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8.1.2021 - Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley says that a few vaccines will be made available to Barbados.
14.1.2021 - Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley told Barbadians in an address that she received her first dose of a COVID vaccine. She along with the Attorney General Dale Marshall, the Health Minister Lt Col Jeffrey Bostic and some frontline workers.
9.2.2021 - Barbados receives a donation of 100,000 doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine, also known as Covishield. The doses were a grant from India.
10.2.2021 - St Lucia received 1,000 doses of the vaccine from the Government of Barbados.
11.2.2021 - Governor General Dame Sandra Mason received her first dose of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine today.
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Governor General Dame Sandra Mason received the first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in front of rolling cameras on Thursday morning.
The Barbados Government Information Service was on hand to capture Dame Sandra and her household staff get vaccinated against COVID-19 by a team from the Maurice Byer Polyclinic.
Calling the experience “effortless” and “amazing”, the Governor General urged Barbadians to follow suit.
“In instances like these, it is a question of personal decision. But if I had to give anybody advice, I would say for your personal protection and for your future wellbeing, it might be a very good idea if you were to take the vaccine,” she emphasised.
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Veteran trade unionist O’Brien Trotman (right) being presented with the insignia of Companion of Honour by Governor General Dame Sandra Mason at Government House on Tuesday. (Picture by Jameel Springer.) Social Share
VETERAN TRADE UNIONIST O’Brien Trotman says despite the current wave of unrest, the labour relations climate in Barbados is much more stable than when he was one of the leaders.
Trotman joined the then Barbados Civil Service Association in 1969 and served until 1976.
He maintained his relationship with the trade union movement though he later became a Parliamentary Secretary and subsequently a Minister in the Barbados Labour Party administration.