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A WAR OF WORDS has erupted between talk show moderator Peter Wickham and members of the Rastafari Progressive Movements over the latter’s opposition to taking the COVID-19 vaccine.
The row began last Thursday during Wickham’s hosting of
Starcom Network’s Down To Brass Tacks radio call-in programme when he said: “If the Rastafarians believe they are better off not taking it, then they stay up in the hills and smoke their herb and stay away from society.”
Subsequently, a video has gone viral featuring two members of the movement, Lumumba Batson and Calvin
Bongo Lights Chase, speaking about the issue. In it, they make several remarks about Wickham’s sexuality.
The continued breaching of COVID-19 protocols by visitors is proving to be one of the major obstacles in the fight to get to the bottom of the current spike of positive cases in Barbados. Acting Chief Medical Officer Dr Kenneth George said yesterday that investigations in the last few days had revealed that the breaches of quarantine had forced the Ministry of Health to find more resources to look into …