Bostic not contesting next general election
Member of Parliament for the City of Bridgetown and Minister of Health and Wellness Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Bostic has reportedly signalled his intention to bow out of elective politics at the end of the current term. Usually reliable sources tell Starcom Network News that Colonel Bostic has informed his Barbados Labour Party City Branch during […]
Companies mandate vaccination
Local companies have started mandating covid-19 vaccination for staff, with one supermarket warning that those who refuse to comply will be terminated. Hill Milling and Lionel C. Hill Supermarkets have issued a memo to staff reminding them of an instruction issued in July that they be vaccinated by September 30th . The memo states “please […]
COVID 19 UPDATE: Seven deaths in two days, one fully vaccinated
Health authorities report a total of seven covid-19 deaths over the past two days – five yesterday and two more so far today including Barbados’ first fully-vaccinated covid fatality. This brings the total number of covid fatalities here to 76. In addition to two deaths previously announced for yesterday, three more fatalities were recorded, one […]
Jippy Doyle succumbs to Covid-19
The evangelical community is mourning the passing of once prominent televangelist Pastor Jippy Doyle who is Barbados’ latest covid-19 fatality. Health officials confirm that, contrary to social media reports, Pastor Doyle, like all the other covid-19 fatalities here was unvaccinated. Senior Pastor of Restoration Ministeries, Reverend David Durant, a friend and colleague of Pastor Doyle, […]
Evangelist reported to be Barbados’ latest covid-19 fatality
Barbados continues to record about a covid-19 death a day. Health authorities today reported yet another fatality, the victim is said to be a once prominent local evangelist. Health officials also predicted yesterday’s record for a daily number of cases will likely be broken as the delta variant spreads rapidly throughout the community. Meantime, […]
COVID-19 UPDATE: 217 new cases
Barbados has recorded its highest ever daily number of covid-19 cases, 217 new positives and there’s also been one more death. The recorded number of new cases resulted from the 2, 382 tests conducted yesterday. The cases comprise 103 males and 114 females with 44 of them being under the age of 18. There are […]
BARBADOS RECORDS 69TH COVID-19 DEATH
A 63-year-old Barbadian man died from COVID-19 on Monday, September 27, while in the primary isolation section at the Harrison’s Point Isolation Facility. He had been a patient at the institution for 11 days, and was unvaccinated. His death brings to 69, the number of lives lost to the viral illness.
Two females succumbed to covid-19
Two more people in Barbados have died from COVID-19, bringing the number of deaths to 68. A 50-year-old female passed away last night on arrival at the Harrison’s Point Isolation Facility. She had comorbidities and was unvaccinated. Another female, who was 47 years old, succumbed to the viral illness this morning at the facility. She […]
Barbados records two more Covid-19 deaths
Barbados recorded two COVID-19 deaths today, Saturday, September 25, which brings the number of people dying from the viral illness to 66. An 84-year-old Barbadian female, who was in tertiary isolation for five days at Blackman and Gollop School, passed away in the very early hours of this morning. She had comorbidities and was unvaccinated. […]
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH, FLASH FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT FOR BARBADOS
The Barbados Meteorological Services has issued a severe thunderstorm watch. A severe thunderstorm watch is issued when significant lightning activity in a short period of time (generally less than 6 hours) is within the watch area. It does not mean that severe thunderstorms will occur, but are possible. Severe lightning activity associated with scattered thunderstorms […]