Governor General Dame Sandra Mason received her first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine today – Thursday FEB 11, 2021Public health officials from the Maurice Byer Polyclinic were on hand to brief the Governor General and to administer the vaccine. (C. Pitt/BGIS) Governor General Dame Sandra Mason received the first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in front […]
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VIEW IT HERE ……..COVID-19 update and press conference – February 10, 2021. (PMO) Governor General Dame Sandra Mason will publicly take the Oxford- AstraZeneca vaccine. This disclosure came today from Coordinator of the COVID Communications Unit, Ambassador Elizabeth Thompson, during a press conference, to discuss the roll out of the COVID-19 vaccines in Barbados. Ambassador […]
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VIEW HERE —— COVID-19 update and press conference – February 9, 2021. (PMO) Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has disclosed that negotiations are being had with the Government of India to obtain a second batch of the Covishield (Oxford-AstraZeneca) vaccine. The first batch of 100,000 doses, which arrived on the island last evening, would provide […]
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Tuesday 9th February 2021 Grantley Adams International Airport . Watch “India’s gift of 100,000 COVID-19 vaccines arrived Barbados earlier today.” on YouTube —– BARBADOS & DOMINICA Receive Vaccines from INDIA this evening. OXFORD-ASTRAZENECA VACCINE ‘HIGHLY SAFE AND EFFECTIVE’Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has described the Indian-manufactured Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, also known as COVISHIELD, as a “highly […]
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GOVERNOR GENERAL’S ABSENCE FROM OFFICE Governor General Dame Sandra Mason will be absent from office on vacation leave for the period February 6 to 15, which will be spent in Barbados.In accordance with the provisions of Section 29(1)(a) of the Constitution ofBarbados, the Very Reverend Dr. Jeffrey Douglas Gibson will perform the functions of the […]
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BY BGIS. 5th February 2021 (Stock Photo) The public is advised that under the Minimum Wage Act 2017-4, the Minister of Labour and Social Partnership Relations intends to introduce a national minimum wage, and a Sectoral Minimum Wage in Barbados with effect from April 1, 2021. Information on the proposed Minimum Wage Order may be […]
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by BGIS — FEB 5, 2021 The island recorded two deaths from COVID-19 on Thursday, February 4. They are a 93-year-old woman with co-morbidities who died at the Harrison Point Isolation Facility, and an 83-year-old man who passed away last night after being admitted to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. As of Thursday, the number […]
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(Stock Photo) The Barbados Port Inc. (BPI) confirmed today that four of its employees have tested positive for COVID-19. But operations at the Port of Bridgetown, currently focused on the delivery of essential and emergency cargo during this Government-mandated national pause, which runs from February 3, to February 17, are not expected to be disrupted. […]
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22nd Meeting of the Forum of Ministers of Environment of Latin America and the Caribbean. Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley addressing the 22nd Meeting of the Forum of Ministers of Environment of Latin America and the Caribbean today. (XXII Forum of Ministers of Environment of LAC) — VIEW IT HERE Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley […]
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Article first appearing in Barbados Today — Published onJanuary 31, 2021 During a COVID-19 update and press conference Saturday evening, Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Dale Marshall, highlighted some of the directives contained in the Emergency Management (Covid-19) (Curfew) (No. 3) Directive, 2021, which takes effect from Wednesday, February 3, until Wednesday, February […]
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