COVID-19 UPDATE: NO NEW CASES TODAY
There are no newly diagnosed cases of COVID-19 in Barbados today. All 116 tests conducted for the viral illness yesterday were negative. The number of persons infected since March 16 remains at 90 – 47 females and 43 males. Seventy people have recovered and 13 remain in isolation. No one was released from isolation today. […]
Body pulled from water at Long Bay
Police responded to the area of Long Bay Beach, St Philip near Sam Lord’s Castle where it was reported that an unresponsive male had been pulled from the water. On their arrival along with ambulance personnel, a check was made of the body which showed no sign of life. A medical doctor was summoned to […]
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 […]
Church changes?
COVID-19 Czar Richard Carter says the investigations into the coronavirus cluster caused at a church are ongoing and the outcome could bring about a revision to the order as it pertains to congregations. Mr. Carter told Starcom Network News they are actively tracing and the result will determine if that measure is to be revised.
Ambassador Liz Thompson tests positive for COVID-19
Barbados’ Ambassador to the United Nations, Liz Thompson has tested positive for COVID-19. The Ambassador has no symptoms of the disease and is feeling perfectly well. According to a release from the Government Information Service, the Ambassador traveled to Barbados yesterday afternoon from New York, which is the epicenter of the COVID outbreak in the […]
COVID-19 UPDATE: NO NEW CASES TODAY
No one tested positive out of the 80 tests for COVID-19 conducted by the Bestdos Santos Public Health Laboratory yesterday. Additionally, no one will be released from isolation today. As a result, the number of people impacted by the viral illness remains the same. There are 88 confirmed cases – 46 females and 42 males; […]