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Gov’t Facilitating Sectors In COVID-19 Environment

April 26, 2020May 1, 2020Caribpix

Government is going the route of encouraging and facilitating sectors across the island to ensure that business thrives and employees are taken care of in this COVID-19 environment.

Elder Affairs Ministry Proactive In COVID 19 Fight

April 25, 2020May 1, 2020Caribpix1 Comment

As the COVID 19 pandemic swept across the globe, the Ministry of People Empowerment and Elder Affairs was proactive in its protection of all its workers by making sure they were well trained-up and suitably equipped to face any eventuality in their respective roles.

Attorney General Explains State Of Emergency Extension

April 25, 2020Caribpix

Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Dale Marshall. (FP) Today, the Parliament of Barbados, by a majority Resolution and in fact, by unanimous support in the House of Assembly, agreed to extend the State of Emergency in Barbados until the 30th of June. Under the Emergency Management Act, the State of Emergency is a […]

Attorney General Responds To Article On Curfew

April 24, 2020Caribpix3 Comments

In an article in one section of the Barbados press today, Magistrate Graveney Bannister was reported as having commented negatively on the enforceability of the Curfew Directive No. 3.

Venezuela donates test kits to Grenada’s fight against Covid-19

April 22, 2020May 1, 2020Caribpix3 Comments

On the heels of a donation of medical equipment and supplies by the People’s Republic of China, Grenada has received another donation, this time from the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Government officials, present for a handing over ceremony at the Maurice Bishop International Airport on Friday, said it speaks to the excellent relationship between Grenada […]

Tour by Acting PM Bradshaw

April 22, 2020Caribpix20 Comments

Perspex partitions, which now separate supermarket workers, particularly cashiers, from immediate contact with customers, came in for high praise today by Minister of Labour and Social Partnership Relations, Colin Jordan

Covid -19 Update

April 22, 2020Caribpix4 Comments

Construction work at Harrison Point, St. Lucy, is completed and the facility, which will be used to care for persons infected by COVID-19, has been handed over to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH).

Trinis Finally Go Home

April 22, 2020May 3, 2020Caribpix

Thirty three Trinidad and Tobago nationals who have been stranded in Barbados since March 23, have departed Barbados earlier today after National Security Minister, Stuart Young granted an exemption to the group to allow them to return to the country.

Protect Yourself

April 21, 2020Caribpix

Minister of Health and Wellness, Lt. Col. Jeffrey Bostic, has announced that there will be an escalation in the numbers of people being tested for COVID-19 “in short order”. Speaking at a press conference yesterday, he explained: “We will do so because we want to be absolutely certain that there is no community transmission in […]