Health, News, Regional News

COVID-19 at Geriatric Hospital prompts flurry of tests, quarantine

Published 29 January, 2021

Basseterre

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Barbados Today

A single case of the coronavirus has been confirmed at the Geriatric Hospital, Minister of Health and Wellness Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Bostic announced Thursday but sought to assure that health authorities are “on top of this one” as they seek to prevent a full-on outbreak among some of the most vulnerable to a lethal bout of COVID-19.

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News, Regional News, Travel

Tourism boost: BVI Spring Regatta set for March

Published 29 January, 2021

Basseterre

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Source: BVI NEWS 

Organisers of the BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival (BVISR) have announced that the 49th staging of the world-renowned event is scheduled to return this year.

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News, Regional News, Travel

Travel ban is implemented

Published 28 January 2021

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Basseterre, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source

PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten – The government of Sint Maarten is paying keen attention to the development surrounding the more contagious British, South Africa and South America variant of the corona virus. As a result, a travel ban on persons traveling from those countries is now in place. That is according to the Honorable Minister with the responsibility for TEATT, Ludmila de Weever. This was necessary in an effort to safeguard citizens.

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Crime/Justice, News, Regional News

Mavado’s son found guilty of murder

Published 28 January, 2021

Basseterre

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Source: LOOP NEWS

Jamaican dancehall star Mavado (right) with his son Dante Brooks in an undated photo.

The legal team of Dante Brooks, the son of Jamaican dancehall star Mavado, plans to appeal the teenager’s murder conviction which was handed down Wednesday.

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Health, News, Regional News

Woman, 48, dies of COVID after two weeks at Harrison Point – MOH

Published 28 January, 2021

Basseterre

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Article by
Sandy Deane

A 48-year-old Barbadian woman is the 11th person to die from COVID-19, the fourth in just over a week.

According to the Ministry of Health, she died earlier Wednesday at the Harrison Point isolation hospital where she was a patient for just under two weeks.

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