FIRST SURGICAL PROCEDURE AT THE QEH ENMORE ISOLATION FACILITY
A basic surgery was performed today May 20th 2020 on a COVID-19 positive patient at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in the Enmore Isolation Facility. The patient is in recovery and will be transferred to Harrison Point at the appropriate juncture.
Thousands of tourism frontline workers being retrained
Approximately 8 000 tourism frontline workers are to be exposed to a series of online retraining sessions to retool them for when the sector rebounds. The “Barbados Together” E-Learning programme, is the initiative of the Human Resources Sub-Committee of government-led Tourism Action Task Force established to help the sector manage in face of the COVID-19 […]
Waterman: Nurses can’t bear pay cut
The Barbados Nurses Association wants to know whether nurses will receive a pay cut under government’s still-to-be announced cost-cutting plan. Last week, the Prime Minister spoke of the need to reduce costs in the public sector, in the face of a $450m revenue shortfall. She hinted to public sector workers being given bonds as a […]
COVID-19 UPDATE: TWO RECOVERIES, NO NEW CASES TODAY
Two people will be released from isolation today after recovering from COVID-19. This drops the number in isolation to 13, and increases the number of recoveries to 70. There were no new positive cases among the 155 tests carried out yesterday. The number of confirmed cases therefore remains at 90. There have been seven deaths, […]
Waldrond could face possible disciplinary action over statements about QEH
The Barbados Association of Medical Practitioners has convened an urgent council meeting or this evening to discuss a dispute between surgeon Dr. Maurice Waldrond, and his employers the Queen Elizabeth Hospital which has notified him of possible disciplinary action over statements he made on VOB’s Getting Down to Brass Tacks call-in program. Dr. Waldrond called […]