BICO sends treats and cheer to frontline workers
Article by March 13, 2021
Sweet treats, and a little cheer, have been delivered to frontline health and social care workers at various institutions across the island thanks to BICO Limited.
BICO’s Sales and Business Development Manager, Dwayne Holmes, led the initiative which began February 25 with the Maurice Byer Polyclinic and ended on March 8 with the Barbados Vagrant and Homeless Society.
Holmes explained: “The project was supported by several members of the BICO team, including sales associate Llewelyn Riley who assisted with the deliveries.”
He added: “The BICO team has been moved by the service and sacrifices of our frontline workers throughout this pandemic. We thought it was important to spread some cheer with the ultimate feel-good product – BICO ice cream. It’s our way of saying thanks to the brave men and women who have been taking care of us throughout this crisis and hopefully inject
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Workmen on the job at the St Andrew Outpatients Clinic which is being renovated and expanded. - (Picture by Reco Moore.) Social Share
Residents of Belleplaine and its environs are breathing a small sigh of relief as work on the St Andrew Outpatients Clinic has begun after more than a year.
However, they said it was just a start as there were many other places which were closed and needed to be reopened.
“We really needed it reopened very badly because the older folk will be able to access medication instead of trying to get to Maurice Byer Polyclinic in St Peter. Now it will be within walking distance,” said Anthony Bryan, of Isolation Road.
Read and follow the timeline below:
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.