While Barbados moves closer to fully re-opening the country after a crippling COVID-19 public health shutdown, another threat of a different kind looms. Deputy General Secretary of the Barbados Workers’ Union (BWU) Dwaine Paul has put the country on notice that industrial action is on the cards against construction company Preconco and other unnamed firms he is accusing of unilaterally cutting employees’ wages. Paul told Barbados TODAY the BWU and the workers have had enough of the “uncaring” treatment being meted out to members across the island. “We have reached a point…this is a case for industrial action. I can’t…
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11:10 am – Jun 16, 2020 (Caribbean Online Weather) Three #tropicalwaves and a #trough are presently over the Atlantic Ocean between Africa and the Leaser Antilles. The closest wave is expected to move through the islands tonight through tomorrow and could bring an increase in cloudiness and or showers over and or around some southern islands. Meanwhile, a moderate plume of Saharan dust is approaching Barbados presently. This should spread over much of the CAI by tomorrow through Thursday. People who are unusually sensitive to this change in air quality may experience respiratory symptoms and should take necessary precautions.
Office of the Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal. Thursday, June 11, 2020 – With the restrictions on public gatherings as a result of the COVID-19 Pandemic, The University of the West Indies (UWI) Open Campus is taking a major part of its recruitment efforts for the 2020/2021 first semester student intake online. In this regard, the Campus will host two online recruitment fairs on June 18 & 25, 2020. Both events will start at 6:00 pm Eastern Caribbean time and run for two hours. “The management of the COVID-19 pandemic comes with several restrictions including physical distancing, and this has limited the…
As the different departments of the Public Service return to some semblance of normalcy, the Division of Physical Education & Sports is informing the general public of the resumption of its programs. Active Lifestyle sessions will resume at the usual times and various locations from Monday, June 22nd. These locations include the central Market in Kingstown, the Stubbs Playing Field, Central Leeward Secondary School and others.The “Buss Ah Sweat” event will take place on July 18th at Fancy, and the monthly walk will be on Wednesday, the 22nd around Kingstown, from 4:30.
(BBC) A cheap and widely available drug can help save the lives of patients seriously ill with coronavirus. The low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone is a major breakthrough in the fight against the deadly virus, UK experts say. The drug is part of the world’s biggest trial testing existing treatments to see if they also work for coronavirus. It cut the risk of death by a third for patients on ventilators. For those on oxygen, it cut deaths by a fifth. Had the drug had been used to treat patients in the UK from the start of the pandemic, up to…
Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding an incident which resulted in a 42 and a 54-year-old brother and sister being wounded.According to investigations, at approximately 7:05pm on Sunday June 14th, 2020 the police at Mesopotamia was alerted via telephone of a chopping incident which occurred at Mt. Pleasant, Mesopotamia. Upon arrival at the scene Carlyle MC Kenzie, a 42-year-old plumber and his 54-year-old sister, Monique both of Mt. Pleasant, Mesopotamia were met with multiple chop wounds about their bodies.The perpetrator is also accused of damaging two (2) wooden doors during the incident belonging to his 78 years old grandmother by…
(Jamica Observer) ST GEORGE’S, Grenada (CMC)— Grenada recorded more than 1,000 small earthquakes at the underwater volcano Kick ’em Jenny last week, causing the National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) to issue an advisory warning marine traffic and communities within proximity about the . Located between Carriacou and Grenada, the submarine volcano has been on yellow code for years, but it sporadically becomes more than active. “For the months of April and May there were only 29 earthquakes with a magnitude between 1.6 and 2.0 but for the period June 5th to 12th there were 1,384 earthquakes with a magnitude as…
(BBC) America’s top court has ruled that employers who fire workers for being gay or transgender are breaking the country’s civil rights laws. In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court said federal law, which prohibits discrimination based on sex, should be understood to include sexual orientation and gender identity. The ruling is a major win for LGBT workers and their allies. And it comes even though the court has grown more conservative. Lawyers for the employers had argued that the authors of the 1964 Civil Rights Act had not intended it to apply to cases involving sexual orientation or transgender.…
(Jamaica Observer) PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (CMC)— The death toll from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) here climbed to 73 as the French-speaking Caribbean Community country continues to grapple with the pandemic that has resulted in 4,309 people testing positive for the virus. The Ministry of Public Health said that three new deaths were recorded in Artibonite and in Grand’Anse over the past 24 hours. It said that 144 new cases were recorded on Sunday and that Delmas on the outskirts of the capital, and Port-au-Prince itself were the leading areas where the virus has taken hold since the first positive…
(Miami Herald) Florida’s Department of Health on Monday morning confirmed 1,758 additional cases of COVID-19, following a weekend of cases surpassing 4,000. The state now has 77,326 confirmed cases of the disease. There were also seven new deaths announced Monday, raising the statewide death toll to 2,938. CONFIRMED COVID-19 CASES IN SOUTH FLORIDA More than than half of the new deaths but less than half of the new cases were in South Florida: ▪ Miami-Dade County reported 280 additional confirmed cases of COVID-19 and one new death. The county now has a total of 22,197 confirmed cases and 826 deaths, the highest…