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DEMOCRATIC Labour due to the COVID-19 pan- January. responses to levels one, two and “What has happened is that Party (DLP) Spokesman on demic. Gibson made reference to the three COVID-19 threats. It indi- they have failed to lockdown and Health, Paul Gibson, be- He stated this during an inter- ‘2020 COVID-19 Playbook/ cates “that when you hit level as a result of that, we are find- lieves that had government view with The Barbados Management Protocol’ that three of COVID cases which ing ourselves in the first week of issued a national lockdown Advocate yesterday, where he gives guidance to the response means that the system is over- February trying to pull this earlier, it could have suggested a national shutdown to escalating COVID-19 num- whelmed, as it is, that we lock- whole pandemic back because avoided the system being should have been announced in bers in the country. He said the down.” However, he said this the horse is out of the stable, the clogged and overwhelmed late December or in early document directs the relevant was not followed. DELAYED on Page 5

THE VACCINES ARE HERE: The long awaited Oxford- AstraZeneca vaccines have arrived on island, ahead of a National Vaccination exercise, as the country ramps up its fight against the spread of the deadly COVID-19 virus. Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley (left) led the welcome party at the Grantley Adams International Airport, and was accompanied by Chairman of the Cabinet Sub-Committee on COVID-19 and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Dr. Jerome Walcott; Dr Mohini Harris, Honorary Consul, Honorary Consulate of India; Acting Chief Medical Officer Dr. Kenneth George; and Maryam Hinds, Director of the Barbados Drug Service (partially hidden). Some 100 000 doses were made available by the Government of India. (See also Page 3) Comissiong: Skilled nationals needed now more than ever CARICOM Member States COVID-19 with more integra- it is one of the best ideas there’s no place in this 21st cen- our people recognise there are should not allow the COVID-19 tion, not less; we would be CARICOM has developed since tury world for an educated, un- opportunities that exist right pandemic to stop them from making a fatal error if its inception. Comissiong bol- trained or uncertificated young here in the region and they are pursuing the skilled nationals we turn inwards from our stered his position, indicating man or young woman. Also, it growing. programme. CARICOM brothers and sisters. that skilled persons can play a says to our young people that “So the challenge to us, is to so That’s the view of Barbados’ I think our best bet of riding pivotal role in the development the entire region is open to you develop our region that we Ambassador to CARICOM, through this crisis is collectively, of our various countries and to find your destiny,” he said. can deliver to our children and David Comissiong. He is it is working together as a should be given the opportunity Comissiong noted that more grandchildren similar opportu- adamant that instead of being a region,” Comissiong said in a to do so. than six decades ago Caribbean nities, but regionally.For hindrance, the pandemic should recent interview with The “To me, it does two things – people were “running” to Britain example, Guyana is going to be be seen as an opportunity to Barbados Advocate. first of all, what it does, is it and the United States in large developing a petroleum indus- propel the free movement of per- As such, he is suggesting that sends a message and it offers an numbers looking for greener try.There are young Barbadians sons who fall within any of the the programme is one that all incentive to our young people, pastures and opportunities for with technical skills, who might approved categories of skilled CARICOM Member States all across the region, to take employment. However, those want to experience a career or nationals. should fully embrace. He made their education and training se- avenues of migration have been employment working in the field “We need to respond to the point while contending that riously; to understand that cut off and it is important that SKILLED on Page 5 2 • Wednesday February 10, 2021 The Barbados Advocate

Long lines at supermar- Despite a recent raise in the price of petroleum products, gasolene and diesel kets continue to be a remain in high demand. common feature. Barbados on pause – Busy supermarkets and shuttered shops

SHOPPING for food remains high on the list of priorities for Barbadians as the island rolls to the end of the first week of the national pause. This lady awaits her transportation after her With most businesses supermarket run. closed for the two-week period, supermarkets continue to be heavily pa- tronised as they remain open on weekdays under limited hours. With supermarket staff surely grateful for the gift of this past weekend after being open almost everyday for the better Swan Street is a veritable ghost town. part of a year, regular traffic has resumed at Stark contrast they have to leave, the types of businesses, espe- the major food stores As everyone is urged to stark contrast is pain- cially in what is a usu- across the island. remain at home unless fully visible at other ally busy Bridgetown.

Barbadians are stocking up on the essentials.

Eateries remain closed. The popular Bar Cutters on Beckles The recently-renamed Bridgetown Duty Free department store remains quiet. Road has ceased churning out its treats. The Barbados Advocate Wednesday February 10, 2021 • 3

Vaccines here and ready to be rolled out

BEFORE this coming weekend, country has given to Barbados. She indi- Trinidad.The latter two, she noted, came sary, we are in a position to also be able Barbados is expected to start the cated that last November, India donated to the assistance of Barbados in our time to store some of the more rigorous ones next step in the fight against the US$100 000 to assist with the purchase of need. that require minus 80 degrees. This one, COVID-19 virus, with the rollout of a of personal protective equipment, and has “...Nobody has gone through this with- however, is stored at temperatures that national vaccination exercise. since agreed to give US$675 000 to pur- out seeking assistance, and therefore both we are accustomed to in our country,” she That’s according to Prime Minister Mia chase additional materials to assist of us have agreed that some of the vac- said. Amor Mottley, who said that co-coordi- Barbados in the battle against COVID. cines which we have received will go to Meanwhile, on the rollout of the vaccine nators of the national COVID-19 vaccina- That money is being made available our brothers and sisters in those territo- locally, she is urging Barbadians to start tion campaign will be revealing the de- through the India-UN Partnership ries within the OECS, with Dominica tak- to have the necessary discussions with tails soon. Development Fund, she explained. ing care of some, Barbados doing some their family and friends about the vac- She was speaking last night from Ilaro The PM said this first shipment is hope- and Trinidad and Guyana,” she stated. cine, especially given the high incidence Court in a joint virtual press briefing with fully the first of a batch of 200 000 doses With that in mind, Mottley spoke to of non-communicable diseases in this Prime Minister of Dominica, Roosevelt that the country is seeking to obtain from the decision to choose Covishield, explain- country.Mottley said the vaccine will min- Skerrit, after she returned from the India. She said they are hoping to pur- ing it is a “highly safe and effective vac- imise the risk of death and the risk of se- Grantley Adams International Airport chase the remaining 100 000 doses from cine”. The PM said that it has gone rious hospitalisation. where she accepted a shipment of 100 the Indian Government soon. Her com- through the most rigorous testing and To that end, she maintained that the 000 Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine, com- ments came as she noted that India had approval protocols and is currently being only way to beat the virus is if enough peo- monly called Covishield, from the also sent a shipment of 70 000 doses to safely administered to thousands of peo- ple are willing to be vaccinated.That will Government of India. She stated that Dominica yesterday, and that country is ple across the world. create herd immunity in the population. these doses will vaccinate 50 000 also hopeful that they can get a second “We do believe that of all the vaccines “I cannot tell you that I've received all persons – and out of this shipment the batch in about six to eight weeks. PM out there, this is one of the most suitable the vaccinations that we need yet. But I members of Cabinet and doctors who pre- Mottley said that she and her Dominican ones for Barbados and other tropical na- can promise you that every day and every viously got a first dose will receive their colleague worked closely to obtain the tions like our own, because the tempera- night, we are going to work hard to get as second one. vaccines and will be making some avail- tures required for storage are not as rig- many vaccines necessary to protect our Mottley explained that this donation able to other countries within the region, orous as some of the other vaccines. people,” she stated. from India was the latest assistance the including the OECS, Guyana and Although we are ensuring that if neces- (JRT) Homeless shelter closed due to COVID-19 case THE Barbados Alliance to End Homelessness is now closed, after being informed on Monday that one of its clients tested positive for COVID-19. Contact tracing has also started for those who were in close contact with the male who is positive, and for some homeless persons who chose not to stay for the lockdown period. President of the Barbados Alliance to End Homelessness (BAEH), Kemar Saffrey,has meanwhile called on the gov- ernment to halt all public feedings as the contact tracing continues. He also sug- gested that the situation surrounding the positive case could have been avoided, as intervention was taken when it was realised there could have been a potential positive case amongst the homeless. On hearing of the positive case, Saffrey said in a press release,“The BAEH imme- diately activated its COVID-19 protocols and closed down the building, in addition to alerting all of the relevant authorities President of the Barbados Alliance to and Ministries who we fall under. The End Homelessness (BAEH), Kemar Ministry of Health Team, Dr.Anton Best Saffrey. and the COVID Monitoring Unit arrived swiftly at the shelter and began the con- unfortunate, because this could have tact tracing and testing of all employees been an avoidable case as it relates to this and clients in the shelter. All employees particular individual. and clients are now awaiting results. All “We just want the public to rest as- A number of homeless persons are now under quarantine in the BAEH’s clients are now quarantined in the build- sured that the organisation from incep- Homeless Shelter, after a male client tested positive for COVID-19 this week. ing with our security team, and all em- tion, when we learned about the whole ployees have gone into quarantine as COVID-19 situation, we took every pre- tect us and our families and our clients,” he was infected, that was then how the well.” caution to keep our clients safe and our he explained. building would have been affected, be- He added in that release, “It is impor- staff safe and that would have meant “So we had that and everything else in cause we would then have had to quar- tant to note that several clients left the that we would have followed the proto- place, but unfortunately, this individual antine and get everybody tested and we building before the BAEH found out cols.We also made sure that we had a lot who was given a rapid antigen test, it initiated our COVID-19 alert protocols, about the positive case and these clients of hand sanitisers, masks, shields and came back negative and he was allowed because we at the organisation did have are among the general population. Given we did temperature checks and every- back into the building. And after coming alert protocols in place to guide what we this, we have asked the government to thing. When it came to the recent na- in, then his PCR test revealed that he would do if something happened.” pause all public feedings, while we assist tional pause, as the clients came into the was COVID-19 positive and by then, it In the meantime, the homeless who the relevant authorities in finding those building, we instituted a when you are in was too late, because this person would are at the shelter are being fed and who left the building.” you are in, and when you are out you are have already been inside the building looked after by a few staff members who In an interview with The Barbados out policy, so as to protect everybody in sleeping every night during this lock- are also under quarantine at the build- Advocate yesterday,Saffrey stated,“The the building and to stop people from down period,” he stated. ing, which is located in The City. whole thing about this is that it is very going back and forth, which would pro- “When we were alerted to the fact that 4• Wednesday February 10, 2021 The Barbados Advocate Venezuelan Embassy launches virtual gallery to celebrate Black History Month PHOTOGRAPHS of ative to celebrate Black “Venezuela and Barbados Venezuelan coastal History Month this share their cultural ori- towns and its people on year. This is why the pos- gins with our Mother their daily activities sibility of bringing the ex- Africa. That is why year adorn a 3D exhibition hibition online became after year we strive to that the Embassy of the very appealing and much showcase our Afro-descen- Bolivarian Republic of in line with the current dant culture and tradi- Venezuela to Barbados trend of Digital Diplo- tions here in Barbados. has made available on macy. Our common vision is its social networks to Lately, the Venezuelan spiritually connected to The exhibition, by the renown Venezuelan photographer Felix Gerardi, is called celebrate Black His- Embassy has conducted Africa.” ‘Cayapa’, and it will be available online throughout the month of February. tory Month. some activities strictly on- Felix Gerardi, who The exhibition, by the line, such as the lessons of was the recipient of the renown Venezuelan pho- Spanish Language and 2010 Venezuelan Culture tographer Felix Gerardi, Venezuelan Culture Award in Photography, Celebrating World Pulses Day is called ‘Cayapa’, and it (along with the National sent greetings to Bar- The importance of pulses or legumes in the new COVID-19 era will be available online Library Services) and also bados: “I am honoured to throughout the month of the Venezuelan drum- share my gallery with you THE United Nations February. ming lessons (along with [the people of Barbados], General Assembly has des- This is the second time the Centre for Hybrid and I am also very ignated today,10 February, that Gerardi’s ‘Cayapa’ Studies). proud of you for celebrat- as World Pulses Day,build- photographic selection is Regarding the photo- ing life from the bottom ing on the success of the displayed in Barbados. graphic exhibition, the up. Let’s follow Simon International Year of Last year, the Venezuelan Venezuelan Charge Bolivar’s footsteps and Pulses in 2016 led by the Embassy displayed it at D’Affaires, Mr. Alvaro continue building noble Food and Agriculture Ellerslie School, in Black Sanchez Cordero said that motherlands. Thanks a Organisation of the United Rock, St. Michael, during “Felix Gerardi has spe- lot.” Nations (FAO). Black History Month, cialised in photographing To access the exhibition Pulses, which are the where it was very success- people from Afro Vene- “Cayapa” in 3D by Félix edible seeds of a plant, in- ful among both students zuelan communities. He is Gerardi, you can go to the clude a variety of beans fa- and teachers. able to capture people’s Facebook and Instagram miliar to our family meals However, due to the emotions and convey it accounts of the Vene- such as pigeon peas, baked pandemic, the Venezuelan very artistically.” zuelan Embassy to beans, red, green, yellow Pulses are the edible seeds of a plant, include a Embassy had to be cre- Sanchez Cordero added: Barbados. and brown lentils, chick- variety of beans and peas peas (chana or garban- zo beans), garden peas, fix nitrogen, thus enrich- lunch. What’s more, har- black-eyed peas, broad ing the soil. So you don’t vesting and shelling pigeon beans (fava beans), kid- need to apply any nitrogen peas, bonavist and roun- ney beans. fertilisers when cultivat- cifers have been a home life While the discovery of ing these crops. Several tradition that spans multi- pulses dates back cen- legumes (pigeon peas, field ple generations. In fact, turies ago, they are just as beans, yardlong beans) fit there was a time when no important to our diets now well into the Caribbean home was complete with- as they were back then, es- farming systems and are out a pea tree on the prem- pecially in a world which extensively grown in the ises.” continues to be ravished by region.” He added,“The benefits COVID-19 that is putting She also stressed that of pulses are not only seen disposable income under the versatility of pulses in the home, but in the strain and claiming high validates its importance as fields where they play a levels of unemployment. it can be cooked or pre- central agronomic role in Apart from being rela- pared as a main or side crop rotations and in main- tively inexpensive, pulses dish including peas and taining healthy soils.They are loaded with nutritional rice, stewed peas, hummus improve soil fertility by value and densely packed and salads satisfying the converting unusable nitro- with protein and iron, typ- appetite and nutritional gen from the air into soil ically containing twice the needs of both vegetarians nitrogen that is usable by amount of that found in and non-vegetarians. the plants. Pulses are whole grain cereals and In the FAO, Rome 2019 therefore critical to the fu- three times that of rice. In publication “The Global ture of wholesome nutri- countries or economies Economy of Pulses”, it tious food, and for advanc- where meat, dairy and fish states that of the different ing sustainability and food maybe inaccessible due to regions of the world, Latin and nutrition security.” unemployment and lack of America and the Carib- The demand for safe and financial resources, pulses bean, Sub-Saharan Africa nutritional food and agri- can become a vital addition and South Asia have the culture in a COVID-19 en- or alternative to a nutri- highest levels of average vironment is extensive and tious, healthy diet. per capita consumption of transcends all economic Vyju Lopez, Plant pulses. The report also and social strata, placing Production and Protection indicates that there is agriculture in the spotlight Officer at FAO said the evidence that links the and highlighting the im- value of pulses cannot be consumption of pulses to portance of farming and emphasised enough. She lower risk of cardio-vascu- farmers. The versatility of stated, “Pulses and lar diseases and diabetes. pulses not only makes it a legumes are so diverse and Meanwhile,the Minister staple food around the varied. They are also ‘cli- of Agriculture and Food world, but contributes to mate smart’ and can be Security in Barbados, The the reduction in hunger, cultivated in arid (dry) cli- Honorable Indar Weir said, while improving the liveli- mates since they are often “Pulses have always been hood of farmers. Like it drought tolerant. Another an integral and rich part of was centuries ago, pulses benefit is that they have Barbadian life, our cuisine are here to stay for many bacteria in their roots that and especially Sunday more centuries to come. The Barbados Advocate Wednesday February 10, 2021 • 5

No threat, says ambassador Barbados’

SKILLED from Page 1 serve it. With that in mind, he gramme. In fact, I would say said that no citizen in any just the opposite – I think a COVID-19 of petroleum refining, and so country in this region should good response to COVID-19 is forth – the skills programme not see fellow Caribbean na- to further develop the pro- makes that available to them. tionals who are seeking to mi- gramme,” he charged. death toll Barbados has one television grate to their country as He is therefore encouraging station and there are young threats. eligible persons who have Barbadians who might want a “We have to hold on to the not already applied for their career as a television camera- idea that if a person is coming CARICOM Skills Certificate to up to 20 man or presenter or editor, and into our country, and they are do so, and see what opportuni- BARBADOS’ death toll from there are dozens of television bringing knowledge and skills ties are available for them to COVID-19 rose to 20 on Monday stations all across CARICOM,” with them, they’re going to add capitalise on. as a result of the passing of two he stated. value to our nation. And so (JRT) more Barbadians. The Ambassador, describing there’s no reason for us to allow The first death was that of a 53 the programme as “very pre- the COVID-19 related crisis to Barbados’ Ambassador to year-old female with a history of cious”, maintained that every stop us from forging ahead CARICOM, David Comissiong. chronic noncommunicable dis- effort should be made to pre- with the skilled nationals pro- eases. She died at Harrison Point where she had been a patient for three days, following a positive PCR test result. Within hours, a 67 year old man died at Enmore Oxford-AstraZeneca after being admitted there from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital the previous day. He too had a vaccine ‘shown history of NCDs. Minister of Health and Wellness, Lt. Col. Hon Jeffrey to be effective’ Bostic, extended condolences to the mourning families. He also THE Oxford-AstraZeneca cine remains effective in pre- observed, “Those who are pay- vaccine is one of several venting more severe illness. ing attention to these matters that has been shown to be “These results are a reminder would have noticed that whereas effective in preventing se- that we need to do everything before, the deaths from the virus vere disease, hospitalisa- we can to reduce circulation of were occurring amongst senior tion and death from COVID- the virus with proven public citizens, in the last few weeks 19, according to the World health measures. Several coun- persons in their 40s, 50s and 60s Health Organisation tries are succeeding in sup- have succumbed to COVID.This (WHO). pressing transmission, includ- underscores the point that per- However, Director-General ing those where new variants sons of every age are vulnerable Dr Tedros Adhanom are circulating.” to this disease. Furthermore, in Gheybreyes admitted that the He said it also seems increas- each case, chronic noncommuni- emergence of new variants of ingly clear that manufacturers cable diseases have been a com- the virus has raised questions will have to adjust to the evolu- plicating factor and continue to about the potential impact of tion of the virus, taking into point to these comorbidities as a those variants on vaccines. account the latest variants for risk factor for poor outcomes.” He recalled that on Sunday, future shots, including boost- In the National Press South Africa announced it ers. He went on to explain, “We Conference on Covid-19 in was putting a temporary hold know viruses mutate and we Barbados on February 8, before on the rollout of the Oxford- know we have to be ready to the two passings were reported, AstraZeneca vaccine after a adapt vaccines so they remain in a moment almost of pre- study showed it was minimally effective. This is what happens science, Medical Officer of effective at preventing mild to with flu vaccines, which are up- Health at the Winston Scott moderate disease caused by a dated twice a year to match the Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Polyclinic, Dr Omar Edwards, variant first identified in South dominant strains.” Dr Tedros Adhanom Gheybreyes. cautioned Barbadians that Africa. Dr Gheybreyes, pointing to younger persons were also vul- “This is clearly concerning WHO’s existing mechanism for now expanding that mecha- ble to protect people before they nerable to the disease. He went news. However, there are some tracking and evaluating vari- nism to provide guidance to are exposed to new variants. on to say that those with chronic important caveats,” he told ants of the virus that causes manufacturers and countries “We also need to continue de- noncommunicable diseases WHO’s virtual press conference COVID-19, is urging countries on changes that may be needed signing and conducting new tri- needed to manage their condi- yesterday, explaining that to continue to report these vari- for vaccines. als, and we need to keep a close tions carefully. given the limited sample size ants so WHO can coordinate “These developments high- eye on the impact vaccines are This supported statements of the trial and the younger, global efforts to monitor their light why it’s so important to having on epidemiology,severe made in the Press Conference of healthier profile of the partici- impact and advise countries scale up manufacturing and disease and death so we can use the previous day by Dr Kenneth pants, it is important to deter- accordingly. roll out of vaccines as quickly as vaccines to maximum effect,” Connell, Deputy Dean of the mine whether or not the vac- He also noted that WHO is possible and as widely as possi- the WHO Chief said. (TL) Faculty of Medical Sciences of the University of the West Indies. Dr Connell stressed the importance of persons suffering from NCDs taking steps to make DLP: Barbadians paying for government’s missteps themselves safer. He advised DELAYED from Page 1 in December. Had we done Enterprises, supplement domes- died, but it is not a funny thing. such persons to, “Monitor your that… it would have been ideal tic economy approvals to the It is no joke, and so what is of condition, make sure you see train is off the tracks and to do it [the National Pause] at tune of $70.28 million and on significance is the balancing of your doctor or health care what we should have done was the end of December, early Tuesday, an additional $165.58 economics and the balancing of provider, are on an updated and to take responsible leadership January, and then it means we million was approved by good science. For a particular appropriate management plan and not listen to persons who could have started a fresh year Parliament.” measured season earlier, we and get some exercise; it is vi- don’t understand the disease with this pandemic under con- During the interview he also should have lockdown and we tally important that you take process.” trol in Barbados.” cautioned,“If you do not get a would have been way ahead of your prescribed medication.” He He added, “What should have In a press statement, Gibson handle on the disease, the place the curve when we reopened in went on to say, “What this pan- happened is that the epidemio- said, “Due to this delayed lock- will not open because you will the second week of January, but demic has nakedly exposed is logical guidelines and the cal- down there is additional ex- have continued [COVID-19 pos- no, what is happening is now we that because of our noncommu- culations that were done for penses placed on the backs of itive] tests. I don’t know how are trying to pull everything nicable disease burden in this Barbados and our population Barbadians. They are forced many people like to hear their back.” region, COVID-19 poses particu- size should have been followed to bail out State owned mother or their aunt or sister (MG) lar risk to our populations.” 6 • Wednesday February 10, 2021 The Barbados Advocate

Franklyn: Nurses facing multiple challenges HEAD of Unity then being sent right back Speaking particularly not have any contact with their dreams of becoming gion, but you are trained Workers’ Union Cas- to work before receiving on the Geriatric Hospital, their families and then a registered nurse with by the Community College well Franklyn is results. where a patient and sev- they come back another 12 the ability to work in other to work in Barbados and expressing serious Revealing he has been eral staff members, in- hours later to start an- CARICOM territories they have taken those concerns over the risky asked by several nurses to cluding one nurse tested other shift for two weeks,” dashed – Franklyn nurses and not allowed work environment this represent their interests positive for the virus re- he stated, noting he had stressed this issue must them to be registered nation’s nurses are as they have become dis- cently, he said some of its advised the nurses not to be fully addressed. nurses and then we are finding themselves in. satisfied with their cur- nurses had voiced unease accept the proposal. “Up to last year, there bringing in nurses. Speaking on a recent rent representation, he with an apparent new Speaking on the vexing really was no syllabus for “I am sure that if we had radio call-in programme, outlined a myriad of is- proposal. issue of the regional this exam and a lot of allowed the nurses that the Opposition Senator sues affecting the profes- “They are proposing to nurses’ exam – which people failed. I suggested had been fully trained at charged that in the cur- sion, including hazard al- nurses at the Geriatric large numbers of student that nurses who are the BCC to work in their rent COVID-19 environ- lowance, qualifications Hospital that they work nurses coming out of the trained in Barbados are field, we would not have ment, nurses within some pay, and the nurses’ re- 12 hours and then they Barbados Community for Barbados and if you to be bringing in nurses medical facilities are being gional exam to name a bus them to a hotel, they College (BCC) fail each want to work outside of from anywhere else,” he tested for the virus, but few. stay at the hotel and do year, and in so doing see Barbados, then do the re- asserted. New agricultural chief has a vision for unity, optimisation THE Ministry of build bridges between all Agriculture and Food of our sectors,” she said. Security has its first fe- Ms. Holder added that male and youngest ever when speaking about agri- Chief Agricultural Officer. culture, the starting point She is Keeley Holder, must be in understanding whose appointment took the multi-dimensional effect from February 1, role that it plays in the so- 2021. cial and economic devel- Ms. Holder, who has a opment of the country. “It long history of working in is the basis for subsistence agriculture, was the Chief living; it is a wholesome Executive Officer of hobby for the entire fam- HydroGrow Farm and Go ily; it is business, a job Bananas Inc. Strong creator and contributor to Hope, St. Thomas, from innovation; it is a means 2016 to 2018. She was also for experiential learning a regional consultant with and positive youth devel- the Food and Agricultural opment. Organisation from 2015 to “It is a preserver of na- 2016, and again from 2017 ture and a steward of the to 2018. lands; it is an upholder of From 2011 to 2018, she nutritional sufficiency and was a Director of Southern the guardian of food Meats Inc. and a member independence; it is a con- of the National Agricul- tributor to the balance of tural Advisory Commis- payments and an engine sion, from 2011 to 2012. of economic growth.There Ms. Holder has also held are so many facets to what the position of Vice Chief Agricultural Officer Keeley Holder. we call agriculture and President of the National what I want to do is to Union of Farmers, from said she viewed her pri- move. It is essential to the unite and optimise these 2012 until 2018. mary responsibility as health and well-being of aspects to the benefit of all Additionally,she served as “working to unite the var- this group. This emphasis of our citizens,” she 1st Vice President of the ious aspects of agriculture on nutrition allows the stressed. Barbados Agricultural and optimising these to most vulnerable to have a The Chief Agricultural Society and President and meet the food and nutri- greater chance at health- Officer said she antici- Vice President of Bar- tion security needs of the ier bodies and minds, giv- pates that working to- bados Fruit and Vegetable people of Barbados, with ing them a greater ability gether with agricultural Growers, from 2008 to health and wellness at the to alleviate the stress as- personnel and others 2011. core”. sociated with the pan- afield would see the sec- The new chief holds a Explaining this against demic.” tor moving to its place of BSc. in Biology and the backdrop of the cur- The new Head also prominence as “the Computer Science from rent COVID-19 environ- stressed that this consti- bedrock for improving The University of the West ment, Ms. Holder said the tutes part of her vision for health, wellness and pro- Indies, Cave Hill Campus, need to provide support to agriculture going forward. ductivity of our greatest and a Post Graduate our most vulnerable at While pointing out that asset, our people”. Diploma in Crop Produc- this time highlights this she had heard the calls for “I am pleased to be in a tion and Water Manage- now more than ever. agriculture to supplant position to lead agricul- ment from Galillee She said: “That Govern- tourism during this ture into a new future. College, Israel. ment has moved to put in COVID-19 period, she said We can only grow from In an interview with the place a supplemental the idea of it replacing strength to strength, Barbados Government nutritional assistance tourism is a non-issue and working in partnership Information Service programme comprising we need to stop pitting and unity as we fight (BGIS), Ms. Holder ac- 60 000 care packages with agriculture against COVID-19, and ensure knowledged her familiar- healthy foods, provided by tourism. “As a nation, we food and nutrition secu- ity with the inner work- those in the agricultural need to commit to win-win rity for all,” Ms. Holder ings of the Ministry and sector, is an exceptional solutions and ways to declared. The Barbados Advocate Wednesday February 10, 2021 • 7

Chinese vaccines win global acclaim FROM front-line workers to heads Chinese vaccines have been used to of state, more people around the vaccinate millions of people in China as world are praising and welcoming well as in dozens of countries in Asia, Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccines. Africa, Latin America and Europe, “Chinese vaccines have been proved to Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Hor be safe and reliable,” said Laotian Namhong Namhong noted on Sunday. Minister of Health Bounkong Syhavong “According to information I received, upon receiving Chinese-donated these vaccines have had efficacy and no Sinopharm vaccines in Vientiane, severe side effect,” he said.“Many leaders the capital of Laos, on Monday. of these countries have been inoculated At about the same time across the voluntarily with these Chinese vaccines.” Pacific, Peruvian President Francisco Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Sagasti expressed his appreciation to Wenbin said on Monday that China is China as he welcomed the arrival of the providing vaccine aid to 53 developing first 300 000 doses of Sinopharm vaccine countries, including Pakistan. China also from China. Likewise, Chilean President has exported vaccines or is in the process Sebastian Pinera thanked China on of exporting vaccines to 22 countries, January 28, and Cambodian Prime he added. Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen Nawal Al-Kaabi, principal investigator expressed his gratitude for donated of the phase three clinical trial for a vaccine on Sunday. COVID-19 vaccine in the United Arab Peru’s next vaccine shipment is sched- Emirates, said the UAE?together with Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia Wang Wentian (left) hands over China-donated uled to arrive in Lima over the weekend, Bahrain, Egypt and Jordan, where Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine to Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sagasti said. Health professionals, armed Chinese-made vaccines are also being Sen at Phnom Penh International Airport in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Sunday. forces members, police officers, firefight- rolled out?is studying the long-term ers and health workers will be given pri- effects of the vaccine in line with standard reacting correctly”. Sebastian Kurz said Austria is ready to ority for inoculation in the country,where safety protocols. “The Sinopharm inactivated vaccine produce Russian and Chinese COVID-19 42 000 people have died of COVID-19. The Sinopharm vaccine is “the world’s can also be transported at normal refrig- vaccines if they are registered by the Sinopharm’s vaccine and that of first inactivated vaccine against COVID- eration temperatures, making it suitable European Medicines Agency. Chinese company Sinovac are at a “very 19”, which essentially means that manu- for less-developed countries to transport “When it comes to vaccines, what mat- advanced stage” of the World Health facturing this vaccine will be easier than and store it,” she added. ters is efficiency,safety and quick access, Organization’s Emergency Use making its counterparts, said Al-Kaabi, In Brazil,Andre Lobato, a researcher at and not geopolitical strife,” Kurz said. Listing Procedure assessment. China is also chairwoman of the National COVID- the Center for International Relations at Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis, in honoring its commitment to making vac- 19 Clinical Management Committee. Fiocruz, a biological sciences research talks with Hungary’s Prime Minister cines a global public good, as emphasized “There have been no severe adverse institute in Rio de Janeiro, expressed Viktor Orban in Budapest on Friday,also by President Xi Jinping, and has joined reactions to the Sinopharm vaccine,” she appreciation for CoronaVac, the vaccine emphasised that “the coronavirus the WHO’s global COVAX program to said, adding that patients have shown developed by China’s Sinovac Biotech vaccine is not a political issue but a safety provide ten million doses of COVID-19 minor side effects?”which is a good sign and partially manufactured in Brazil issue, so the origin of the vaccine cannot vaccines. and means your immune system is by the Sao Paulo-based Butantan be made a political issue either.” Hungry Institute. has granted approval to Chinese “Unmistakably,the inactivated vaccine and Russian vaccines. is a light of hope for Brazilian people,” Earlier, European Commission Lobato said. Since January 17, about President Ursula von der Leyen, German 3.5 million people have been inoculated Chancellor Angela Merkel and French with Sinovac.“Skepticism about Chinese President Emmanuel Macron expressed vaccines is being demolished by facts, openness to EU approval of Chinese and solidarity and need.” Russian vaccines following due procedure Namhong of Cambodia stressed with “all the data”. that COVID-19 vaccines should not be a A commentary published on the contentious issue among countries and website of The New York Times producers, but should be used to keep on February 5 called for a change people around the world safe, especially in attitude toward Chinese vaccines. in developing countries. The Indian and Malaysian experts who In an interview with the German co-wrote the opinion piece said, “They,too, newspaper Welt am Sonntag published work, and they can help fill shortages on Sunday, Austrian Chancellor everywhere.”

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Foreign students from China University of Geosciences cook Chinese dishes on 52 BeiDou satellites Friday in Wuhan, Hubei province. XI’AN – China’s Xi’an Satellite Control engineer with the center. Center has completed a health check of Since it was put into service in July 52 in-orbit BeiDou navigation satellites last year, the BDS-3 system has provided Wuhan university provides (BDS) ahead of the Spring Festival services for many industries, including holiday, the Chinese Lunar New Year, transportation, agriculture and fishery. the center said yesterday. The longest-serving satellite is the for foreign students This is the centre’s first comprehensive GEO-1 satellite of the BDS-2 system, operation management examination of which was launched on January 17, 2010. MORE than 250 foreign students from calligraphy through hands-on all BeiDou satellites since the comple- “Customised health examination and 49 countries and regions gathered for practice. tion of the BDS-3 system for global users. diagnosis programmes have enabled the firsthand experiences related to the To enrich lives during the Spring With the help of a self-developed satellite BeiDou satellite to remain in service for Chinese Lunar New Year on Friday, Festival, the student canteen, reading health assessment system, the staff at three more years, despite its eight-year in Wuhan, Hubei province. rooms, supermarket and conference the center analysed key data of the satel- design life,” said senior engineer Organised by China University rooms will be open and available for lites from July 1 to December 31, 2020. Luo Chunyan. of Geosciences, students from the students. “Any satellite malfunction may affect During the week-long Spring Festival university could prepare Chinese dishes, The university also prepared candy the navigation accuracy.Only by keeping holiday, which falls on February 12 this including boiled fish with pickled gift bags and will offer free lunch the satellite in good working condition year, the center will continue to carry cabbage and chili and spicy potato with on Lunar New Year’s Eve, which falls on at all times can we assure they serve out real-time monitoring of BeiDou vinegar. They also learned a bit about February 11. our daily life,” said Lyu Pengliang, an satellites. 8 • Wednesday February 10, 2021 The Barbados Advocate ‘For the cause that lacks assistance, ’Gainst the wrongs that need resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do’ Editorial Pause and reflect By Dorian Bryan perceived actions against that I have to work my Those who offend are fully COVID: Collective the person and nothing behind off to get ahead. aware that people of colour, WE ARE in a period happens afterwards. Back breaking hours and in an attempt to appear as focused on the actions of People started to lots of behind the scenes though they have advanced action needed ‘pause and reflect’. research the familial work, but that will hardly will try to spend their This period has been connections of the aid my desire to earn money,not at places run by TODAY marks the halfway point in our two-week designed to force the individual in question. enough to be comfortable. people that look like them national pause, implemented to help us get a better country to face the real and Some looked at the Yet,this position allows me but some who might not handle on the COVID-19 cases in this country.But from deadly threat of COVID-19 companies which the to converse with people of respect them and have what we have been seeing and hearing, we may be on which up until the time of person either owned or all types, backgrounds and deep-seeded animosity pause for more than two weeks. the composition of this worked for, with a monetary status. This does towards then. Admittedly, we do not think that anyone expected column had recorded 20 determination to use not stop me from speaking We have a population, that the number of cases would automatically drop on deaths. consumer power to punish my mind. that while it stands up for February 4th, the day after the lockdown started. But there are enough these companies and by The man who hired me, itself when insulted, is not Certainly one would have expected that it would take times left to address the extension, punish the Sir Anthony Bryan, was a consistent and often lapse some time to see the benefits of the various measures, COVID-19 pandemic and individual. model lesson, of someone into accepting less than but a week on, it was at least anticipated that we would how it has up-ended our But where does that lead who worked hard to their value. start to see a glimmer hope. Instead we heard that lives forever. We are us? Clearly there is a establish himself in this We should accept our people are still hosting parties, four of which were grounded and forced to live method to the madness, world. I often remember history and struggle for stopped by the COVID-19 Monitoring Unit on Sunday; our lives inside our homes, because the fall out from his story related to certain advancement and respect, and a visit to the social media pages of several mostly online while the offensive comments people only dealing with not as a fight for equality companies, showed that they too had to be reprimanded abandoning contact with forced companies to move him because he owned The and acceptance, but what for not abiding by the protocols, as many sought other people. It is hard for with record speed to Barbados Advocate and we are required to possess. workarounds to service potential customers during the a country that prides itself disassociate themselves that it gave him a measure History represents a national pause. Such scenarios make one wonder if we on being welcoming. with the individual and the of pride. It opened doors to teachable moment to are taking the threat seriously. Our tourism marketing comments expressed, but if the right people. reflect, and move ahead.We The truth is the COVID-19 problem we face did not ploy for years has centered there was no video, would The problem is that his allow some to appropriate develop overnight and cannot be solved overnight. By on welcoming people to our they have moved so fast? story was or is not the same our heritage and then now it is widely known that early in January the number island and showing them What if the person who for the majority of indicate how we should of COVID-19 cases surged. We went from a handful of what we enjoy year around. was in the vehicle had been Barbadians. act...as submissive and in a cases every day to recording hundreds of cases in one day, To have suspicion of the interviewed by a We have reached an particular place, always and while a large number of those cases were actually person next to you even in newspaper or went on radio inflection point in our followers and not as leaders recorded in the prison, many were also in the community. your own home is scary and or television to reveal this history because this and titans of every sphere of It was really no surprise then when a few weeks ago it un-Barbadian but it is what behaviour? Would the country cannot continue to this country. was confirmed that there was community spread in 2020 and 2021 has reaction be the same? place a band aid over race. We still face hurdles this country, and Barbadians were urged to be even burdened us with. This type of behaviour is That is why I infused designed to stunt our more vigilant in an effort to keep the virus at bay. That is the segue to my not isolated. It exists across cynicism into the hoopla movement upwards Now, we can either cry over spilled milk and argue major point related to being this island and is over the removal of the socially, often by over- about whose fault it is that the number of cases have unaware of what is around manifested in households Nelson Statue. burdened taxation on the skyrocketed, when we know that being upset and us and being forced to and conversations between We continue to white- middle class and which quarrelling about it will not in any way change the address issues which we individuals and often comes wash our history if we rewards the wealthy. We situation; or we can channel that anger into making sure know are there but some out when persons of a believe that we have believe in ‘top-down that this country does not continue to see an increase in seem to want to deny. particular colour are upset. conquered our racist fore- economics’ with this cases and unnecessary deaths.To date 20 people have By now, everyone would The saying goes that you bearings through a statue misguided notion that those died in this country because of COVID-19, 13 this year have seen the video of a get the truth if it is a child, being shifted. I laugh at with money,if they get more alone, and the onus is on each and every one of us to play gentleman of a certain if the person is drunk or if how Nelson was bad but the back from taxpayers, will our part to ensure that figure does not continue to rise. complexion making they are angry. Parliament buildings that re-invest. Garbage! Certainly in a country where there is a high incidence incendiary remarks and We in this country, for centuries created laws 2021 represents a time of non-communicable diseases like diabetes and using language which was continue to have to keep the majority for renewal and change. hypertension and a large ageing population, we have to unacceptable. Clearly it skirmishes with race and underrepresented and But this can only happen if take the necessary precautions to keep ourselves and seemed as though the we seem to think that this deprived them of their we the people actually are those around us safe. gentleman was at ease island has advanced past rights, is acceptable. prepared to stop accepting The fact is that we all dropped the ball with respect using these unfortunate race and we have not. Until There are parts and excuses and ask our to COVID – Government, Barbadians and visitors alike. and insulting words but the wealth is easily accessible elements of this society government, for instance, to With the number of cases being low,we were lulled into issue goes way deeper than to persons of colour and not which remain the purview take a stand against this a false sense of security and we dropped our guard.This this. concentrated in the hands of a certain race. ongoing thinly veiled and cannot be allowed to happen again. Ever! We see what we want and of precious few,then we will Persons of colour are still now overtly represented But our fear is that with the rollout of the vaccination we except what we allow. have an unequal society, profiled especially by their racism. programme in this country, people will again feel all is This dance has been going that exhibits tolerance own kind. People of colour We are approaching 55 relatively well. It is important then that the COVID on for years. We hear or see between races, but the are still the major years of Independence, Communications Unit (CCU), as it tries to educate the something offensive, and simmer of racial injustice consumers of goods and what mirror image do we public about the COVID vaccine – at the risk of being social media explodes, then always remains. services, but do they want to see of ourselves and guilty of information overload – drill home to persons the movement moves to Personally,I always feel understand their power? our society in 2021? that it is not a panacea as we will not automatically overcome the virus. The fact is, experts warn that even with mass vaccination, strict protocols will have to remain in place – the wearing of masks, sanitising and Canada to require negative COVID physical distancing will remain vital. As we understand it, the vaccination campaign is to start soon and while the CCU must be commended for test at land border Feb 15 bringing experts to explain the facts, they may need to CANADIAN Prime negative PCR-based because they are health officials if they rethink the format in which this is done. In an age Minister Justin Trudeau COVID-19 test or face a technically on Canadian don’t show a negative where persons are accustomed to having information announced yesterday that fine if they don’t have one. soil but said the fine will test. right at their fingertips and there is some scepticism starting next week any Trudeau said customs be up to $3,000 Canadian The land border already about the vaccine, they may need to make the nonessential traveller officers can’t send (US$2,370) and the remains closed to information more palatable and easier to digest as they arriving in Canada by Canadians back to the US traveller will be subject to nonessential travellers seek the public’s buy-in.The vaccine is just another tool land will need to show a if they don’t have a test extensive follow up by who are not Canadian. in the arsenal to combat the spread of the virus, and so we must all look to play our part.While the Government Telephone: 467-2000 News Fax: 434-1000 News Editor: Dorian Bryan Executive Editor: Allison Downes naturally will take the lead, it is every Barbadian’s E-mail Address: [email protected] Business Editor: Jewel Brathwaite General Manager: Sandra Clarke Assistant Managing Director: Sean Eteen Website: www.barbadosadvocate.com Sports Editor: Corey Greaves responsibility to ensure that Barbados is not decimated Publisher: Sir Anthony Bryan by this invisible terror. @The Barbados Advocate @barbadosadvocate The Barbados Advocate Wednesday February 10, 2021 • 9

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ADVOCATE PUBLISHERS (2000) INC, FONTABELLE • FAX: 434-1000 • E-MAIL: [email protected] The holy affliction of good reporting “It is our [journalists] business to Mr. Harford is not worried about a Human), the “atomized will”. Moderns racist of categories, that is, race. But criticise the world; but certainly the world where people believe anything, typically equate human flourishing also beyond our: economic status, world will not stand it unless we begin but the far more dangerous world where with “the capacity to formulate and religion, gender, and ego. (Especially by criticising ourselves.” – (G.K. “people believe nothing beyond their pursue future plans of one’s own inven- the latter.) Chesterton, 26 October 1907) own preconceptions”. tion”. According to Professor Carter “Good journalism,” writes Beaty,“is a Beaty argues that good journalism is Snead, this false vision of humanity measure of common grace insofar as WELL over a century later, the public is for such a time as this. It “provides a grounds the core unit of reality in “the it checks the spread of individual and well versed applying the latter part of model of serving the common good, atomized and isolated self”. Bluntly, institutional sin from having its full G.K. Chesterton’s biblical chiasmus however beleaguered and shaky the en- modern life revolves around the most effects in the world.” A world where it (Matthew 20:16). In the local context, terprise seems to be in this cultural and selfish and unholiest of trinities: me, appears just about every country is this has taken the form of the gnashing political moment”. The press needs to myself, and I. now living under Communist rule. of teeth at what some members of the press on. But onto what? To borrow a The primary task of the journalist COVID protocols dictate that masks public see as less than stellar questions phrase from her conclusion: “The holy (and the public intellectual) is to trans- be worn, properly covering the mouth. being posed by journalists at the affliction of good reporting.” Beaty cites form the “I” into a “we”. Failing that, Communist protocols dictate that COVID-19 pressers. A meme that could 20th-century humorist Finley Peter phrases like “we got this” or “we in dis mum’s the word. So if you want to se- have been penned by Chesterton him- Dunne, who said that a newspaper together” intended as clarion calls, end cure a loan (or laptops), please ensure self sums it up, “Journalism: It’s a tough should comfort the afflicted and afflict up being “a noisy gong or a clanging that your mouth is properly covered. job with insane hours and pretty crappy the comfortable. cymbal” (1 Corinthians 13:1). In Bajan Don’t speak: #CommunistProtocols in pay.On the other hand, everybody hates Our post-truth era also doubles parlance: “Who’s we? Wuh we dem effect. you.” as the era of, to borrow a term from talkin’ bout?” To start this transforma- In her contribution to Public O. Carter Snead (What It Means to Be tion, we have to look beyond the most ADRIAN SOBERS Intellectuals and the Common Good, Katelyn Beaty cites Christopher Lasch, who said we should defend democracy, not as the most efficient form of govern- ment, but the most educational. For Listening to history is art Lasch, democracy “extends the circle of debate as widely as possible and thus HISTORY can transform any ear, but inspired and directed the authors of The For example, The “Landship” forces all citizens to articulate their lobe must be awake. American Constitution, signed in 1776. Movement and Road Tennis remain views, to put their views at risk, and Historian Dr. Carter G. Woodson, hav- Secondly,the Barbados plantation sugar objects of pride and not industry. to cultivate the virtues of eloquence, ing witnessed the underrepresentation model migrated, rewrote and reshaped Therefore, it is paradox to borrow only clarity of thought and expression, and of black success in history books, ac- the economic and social future of South part of Woodson’s idea – the ugly that in- sound judgement.” tively sought to correct the historical Carolina. Seven of the first 21 gover- stantly becomes beautiful the moment For Ms. Beaty, acquisitions editor at narrative. Woodson wrote scholarly nors were either Barbadian or had close it is accepted. Brazos Press, this education often comes papers; and, in 1929, jointly formed Barbadian ties. Indeed, recent reports Just imagine a reinvented Admiral from journalists “who see readers not as The Study of Negro Life and History indicate that South Carolinians are Watson’s crusade, for example as part passive consumers of entertainment, Association. Later, he declared a week in repossessing their Bajan story. of the school curriculum: essays, poems, but as crucial members of society whose February as “Negro History Week”. In Truth be told while acclamation of performances, debates, social and com- views deserve to be heard”. The title of 1976, President Gerald Ford seized the history can be reassuring and provide munity clubs, and as a literary device her essay – The Common Grace of opportunity to honour the accomplish- security,uniqueness must triumph. The – an indigenous alternative to Hip Hop Journalism in a Post-Truth Era – also ments of Black Americans.Ford repossession must breathe; must have and Bashment. And what if, as hints at the difficulty of this task. It declared February as Black History length, depth; and multiple points of President Ford did, the Parks, Heights, might seem both futile and foolish to Month. view. And so, to blindly borrow Black and Terraces adopted Road Tennis as appeal to objective facts in our “post- That said, promoting the achieve- History Month; to not examine in detail if it were their own? Would the cultural truth” era where public opinion tends ments of Black Americans cannot be why it was created, could lead to a mis- sky be the proverbial limit? to be shaped by emotion. questioned or underestimated.America understanding. To miss why and how Barbados, unlike America, is small. In the introduction to The Data is a majority white union. Its laws and ideas, institutions and companies grow. Black cannot live without white – and Detective, Tim Harford speaks to the rules still reinforce white as better than The life of Woodson’s Black History vice versa. Setting Bajan history as a fact that emotion plays more of a role black. Yet black accomplishments rise, Month is a change agent model. As an priority over the Black History Month than we care to admit in decision-mak- everywhere. exemplar of the innovation process, it in- program, is not a chase for more history. ing in our rationalistic, data-driven Unlike America, Barbados is a Black tentionally identified a potential need, Neither is the proposition, a colonial world where we “follow the science”. For society (92%). Like America it has many converted it into a product that at- theology or an American doctrine. It is our purposes here, we note his com- issues to correct, and things to reclaim. tracted attention. It didn’t just reinforce, accepting that design, structure, and ments on “fake news”. An idea that But in this case, which methodology is embellish or enhanced black endeavour. mechanisms fuel the growth and flow of resonated “because it tapped into an un- Barbados’ best bet: strategic or specific, It organised success and packaged them ideas. It is acknowledging that designs fortunate truth: there is plenty of slap- unambiguous or obsequious? for travel. in history persist, in time, as life. Know dash journalism even in mainstream Barbados’ past is rich – more than just Part of Barbados’ beautiful history is that viewpoints have voices and ears. outlets”. However, he notes that “there black or white occurrences. The 1652 suffering gladly – awaiting Woodson’s That is why listening to history is art. are also serious and responsible journal- Treaty of Oistins – an article of agree- like authorship, pampering and organ- ists who carefully source their claims”. ment between Barbados and England, isation. WALTER EDEY

LET GOD QUOTES FOR TODAY WORDS OF SPEAK TO US WISDOM Regina King Jesse Jackson “We ought always to thank American actress and director American political activist God for you, brothers and sis- & Baptist minister BE A WINNER ters, and rightly so, because “You don't know what uncondi- your faith is growing more and tional love is. You may say you do, “Your children need your The winner always has a more, and the love all of you but if you don't have a child, you presence more than your plan; don't know what that is. But when have for one another is in- presents.” The loser always has an creasing.” you experience it, it is the most fulfilling ever.” excuse. – 2 Thessalonians 1, vs 3 (NIV) 10 • Wednesday February 10, 2021 The Barbados Advocate

Investment continues after strong last quarter FORTRESS Fund had received good returns. Managers achieved one Speaking on the emer- of its best quarters to gence and dissemination end 2020, and accord- of vaccines globally, the ing to Peter Arender, chief investment officer there are still said that he believed the favourable options of only effect would be the investment available improvement of everyday in the international life, but that the markets market for 2021. had already recovered in Arender, Chief 2020. He stated that what Investment Officer, last year did highlight was Fortress Advisory & the importance of diversi- Investment Services, fication and international made these comments to investment. the media during the Cave added that of the Lunch and Learn briefing approximately ten thou- which also included sand investors in Fortress, Roger Cave, Investment individuals and institu- Director, Fortress Fund tions had continued to add Managers. The adviser to their account. stated that 2020 was an “We are very encour- extraordinary year, espe- aged by the response and cially in the investment I believe what also con- world. tributed was our commu- “There was a gigantic nication to investors, led collapse at the end of by Peter (Arender) where March last year and then Roger Cave, Investment Director of Fortress Fund Peter Arender, Chief Investment Officer, Fortress we explained the expected one of the fastest recover- Managers. Advisory & Investment Services. happenings and that the ies in the equity and asset market would recover,” markets, possibly the featuring bonds which had The Q4 performance in Highlighting the swift and markets which offered said Cave. fastest ever seen,” said a strong year,was up 4.4%. the CGF was powered pri- recovery after the markets good value and once the The investment director Arender. The financial officer ex- marily by its largest allo- fell last year, Fortress did value is good, there would encouraged people to Referencing the quar- plained that there had cation, our Global Fortress well according to Arender continue to be opportunity invest, saying that there terly report for the fourth been mixed movements by Fund. Where Q4 perform- due to the fact that the re- for investment. must be a forward-focused quarter (Q4) of 2020, the markets in 2020, but most ance in the US Equity covery happened in some Explaining that from view of investment. He ac- chief investment officer had recovered except the Fund was up 12%, our of the markets which monthly individual savers, knowledged that though stated that both funds Caribbean market. International Equity Fortress invested heavily to companies who offer markets had recovered, had done well, where “The Caribbean mar- Fund was up 17% and our in – the high quality, bet- pensions to employees, economies would lag until the Fortress Caribbean kets came down hard in Emerging Market Fund ter value markets. He also Arender said there was vaccinations were done Growth Fund (CGF) was early 2020, but did not was up 26%. So far for the stated that before, during a trend of continued and there was some recov- up 11.3% and the High have the kind of recovery year, global funds are up and after the pandemic, monthly contributions to ery for people in everyday Interest Fund, primarily the global markets did. 5% to 9%,”Arender stated. there would be companies investments and investors life. (AS)

BANK RATES Employers advised to download Commercial bank rates to the public at the close of business yesterday by the Central Bank of Barbados. 2021 monthly PAYE template THE Barbados Revenue the bulk e-filing option in Valid for February 10, 2021 Authority informs em- a PAYE return, is espe- Notes: ployers that a Microsoft cially useful to employers Currency Buying Selling Excel template which who have more than one Belizean Dollar 1.00000 1.00000 can be used to file their employee. Canadian Dollar 1.55347 1.59942 monthly Pay As You Earn Employers are there- East Caribbean $ 0.73704 0.74445 (PAYE) returns for in- fore advised to download Euro 2.37147 2.47133 come year 2021, is now the PAYE Monthly Pound Sterling 2.70338 2.81722 available. Upload Template 2019- United States Dollar 1.98000 2.02857 The template, which is 2021 from the Authority’s Demand/Sight: utilised when selecting website at bra.gov.bb. Currency Buying Selling Belizean Dollar 0.99688 1.00313 Canadian Dollar 1.56231 1.59801 East Caribbean Dollar 0.73843 0.74306 NY money manager Euro 2.40627 2.45599 Guyana Dollar 0.00942 0.00948 Pound Sterling 2.74305 2.79973 pleads not guilty to United States Dollar 1.99000 2.02768 Telegraphic Transfer Currency Buying Selling $1.8B Ponzi-like fraud Belizean Dollar 0.99688 1.00313 NEW YORK – The a five-count indictment Canadian Dollar 1.56527 1.59801 founder of a New York at a hearing in Brooklyn East Caribbean Dollar 0.73843 0.74306 Euro 2.41079 2.45599 money manager who au- federal court. Guyana Dollar 0.00942 0.00948 thorities said ran a $1.8 Bail was set at $500,000, Pound Sterling 2.74821 2.79973 billion fraud resembling a secured by Gentile’s home United States Dollar 1.99375 2.02768 Ponzi scheme that fleeced in Manhasset, New York. thousands of investors The married father of four INDICATIVE RATES FOR SOME REGIONAL pleaded not guilty to fraud is forbidden from commu- CURRENCIES AS ADVISED BY THE and conspiracy charges on nicating with GPB in- RESPECTIVE CENTRAL BANKS. Tuesday. vestors about the criminal N.B. These rates are not meant to be used for trading. David Gentile, who case. BDS$ until last week was chief Seven US states and the Guyana Dollar 0.00945 Jamaica Dollar 0.01345 executive of GPB Capital Securities and Exchange T&T Dollar 0.29890 Holdings LLC, entered his Commission have opened plea through his lawyer to related civil proceedings. The Barbados Advocate Wednesday February 10, 2021 • 11

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BICO Limited 21-Sep-20 - - - $3.10 $3.10 - $3.10 - 70 - INDICES Banks Holdings Limited -+ 09-Dec-19 - - - $4.85 $4.85 - - - - - TODAY'S TRADING LAST TRADING CHANGES February 9, 2021 February 8, 2021 Barbados Dairy Industries Limited -+ 04-Oct-19 - - - $3.00 $3.00 - - - - - Local 2,450.25 2,450.18 0.07 Barbados Farms Limited 22-Jan-21 - - - $0.40 $0.40 - $0.35 $0.40 1,000 6,561 Cross-list 933.43 933.43 - Composite 597.01 596.99 0.02 Cave Shepherd and Company Limited 28-Jan-21 - - - $4.10 $4.10 - - $4.10 - 1,100 MARKET CAPITALISATION (in millions) FirstCaribbean International Bank 05-Feb-21 - - - $1.80 $1.80 - $1.80 $2.00 239 707 TODAY'S TRADING LAST TRADING CHANGES February 9, 2021 February 8, 2021 Eppley Caribbean Property Fund SCC 05-Feb-21 - - - $0.16 $0.16 - - $0.16 - 10,146 Local 4,924.95 4,924.82 0.13 - Dev Fund Cross-list 119.19 119.19 - Composite 5,044.14 5,044.01 0.13 Eppley Caribbean Property Fund SCC 18-Dec-20 - - - $0.57 $0.57 - $0.55 $0.57 1,600 7,427 MUTUAL FUND -Value Fund February 9, 2021 ENDED NAME OF FUND NAV OFFER BID NAV Goddard Enterprises Limited 08-Feb-21 - - - $2.20 $2.20 - $2.17 $2.20 26 5,880 CHANGE 05-Feb-21 REPUBLIC CAPITAL GROWTH FUND w 1.2028 0.0124 Insurance Corporation of B’dos Limited 22-Jan-21 - - - $2.00 $2.00 - $1.78 $2.00 78 9,700 05-Feb-21 REPUBLIC INCOME FUND w 1.2678 0.0002 05-Feb-21 REPUBLIC PROPERTY FUND w 0.6730 -0.0003 One Caribbean Media Limited 27-Jan-21 - - - $1.80 $1.80 - - $1.80 - 375 29-Jan-21 FORTRESS CARIBBEAN GROWTH FUND w 6.4844 6.4844 6.4844 -0.0816 Sagicor Financial Corporation Pref 6.5% 23-Jun-16 - - - $2.26 $2.26 - - - - - 29-Jan-21 FORTRESS HIGH INTEREST FUND - ACC. w 2.1002 -0.0023 29-Jan-21 FORTRESS HIGH INTEREST FUND - DIST. w 1.0224 -0.0011 Sagicor Financial Corporation Limited -+ 29-Nov-19 - -- $2.80 $2.80 - - - -- 31-Jan-21 ROYAL FIDELITY SELECT BALANCED FUND m 5.5698 5.5698 5.4584 -0.0020 31-Jan-21 ROYAL FIDELITY STRATEGIC GROWTH FUNDm 1.0241 1.0241 1.0036 0.0000 West India Biscuit Company Limited 05-Feb-21 - - - $31.55 $31.55 - $31.25 $31.54 100 500 31-Jan-21 ROYAL FIDELITY PREMIUM INCOME FUND m 1.6429 1.6429 1.6100 -0.0006 05-Feb-21 SAGICOR GLOBAL BALANCED FUND w 2.75 0.03 Emera Deposit Receipt 14-Aug-20 - - - $19.93 $19.99 $0.06 $30.00 - 50 - 05-Feb-21 SAGICOR SELECT GROWTH FUND w 1.67 0.02 05-Feb-21 SAGICOR PREFERRED INCOME FUND w 0.99 0.00 - TOTAL SHARES BOUGHT & SOLD * Indicates the Fund is currently ex-div NOTES: QUOTATIONS AND NET ASSET VALUE PER SHARE ARE SUPPLIED BY THE FUND MANAGEMENT. THE OFFERING PRICE INCLUDES NET ASSET VALUE PLUS * = Security is Trading X-Div ENTRY COSTS. m = monthly valuation, q = quarterly valuation, w = weekly *+* = Security is Suspended Fixed Income ** = Rights Issued Last Trade Last Current Bid Ask Bid Ask Date Close Close Price Price Size Size GOB Series B 28-Jan-21 $60.00 $60.00 $60.00 $80.00 50,000 34,828 GOB Series D 12-Nov-19 $50.00 $50.00 NOTICES GOB Series F 03-Nov-20 $89.00 $89.00 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGS GOB Series I 24-Mar-20 $65.00 $65.00 $70.00 19,617

West India Biscuit Company Limited - Directors have fixed January 7th, 2021 as the record date for the determination of shareholders entitled to receive notice of the Annual General Meeting of the Company which will be held on February 12th, 2021. NEWS

FirstCaribbean International Bank - Directors have fixed February 1st, 2021 as the record date for the determination of shareholders entitled to receive notice of the Annual General Meeting of the Company which will be held on March 12th, 2021. Cash flush Americans DIVIDEND DECLARATIONS buying shares as pandemic Cave Shepherd and Company Limited – Directors have declared a final dividend of five ($0.05) cents per share to be paid on February 19th, 2021 to Shareholders on record at close of business on February 5th, 2021. limits spending options Emera Deposit Receipt - Directors have declared a cash dividend of sixty-three point seven five (CDN $0.6375) cents per common share WASHINGTON – posable income and fewer to be paid on February 16th, 2021 to Shareholders on record at close of business on February 2nd, 2021. Registered holders of depositary receipts ("Depositary Receipts") issued pursuant to Section 4.1 of the Amended and Restated Deposit Agreement dated Americans stuck at home ways to spend it,” said February 2nd, 2016 among Emera, the Barbados Central Securities Depository Inc. and registered and beneficial holders of depositary and with more discretionary Denise Dahlhoff, a senior re- receipts from time to time, are entitled to receive, in proportion to the number of Depositary Receipts held by them, respectively, a funds at their disposal but searcher at The Conference distribution in the amount of any cash received by the Barbados Central Securities Depository Inc. (net of any applicable withholding taxes) fewer spending options be- Board. “Stocks, which con- in connection with the Dividend (the "Distribution"). cause of the COVID-19 pan- tinue to yield strong returns, BSE NOTICES demic are piling into the have become an increasingly stock market and sprucing attractive option for these COVID-19 PROCEDURAL UPDATE up their homes, a survey consumers.” Kindly note that effective February 3rd, 2021, the offices of the Barbados Stock Exchange Inc. (BSE) and the Barbados Central Securities showed on Tuesday. But the pandemic has Depository Inc. (BCSDI) will be closed in accordance with the National Pause – February 3rd, 2021 to February 17th, 2021 – announced The Conference Board’s widened income inequality, by the Government of Barbados. quarterly US Consumer which has been worsened by Dynamics Report showed the so-called K-shaped recov- Kindly note, however, that while our physical offices will be closed, all trading, clearing and settlement operations will remain fully operational as staff will all be working remotely during this period. While our offices are closed, we remain easily accessible via email. For Stock 20% of consumers surveyed ery, with better-paid work- Exchange related queries, kindly email us at [email protected] and for Shareholder related queries contact us at [email protected]. in the fourth quarter of 2020 ers doing well while lower- invested in shares of stocks paid workers are losing out. We wish to thank you in advance for your understanding and trust that all and sundry remain safe during this time. or mutual funds, up from The survey showed 26% of TRADING SUSPENSION 15% in the second quarter. consumers were not paying No data was available for the off their debt, including The Barbados Stock Exchange Inc. (BSE) wishes to advise that due to non-compliance with Section 4.01.3 and subject to Section third quarter. credit cards and loans. 3.01.5.(1)(b) of the Rules of the Barbados Stock Exchange Inc. trading in the Common Shares of Banks Holdings Limited were “Trends like low interest Though that was down from suspended effective December 10th, 2019. rates and declining debt con- 29% in the second quarter, it The Barbados Stock Exchange Inc. (BSE) wishes to advise that due to non-compliance with Section 4.01.3 and subject to Section cerns, alongside below-nor- remained quite high. Just 3.01.5.(1)(b) of the Rules of the Barbados Stock Exchange Inc. trading in the Common Shares of Barbados Dairy Industries Limited mal spending on vacations under a fifth of consumers were suspended effective December 10th, 2019. and out-of-home entertain- were not putting money into The Barbados Stock Exchange Inc. (BSE) wishes to advise that to facilitate the closing of the Scheme of Arrangement effected by way of ment due to pandemic re- a retirement fund and 10% Section 99 of the Companies Act 1981 of Bermuda involving the transfer of all the issued and outstanding shares in Sagicor Financial strictions, have left a portion said they had no cash to Corporation Limited to Alignvest Acquisition II, it has suspended trading in the security Sagicor Financial Corporation Limited. of Americans with more dis- spare. 12 • Wednesday February 10, 2021 The Barbados Advocate

PM Skerrit: Prevent Moratorium on 5G likely spread of COVID-19, to be lifted, says RA panel A MORATORIUM may be lifted on ahead of midnight on March 8. introducing 5G wireless technology to The RA said it will then make its final Bermuda, the Regulatory Authority decision on March 18. reduce exposure to announced Monday night. The advisory panel’s report addressed In a preliminary report, the telecom concerns raised by BAST over the munications watchdog said it was pro- technology. posing to lift the temporary moratorium It found radiation safety science carnival activities imposed on fifth generation technology “does not support the view that 5G will be last year. harmful to people” or to the island’s flora PRIME MINISTER Roosevelt The moratorium was put in place to and fauna. Skerrit continues to urge the allow time for consultation after Opponents charged the 5G technology public to follow the necessary community groups raised concerns about would not substantially benefit the protocols to prevent the spread of the safety of the radio frequency island, and that non-wireless technology COVID-19. consultation. would work better. It has been reported that at present However, the RA also proposes to set up But the panel wrote that it could not Dominica has 12 active Covid-19 cases programmes for consultation as well as evaluate the claims. that are all in isolation, with the total independent checks on the health impact Nor would it comment on “privacy and number of confirmed cases at 126. of the technology. security vulnerabilities”. “We need to continue to take all the The public was asked to review the The report found that “exposure measures that we need to take, not only 42-page report and provide feedback, of the community to radiation from from the Ministry of Health standpoint, which followed the launch of public 5G antennas is predicted to be but from the standpoint from every consultation last October. considerably lower than the levels resident and citizen of our country,” Sceptics of the technology included the recommended as safe” under interna- Prime Minister Skerrit stated at a press group Bermuda Advocates for tional guidelines. conference on Monday. Safe Technology. It recommended the RA “lift the The prime minister is of the view that Members of BAST included Eugene moratorium on 5G roll-out” but advised not having Carnival this year “wouldn’t Dean, the chairman of the environmental the RA to build “strong channels of kill anybody”. group Greenrock. communication” to address public He also made the point that not having The RA also took advice from an concerns. the usual activities will help minimise independent advisory panel, which The report added, “The science the potential risk of spreading Covid-19 reviewed feedback from the public underpinning the relationship between in Dominica. to compile a final report – which has now 5G and health is particularly complex, “The reality is when you are in a fete, been approved for publication by the requiring detailed knowledge of a range I don’t expect you to have a mask and be Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit. RA’s board of commissioners. of different scientific disciplines, including drinking… you are more than likely not The advisory panel was made up of exposure assessment, biological, medical to be wearing a mask when you are in a face as closely as possible” adding, “This chairman Glenn Blakeney, Dr. Carika and public health science.” fete situation and you are more than is why the festive activities are a concern Weldon and three international scientists It said the community faced difficulty likely not to be sanitising your hands as to all of us and this is why we are asking – Dr. Rodney Croft of Australia, evaluating 5G “without relying heavily frequently as you should, and you are people to minimise their exposure to Dr. Jeffrey Herd of the US and on opinion-based information”. more than likely not to be socially these kinds of activities to safeguard Dr. Raafat Mansour of Canada. Dr. The panel also recommended tracking distancing in a festive environment,” yourself, to safeguard your family and Weldon left the panel in December 5G exposure levels in the field – and for the prime minister stated. of course to safeguard the country.” and was not an author of the final the RA to “consider initiating a periodic He further pointed out that when one Carnival 2021 in Dominica has been report. independent assessment to review and is intoxicated, that’s when “they hug cancelled in an effort to prevent the Feedback on the report, available on identify any new developments in the everybody and to speak in everybody’s spread of COVID-19 on the island. the website www.ra.bm, was requested scientific consensus”.

ECCB to issue EC polymer five dollar Jamaica note by end records 403 of March new COVID- THE Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) is projecting that the polymer five-dollar note will be released by the 19 cases end of March. The ECCB launched its family of EC polymer notes in May 2019 with the new On Monday Jamaica recorded its high- $50. The $100, $20 and $10 have since est number of COVID-19 cases in a been issued.The release of the five-dollar, 24-hour period, with 403 cases recorded which was initially projected for from 1 935 samples tested. September 2020, has been delayed due Jamaica on Monday recorded one more to a decrease in demand for the note in COVID-19 fatality, pushing the total ECCB member countries. to 359. The Acting Director of the Currency The deceased was an 84-year-old male Management Department Rosbert from Kingston and St. Andrew. Humphrey, recently said that although The ages of the new cases range from five-dollar notes are in circulation more The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank ECCB is projecting that the polymer five-dol- 63 days to 96 years, pushing the total to than any other denomination, it is the lar note will be released by the end of March. 17 701 with 4 793 being active. least demanded note. Of the new cases, 154 are males and Humphrey further explained that the level of stock which would determine crumpling and applying heat, as these 249 are females. polymer five-dollar notes may not be when the new notes are released. actions can compromise the features In the meantime, there were 44 more issued in all of the ECCB member coun- Humphrey also encouraged the public of the polymer banknotes. “It’s recoveries, increasing the total to 12 362. tries at the same time, as the commercial to continue to take care of the EC polymer your money, take care of it,” Humphrey Some 156 persons are in hospital with banks in each country have a different banknotes. He advises against creasing, said. 22 moderately ill and 13 critically ill. The Barbados Advocate Wednesday February 10, 2021 • 13 Grenada PM recommends social fund to assist citizens

PRIME MINISTER of Grenada the desperate cries of those among us of this initiative must be someone with a be that lifeline to a brother or a sister in Dr. Keith Mitchell has proposed who simply have no means of helping justifiable need, that can be verified.” need.The reality of the situation facing us establishing a non-legally binding themselves right now.We must remember The Prime Minister pointing to some now,is that while some are forced to make social fund to assist people affected them and do what we can to help them,” professionals who are affected by the con- something out of nothing, others are de- negatively by the measures adopted he told the nation following the Military trol measures. The list includes farmers, manding more,” said Dr. Mitchell who to contain and control the spread of Parade. fishermen, workers in hotels, restaurants previously served as Finance Minister. Covid-19, as part of an innovative “It is for this reason that I plan to pres- and bars, tourism and market vendors, The Committee of Social Partners solution that will help people cope ent a proposal to the social partners, for taxi drivers, water taxi operators, tour (CSP) was formed in March 2013 and is and recover by the impact of this the creation of a social fund that will be operators and tour guides, other industry chaired by the Prime Minister, Dr. public health pandemic. used to help the most vulnerable in our service providers including operators of Keith Mitchell. The Committee meets “I have always prided myself on being society.The concept is that everyone who marine-based business, LIAT workers monthly and comprises representatives able to sleep comfortably but the suffer- is working will contribute towards this and others involved in aviation services, from the Labour Unions, Conference of ing of our people now keeps me up at fund. I will lead by example, contributing hairdressers, barbers, entertainers, Churches in Grenada, the Evangelical night. The burden is great, maybe even a portion of my salary every month to school-based vendors, shopkeepers, small Churches, Civil Society, Private Sector overwhelming, but I am committed to help those in need and I will be encourag- travel agencies, other business owners, Organisations and Government. doing everything possible to ease the suf- ing my Cabinet colleagues to do the same. property owners. The main objective of the Committee is fering of Grenadians,” the Prime Minister Similarly,I will be encouraging everyone “The way I see it, I can either be so to foster a relationship/common approach said in his 2021 Independence Address. who is able to make a contribution, to do overwhelmed that I become powerless to between Government and the social Grenada celebrated its 47th so.” He disclosed that more than 2 000 help or I can use the cries as motivation partners through the development and Independence anniversary on February 7, persons in the tourism sector have lost to find solutions. I opt for the latter. implementation of a National Social 2021. Protocols enforced for the control- jobs. Making a difference in the life of one Protocol/Compact as a strategic mecha- ling and containing the spread of Covid- “I assure you that if this fund is success- person may seem insignificant in the nism for the formulation and implemen- 19 restricted mass gatherings and as a re- fully started, apart from our individual grand scheme of things but to that person, tation of national policies and for sult, the celebrations limited persons at donations, members of Government will it represents a much-needed lifeline, at a ensuring nation-wide problem solving venues, but was broadcast live through not have any involvement in this fund. time when all else seems lost. We can all on various issues. electronic broadcasting outlets. The way I envision it, the social partners “Unprecedented times necessitate will establish an independent committee strategic, innovative, outside the box to manage and disburse the funds ac- thinking, to find solutions that will soothe quired through this effort.Any beneficiary Colombia to grant legal status to Venezuelan migrants COLOMBIA is to give protected status to almost one million undocumented Venezuelan migrants resident in the country, President Iván Duque said. The protection will last ten years and will allow them to “normalise” into life in Colombia, Duque added. The United Nations says more than five million people have fled Venezuela since 2015, with Colombia taking in the greatest share. UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi praised the decision. At a joint news conference on Monday, he described it as a “historic gesture” and “emblematic for the region, even for the whole world”. Some 1.7 million Venezuelans are thought to have arrived in Colombia but The first doses of Sinopharm vaccines arrived late on Sunday. more than half are without legal status. The changes mean they will be now able to apply for temporary protected sta- tus – making it easier for them to work, Peru starts vaccination campaign seek permanent residency and get access The president said the change will to health services. have ‘national security benefits’ as “We hope that other countries follow well as humanitarian ones. amid second wave our example,” Duque said at the news PERU has started its Covid vaccination Vallejos, the chief of the intensive care conference. pandemic has compounded the situation campaign after the first consignment of unit at a hospital in Lima, received the The announcement came days after he for Venezuelan refugees and migrants 300 000 Sinopharm vaccines arrived on first jab. appealed for better international support living throughout the region, including Sunday. Members of the military, security with the situation, after reversing a pol- border closures leaving them vulnerable The South American country is in the guards and election workers will icy which said undocumented to dangerous exploitation from midst of a second wave of the pandemic. also be given priority ahead of Venezuelans would be excluded from traffickers. With the hospitals close to full capacity, the general election scheduled Colombia's upcoming vaccination drive. Millions have fled Venezuela in recent the authorities have decided that medical for April 11. Colombia, a nation of 50 million people, years because of spiralling economic and staff should be among the first to be Peru has had almost 1.2 million has recorded over two million virus cases political instability that has led to short- vaccinated. confirmed cases and more than and almost 56 000 deaths so far. ages of essentials like food, medicine and Yesterday morning local time, Josef 42 000 people have died. The UN has warned that the Covid-19 fuel.

Partly sunny with a few brief isolated light showers

High: 3:41 a.m. and 2:52 p.m. London: 00°C CLOUDY/SNOW Yesterday: 0.0 mm Boston: -04°C OVERCAST/SNOW/MIST Low: 8:45 a.m. For the month: 7.2 mm Max: 29.0°C Montreal: -08°C CLOUDY and 9:40 p.m. For the year: 134.5 mm Min: 24.0°C Toronto: -04°C FAIR New York: 01°C OVERCAST/MIST 6:23 a.m. 6:03 p.m. Miami: 27°C CLOUDY 14 • Wednesday February 10, 2021 The Barbados Advocate

Video of violence at Capitol open Trump’s historic impeachment trial WASHINGTON – encouraged people in a against the scumbags.” Donald Trump’s his- speech to “fight like hell” to Convicting Trump toric post-presidency overturn his Nov. 3 elec- would require a two-thirds impeachment trial tion defeat. majority, meaning that began in the Senate “If that’s not an im- at least 17 Republicans on Tuesday, with peachment offence, then would need to join the Democrats who are there is no such thing,” Senate’s 48 Democrats hoping to disqualify Democratic congressman and two independents in him from ever again Jamie Raskin, who led the voting against Trump. holding public office prosecution, told the as- That is a tall order. showing graphic video sembled senators – serv- In the Capitol assault, of last month’s deadly ing as jurors – after show- the mob attacked police, storming of the US ing the video. sent lawmakers scram- Capitol that he is The video showed bling for safety and inter- charged with inciting. Trump backers throwing rupted the formal congres- The dramatic proceed- down barriers and hitting sional certification of ings in the 100-seat police officers. It showed President Joe Biden’s Senate focused upon the the moment that protest- victory after Trump had question of whether hold- ers tried to break through spent two months chal- ing a trial after Trump the doors of the House lenging the election re- has left office, as he did chamber as lawmakers sults. Five people died, on Jan. 20, violates the sheltered within, includ- including a police officer. House impeachment managers led by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) arrive outside US Constitution, which al- ing when a police officer Some 170 police officers the Senate Chamber as the impeachment trial of former US President Donald lows for impeachment for shot and killed a protester, were injured. Trump, on charges of inciting the deadly attack on the US Capitol, begins on “high crimes and misde- US Air Force veteran Ashli Trump was impeached Capitol Hill in Washington, US, on February 9, 2021. meanours”. Babbitt, as she tried to by the Democratic-led House of Represen- climb through a broken House on Jan. 13 on a Senate after leaving office tatives Democrats serving window. charge of inciting an in- and the only one to be im- Rival factions agree on as prosecutors opened In another scene, a ri- surrection. Democrats peached twice. He appears their case by showing oter sifting through the hope to disqualify Trump likely to be acquitted video of Trump supporters contents of the desk of a from ever again holding thanks to support from procedures for Palestinian violently overwhelming lawmaker can he heard public office. fellow Republicans in police at the Capitol in the saying, “There’s got to be Trump is the only pres- the narrowly divided elections – statements Jan. 6 attack after he had something here we can use ident to go on trial in the Senate. GAZA – Rival Palestinian attempt by Abbas to show factions agreed on his democratic credentials WHO says ‘extremely Tuesday on steps aimed to new US President Joe at ensuring Palestinian Biden, with whom he elections are held as wants to reset relations unlikely’ virus leaked planned later this year after they reached a new and pledged to respect low under Donald Trump. from lab in China their results, a joint state- At the Cairo talks, the ment said. groups agreed on the for- INTERNATIONAL ex- dramatically changed the No Palestinian elections mation of an “election perts investigating the picture of the outbreak. have been conducted in court”, with judges from origins of COVID-19 have Experts believe the the Israeli-occupied West the West Bank, Gaza and all but dismissed a theory virus is likely to have orig- Bank, Gaza and East East Jerusalem, to rule in that the virus came from a inated in animals before Jerusalem for 15 years any election legal dis- laboratory in China. spreading to humans, but amid a deep rift between putes, the statement said. Peter Ben Embarek, the they are not sure how. President Mahmoud It said Fatah police head of the World Health Dr. Embarek said work Peter Ben Embarek, a member of the World Health Abbas’s Fatah nationalist would guard voting sites Organisation (WHO) mis- to identify the origins of Organisation (WHO) team tasked with investigating group and the Hamas in the West Bank and sion, said it was “extremely COVID-19 pointed to a the origins of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Islamist movement. Hamas police would de- unlikely” that the virus “natural reservoir” in bats, speaks at the WHO-China joint study news confer- The two dominant fac- ploy in Gaza, effectively leaked from a lab in the but it was unlikely that ence at a hotel in Wuhan, Hubei province, China on tions – Fatah holds sway freezing out more secre- city of Wuhan. this happened in Wuhan. February 9, 2021. in the West Bank, and tive security services He said more work was He said identifying the Hamas rules Gaza – con- whose presence might in- needed to identify the animal pathway remained possibility of “cold chain” place and South East vened on Monday for talks timidate voters. source of the virus. a “work in progress”, but transmission, referring to Asia is a very big place. in Cairo to prepare for Fatah and Hamas also The investigation could that it was “most likely” to the transport and trade of The supply chains to the parliamentary elections agreed to release de- now focus on South East have crossed over to hu- frozen food. Huanan seafood market on May 22 and a presiden- tainees held on political Asia, one expert said. mans from an intermedi- Dr.Peter Daszak, a were extensive, they were tial vote on July 31. grounds in the West Bank The WHO team are cur- ary species. member of the WHO team, coming in from other coun- A joint statement at the and Gaza and allow unre- rently at the end of their The experts also said said the focus on where the tries, they were coming end of the two-day session stricted campaigning. investigation mission. there was “no indication” origins that led to COVID- in from various parts of said both groups and 12 Abbas, 85, announced in Wuhan, in China’s cen- that the virus was circu- 19 might be, could be China, so to really trace other Palestinian factions, January the dates for the tral Hubei province, is the lating in Wuhan before shifted to South East Asia. that back it’s going to take including the militant elections, and he is ex- first place in the world the first official cases “We’ve done a lot of work some work.” Islamic Jihad movement, pected to run. that the virus was de- were recorded there in in China and if you map He added that the focus pledged “to abide by the There are 2.8 million el- tected in 2019. Since then, December 2019. that back it starts to point should now be on those timetable” for balloting igible voters in Gaza and more than 106 million Liang Wannian, an ex- towards the border and we supply chains. and “respect and accept” the West Bank. The last cases and 2.3 million pert with China’s Health know that there is very The WHO mission the results. ballot, in 2006, ended in a deaths have been reported Commission, said COVID- little surveillance on the began in January, follow- There has been wide- surprise win by Hamas in worldwide. 19 could have been in other side in the whole re- ing months of negotiations spread scepticism the its first parliamentary Dr. Embarek told a press other regions before it was gion of South East Asia,” with Beijing. The experts’ elections will even hap- elections. That set up a conference the investiga- detected in Wuhan. he told the BBC’s John visit was closely-moni- pen. power struggle between tion had uncovered new The team called for fur- Sudworth in Wuhan. tored by the Chinese au- Many Palestinians be- Hamas in Gaza and Fatah information but had not ther investigation into the “China is a very big thorities. lieve they are mainly an in the West Bank. The Barbados Advocate Wednesday February 10, 2021 • 15

Myanmar police fire to disperse protest, four hurt, one critical POLICE and pro- ported injuries to police testers clashed in during their attempts to Myanmar on Tuesday, disperse protesters – its with injuries on both first acknowledgement sides on the most of the demonstrations violent day so far taking place in the coun- of demonstrations try. against the military The incidents marked coup that overthrew the first bloodshed since Aung San Suu Kyi, the military led by army and a doctor said one chief Senior General Min woman was unlikely Aung Hlaing overthrew to survive a gun Suu Kyi’s newly elected wound in the head. government on Feb. 1 Three other people and detained her and were being treated for other politicians from wounds from suspected her National League for rubber bullets after po- Democracy (NLD). lice fired guns, mostly The military claimed Police use a water cannon against demonstrators as they protest against the military coup and to demand into the air, and used that the NLD won by the release of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, in Mandalay, Myanmar, on February 9, 2021. water cannon to try to fraud – an accusation clear protesters in the dismissed by the election Late on Tuesday,police Yangon, two elected NLD out by about a dozen building in the commer- capital Naypyitaw. committee and Western in Myanmar raided the lawmakers said. police personnel, who cial capital after dark, State television re- governments. NLD’s headquarters in The raid was carried forced their way into the they said. Dozens trapped in tunnel after Himalayan Spain to reform free glacier’s collapse, scores still missing speech laws after LUCKNOW, India – Rescuers raced to free rapper ordered jailed around 35 Indian con- struction workers trapped MADRID – Spain will he not be jailed. in a tunnel, two days after ease its restrictions on Government spokes- the hydroelectric dam free speech, the govern- woman Maria Jesus they were helping to build ment said on Tuesday, in Montero said that in re- was swept away by a wall response to a nation-wide sponse to the Hasel case, of water from a collapsed furore over a rapper or- the government had “ex- glacier that barrelled dered jailed over a song pressed its willingness to down a Himalayan river. and tweets. provide a much more se- The workers were A change in the law cure framework for free- among 197 people who of- would not by itself prevent dom of expression”. The ficials said were still unac- the jailing of Pablo Hasel, reform was in its early counted for as the death who has been ordered to stages, she said. toll from the disaster – surrender by the end of In a statement, the left- which also broke apart this week to serve a nine- ist coalition government bridges, cut off villages month prison sentence said the reform would in- and scarred tracts of imposed in 2018 under a troduce milder penalties mountain landscape – security law known in rather than prison, and rose to 28. Spain as the “gag law”. He target only actions that Packing rocks, dirt and has said he will not turn “clearly involve the cre- construction debris and Members of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) conduct a rescue op- himself in. ation of a risk to public thought to have been trig- eration outside a tunnel after a part of a glacier broke away, in Tapovan in the Hasel’s lyrics and order or provoke some gered when a glacier lake northern state of Uttarakhand, India, on February 9, 2021. tweets, which included kind of violent conduct”. fed by India’s second high- references to banned Hasel, who is known for est peak, Nanda Devi, col- Indo-Tibetan border police been recovered so far. the official said. guerrilla groups, com- his radical leftist views lapsed, the flood swept service showed rescuers Thirteen villages had The 520 MW Tapovan pared a court to Nazis and and whose real name is down the Dhauliganga checking the water level been cut off by the flood- project, being built by called former king Juan Pablo Rivadulla, said in a river on Sunday. deeper inside. waters were being resup- state firm NTPC, is one of Carlos a mafia capo, were tweet the government was Officials said most of Rescuers hoped to open plied from the air, Home many run-of-river projects found under the 2015 law doing nothing to prevent those still missing were the tunnel up by Tuesday Minister Amit Shah told being developed to up- to have encouraged vio- his imprisonment. shift workers at either the afternoon, said Ashok parliament. grade Uttarakhand’s lence and insulted the “With empty declara- Tapovan Vishnugad hy- Kumar, director general A government official power network. monarchy. tions like so many other droelectric project, where of police in Uttarakhand said many locals had ap- Officials have yet to More than 200 artists, false promises, they want the tunnel was situated, state, where the flash parently managed to es- conclusively determine including film director to extinguish solidarity,” or at Rishiganga, a flood occurred. cape the waters by fleeing what caused the disaster, Pedro Almodovar, actor he wrote. smaller dam which was Officials said thermal to higher ground as soon though scientists inves- Javier Bardem and singer Another rapper fled to swept away in the flood. imaging equipment had as they heard the rumble tigating it believe heavy Joan Manuel Serrat, have Belgium in 2018 after Soldiers using bull- also been deployed to help of the water racing down snowfall followed by signed a petition against being sentenced to 3-1/2 dozers had cleared away locate would-be survivors, the valley. bright sunshine combined Hasel’s jailing, calling for years in prison on charges rocks at the mouth of the and Uttarakhand’s chief “The workers in the tun- with a rise in tempera- the law to be changed. including insulting the 2.5-km (1.5-mile) tunnel, minister,Trivendra Singh nel may not have heard tures may have triggered Hasel’s supporters have monarchy and praising and video posted by the Rawat, said 28 bodies had anything and got stuck,” the glacier’s collapse. demonstrated demanding terrorist groups. 16 • Wednesday February 10, 2021 The Barbados Advocate

Princess Eugenie gives birth to baby son LONDON – Princess Eugenie, granddaugh- ter of Queen Elizabeth, has given birth to her first child, a baby son, with husband Jack Brooksbank, Buckingham Palace announced yesterday. Eugenie, the tenth in line to the British throne and younger daughter of the queen’s third child Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York,and her son are both doing well, the palace said. Born weighing 8lbs 1oz, the baby is the ninth great-grandchild for the 94-year-old queen. “The Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Duke of York, Sarah, Duchess of York, and Mr and Mrs George Brooksbank have been informed and are delighted with the news,” the palace said. Eugenie, who married Brooksbank at Windsor Castle in 2018, announced the news on her Instagram account with a picture of the new parents holding the Eugenie announced news of the baby’s birth on her Instagram account with a Bridge newborn’s hand. picture of the new parents holding the newborn’s hand. The Barbados Advocate Wednesday February 10, 2021 • 17 SPORTSSPORTS Reifer calls for zero-tolerance policy against sexual harassment FLOYD Reifer,former Barbados namely a concern raised by the wider region must set a zero- encourage any athlete or In the statement Reifer and West Indies cricketer has players under the governs of the tolerance policy for sexual member of the sporting spotlighted the important fact made the call for all sporting Barbados Football Association harassment,” stated Reifer. community in Barbados and that when such claims are federations, local and regional (BFA). The former West Indies wider region to speak up if they ignored and there is a failure to to take a stand against sexual “As a former cricketer, coach batsman urged the federations are or have been victims of respond, those federations and harassment in the sporting and mentor, I am deeply to ensure that athletes and sexual harassment. In addition, individuals too are part of the community. troubled by the recent reports sporting professionals are able I am appealing to all sporting problem. He implored the Reifer, who is currently in emanating from the sporting to work in safe environments federations and other Barbados and regional sporting Antigua as head coach for the community in Barbados with where they would not feel organizations in Barbados and fraternity to work together in West Indies U-19 squad, regards to sexual harassment. uncomfortable as a result of across the Caribbean, not to order to create safe sporting released a statement yesterday The Barbados Football unwanted pestering or sweep any form of sexual environments that allow all to on recent reports of sexual Association and other sporting intimidation. harassment allegations under thrive rather than harm. harassment within Barbados, organisations in Barbados and “I want to support and the carpet,” said Reifer. (PR/AS) Hetmyer, Shepherd help Guyana Kyle Mayers looking for more runs Hard work paying off Jaguars to victory over B’dos Pride By Corey Greaves achieved and what we did to get ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Ground. He won the CG Justin Greaves, caught at there and things we do well and Shimron Hetmyer topscored Insurance Man-of-the-Match mid-wicket by Hetmyer and the AFTER his history-making things we didn’t do well. I spoke with 80 off 52 balls while all- award. Guyana batted first and second was Roston Chase, beaten double century which helped the on batting and coming back the rounder Romario Shepherd, made 235. After a rain break the and bowled. West Indies to victory over next day and always getting made 58 not out also from 52 target was revised to 232 off 47 “I’m really pleased with my Bangladesh, West Indies Kyle out.” deliveries as Guyana Jaguars overs. Barbados Pride reached performance. I have been working Mayers gave credit to hard work A game which stood out to recorded a comfortable win 91-5 in the 30th over when rain really hard on my batting and I and his father Shirley Clarke for Mayers was when he was (by 56 runs on DLS Method) returned and brought an end to was happy with the way I played helping him reach where he is. playing for his club Carlton and over Barbados Pride in the match. and the contribution I made to In an interview, Mayers said scored 175 runs. Match 2 of the CG Insurance Off-spinner Kevin Sinclair, a help the team win,” Shepherd that during the lockdown he was “I told the group that I was so Super50 Cup on Monday member of the victorious West said. “I’m in good shape and the fortunate to have a level 3 coach eager to come back the next day night. Indies Emerging Players team ball is also coming out really well. with him. That person was his that I didn’t even sleep and then Shepherd also took a wicket back in 2019, took 2-17 from 7.3 This was a good victory for us … father who he said worked with I went and I got two balls and I and bowled with pace on a good overs as Guyana Jaguars bowled you always want to start with a him throughout the lockdown didn’t add a score to the 175. So surface at the Coolidge Cricket well. His first wicket was opener win.” and the days when people could scoring this double means a lot not leave their property in to mean. I think this is the Barbados. longest time I ever batted so that “I had my dad there working in itself shows that I put my all with me, so we worked on into it and the hard work that I various stuff.” have been doing is now paying Such is the relationship with off. I can only give thanks and his father that Mayers is able to hope to continue to do well and talk to him about anything and become a student of the game get advice. and just keep learning each day.” Mayers noted that his father With so many people playing talks to him about his batting a part of his journey Mayers said every time, “not trying to make that “he dedicated the double me feel uncomfortable but trying century to many people who to help as much as possible. I have been involved in his life think he is always there if I want from the time he was growing up something. If I ask him what he including family,friends and all thinks about how I am batting? the people who has supported What he thinks about my him from the time he has been stance? anything he would be playing cricket from Alexandra there and try to help and it has to Barbados and the Windward been great.” Islands. At the start of the virtual “Coaches that I have had from media conference Mayers was growing up till now, teammates surprised with the presence of I can’t just single out one person his father who mentioned when I have to give everyone credit.” Shepherd made 58 before he Shimron Hetmyer threw his wicket away after making 80 he witnessed the innings it With his focus more on the ran out of partners. against Barbados. brought a tear to his eyes when spending time and not on the he reached the milestone. scoreboard Mayers was able to Clarke who has played First learn that he can be patient and Class cricket for Barbados and stay at the crease and don’t Kyle Gale breaks Kansas State school record The University of the West watch the scoreboard. KYLE Gale announced himself every weekend, in the 300m, asked of him. He is also a team Indies said he thought Mayers “I’m a student of the game as a serious candidate in the quar- 400m and 600-Yard Sprint.” guy.When your best athletes are played extremely well and always looking to learn new ter mile for Kansas State Gale showcased his explosive- your hardest workers, you have congratulated him and his team stuff,” said Mayers who said he University with a school record. ness at the Arkansas Qualifier, something special.” on the victory. will be taking positives from the Running in section four of the with a 46.26-second performance Gale was also part of the As Mayers reflected on his game but still look to improve. 400m at the Arkansas Qualifier in the 400m that nobody in 4x400m relay team that placed historic moment he said it felt He will be trying to “learn as last Friday, Gale who is a Manhattan has touched since second in 3:11.20 great and “it my his highest much as possible from this Freshman broke a 24-year-old Keith Black set the school mark Darian Clarke who is also a score…ever”. innings and take it into the next. school record in the 400m with a back in 1997.” freshman at Kansas State came “I always wanted to score a I want to be successful for the time of 44.26 secs. On the school’s The coach also gave glowing fourth in the 60m with a time 6.94 double.” duration of my career and I want website it said that Gale’s fresh- remarks for his work ethic as well secs and ninth in the 200m in The lead up to the moment to be consistent. I always believe man season began with his first on the website.“With respect to 22.14 secs. The winner Kritoffer stuck with Mayers who said that that scoring runs is important so college victory in December. Kyle, obviously, he is a gifted Hari from Arkansas won the 60m it was “funny, because we had a taking the positive, taking it into “All the Barbadian interna- young guy, but he works harder in 6.77 secs, while Jayson Ashford team meeting and we were the next game starting tional has done since is break than most,” Rovelto said. win the 200m in 21.07 secs from speaking about our personal from 0 and start to build meet or school records nearly “He does everything that is Missouri. goals and what we have on this.” 18 • Wednesday February 10, 2021 The Barbados Advocate

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Root lauds bowlers after US safety board cites pilot Australian Open: Egypt’s England crush India in first test actions as likely cause of Mayar Sherif creates history JOE ROOT could hardly hopes of a draw while left- Kobe Bryant fatal crash MAYAR Sherif became the Pliskova in three sets at have scripted his 100th arm spinner Leach (4-76) first Egyptian woman to last year’s French Open. test any better after the then ran through the WASHINGTON – The The NTSB cited Pilot win a main draw match at “It means a lot because England captain led his lower. National Transportation Ara Zobayan’s decision to a Grand Slam when finally this is a barrier team to a 227-run victory The hosts, who had been Safety Board (NTSB) continue the flight into beating France’s Chloe that I had to pass, a over India yesterday set a daunting 420-run yesterday cited the actions weather conditions that Paquet at the Australian mental barrier,” said before being named Man victory target, got a of the pilot as the probable resulted in the pilot’s Open yesterday. Sherif, who has has been of the Match at Chennai’s fighting 72 from captain cause of the January 2020 “spatial disorientation and The 24-year-old, who is buoyed in the past by MA Chidambaram Virat Kohli while opener helicopter crash that killed loss of control.” currently ranked 131 in support from fellow Stadium. Shubman Gill scored an retired NBA star Kobe The board also cited the world, beat 187th- Egyptian Mo Salah. Sherif James Anderson dis- elegant 50 but they were Bryant, his daughter Zobayan’s “likely self- ranked Paquet 7-5 7-5 in will next face Slovenia’s played his reverse-swing bowled out for 192 in the and seven others, saying induced pressure” to Melbourne.The Egyptian Kaja Juvan, who won mastery with a three- second session of the final the pilot became complete the flight. The was delighted to get a first through after the wicket burst in the day. disoriented and did not agency also cited Zobayan’s Grand Slam win under withdrawal of Great Bri- morning session to The tourists lead the follow rules for flying in “poor decision to fly in her belt after losing to the tain’s 13th seed Johanna effectively snuff out India’s four-match series 1-0. cloudy weather. excess of airspeed” Czech Republic’s Karolína Konta due to injury.

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FA Cup: Man Utd beat West Ham in Bournemouth knock Premier extra time to reach quarter-finals League Burnley out of FA Cup BURNLEY, England: Burnley manager Sean across from Jack Stacey. MAN Utd beat West Ham minutes when Lukasz The opportunity was Premier League Burnley Dyche fielded a largely The Clarets created in extra time to reach FA Fabianski reacted quickly created by Marcus were knocked out of the second-string lineup, little but Jay Rodriguez Cup quarter-finals to turn the ball on to a Rashford on his 250th FA Cup by Championship making eight changes should have brought them Scott McTominay’s well- post after Victor Lindelof’s United appearance. side Bournemouth after from the team which drew level in the 56th minute taken extra-time strike header had taken a huge Following a break that suffering a 2-0 defeat to with Brighton & Hove when he missed a glorious was enough to send deflection off Craig took United from one the second-tier team at Albion in the Premier chance, scooping the ball Manchester United into Dawson. penalty area to the other, Turf Moor yesterday. League on Saturday. over the bar from close the FA Cup quarter-finals However, in a game that Rashford flicked a delicate Sam Surridge’s 21st- Bournemouth looked range. Former Burnley at the expense of West included a historic pass into McTominay’s minute goal and a late hungrier from the outset winger Stanislas made Ham. concussion substitution, path with the outside of Junior Stanislas penalty and caused Burnley plenty sure of the win, two On a bitterly cold night when Issa Diop was his foot and the Scotland sent the Cherries, of problems before minutes from the end, at Old Trafford, the hosts replaced at half-time, midfielder’s first-time relegated from the top Surridge put them in with a well-taken penalty came closest to breaking McTominay had the finish flew low into the flight last season, into the front, slotting home from after Kevin Long brought the deadlock inside 90 decisive word. net. quarter-finals. close range after a low ball down Surridge in the box.

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APPLICANT: Ryan Franklin APPLICANT: Shawn May- APPLICANT: Shawn Stuart APPLICANT: Shemajah APPLICANT:Tiffany Robert- APPLICANT: Tyrone May- hew Charles son cock OCCUPATION: OCCUPATION: OCCUPATION: Electrician OCCUPATION: OCCUPATION: OCCUPATION: ADDRESS: Long Gao ADDRESS: Lower Black Spooners Hill, St. Michael ADDRESS: Ward’s land, Rock Road, St. Michael ADDRESS: Ellis Village, ADDRESS: 6B Montrose, ADDRESS: 82 Kingsland Goodland St Michael Hall’s Road, St. Michael Christ Church Garden, Christ Church PREMISES: wooden Struc- PREMISES: A wood struc- ture situated at Long Gap PREMISES: Wooden struc- ture situated at Lower Black PREMISES: Green shop PREMISES: Wooden struc- PREMISES: A wall building Spooners Hill, St. Michael ture situated at Ward’s land, Rock, St. Michael situated opposite Halls ture situated at Fairchild situated at Roebuck Street, Goodland St Michael Road, St Michael Street Bus Terminal, St. Mi- St. Michael Dated this 28th day of De- Dated this 22nd day of chael cember 2020 Dated this 19th day of Janu- January 2021 Dated this 27th day of Janu- Dated this 10th day of De- ary, 2021 ary 2020 Dated this 14th day of Janu- cember, 2020 Signed : R Franklin Signed : S Stuart ary 2021 Applicant Signed : S Mayhew Applicant Signed : L Burnett Signed : T Maycock Applicant Applicant Signed : T Robertson Applicant Applicant for a grant of a Re- Applicant for a grant of a Re- Applicant tail License will be consid- Applicant for a grant of a Re- tail License will be consid- Applicant for a grant of a Re- Applicant for a grant of a Re- ered at Licensing Court to be tail License will be consid- ered at Licensing Court to be tail License will be consid- Applicant for a grant of a Re- tail License will be consid- held at Magistrate’s Court ered at Licensing Court to be held at Magistrate’s Court ered at Licensing Court to be tail License will be consid- ered at Licensing Court to be District ‘A’ on Thursday the held at Magistrate’s Court District ‘A’ on Thursday the held at Magistrate’s Court ered at Licensing Court to be held at Magistrate’s Court 18th day of February, 2021 District ‘A’ on Thursday the 18th day of February, 2021 District ‘A’ on Thursday the held at Magistrate’s Court District ‘A’ on Thursday the at 10 o’clock am. 18th day of February, 2021 at 10 o’clock am. 18th day of February, 2021 District ‘A’ on Thursday the 18th day of February, 2021 at 10 o’clock am. at 10 o’clock am. 18th day of February, 2021 at 10 o’clock am. J Gaskin J Gaskin at 10 o’clock am. Clerk to Licensing Authority J Gaskin Clerk to Licensing Authority J Gaskin J Gaskin Clerk to Licensing Authority Clerk to Licensing Authority J Gaskin Clerk to Licensing Authority Clerk to Licensing Authority

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J Gaskin J Gaskin J Gaskin J Gaskin J Gaskin J Gaskin Clerk to Licensing Authority Clerk to Licensing Authority Clerk to Licensing Authority Clerk to Licensing Authority Clerk to Licensing Authority Clerk to Licensing Authority The Barbados Advocate Wednesday February 10, 2021 • 21

IOC: Tokyo 2020 F1 bosses to discuss shorter ‘sprint’ Chief’s remarks about races to increase entertainment women ‘absolutely FORMULA 1 bosses troduce sprint races in “When we changed next five years. are to discuss a new some form on Saturdays qualifying every couple of However, it remains to proposal to introduce – is to be discussed days [at the start of be seen whether teams inappropriate’ shorter ‘sprint’ races at a meeting of the 2016], it burned our will accept the idea. in an attempt to in- F1 Commission of senior fingers. Now,the formula One potential sticking COMMENTS made about participants “get competi- crease entertainment figures. is quite stable. We are point is that, according to women by Yoshiro Mori, tive” with each other levels this season. To be passed, it needs a looking at what could be sources, F1 is proposing the head of the Tokyo in meetings. Teams and bosses will total of 28 out of 30 votes. the approach of the only an extra $75 000 Olympics organising On Tuesday, the IOC vote tomorrow on a plan Governing body the FIA so-called sprint race (£55 000) per team per committee, were “ab- added the remarks were for a shorter race on and commercial rights on Saturday. We are race to cover the new solutely inappropriate”, “in contradiction” to its Saturday, which would holder F1 have ten each, thinking that could be approach. the International “commitments and the define the grid for and the ten teams one tested maybe this This is nowhere near Olympic Committee (IOC) reforms of its Olympic Sunday’s grand prix. apiece. year.” enough to cover the costs says. Agenda 2020” – though it Qualifying for the Previous plans have Three races have been of any damage to cars Mori, 83, said women did not mention any Saturday race would take not received the neces- chosen as potential ven- in the shorter race – talk too much and that further action against place on Friday. sary support but this one ues for a trial this year a front wing alone can meetings with many Mori. The top eight drivers in has dropped the proposal on the basis that they cost as much as female board directors “Besides Mr Mori’s the ‘sprint’ race would for a reverse grid for the should provide fast and $200 000. would “take a lot apology, the Tokyo 2020 earn approximately sprint race. Mercedes, exciting racing – Canada, There is also scepticism of time”. Organising Committee half the points awarded who blocked the plan for Italy and Brazil. in some quarters as to He later apologised for also considers his com- for the grand prix. a reverse-grid sprint If they were a whether a sprint the remarks following ment to be inappropriate The ‘sprint’ race would race, are said to be open- success, the idea would race would provide calls for his resignation, and has reaffirmed its be about 100 kilometres – minded on the new pro- be used more widely the excitement some but said he did not plan commitment to gender a third the length of a posal. in 2022. expect. to stand down. equality,” the IOC grand prix – and would F1 president Stefano F1 hopes the idea Some insiders have The IOC said last said. replace qualifying, which Domenicali said in a would raise interest for raised questions as to week it considered “As the leader of the takes place on Saturday news conference last the audience, as Friday whether teams and the “issue closed” after Olympic Movement, we afternoon or evening. week: “Reverse grid is practice sessions tend drivers would be risk- the apology. are committed to our Qualifying for the over. It’s important to only to be watched by averse during the sprint Around 440 Games mission to encourage and sprint race would replace think of new ideas of avid fans. race, as the penalty for volunteers have quit support the promotion of second practice, which is being more attractive or The plan should be having a problem or not in response to Mori’s women in sport at all on Friday afternoon or interesting but we seen as part of a wider at- finishing is so high when comments, made last levels and in all structures, evening. don’t have to lose the tempt by F1 to increase far more points are given Wednesday, in which as stated in the Olympic The plan – the latest in traditional approach of the value of the business out in the main Grand he also said female Charter.” a series of attempts to in- racing. significantly over the Prix. 22 • Wednesday February 10, 2021 The Barbados Advocate

LeBron shines as Lakers beat Thunder in overtime

LEBRON JAMES scored 28 points The Chicago Bulls’ Zach LaVine in a stellar display to help scored 35 points but the Washington the Los Angeles Lakers to a Wizards’ Bradley Beal matched that 119-112 overtime win against tally the Oklahoma City Thunder. as the Wizards edged the game James also served up 14 rebounds 105-101. and 12 assists as his team Trailing 103-101 with 9.8 seconds earned a fifth straight win to leave left, LaVine missed a contested layup. them second in the Western Beal Conference. recovered the rebound, drew a foul Montrezl Harrell added 21 points and hit two free throws to seal the and eight rebounds for the Lakers, win. while Dennis Schroder added Devin Booker’s 36 points helped the 19 points. Phoenix Suns to a third win in a row as Only the Utah Jazz sit above they saw off the Cleveland Cavaliers the Lakers in the Western 119-113. Conference. The Charlotte Hornets dominated the Giannis Antetokounmpo produced Houston Rockets as LaMelo Ball landed 30 points and nine rebounds as the a career-best seven three-pointers in Milwaukee Bucks – the only other team a 119-94 win. on a five-game winning streak – won Luka Doncic scored 26 points 125-112 at the Denver Nuggets, as the Dallas Mavericks held leaving them second in the Eastern off a late rally to defeat the Conference. visiting Minnesota Timberwolves Elsewhere on Monday,Stephen Curry 127-122. was in fine form for the Golden Doncic has now scored 25 points or State Warriors but his 32 points more in 11 straight games, two were not enough to beat the San matches short of the Mavericks’ Antonio Spurs. franchise record. In a thrilling game, the Spurs And Pascal Siakam scored 12 led by a single point with less of his 32 points in the fourth than nine seconds on the clock before quarter as the Toronto Raptors DeMar DeRozan converted four free defeated the Memphis Grizzlies throws. 128-113. LeBron James scored 28 points to see off Oklahoma City Thunder. The Barbados Advocate Wednesday February 10, 2021 •23

P R O HOROSCOPES S A ARIES (March 21-April 19). It's a time of new be- N ginnings and for moving into the future. Don't look D back. It is important now for you to keep your eyes on your goal. A new future beckons and it is up to C you to take steps towards it. If you do nothing, you O will still be in the same place you're in now for a N long time to come. S TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Someone close will try to distract you from your goals by making un- necessary demands. Sooner or later you're going to have to tell them to manage on their own. You have important things to do and you're determined to get on with it. Refuse to dance to anyone else's tune. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You've always en- Z joyed some degree of freedom. This makes it hard I for you to make long-term joint commitments. A T growing need for greater security in your life will S prod you into agreeing to new arrangements. You might wonder whether you are doing the right thing. This is the right choice for you at this mo- ment in time. CANCER (June 22-July 22). You're in tune with the Moon, your astrological ruler. You might often notice your mood changing with the different cy- cles of the Moon. Today your feelings run deep. Your focus is on your closest relationships and you R might feel prompted to make some changes to your E home life that will benefit everyone. X LEO (July 23-Aug. 22).A new career move could be good for you but something is holding you back. M You aren't certain whether this is the right time to O make a big change. Talk to your partner or some- R one who knows you well. Spilling out what is on G your mind could help alleviate your worries. A VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). A mutual goal will be N achieved and this should give you something to be pleased about. You may not feel as ecstatic about this as you would have expected. It has taken a lot of hard work, time and effort to get this far and you will just be relieved to have finally got it over with. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Just as you were start- ing to wonder whether some recent efforts have P been worth it, you will see results. Your past hard H work is starting to pay off. Not only will you be A amazed by your achievement but this will inspire N you to go on to bigger and better things. T SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Some things can O only be thought out and sorted out on your own. M People will try to be helpful but if anyone inter- feres, you may as well give up altogether. Problems can be solved and to do this you need to do some quiet thinking. In a work situation there are logis- tics to be put in place. Stay focused on the matter in hand. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You are inun- dated with requests from others. Friends, neigh- M bours family and colleagues all seem to want some- A thing from you. It won't be easy to keep up with it R all and for that reason, you might decide to sneak Y off to a secluded place where no-one can find you. This will give you a chance too, to decide on your W priorities. O CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You can't ignore R touchy topics in the hope they will go away. Money T issues need to be discussed in the family. Financial H matters that have been causing problems should be looked at in a calm and sensible way. Your hope is to reach decisions and agreements that will make the future look more secure. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). A door is about to M open and you will be given a chance to pursue a O personal aim. It would mean a lot to you to have the T support of your family but even if they don't under- H stand why this is important to you, you will carry E on regardless. Sometimes you just have to do what R you feel is right for you. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Little things like G being able to get all your bills paid on time make O you happy. After all the struggles you have been O S through, it will feel good to be in control of your E finances once again. It's also a good time to get those strong feelings of yours out in the open. Hetmyer, Shepherd help Guyana Jaguars to victory over B’dos Pride Page 17

Wednesday February 10, 2021 WETTER THAN NORMAL

ABOVE average rainfall is predicted that drier conditions period. On the other hand, long- predicted across Barbados Conditions until April predicted are likely to develop by the end term predictions indicate the through February to April of May. possibility for drier conditions 2021. rainfall for the season are low having above normal rainfall “By the end of April, developing by the end of May That’s according to the with only a 12% chance of throughout May to July is even predictions from various points 2021”. Barbados Meteorological receiving below normal rainfall. lower,with only a 20% chance or across the island show little Furthermore, temperatures Services (BMS) Monthly In addition, long-term having higher than normal indication of possible drought across the island, according to Climate Outlook. forecasts (May to July) indicate rainfall accumulations mainly conditions.This is also reflected the climate outlook are expected The forecast suggests a 66% a 53% probability of ‘below across southern portions of the in the rainfall forecast from to generally be below normal for chance of ‘above normal’ rainfall normal’ rainfall mainly across island,” the Climate Outlook February to April. This does not the season February to April across the island and a 22% northern parishes. stated. mean however that every day 2021, with above normal chance of ‘near normal’ rainfall “There is a lower chance (27%) Drought conditions remain between February to April will maximum and minimum accumulations for the season. of receiving near normal less of a concern at the end of be wet. It is likely to experience temperatures on the long-term – Predictions for ‘below normal’ rainfall. The probability of April 2021. However, it is dry spells throughout that May to July. RBPF removes ‘Ninja Man’ from Treasury Building FOR ‘Ninja Man’, the flamboyant and mischievous street character, yesterday was his last day living on the exterior of the Treasury Building in Bridgetown. ‘Ninja Man’, better known to the law courts as Anthony Fitzpatrick Lynch, was asked to leave and remove his belongings and trash from the north side of the government building. At 8 a.m, The Barbados Advocate encountered the irate homeless man as he stormed across traffic to throw old clothing and suitcases onto the sidewalk of Rickett Street. Senior representatives from the Treasury Building and Sanitation Service Authority (SSA) waited for the cleaning staff and the Royal Barbados Police Force (RBPF) to arrive. During this time, ‘Ninja Man’ started to toss his clothing into the street, flailing his arms around and swearing at the media. Around 8:17 a.m, the SSA workers, wearing white overalls and red gloves, put on additional Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) before working on the large heap of dirty clothes, plastics and furniture. Five minutes later, two RBPF officers approached ‘Ninja Man’ and told him that he must leave the area. ‘Ninja Man’ moving his items under the watchful eyes of the Royal Barbados Police Force (RBPF) yesterday morning. The SSA workers took about fifteen minutes to load the trash, Not the first incident the Treasury Building with and homeless people in which included a large sofa chair This is not the first incident spray paint. In 2018, he was in Unsanitary conditions being Bridgetown. It was noted that and a tricycle into the dumper. for ‘Ninja Man’ who has been to court again for another criminal created in The City the area is a meeting place for They drove off, but returned to the law courts over the years for matter. As curious Barbadians the homeless community and remove the small pile of garbage several petty crimes and public The Barbados Advocate watched yesterday’s drama the space around the Treasury left by ‘Ninja Man’ on Rickett violations. understands that ‘Ninja Man’ unfold, some persons Building was often used as an Street. In 2015, the local media has been living at the Treasury commented on the unsanitary “outdoor toilet” and bathing reported that Lynch had defaced Building for many years. conditions created by vagrants house.

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