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Damage to Bus Disgraceful Established October 1895 Gay named OECS ambassador for Barbados Page 7 Thursday July 1, 2021 $1 VAT Inclusive WEATHER WARNING First of two waves affects island THE first of two expected tropical waves passed over the island yesterday, bring- ing with it rain, lightning and thunder along with flood waters in many areas of Barbados. The Barbados Meteorological Services (MET Office) issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning along with a Flash Flood Warning around 5:10 am yes- terday morning as the condi- tions, brought about by the trop- ical wave affecting the island, intensified. The warnings put Barbadians on alert for rapid flooding due to heavy or excessive rainfall in a short period of time, which would be accompanied by sig- nificant lightning activity. Director of the Barbados MET on Page 4 Bay Street as usual was flooded and motorists had to navigate the waters wisely. Damage to bus disgraceful THERE is one less bus on the road for at least a day or two and the taxpayers of Barbados are now forced to pay out in ex- cess of $1 000 after vandals struck the Barbados Transport Board. Around 8:30 on Tuesday night while transporting pas- sengers along the St. Patrick's route, one of the Board's electric buses was attacked by a person or group of persons, who threw stones through the windows. This was revealed to members of the media by Chief Operations Officer of the Transport Board Lynda Holder early yesterday morning. Counting the blessings that no passengers were injured during the attack, Holder bemoaned the actions and noted that this was not the first time that mem- bers of the public had made at- tempts at vandalising the new fleet of government buses. “Everyone is aware that the gov- ernment of Barbados would have tried to improve on public Workshop Manager at Caribbean Auto Glass Jamar Russell explaining the procedure for the replacement of the glass for the transportation by purchasing a front left panel of the bus to Barbados Transport Board Chief Operations Officer Lynda Holder. BUS on Page 3 2 • Thursday July 1, 2021 The Barbados Advocate The Barbados Advocate Thursday July 1, 2021 • 3 ‘Tread lightly’ WHILE many are breath- of countries to reimpose end of 2020, the current Significant losses ing a sigh of relief that lockdowns and other pub- regime follows the money Barbados finds itself on lic health restrictions. and not the science with LGBT+ discrimination United Kingdom’s COVID Fears are rising that the COVID19.” is costing the 19 Green List, Reverend more contagious variant “The too-short, two-day Caribbean region up to Guy Hewitt is calling on will hamper global efforts quarantine and not lock- 5.7 percent of annual the powers that be to pro- to contain the pandemic. ing down when the med- gross domestic product ceed with caution as it re- In the UK, COVID19 ical community signalled (GDP). lates to the expected in- cases are again starting to an alert, came at a cost to That’s according to Phil flow of visitors from rise exponentially, and lives and the economy. Crehan, social develop- Britain. their already exhausted Further, when the crisis ment consultant and one In a statement to the National Health Service hit, rather than identify of the researchers respon- media yesterday, (NHS) is seeing a rise in overseas visitors as the sible for the report com- Reverend Guy Hewitt who hospitalisations.” main perpetrators, they missioned by Open for is a candidate for presi- Reverend Hewitt says blamed everyday Business, on the dent of the Democratic that Barbados should not Barbadians for the com- Economic Case for Labour Party recalled that underestimate this vari- munity spread.” LGBT+ Inclusion in the on the previous Amber ant, which now accounts He noted that due to the Caribbean. He spoke to List persons travelling for 99 percent of new spread of the Delta vari- this yesterday during the from Barbados were re- COVID19 cases in the ant, Brits are now banned launch of the report not- quired to quarantine at UK. from travelling to 58 coun- ing that in actual figures, home (or in the place they “It is roughly 60 percent tries including: in Europe: that discrimination re- were staying) for 10 days more transmissible than Germany, The sults in loss of between and take COVID19 tests the original Alpha variant Netherlands and US $1.5 billion and US on day 2 and day 8. and is somewhat more re- Switzerland; in North $4.2 billion in one year However, now on the sistant to vaccines. A America: Canada & the alone. Green List, passengers to Public Health England US; in Central America: His comments came as Britain simply have to (PHE)study showed 29 Argentina, Brazil, he said that the research, take a COVID-19 test be- percent of the 42 people Panama, & Suriname; in for which the data was col- fore travelling and an- who recently died after Africa: Kenya & South lected qualitatively and other one after arrival. No catching the Delta variant Africa; in Asia: China, quantitatively, utilising quarantine is required. new strain had both vacci- India, Israel, Japan, & surveys and interviews, He cautioned however nations. Singapore; in the examined exclusion and Phil Crehan, social development consultant that this ease of travel re- “A PHE technical brief- Caribbean: Bahamas, challenges in family, edu- providing details on the report. strictions, which is antici- ing on June 25 indicated Bermuda, St Kitts & cation, health, employ- pated to increase the vol- that figure had risen to 43 Nevis,Trinidad & Tobago; ment, housing, financial Caribbean countries likely to visit local com- ume of passenger flows be- percent (50 of 117), with and South Pacific: services, brain drain, oc- which included the munities, go into the local tween the two countries, the majority (60 percent) Australia & New Zealand. cupational segregation, Eastern Caribbean states, nightlife, museums [and] may come at a cost. having received at least “Persons from the UK tourism among others. Barbados, Trinidad, markets. So it's not just “The rapid rise of the one dose.” will only be allowed to According to Crehan there Guyana Belize,Jamaica that they want to visit the highly transmissible He noted that of signifi- enter these countries if was a larger LGBT+ vul- and The Bahamas. country and stay in a re- Indian-originating Delta cance is that the UK’s they are citizens, perma- nerability to interpersonal “The LGBT+ sample sort, they want to go visit coronavirus variant strain COVID-19 experience has nent residents, or an im- violence and self-harm, earns 11 percent less than the country and really go in the UK has put coun- been a precursor of things mediate family member of and he added, that there the mainstream popula- out there and spend more tries in Europe, North to come for other countries a citizen, but with a few is a significant wage gap tion, and this is absolutely dollars. So that's two America and elsewhere on including the US and other exceptions. between the average an- exactly in line with global things that we're able to watch.” Caribbean. Barbados is encouraged to nual income of the LGBT+ literature. And what we plug into an economic “The rapid global spread “This has proved partic- be vigilant and this time sample and the average can do with that, is we can model,” he said. of the Delta variant has ularly true in Barbados as follow the science not the annual income of the gen- extrapolate that wage gap Crehan stated that forced a growing number we watched towards the money,” he opined. eral populations in the 12 to lost productivity in the there is an added value to workplace, and then fur- having pro LGBT+ poli- ther extrapolate what cies enacted. He explained that means in terms of that when the LGBT+ Lawless behaviour a blow lower economic output... and non LGBT+ partici- But all of this comes down pants were asked if they to, that we can with as- would visit a country be- surance... say that be- fore or after it passes leg- tween 1.5 billion and 4.2 islation supporting same to tax-paying public billion dollars are lost an- sex civil unions, 60 per- nually due to LGBT+ ex- cent of the entire sample, BUS from Page 1 work. “It means that this were only a few of the bur- Barbadians to be more clusion and that’s up to said only after such laws bus, BM615, is now off the dens that the public had to mindful and caring. “The 5.7 percent of the regional were in place. number of electric vehi- road until we can fix this bear. “We want to make buses came on the road GDP,” he stated. “This is really interest- cles. After spending just situation.The cost of doing sure we share this mes- just under a year ago. The He went further indi- ing, because it shows us over $22 million BDS to this, if it continues, will ob- sage with the traveling first bus was deployed on cating that 18 percent of that a lot of LGBT+ trav- purchase buses, put in in- viously grow and it will di- public so people would un- August 23rd so we're com- the tourism sample said ellers, of course, looking at frastructure and train minish the value of what derstand that when you ing into 12 months of the they would not visit the the context in which they staff, it is quite unfortu- we are seeking to achieve.
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