Tag Archives: Family

Restrictions on caregiver passes – Barbados Today

 The Ministry of People Empowerment and Elder Affairs is appealing to persons requesting caregiver passes to restrict the number of requests for passes to care for a single person. The Ministry, in a statement today, said that they had received thousands of applications, in some cases, from people requesting as many as eight passes to […]

Singer Bill Withers dead at 81 from heart complications, Rolling Stone reports

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Bill Withers, a soulful singer best known for the 1970s hits “Lean on Me,” “Lovely Day” and “Ain’t No Sunshine,” has died at age 81 from heart complications, Rolling Stone magazine reported on Friday, citing a statement from his family. “We are devastated by the loss of our beloved, devoted husband […]

Covid19 giving extempo a global space

Features Yvonne Webb 7 Hrs Ago Brian London – Gary Cardinez The coronavirus pandemic seems to have given the art of extempo a global space. Extempo Monarch Brian London said a global extempo challenge issued by him and his friend Andrew Baker Jr, who is from St Maarten, has given new life and respect for […]

Remember the CURFEW Barbadians | Barbados Underground

Thanks to Kammie Holder the blogmaster highlights the following reminder to Barbadians. Let us all do our part to keep the virus contained – David Blogmaster BARBADOS: AG (Dale Marshall) stated – ALL businesses with a few exceptions are closed from Saturday March 28th at 8pm until April 15th to reduce human interaction and compel […]

Cornpiece under quarantine

Approximately 250 residents of Cornpiece settlement in Hayes, Clarendon, were yesterday placed under quarantine following the death of a 79-year-old man from the community who tested positive for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The disclosure was made by Prime Minister Andrew Holness last evening shortly after his budget presentation in the Parliament, where he also […]

Incident involving a Crew Member on Board the M.V. Cabo Star

The Management of the Trinidad and Tobago Inter-island Transportation Company Limited (TTIT) wishes to advise the travelling public that during the 11.00pm sail of the M.V. Cabo Star from Scarborough on Wednesday 18th March 2020, a crew member complained of feeling unwell.  The Ministry of Health was immediately contacted and at 6.15am on Thursday 19th […]

BITU proposes ‘distress grant’ for unionised workers

THE Bustamante Industrial Trade Union (BITU) has proposed that employers offer a “distress grant” to unionised workers who are laid off during the current novel coronavirus pandemic. The union said it is asking employers to facilitate, as best as possible, a distress grant — at an amount to be agreed between both parties — for […]

Jamaica: COVID-19, foul play ruled out in death of US woman found in hotel room

(Jamaica Observer) Foul play and the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) have been ruled out in the death of a 39-year-old American woman whose body was discovered in her hotel room at RIU Montego Bay by workers on Wednesday. “We cannot assure the cause, but she wasn’t exhibiting any COVID-19 symptoms, so we don’t think she […]