Two primary schools and a nursery school will miss the bell when the new school term begins today but Minister of Education Kay McConney says the focus should be on the other 23 schools in the summer works programme opening. Yesterday during a tour of the Wilkie Cumberbatch Primary School – which is scheduled to reopen on September 26 – McConney also gave details on why the Eden Lodge Nursery …
Barbadians came out in numbers to make sure back-to-school was done with a blast. Various organisations and individuals held events giving the children a “last hurrah” before studies, or simply made sure the young men’s hair was “lined up” with fresh haircuts. Yesterday, the Eden Lodge Youth Charitable Trust continued its back to school programme by offering 20 young men free haircuts at the Drug Education & Counselling Services in …
Instead of publicly vilifying them, Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley should have first talked with pharmacists, says president of the Barbados Pharmaceutical Society (BPS), Yolan Pantin. In responding to Mottley’s threat last Friday to cap the prices on pharmaceuticals, Pantin insisted that, through the Barbados Drug Service, there were already price controls. She said there were layers to the issue of pharmaceutical prices and a discussion with pharmacists would have …
Elder abuse remains underreported in Barbados, with social care workers investigating at least ten reports a month, says director of the National Assistance Board (NAB) Colleen Walcott. “The social work section can have up to ten reports or more of elder abuse a month. You can get them, not only from home care workers, but from any member of the public or you can get referrals from other organisations as …
Barbados must stop importing produce without consulting groups such as the Barbados Agricultural Society (BAS), said its chief executive officer James Paul. Yesterday at a media briefing at the BAS’ The Grotto headquarters in Beckles Road, St Michael, he said the continued rampant importation of certain fruits and vegetables, such as cucumbers, pumpkins, bananas and onions, was forcing local farmers’ prices below production costs, jeopardising jobs and frustrating the producers. …