Saturday, August 29th, 2020 Barbados’ tally of COVID-19-positive cases reached 170 yesterday after four people tested positive for the viral illness out of 242 tests conducted by the Best-dos Santos Public Health Laboratory. The new cases are a 21-year-old Trinidadian woman, who arrived yesterday aboard a Caribbean Airlines repatriation flight from Trinidad; a 24-year-old female […]
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The Grantley Adams International Airport Inc.’s Deputy CEO, Terry Layne showing Minister of Tourism, Senator Lisa Cummins, some of the safety protocols in place at the GAIA while Permanent Secretary, Donna Cadogan and officials look on. (S.Forde-Craigg/BGIS) The Ministry of Tourism and International Transport, in collaboration with the Board and Management of the Grantley Adams […]
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Minister of Energy, Small Business, and Entrepreneurship, Kerrie Symmonds. (FP) Minister of Energy, Small Business, and Entrepreneurship, Kerrie Symmonds, will be visiting communities to seek out men and women interested in being trained to install solar panels on homes across the island. He gave this commitment recently, during an interview with the Barbados Government Information Service, […]
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Rashid Orlando Marville received the Companion of Honour in 2017 from Governor General Dame Sandra Mason, for his contribution to the public service. (FP) On behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, I wish to extend sincere condolences to the relatives and loved ones of Ambassador Rashid Orlando Marville. Ambassador Marville did […]
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No one tested positive for COVID-19 out of the 194 tests conducted by the Best-dos Santos Public Health Laboratory yesterday. One person, who received a second consecutive negative test result, will be discharged from the isolation facility at Harrison Point, St. Lucy, today. The number of people in isolation has therefore dropped to 18 and […]
Continue ReadingMinister of Tourism, Senator Lisa Cummins (right) presents Curator of the Andromeda Botanic Gardens, Sharon Cooke, with a token of appreciation during a visit to the tourist attraction yesterday. Looking on is the Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc.’s Chief Product Development Officer, Marsha Alleyne. (S.Forde-Craigg/BGIS) Curator of the Andromeda Botanic Gardens, Sharon Cooke, has revealed that […]
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Seven people will leave the isolation facility at Harrison Point, St. Lucy, today, after recovering from COVID-19, and one new patient has entered the facility. The 29-year-old British visitor, who tested positive yesterday, is a known contact of another British visitor who was diagnosed with the viral illness on August 20. There are now 165 […]
Continue ReadingMinister of Tourism and International Transport, Senator Lisa Cummins (left); Permanent Secretary, Donna Cadogan and officials listen attentively to Curator of the Andromeda Botanic Gardens, Sharon Cooke, during a tour of the attraction yesterday. (S.Forde-Craigg/BGIS) The Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc. (BTMI) has developed the Barbados Uh Come From initiative, in its effort to emerge with a “re-energised […]
Continue Reading(Stock Photo) Government and various tourism stakeholders have been working to refashion “a reimagined tourism product”. Minister of Tourism and International Transport, Senator Lisa Cummins, made this disclosure while addressing the Together Again event, hosted by the Barbados Conference Services Limited, in collaboration with some of its strategic industry partners, at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre last […]
Continue Reading(Stock Photo) Significant, serious and positive interest has been shown in Barbados’ 12-Month Welcome Stamp Programme, since it was announced by Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley. Minister of Home Affairs, Information and Public Affairs, Wilfred Abrahams, gave this assessment during a press conference to provide an update on the programme yesterday, in the Ministry’s conference room. […]
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