The rapid increase in the numbers of COVID-19 patients is having an exhausting effect on front-line workers. During a frank and chilling interview on the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Saturday evening, Infectious Diseases Specialist and head of the isolation facilities Dr Corey Forde said front-line workers who are working around the clock to treat COVID-19 […]
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The Catalyst Health Innovation Forum, launched by healthcare venture firm Novamed & the Visionaries’ Summit, will be virtually hosted and convene an audience of high-level stakeholders in the global healthcare space seeking to bring innovation and world-class healthcare into emerging markets. The forum has landed a high level partnership with the Inter American Development Bank […]
Strokes, already a common illness, could attack more Barbadians as they struggle with stress brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, an occupational therapist has warned. With significant numbers of people now working from home, due to the lockdown, therapist Melanie Buge said they should be mindful about how they use their time by ensuring they […]
With the number of local COVID-19 positive cases increasing by more than eightfold within 24 hours, the island has been placed on a stricter curfew. Minister of Health and Wellness, Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Bostic, tonight revealed 45 positive cases had been recorded today, a major uptick from Thursday’s five cases. Of that number, 32 are […]
She made headlines in June 2020 for being the oldest person in Guyana to survive COVID-19, and now seven months later Zorie De Mattos is celebrating another milestone – she is 106 today. According to a release today from the Ministry of Human Services, De Mattos, who is a resident of the Palms Elderly Care […]
A restaurant at the upscale Limegrove Lifestyle Centre in Holetown has closed its doors temporarily after a worker’s relative tested positive for the coronavirus. Now all the workers are to be tested and the restaurant is to undergo a deep cleansing before it reopens, it said. West Bar & Restaurant posted an Instagram message which said: […]
(Cricket West Indies) The Cricket West Indies (CWI) Selection Panel today named the West Indies Test and One-Day International (ODI) squads for the upcoming tour of Bangladesh. West Indies are scheduled to play three ODIs and two Tests in Chattogram and Dhaka. The West Indies touring party are due to arrive in Dhaka on January […]
Minister of Health and Wellness Lieutenant Colonel Jeffery Bostic has declared that Government is taking the kids gloves off when it comes to tourists and hotels that do not follow the island’s COVID-19 protocols. “Hotels that continue to flaunt the protocols as some have been doing will be removed or delisted from this list of […]
Leader of the People’s National Congress David Granger handed over the Government of Guyana’s $25,000 ‘Covid-19 relief and support household grant’ to five villagers from the Mocha-Arcadia Neighbourhood, East Bank Demerara. He had received the cash grant for his household the previous day, a release from the PNCR said today. Granger lamented the distress caused […]
SOURCE: CMC – A Barbadian-born, retired New York Police Department (NYPD) detective has thrown her hat in the race for the 46th New York City Council District in Brooklyn and has expressed strong confidence that she would emerge victorious. Dr Judy D Newton, who retired from the NYPD on April 30, 2012, told the Caribbean […]