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Communities deserve a seat at the table: Wiltshire
Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Creative Economy, Culture and Sports, Jehu Wiltshire, addressing the UNESCO-CDEMA Workshop on Disaster Resilience in the Caribbean’s Culture Sector. Looking on...
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Know your medicine
Some of those attending the conference yesterday at the QEH on patient safety.Patients are being urged to know their medication, the dosage they are taking and for what reason it has been prescribed.So...
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Call for outline of Crop Over, We Gatherin’ plans
Alan Springer (right), Opposition Spokesperson for The Arts, Culture and The Creative Economy and Scott Weatherhead, Opposition Spokesperson for Tourism and International Transport.The Opposition...
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PM: No Budget next week
Mottley updates media on COVID-19 preparationsSome of the media managers present at yesterday’s meeting with Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley and other ministers and officials.PRIME Minister Mia Amor...
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Call for standardised kidney disease healthcare screening in Barbados
Director of Nursing Services at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH), Henderson Pinder suggested that kidney disease screening should be a standard healthcare intervention in Barbados.Health screening...
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Educating Barbadian youth about their ancestral roots
Chief Executive Officer of The African Diaspora Institute of Cultural Exchange & Historical Research, Inc (CEHR) and historian, Natasha Bynoe gave an engaging presentation at Westbury Primary...
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Societal education still necessary
Former Minister Dr. Esther Byer Suckoo as she delivered her remarks. The unsolicited criticism successful women still receive from the public suggests that there is a need for the re-education of...
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QEH pharmacist cautions: Stop risky behaviour
Trudy Griffith, Pharmacist at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Clinical Risk Lead in the Pharmacy Department speaking yesterday morning.Those in the habit of using prescription drugs that have not been...
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Take steps to weather drought
Impact on farmers discussedLisa Hinkson, active member of the Barbados Agricultural Society, Barbados Sheep and Goat Association and Women in Agriculture.One local agricultural expert is advising...
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BVTB director wants more investment
Director of the Barbados Vocational Training Board (BVTB), Henderson Thompson, speaking to the media.Director of the Barbados Vocational Training Board (BVTB), Henderson Thompson, is pleading with...
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KEEN INTEREST
NCC to expand Junior Beekeeping ProgrammeMinister of Environment and National Beautification, Trevor Prescod, takes a look at the live bees on display, following the presentation ceremony.Minister of...
View ArticleUWI response to COVID-19 addressed
WITH classes at the Mona campus already suspended, heads of the University of the West Indies (UWI) are giving the assurance that all was being done to protect its staff and student population against...
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BVTB, CARICAD celebrate 40th anniversary with tree planting ceremony
Director of the Barbados Vocational Training Board (BVTB), Henderson Thompson, planting a tree with Programme Specialist at the Caribbean Centre for Development Administration (CARICAD), Frankie...
View ArticleThe UWI looking to establish Day/Evening Care centre
In a progressive move, the University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus is seeking to establish a Day/Evening Care centre.With a student body of over 6,000 and a staff complement of 953, Pro Vice...
View ArticleCOVID-19 pandemic causing cancellations locally
With the COVID-19 pandemic influencing the cancellations of several entertainment events internationally, it was only a matter of time before regional affairs were also postponed.Locally, the first...
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Modelling agency, insurance company partnering to give back
FROM LEFT: Barbados Council for the Disabled’s President, Kerryann Ifill; Co-operators General’s Business Development and Marketing Officer, Sabrina Howard; Model Patrol’s Founder and Miss World...
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Treating obesity key to fighting diabetes, hypertension
Head of Department of Medicine at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH), Dr. Mike Krimholtz.If you can treat obesity, cases of diabetes and hypertension rates will be cut massively. Head of Department of...
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Barbadians urged to be sustainable consumers
Deputy Speaker of the House of Assembly and Member of Parliament for St. George North, Gline Clarke (left), joined the staff of the Ministry of Small Business, Entrepreneurship and Commerce for...
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Put our people first, says DLP
DLP President Verla De Peiza.The Democratic Labour Party (DLP) is urging Government, if it has not already done so, to ensure that all frontline workers at our ports of entry and across the tourism...
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School Meals Department vital
Parliamentary Secretary (PS) in the Ministry of Education, Technological and Vocational Training, Senator Romel Springer.Members of the School Meals Department being prayed for by the congregation.From...
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