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Tourism industry braces for 90 per cent hit

Tourism industry braces for 90 per cent hit Article by January 29, 2021 For the second time in less than a year, layoffs are said to be looming in the tourism industry, as hotels record hundreds of cancellations for the high-season months of February and March. Stakeholders told Barbados TODAY the country’s new travel protocols when coupled with the tightening international restrictions have created the “perfect storm” for players in Barbados’ main foreign-exchange earning industry. Over the last few days, top officials from the Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association (BHTA) have been locked in numerous meetings and so far, Chairman Geoffrey Roach and Chief Executive Officer Senator Rudy Grant could not be reached for comment.

Were the Capitol riots really a new milestone in fascism?

FASCISM is back or is it? “The threat of fascism persists,” “This is what fascism looks like,” “Fascism has made a comeback.” These are the emotive soundbites we have been hearing since the 2016 US presidential election and these voices have been amplified by the recent riots at the Capitol. The trauma of the second world war has ensured that in many ways, there is no word scarier to us than “fascism.” But the US is not a fascist country it is a capitalist liberal democracy with a strong history of white supremacy. The events at Capitol represent a culmination of the divisions inherent in this concoction of bourgeois ideologies, rather than full-scale fascism.

Professor who helped make face shields for front line tragically dies of COVID-19

Charles “Chip” Shearrow Charles “Chip” Shearrow jumped into action early on in the pandemic. A professor of advanced manufacturing at Harrisburg University, he wanted to help front-line workers in long-term care facilities protect themselves from COVID-19. Using 3-D printing technology at Harrisburg, Shearrow helped produce nearly 2,400 face shields free of charge for front-line workers. He passed away due to complications with COVID-19 on Jan. 12. “I’ve been there every day of the week including weekends and including holidays,” Shearrow told Fox43 in April. He was helped in the lab by his wife and his son. Together, printing, cutting and hole punching, they could produce about 12 medical-grade shields per day. “We’re just trying to take care of everybody.”

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