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Questions about alleged vaccine fraud

Questions about alleged vaccine fraud

September 21, 2021
1:37 pm

The Democratic Labour Party and members of the public are demanding answers over a widely circulated article alleging a million dollar scam involving vaccines allegedly that were to be sourced for Barbados.

The article speaks of a complaint filed alleging a 6.7 million dollar fraud over what is described as non-existent doses of a covid-19 vaccine that were to obtained through a company to vaccinate the people of Barbados.

After being forwarded several copies of the article by various sources Starcom Network News has reached out to government officials here and we await a formal reply.

However, President of the DLP Verla De Peiza has issued a statement demanding answers about that and other matters.

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