Quarantining visitors ‘under scrutiny’ by MOH unit
Article by December 23, 2020
Head of the national COVID-19 Monitoring Unit Ronald Chapman has promised the highest level of scrutiny and swift sanctions against local hotels, resorts and other local properties where visitors are found to be in breach of the country’s quarantine protocols.
In an interview with
Barbados TODAY, Chapman revealed that the surveillance of specific guests is not within the unit’s purview, but warned that managers of local accommodations can be held liable.
The public health official explained that arriving passengers are given a red wristband at the country’s ports of entry, which indicate that they are supposed to enter and remain in quarantine at an approved government facility or at an approved property, including select hotels, villas and guest houses.
Hotel refutes guest’s charges
Article by December 16, 2020
Owner of the Crane Resort, Paul Doyle has dismissed reports that guests at the hotel are not being made to follow COVID-19 protocols.
Responding to an email that was sent by a male guest staying at the St Philip resort to
Barbados TODAY, Doyle said the claims were simply not true.
In the email, the guest contended that the Crane was not “quarantining, separating, or enforcing” the mechanisms they’ve said they would put in place.
“People with red and blue wrist bands (meaning they have not had their second negative COVID tests and or have been exposed) are wandering all over the property as well as down to the beach – some without masks.