Climate Change is a global emergency, yet few countries have made plans to face it. Barbados Ministry of Health and Wellness staff and allied sectors recently met at the Accra Beach Resort in Barbados, to understand how climate change is affecting public health in the country, a first step in the creation of a Health National Adaptation Plan (H-NAP).
The process to assess vulnerabilities and prioritize ways to manage or minimize the impacts of climate change in an area is called adaptation planning.
Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley greets Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere & National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Ad .
By Marlon Madden
While expressing confidence in Barbados’ ability to overcome challenges relating to climate change, rising food prices and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ambassador of Japan to Barbados Kayoko Fukushima has pledged his country’s continued support to help Barbados tackle those and other issues.
Fukushima said she was “optimistic of the future of relations between Barbados and Japan” and
Government is seeking to replace the Computer Misuse Act (2005) with new legislation aimed at fighting cybercrime.Making the announcement during Monday’s opening session of a Workshop on Effective Legal Frameworks for Building the Digital Economy, Attorney General Dale Marshall outlined that a draft has already been prepared by the Law Reform Commission and should be on its way to Parliament in two months.He noted that the current Act did not cast a wide enough net to address the current day issues facing the digital economy.“The Computer Misuse Act has as its focus how people misuse the technology, but it didn’t get into the specifics and the nitty gritty. It was a very general statute at the time, but as time moved along, we recognised how poor it was as a statute to govern criminal behavior.“Our new statute when passed, will provide specifically for the combatting of cybercrime in all of its iterations - from illegal access to computer systems to computer-related fraud to ch
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