Medical Director/Health Authority
The City of Austin has identified Desmar Walkes, M.D. as the City’s next Medical Director/Health Authority. Dr. Walkes will begin her new duties on May 31, 2021.
Dr. Walkes has 33 years of experience in health care as a family practitioner, medical authority, medical director, and in administrative medicine. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology with honors from Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada and her Medical Doctor degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. Dr. Walkes completed a surgical internship at Baylor College of Medicine and, for many years, has participated in medical mission trips to Central and South America, Asia, and Africa.
Retirees urged to leverage spending power
Article by May 6, 2021
Senior citizens in Barbados are looking to “shake things up” and exercise their consumer rights by setting up a consumer protection body within the Barbados Association of Retired Persons (BARP).
President of BARP Marilyn Rice-Bowen gave the indication on Wednesday as the association continued its discussion with the Fair Trading Commission (FTC), aimed at raising awareness among members about consumer issues and the rights and responsibilities of elderly consumers.
She said the decision to establish a consumer protection agency comes amid ongoing concerns from members about some trade practices here.
“We need to shake up and really and truly look towards forming a consumer body within BARP,” said Rice-Bowen, as she reminded members “you have rights too, and you have extensive purchasing power”.
by Bajan Reporter / May 6th, 2021
The Barbados Association of Retired Persons Inc (BARP) just revealed the appointment of Kim Tudor as their Executive Manager.
Miss Tudor with more than two decades of extensive leadership, management and business experience is well known in both the public and private sectors, given her previous roles that focused on the promotion of service excellence.
This is one of the areas she will accentuate at BARP as the organization focuses on enhancing the quality of services it offers to the thousands of Barbadians among its membership and the goal to embrace other seniors into its fold.
Kim Tudor is executive manager of the Barbados Association of Retired Persons Inc. (BARP). Tudor, with more than two decades of extensive leadership, management and business experience is well known in both the public and private sectors, given her previous roles that focused on the promotion of service excellence. This is one of the areas she will accentuate at BARP as the organisation focuses on enhancing the quality of services …
May 4, 2021
On this World Press Freedom Day 2021 and as we reflect on the theme Access to Information as a Public Good, I thought it instructive to share with the public – particularly media workers – insights into a 2008 draft Freedom of Information Bill, which after 13 years remains mere words on paper.
That bill was introduced by the former Democratic Labour Party (DLP) Government of late Prime Minister David Thompson and when he died on October 23, 2010, the proposed legislation continued to make the rounds within the public service under his successor, Freundel Stuart.
All indications suggest that Thompson may have had a special interest in ensuring that a Freedom of Information Bill became law in an expeditious manner to the extent that the processes involving it were managed by his office.