BY BGIS | AUG 10, 2020 | CORONA VIRUS, TOP STORIES A 52-year-old male, who came into to the island on a chartered flight yesterday, tested positive for COVID-19. This brings the total number of recorded cases in Barbados to 143 – 75 females and 68 males. No one will be released from the isolation facility today, so the number of […]
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Barbados’ newest centenarian Etheline Graham (yellow dress) flanked by children, grandchildren and great grands during the celebrations at Dreamaway Villa yesterday. (GP) This island’s latest centenarian Etheline Louise Graham was the “lady of the hour” as relatives and friends gathered to celebrate the special milestone yesterday. Governor General Dame Sandra Husbands, who joined via Skype, […]
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Barbados’ Ambassador to the United Nations, Elizabeth Thompson, presents a Hewlett-Packard laptop, donated by Barbadian Madame Justice Sylvia Hinds-Radix of the Appellate Court of New York State, to Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Dr. Romel Springer. (MRD) Barbadians living in the diaspora continue to respond to the need for devices to support emergency […]
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Four people have gone into isolation after testing positive for COVID-19 yesterday, and four will leave the facility today after recovering. This development takes the number of confirmed cases to 142, while the numbers in isolation remain at 23. The four new cases all arrived in the island yesterday – two Barbadian men on a […]
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(FP) Graduates of the Erdiston Teachers’ Training College have been told that the reality that awaits them when school reopens in September will be quite different from what they’ve been preparing for during their courses of study. Minister of Education, Technological and Vocational Training, Santia Bradshaw, told the over 200 newly trained teachers, who graduated […]
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Eight people will be discharged from the isolation facility at Harrison Point, St. Lucy, today after two consecutive negative tests for COVID-19. Among them are four of the Ghanaian nurses who arrived in the island on July 30 to assist in bolstering the nursing complement at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, district hospitals and polyclinics. Twelve […]
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In response to 24 imported cases of COVID-19 confirmed in Barbados last weekend, Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley said today that authorities were fully aware that once the borders were reopened that this could happen. Speaking during a press conference at Ilaro Court, she, however, assured residents of Barbados that the measures being taken at […]
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(Stock Photo) A visitor to the island is now being investigated by Police after a complaint that she left a COVID-19 quarantine facility without permission earlier today. It is alleged that the visitor, who arrived on a flight from the United Kingdom, was tested at the Grantley Adams International Airport for the viral illness and […]
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Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc.(BTMI) The Government of Barbados has implemented a travel ‘Bubble’ for specific countries with a low incidence of COVID-19, effective August 5, 2020. They are St. Vincent, St. Lucia, Dominica, St. Kitts and Nevis and Grenada. Under these new travel protocols, persons travelling within the ‘Bubble’ who have not travelled to or […]
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Government’s policy decision to retest arriving passengers for COVID-19 at the seven-day mark continues to pay dividends. Three more Ghanaian nurses tested positive for COVID-19 after being retested yesterday. They are among 95 nurses who arrived from the West African country on July 30 in response to an outreach by the Barbados Government for specialist […]
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