‘Get well soon Grynner’
Cultural icon McDonald Blenman, the Mighty Grynner, remains under medical care recovering from an illness. Sources close to the revered calypsonian tell Starcom Network News that Mr. Blenman is at this point in time still on the road to recovery. The seven-time Crop Over road march champion was in 2019 honoured with the renaming of […]
Sixteen Covid-19 deaths in three days
The Ministry of Health reports seven more covid19 deaths, a total of 16 fatalities from the virus in three days here. The latest covid update states that a 40-year-old Barbadian woman died yesterday at the Accident and Emergency Department of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Meanwhile, a 53-year-old Vincentian man in primary isolation, and two Barbadian […]
Optimistic forecast by Central Bank
The Barbados Central Bank reports that economic recovery has begun but stresses the importance of increasing vaccinations to get the covid-19 pandemic under control here. This was the assessment of Central Bank Bank Governor Cleviston Haynes delivering the economic review for the first three quarters of the year. He stated that while the pandemic continues […]