Barbados starts administering booster shots

Barbados health authorities have commenced the administering of covid-19 booster shots as from today, starting with frontline health care workers with the third dose to be extended to the general public as well, eventually. News broke of the move yesterday when management of  the Queen Elizabeth Hospital issued a memo to staff advising that each […]

Forde: Fake news

Head of the Covid-19 Isolation Facilities, Dr. Corey Forde, denies that he’s been sent on leave and says a widely circulated rumor came as a shock when it was drawn to his attention. Dr. Forde, the government’s top infectious diseases expert, was on the job at the Blackman and Gollop isolation facility when contacted by […]

Barbados President elected || Franklyn objects

Dame Sandra Mason has been elected as the first President of the soon to be Republic of Barbados. But this morning’s joint meeting of the House of Assembly and the Senate, held at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford was temporarily halted following the loud dissention of opposition Senator Caswell Franklyn. Speaker of House Arthur Holder commenced […]