More effective legislation is needed to prosecute people who engage in elder abuse. This was one of the recommendations coming out of Brasstacks Sunday on Starcom Network yesterday where the issue was examined prior to World Elder Abuse Awareness Day on Wednesday. The panel featured acting director of the National Assistance Board (NAB) Colleen Walcott, president of the Barbados Association of Retired Persons, Marilyn Rice-Bowen, attorney and convenor of the …
There may be more COVID-19-positive cases in Barbados than what is being reported. This is according to senior lecturer in public health and epidemiology at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Dr Natasha Sobers-Grannum. She said what was being reported was only a third or quarter of the true results, adding that the modelling done by UWI’s George Alleyne Chronic Disease Research Centre only represented the number of people …
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If there is one area for which the ruling Barbados Labour Party (BLP), under the stewardship of Prime Minister Mia Mottley, has been highly praised, it has been its handing of the COVID-19 pandemic.Yes, there have been some missteps; some attempts to please everyone and as a result, made most discontented. There have been times when PM Mottley was personally upbraided for what some citizens characterised as her “talking down to them like little children”.