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Nine months after a promise that they would once more get a Government stipend to ease the financial burden of full time study, student nurses are yet to receive the money.And the Barbados Nurses’ Association (BNA), management of the Barbados Community College (BCC) and student nurses themselves are hoping that the current administration will make good on its promise.Last February, Minister of Health and Wellness Ian Gooding-Edghill announced that Government would re-introduce the stipend some eight years after it was stopped and at a cost to taxpayers of $2 million annually.On Monday following a scholarship award ceremony at the college, members of the nursing community renewed the call for the financial help. ....
It was heartening to read that Sanitation Service Authority (SSA) workers will be among the recipients of the Humanitarian Awards on Sunday, November 20 at Kensington Oval.The hard workers of the SSA are more than deserving of this accolade and much, much more.Chairman of the SSA Ramon Alleyne disclosed today that 601 SSA employees will be given $500 each from the Pandemic Levy Fund during the Government’s COVID-19 Humanitarian Awards Ceremony for frontline workers who were not included in the first event.The first set of awards was given out earlier this year, fittingly on National Heroes Day. The ceremony saw average Barbadians, public and private sector workers, local and international agencies and organisations acknowledged for their contributions during the height of the battle against COVID-19. ....
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The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Barbados has launched a new health campaign today to address the childhood obesity crisis on the island. The campaign is called “Out of Schools” and focuses on ridding schools of unhealthy foods and beverages. It will run for six weeks on various social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and Youtube. Speaking at the launch at Cave Hill School of Business in Wanstead, St. … ....
Officials of the Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association (BHTA) are pleading with authorities to do more to urgently tackle the issue of gun violence and to remove the remaining COVID-19 restrictions, which they say continue to make the destination uncompetitive.Chairman of the BHTA Renée Coppin warned that if the violence was not arrested then the struggling industry, which has been suffering from very little business over the past two-and-a-half-years could come under even more pressure.She argued that while she understood there were some impacts from international threats over which the island had no control including the climate crisis, inflation and “rumours of war”, BHTA members were concerned about the threat of violence on the island and the COVID-19 measures.Coppin said while they feared drawing attention to the issue by speaking about it, the association feels that if they keep quiet “then we do not lend our voice and support to the efforts to reduce it”. This, she sa ....