspected, they must be up to date, and there is need to do a quick inspection to verify if the vehicles are safe to travel through water. (JB)
Collaboration needed in the judicial system

Justice William Chandler; Senior Probation Officer, Roseann Greaves; and Chief Justice, Sir Marston Gibson conversing at the head table.
Sutherland dismisses Scoping Study presentation

Member of Parliament for St. George South, Dwight Sutherland.
GAIA donates to three local charities

Operations Manager with the Barbados Council for the Disabled, Roseanna Tudor (right) accepting a cheque from Director of Engineering at GAIA, Karen Walkes. She also accepted the cheque on behalf of The National United Society for the Blind.
Lowe happy to be back
Growing more food part of greening the economy
NVQ agriculture project gets under way

Chief Executive Officer of the Barbados Entrepreneurship Foundation, Celeste Foster.
BLP St. Michael North West goes to Rowe

Pure Jubilation! Barbados Labour Party member, Neil Rowe, is the new candidate for the St. Michael North West constituency.
Democratic Labour Party to launch ‘Talk 50’ competition

For the first time in its history, the DLP rolled out its own Independence Walk, at its Headquarters. Here, General Secretary of the DLP George Pilgrim, looks on as Sir Phillip Greaves cuts the ribbon to declare the Walk open, with the help of students from St. Cyprians Boy’s School.
CHANGE THE SYSTEM

CARICOM Education Sector Specialist, Dr. Nancy George, outlined that a different type of learner is necessary in today’s world.
Ministry of Health: Mosquito fight critical

Principal Environmental Health Officer at the Six Roads Polyclinic, Maurice Gaskin delivering the lecture.
Digicel switches on Barbados’ first 4G LTE Network

National Hero and Digicel Brand Ambassador, the Right Honourable Sir Garfield Sobers (left) and Chief Executive Officer of Digicel Barbados, Conor Looney switching on the Digicel LTE network.
stand-out school

Entertainer Peter Ram sings the ‘Stop The Bullying’ theme song with Grantley Adams students during the ‘Celebrate Kindness: No Name-calling Day’ initiative.
Call being made for Reef Rehabilitation Programmme
Olweus Award signals a turnaround for Grantley Adams
Two million dollar upgrade for Fire Service

The ‘jaws of life’ was used to remove the door and roof of this vehicle to save the lives of those caught inside.

Keeping a close eye on the proceedings were (from left), Acting Deputy Chief Fire Officer, Llyodson Phillips; Acting Chief Fire Officer, Errol Maynard and Attorney General, Adriel Brathwaite.
TWO million dollars have been spent this year upgrading the equipment of the Barbados Fire Service (BFS).
“On the fleet upgrade and replacement, we have about spent $2 million this year. I think we have two new tankers, and over the next couple of years, it will be between seven or eight million dollars that we will be spending, so that we can have the most cutting edge of equipment,” disclosed Minister of Home Affairs and Attorney General, Adriel Brathwaite.
At the time, he was speaking moments after the end of ‘Operation: Raising the Bar’, a rescue simulation put on by the BFS in the City yesterday.
While the simulation included a water-rescue, the outing of a vehicle blaze and a vehicle rescue, the AG threw down the challenge to the BFS to include a high-rise rescue in its next simulation.
“I said to the Fire Chief that if you are going to do a drill, I would expect to see someone come down from the Treasury Building or going up the Treasury Building ,because in terms of what is happening, we are having more high-rise buildings in Barbados that will be part of our landscape of the future, so whatever is required in terms of our ability to respond to emergencies of all types, we are going to have to try to ensure that we don’t only have the equipment, but all skills,” he said.
The AG underlined the importance of having such drills, noting that these were critical life-savers.
“We have to learn from this morning’s exercise the things that we did not do properly, because based on what I could see, there were a couple areas where we needed to have better co-ordination, but that will only happen through practice.
Brathwaite also noted that a state-of-the-art teaching facility will be created at the Arch Hall station, insisting, “we not only want to teach our firemen and women, we also want to have it available to our brothers and sisters across the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States’.”