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Wednesday November 11, 2020 $1 VAT Inclusive Government clears the air over dump LESS than 24 hours after residents, but did not having legal action touted want to do so until after by the Democratic Labour the by-election for the rea- Party candidate in today’s son that, for me, this is a St. George North by- serious matter and we election, Floyd Reifer, over didn’t want to play any the situation at the Lower politics with this and I felt Estate quarry, govern- that needed to speak to ment officials invited the residents first to tell them media to the dumping site what we’re going to be to ‘clear the air’. doing going forward be- With the environmen- fore actually speaking to tal nuisance being one of the press on the matter the main talking points in and that is where we are the lead up to today’s race, at this point in time,” he the briefing was called to said give residents and the With residents suffer- wider public a look into ing from the fumes for the the issue. The day’s tour past few years, it was re- saw also officials from the vealed that the situation , the arose from the improper Water Authority, the dumping of material in Barbados Fire Service in the quarry. With there St George North will be the centre of the political world as a by-election to fill the seat takes place attendance. being no compaction of today. Minister of Health and material and no vent Wellness Lt. Colonel pipes, as would be the Jeffrey Bostic said that norm in a purposed land- after first being armed fill, the methane and with the information other mercaptans pro- when he was assigned to duced by decomposition of his ministry two years the waste caused under- TO THE POLLS! ago, he carried out his ground spontaneous com- own investigations. bustion. The technical AFTER four intense Lower House. Solutions Barbados and feat at the polls two years Taking in a site visit and committee which is weeks of campaigning, Polls are open from 6 Alex Mitchell for Bajan ago – losing all 30 seats. getting an understanding headed by Ricardo eligible voters in the St. a.m. to 6 p.m. and electors Free Party.Of these three, Should any of the other of the situation, he noted Marshall, outlined a George North are expected to make their Phillips is the only one to candidates be successful, that he determined that three-pronged remedy in- Constituency head to way to various locations have contested this con- it would be the first time something needed to be cluding solid waste man- the polls today to elect including the St. George stituency in a previous since 1994, that a party done and met with resi- agement, water and water a new parliamentary Primary School, St. Jude’s election. other than the BLP or the dents, his ministry and all quality monitoring pro- representative from Primary, Cuthbert Moore This election is an his- DLP would win a seat in relevant government gramme, and air quality among six candidates Primary and the St. toric one, as it will mark Parliament. agencies. approaches which should who are vying for the George Secondary School the first time that the PdP, From nomination day on Going on to say that see the issue rectified. seat. to cast their votes. Once which is headed by the October 26, all the way several committees were Attorney General Dale It was on Sunday, the polls close, all eyes will through the campaign, put together after the Marshall, who is also an September 20, 2020 at a then be on the St. George Bishop Joseph Atherley, each candidate has ex- legal matter was heard in affected resident said that meeting at the St. George Secondary School tonight, will actually contest an pressed confidence that the District A court last although the dumping Secondary School, that it as they await the final election. The PdP was they will be successful, year, Minister Bostic had halted for some time, was announced that count to see who will launched in June 2019, al- and up to yesterday some added that the COVID-19 the effects were still being Deputy Speaker of the emerge victorious. most a year after Atherley were seen in the field seek- pandemic also had a hand felt. Going on to call the House of Assembly, Gline Among the six hopefuls crossed the floor.It is how- ing to endear constituents in the delay of the allevi- entire situation a ‘public Clarke, would be leaving are three first-time candi- ever not Waldron’s first to give them the vote. ation of the problem. nuisance’ Marshall said active politics. Clarke, who dates - Toni Moore for the time at the polls, as he ran Today’s election is tak- Noting that the project that the legal process of had represented the con- Barbados for Solutions Barbados in ing place during a pan- was finally back on track getting things rectified stituency for 26 years,is (BLP), Floyd Reifer for the St. James North in the last demic and it has been re- and that the government had already started. “We taking up a new post as Democratic Labour Party general elections. ported that COVID-19 had also enlisted the serv- are at the point where I Barbados’ High (DLP) and Ambrose Today,the BLP’s Moore, protocols will be in place. ices of a Pan-American am preparing a remedia- Commissioner to Canada. Grosvenor for the United will be seeking to retain Earlier this week, Health Organisation spe- tion agreement and we His resignation necessi- Progressive Party (UPP). the seat for the ruling Supervisor of Elections, cialist on air-pollution out have already had discus- tated that a by-election be The other candidates are party, which Gline Clarke Angela Taylor stated that of Washington, Minister sions on it. That remedia- held, and November 11 David Walrond for the won with 80 percent of the voters are expected to Bostic said that today’s tion agreement will pro- was set as the date that People’s Party for vote in 2018; while Reifer wear masks and tempera- election made handling vide the legal basis with- the constituents would get Democracy and is hoping to secure a seat ture checks, hand sanitis- the situation an awkward out having to go to court to decide who would now Development (PdP), for the DLP which suf- ing and social distancing one. “I had determined because that is an option, represent them in the Grenville Phillips II for fered an overwhelming de- will be enforced. that I will speak to the DUMP on Page 3 2 • Wednesday November 11, 2020 The Barbados Advocate

Call for recreational Sewage, water issues facility in St.George being addressed FORMER Minister of that were feeding from tween 40 and 50 percent Energy and Water that reservoir couldn’t un- of that was leaking out be- Resources, Wilfred derstand why it had low fore it hit your pipes and community Abrahams says govern- pressure. It is because we they did nothing about it. ment has been able to fix had to keep that reservoir We have put solutions in a number of sewage and at less than half way oth- place.” water-related issues over erwise the reservoir He added, “You all see By Marsha Gittens themselves to create a the plight faced. the past two years. might [have] burst. Then, all the work that is going recreational space for the “They keep saying they Highlighting some we had to go in quick time on in St. Philip, you heard RESIDENTS of one St. little ones who reside in going do certain things for areas where challenges and build another one.” about the Vineyard George community are the community. However, we, they going do small existed,Abrahams talked Abrahams, who is [Water Augmentation] calling for a recre- due to limited funds they things… This is years we about the conditions pre- presently Minister of Project, seven kilometres ational facility to be were unable to outfit the can’t get a pasture, noth- viously at the Home Affairs, of new mains are being placed within the area. spot with outdoor play- ing. Our children have to Sewage Treatment Plant Information and Public laid to take water from Stating this has been ground equipment. run through this one sin- and of the South Coast Affairs, said these areas Grooves to Vineyard to their cry for years, persons “We tried to do a pasture gle gap all day, every day. sewage problems. He also were addressed. He also Stewart Hill eventually living in Ashbury, St. on the hill but it is not There is no basketball said there were chal- spoke about work com- feeding into the Castle George told Barbados enough.The children want court, no pavilion, there lenges with some of this pleted and that continu- Grant system, that is Advocate their appeals slides and swings and see- isn’t anything. The chil- island’s reservoirs. ally being done to improve what we did. The cost of have continually fallen on saws and we can’t do dren can’t even play a lit- “When we came in, we the pumping capacity to that is tremendous. That deaf ears. everything on our own.We tle , they riding bi- found three reservoirs sections of the country so involved laying seven “The biggest problem we tried our best and we tried cycle all day long every that were on the verge of as to increase the amount kilometres of mains, two have is a place for the chil- to bring the community to- day,up and down through collapse as well.You know of water reaching the 1.4 million gallon reser- dren to play.We have a lot gether by getting some this gap here.” that big able reservoir at homes of residents. voirs, two new pumping of youngsters running place for the children to An appeal was also Fort George, …that reser- “Our water infrastruc- stations and all of this to around and cars does pass run about.” made for speed humps to voir was structurally com- ture was not maintained push an additional 1.5 through a lot and we have His comments were be installed throughout promised. We discovered at all during their time. million gallons of water no where for the children echoed by Roderick the Ashbury area and for this late in 2019…When We were losing between per day through the pipes to run about,” stated Griffith who too called for a bus shelter to be erected we found that out the first 40 to 50 percent of every with the capacity of bring- Ashad. greater support to be along the main road near thing we had to do was drop that we pumped into ing to three million gal- He further said efforts given to the district by au- where the entrance of the drained out the reservoir. the ground. All the water lons if it is were made by residents thorities. He pointed out gap is situated. For a while, the people that left the reservoirs be- necessary.”(MG)

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‘Guilty parties being held responsible’

DUMP from Page 1 mental impact is that it is the polluter who must but at this point in time I pay. The government of don’t think that there is Barbados is adamant that any reason why we need the polluter in this instant to pursue a court action has to carry every single against the entity inas- bit of the cost of remediat- much as he has admitted ing this area and those the wrongdoing and more legal things are being put importantly, has verbally in place at this time.” agreed to take the steps Prime Minister Mia are required,” he said. Amor Mottley said that Prime Minister Mottley as she spoke to members of the media, stakeholders and residents during Noting that the frame- now with a bit more free- yesterday’s tour. work was expected to be dom to move around, the put in place over the next issue would be treated to deal with it. And this has back up sector-by-sector- lowed to operate for three committee involving envi- week or two, Marshall as a matter of urgency. “I been a matter on which by-sector.” years without the appro- ronmental protection de- went on to say that the want to be able to say sim- we have been unwaver- Going on to say that it priate lining, without the partments and, on top of guilty parties were being ply that these matters ob- ing. When COVID broke was an inherited situation appropriate permission, that, residents. This is the held responsible for the viously are of grave con- there was a pause first from the previous admin- without all the requisite definition of open govern- work to be carried out. cern to the government, and foremost because of istration, called out the al- things?’ And now all of a ment and transparency. “Now let me make it clear and to the extent that the lockdown and there- legations as a ‘red-herring sudden people have found That it has happened, is that we are not relying on they have happened, the after because of the diver- on the eve of an election’. a voice when that voice ig- regrettable and wrong. the entity that created the government, as I said, be- sion of skills to the “This dump was operat- nores the fact that there But that it needs to be cor- problem to do any of the fore we were the govern- COVID Monitoring Unit ing from 2015 to 2018 and was a prosecution? rected, is absolutely nec- work. The fundamental ment, and, I repeat today, to be able to allow this the question must be Ignores the fact that there essary,” Mottley said. principle about environ- as the government we will economy to be opened asked, ‘Why was it al- is a multi-disciplinary (MP) Confidence in Concern over economy returning country’s debt RECENT developments said their confidence had years ago due to a loss of show that confidence is come that even in the confidence, she said this returning to this island worst recession since decision showed trust says Prime Minister Mia 1930, in the first global was returning. situation Mottley. pandemic for 100 years, “But more important Pointing to the recent we are prepared to accept than (Sagicor) alone com- Standard and Poor’s re- that the government of ing are the people who FIRST Vice President of to Barbadians how that tions that Barbadians port where the interna- Barbados is doing its are buying from them, the Democratic Labour increase was achieved. are asking and we de- tional credit rating best and we have a because they have people Party (DLP), Ryan “The people of serve answers today”. agency decided to main- stable outlook on the fu- from Barbados and peo- Walters has raised con- Barbados deserve to With that in mind, tain the island’s credit ture of the economy of the ple from the USA, people cern about the debt situ- know, how did we get that Walters said there needs rating as B-/Stable/B, she people of Barbados,” she from Canada, people ation in this country. money. Nobody has come to be an explanation of suggested this was evi- stated. from the UK who are pre- He also raised some and articulated how we the debt situation when dence the island was on In addition, Mottley pared to say ‘build the concern about the num- were able to raise that they came to office in the right path. highlighted the decision units in Boarded Hall ber of consultants in money in such short 2018, the debt situation “Last week, Standard made by Sagicor to give and we will buy them, be- Government’s employ, order... The Government at the end of 2019 before and Poors that is respon- the green light on the cause we believe that the amount of money needs to come and ex- COVID and the present sible for downgrading us construction of a $206.2 Barbados is a place being spent on their serv- plain the public of debt situation. He is also in the past and many million residential com- where we want to live ices and excessive spend- Barbados how they could urging the Government other countries still in munity on over 35 acres and spend out the rest of ing by Government in achieve this, restructure to reveal when the vari- the middle of a Covid of the Boarded Hall our days’. Nobody comes general. He said such ex- debt [and] borrow more ous payments will be- pandemic said to us ‘we Plantation Yard, St. to a country that is cat- penses were taking money. What does that come due and how will have confidence in the George. spraddled or that is precedence to other more mean? Does that mean the Government pay, es- government and people Noting the insurance falling down. They come urgent issues which now that we got more pecially given that the of Barbados’. giant had moved its to a country that is on its needed to be addressed. debt, we restructure, but country is not achieving “It could not have come headquarters out of way up,” she stressed. His comments came as we add on debt?” he any significant earnings at a better time. They Barbados to Bermuda (JMB) he took issue with the said. as a result of the COVID- Government’s boast of in- He added, “During 19 pandemic. creased foreign exchange COVID they borrowed He continued, “If any of reserves since coming to more money also, so we these payments become New telephone numbers office in 2018. Walters, got more debt again. So is due within the next 12 while acknowledging the it now that we have to re- months when we are on THE public is advised Jemmotts Lane, St. 3361/62; Coordinator - significant increase in structure the debt again? our most troubled econ- that the telephone num- Michael, have been 536-3365; Day Care – 536- foreign exchange re- Do we have to pay an- omy, how are we going to bers at the A.C. Graham changed. 3373; Education Unit – serves over the period, other $54 million? These get the money? Or are we Development Centre, The new numbers are 536-3374 and Workshop – said it is imperative that are the simple questions, going to have to borrow Ladymeade Gardens, as follows: PBX - 536- 536-3375. the Government explain the common sense ques- again?”

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Wood: Restore rate! Symmonds: $30 million GOVERNMENT is being that the profitability of the com- chided for its failure to fol- mercial banks would have to de- low through with its cam- cline in a commensurate way, in aid available to help paign promise to restore a to the extent of the interest that minimum deposit rate in they would have to pay.Because this country. the administration would have The rebuke is coming from wiped away the expected prof- small business economist and former member itability that the banks had, of the Barbados Labour Party, given that they had purchased BARBADOS is continuing to nesses in Barbados. Not only Symmonds noted. Anthony Wood. Wood, who government paper ... because make funds available to aid its for the sake of keeping them, He explained this money had served as a minister under the their profitability was wiped small businesses left reeling in but she made sure it was tied to then been divided to the Trust late Professor , out, they could not reinstate for the wake of the Covid-19 pan- persons keeping persons em- loans and Fund Access to assist said that the notion of the the poor people that deposit rate demic. ployed,” he stated, adding that and two weeks ago an addi- restoration of a minimum de- system so that we would get a On Monday night, Minister $500 was made available on a tional $12 million was put at posit rate was outlined in the little interest on our deposits,” of Energy, Small Business and monthly basis to every worker. the disposal of micro and small 2018 manifesto, with the goal he said. Entrepreneurship Kerrie “If you are a manager and businesses. being to persuade banks to put Wood also went on to speak to Symmonds said that between satisfy the necessary criteria “So between the start of deposits to work in the economy the exorbitant fees being March and now, government showing you are accustomed Covid and today we are talking and restore their loan-to-deposit charged by commercial banks had made $30 million available paying your taxes et cetera you about $30 million that the ratios to economically sustain- in this country, maintaining for these entities, but many can get access to the money. Barbados government made able levels. But, he said that the that those fees are a cause for had not taken up the offer. What we have to deal with is a available,” he underlined. Government’s debt exchange great concern. While contend- “We do not stand alone in small and micro enterprise Last week, Spokesman for programme put a spoke in the ing that the fees are unaccept- splendid isolation as though sector that needs to have their the Democratic Labour Party wheel of achieving that goal. He able, he lamented that the there is nobody else in the hands held and get people to on on Business and said the debt exchange pro- Government has not come to world that had problems. All of understand it is not about Entrepreneurship and 1st Vice gramme deprived banks of hun- Barbadians’ defence in respect this region was impacted by government handouts but President Ryan Walters ques- dreds of millions of dollars and of the range or level of fees Covid. We are all small island, about government assisting tioned how small businesses by extension Government has being charged. post colonial developing states you and making sure that you were to access the assistance been unable to deliver on the “They have not even asked so let us compare like with like. in turn give to your employees. from the Trust Loan Fund and pledge. the Governor of the Central Do you know how much money There is a duty to do that and Fund Access. “This restoring of the deposit Bank to use this instrument of the St. Lucian government put it is a shame that some of those He claimed at that time there rate would mean that all of us monetary policy as we call it, towards small businesses since businesses turned their back was an apparent lack of com- who have monies lodged in com- moral suasion, they have not Covid? Three million EC dol- on the opportunity and did not munication and dialogue with mercial banks in Barbados, that even used moral suasion to at- lars. In March (Prime Minister) access it and there was $8 mil- major players in this sector and the banks would have to pay tempt to get the banks to take went to lion after we reopened the the average business owner on some return on our deposits – some ease off of us,” the econo- Parliament and made available economy after we had made how the funds can be accessed. interest. But what it means is mist lamented. BDS$10 million to small busi- $10 million available,” (JMB) The Barbados Advocate Wednesday November 11, 2020 • 5

Accounting professionals encouraged to find new ways to assist their clients ACCOUNTING profes- Senator McConney told approaches as well as our for the range of stakehold- sionals in Barbados are upcoming accountants as responses to the impacts ers your clients have, be it being encouraged to well as seasoned ones, that on our economy,on our so- in research and develop- become more agile and they must see resilience ciety,on our workforce and ment, service , flexible to change in not only in terms of how on us as professionals,” community engagement light of the COVID-19 they are able to bounce McConney asserted. or other society impacts. pandemic and to find back, but how they can “Job number one for ac- Clients now expect their strategic ways in which make a quantum leap for- counting professionals at accounting professionals to assist their clients, in ward, whilst disconnecting this time must be helping to bring into the relation- this new environment. from what is now behind clients adapt and this re- ship insight on how to The key piece of advice them. They must level up, quires our modern day ac- treat to customers, suppli- came from Minister of she said and redesign counting professionals ers and employees. These Innovation, Science and their future, whilst also such as the students who are all part of the ex- Smart Technology,Senator looking out for their are here, to not just func- panded definition of Kay McConney, as she de- clients. tion as accountants, but as value,” the Minister livered the feature address “Not all storms come to strategic partners, finding stressed. during the 5th Annual disrupt your life. Some ac- new ways to create value Maintaining that ac- Students’ Conference held tually come to clear your for your clients and this countants going forward virtually yesterday,under path and I am convinced value creation has to be have to do so much more the theme “The that this pandemic that extended beyond report- than just counting num- Accounting Profession we are experiencing right ing on current financial bers, McConney mean- Post COVID-19". It was now, is one of the latter. performance. It must go while advised that those held by the Institute of We are still in the throes of beyond audit and assur- in the profession focus Chartered Accountants of this unprecedented global ance. It must, going for- more on emergent strate- Barbados (ICAB) as part event that is still evolving ward, include data driven gies more so than planned of Accountants Week 2020, and what that means is, analysis that informs deci- strategies, so that they can under the general theme, there are no certain an- sions and how to realise better help their clients Minister of Innovation, Science and Smart “Embracing Disruption: swers. We have to be both income in the future, how navigate this new and un- Technology, Senator Kay McConney. Building Resilience”. agile and flexible in our to create future benefits usual world. (RSM) Push for front-of-package Dr. Adams: HIV labelling to protect public health programmes THE push for Front-Of- “This is even more rele- lighted that the CARI- interest.” Package Warning vant during the COVID COM Regional “I know one of our chal- Labelling is intended to pandemic.” Organization for lenges will be how do we embracing the help consumers to identify The PAHO official was Standards and Quality convince the private sec- more clearly and effec- at the time addressing a (CROSQ) is leading the re- tor to partner with us or tively products with a nu- webinar on the human visions to incorporate take up their corporate use of digital tritional profile detrimen- rights approach to front- front-of-pack labelling and social responsibility tal to health. of-package warning la- specifications. in helping in this way – we Caribbean Subregional belling in the Caribbean. “The excellence of the know that has been a chal- Program Coordinator at She said that in the CARICOM draft standard lenge for some time…It is technology the Pan American Health Caribbean about one-third is built on a robust evi- one of those arguments Organization/World of the population is con- dence base and public where we have the private Health Organization, sidered to be at higher- health recommendations, sector stimulating eco- NEW AVENUES from may not be possible. Also, Jessie Schutt-Aine risk of severe COVID-19, and we hope that the nomic activity with their Back Page some services, such as warned that to date, the based on the presence of at Caribbean people can products, but also having a counselling and patient Caribbean population least one underlying start benefiting from the negative impact on the routine follow-up. follow-up, are being con- does not have access to health condition. standard regionwide.” health of citizens.We have “Many programmes ducted virtually,” he re- clear information of “In the Caribbean un- Assistant Secretary- to find that balance,” he have implemented multi- ported. whether a product has ex- healthy eating is closely General of the CARICOM said. month drug dispensing of Despite the disruptions cess in sugar, sodium, sat- linked to hypertension, di- Secretariat, Dr. Douglas UN Resident antiretroviral therapy or from the pandemic, the urated fat, trans-fat or abetes and obesity. And Slater also recognised the Coordinator for Barbados ART for about three to six PANCAP Director main- total-fat. largely driven by the ex- work of CROSQ, as well and the OECS, Didier months. This has allowed tains that these new ap- “In effect, you don’t have cessive intake of sugars, as pointed out,“We have a Trebucq said that the Sub- care providers to devote proaches are reshaping clear and reliable informa- total fat, saturated fat, responsibility to convince regional teams support more time to those with the way services are de- tion on the ingredients trans-fat and sodium… our policy makers that it is ongoing efforts by govern- more urgent needs. It has livered. and quantities of those in- Some might think that the in their interest and the ments in the region as well also reduced the fre- “Most of these interven- gredients that we are eat- excessive intake of these Community’s interest to as regional institutions. quency that clients visit tions still require close ing when we purchase critical nutrients come facilitate with all meas- “We therefore pledge pharmacies to fill their monitoring and evalua- foods in can, box or pack- from traditional home ures in conjunction with our full support and also prescriptions.” tion to know if they are ef- age,” she pointed out, ex- cook foods. But, what the other measures- so that urge regional govern- “Many HIV pro- fective. Notwithstanding plaining that with the ab- evidence indicates is that the application of front-of- ments to intensify their grammes have also been this, these interventions sence of clear, quick and it is actually driven by an label packaging will have force to implement regu- embracing the use of dig- have the potential to easy warning labels on the increase availability and a desirable impact on the lations of front of packag- ital technology. In some reach more people and to front of packages people consumption of processed region’s health and devel- ing warning labelling,” he cases, clients are now able deliver services in a quick, will continue to blindly and ultra-processed foods opment. Consumers stressed, adding that such to book appointments on- efficient and safe manner. buy products without that are high in sugars, should be left with several information is critical to line to avoid overcrowding They can change the way knowing when they can fats and sodium.” tools and should have lit- each and every consumer in waiting rooms, espe- that care is provided be- retain an excess of the nu- In an effort to change tle excuse to decide on to make their own healthy cially in small clinics yond COVID-19,” he said. trients. the situation, she high- what’s in their personal and informed choices. where physical distancing (TL) 6 • Wednesday November 11, 2020 The Barbados Advocate

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Shanghai Pudong: Innovation hub for aircraft, shipbuilding industries SHANGHAI’S Pudong New ager of Commercial Aircraft Area, which is the birthplace Corporation of China’s of China’s air and sea ambi- (COMAC) Shanghai Aircraft tions, has seen 30 years of in- Manufacturing Co. LTD. novation in China’s aircraft Pudong’s imprint isn’t just in and shipbuilding industries. the sky, but at sea as well. The China’s first domestically world’s largest cargo vessel pow- made passenger jet, the Y-10, ered by liquefied natural gas, or was born here. The 40-year-old LNG, was delivered here by aircraft was put on display in Chinese shipbuilder Hudong- Pudong since November. Zhonghua in September this Her sisters, the ARJ21, which year. received 616 domestic and in- Chairman of Hudong- ternational orders since 2008, Zhonghua Shipbuilding and the more recent C919, were Company, Chen Jianliang, said both designed and assembled in the ship is currently the most Shanghai. advanced of its kind in the China delivers the world’s largest dual-fuel LNG container ship in September, 2020. pix - pudong “Pudong is where the C919 world. “We won a ‘gold medal’ in made its maiden flight, on May this field for our efforts,” Chen Shipbuilding vows to continue They are aircraft carriers, LNG ships.” Chen told CGTN. He be- 5, 2017, taking off from the said. to make new breakthroughs ships, and luxury cruise ships. lieves China can make the best Pudong International Airport’s As one of the cradles for with vessels. China has made the first two of the world’s military,cargo, and fourth runway,” says Zheng China’s military and civilian “The shipbuilding industry kinds, and we are in the process passenger ships in the near fu- Dayong, deputy general man- ships, Hudong-Zhonghua has always had three jewels. of making our first luxury cruise ture. ‘Humblebrag’ named as Versailles-style word, goes viral on Chinese social media

A COMPETITION of imitating be found in real life. Versailles-style words was Some were envious of launched on Sina Weibo on Mengqiqi’s description, but Tuesday. Chinese netizens took other netizens thought it was it as an amusement and jokingly funny and hypocritical, imitat- make up their very own humble- ing her sentence pattern to brag words. make parodies. Similar to the term “humble- In the past, people directly pa- brag,” originally coined to mock raded their wealth in real inter- celebrities on who com- actions. Now, after the new plain and brag at the same time, media came into the public eye, “Versailles Literature” is being more people show off in a round- used by Chinese netizens on so- about way for comparative psy- cial media platforms to describe chological advantage, believing literary content which pretends that it is smarter and more to inadvertently show off one’s acceptable, Shi Gang, an expert privileged life. The term which in psychology at the China comes from the Rose of Agricultural University, told the Versailles, a Japanese manga Global Times. about aristocratic life at the “At present, many people have palace of Versailles in France in a deep inner vanity that cannot the late 18th century, social be put on the table. Especially in media celebrity Milk Ball the prevailing internet economy, (screen name) told the Global some people imagine a wide ‘au- Times. dience’ and rely on others’ Milk Ball once posted a widely watching and promoting them discussed video titled “Versailles to shape their own identity,” Shi Literature Open Class” on Sina said. Weibo, which summarised the Netizens have set up a characteristics of Versailles- Versailles Literature study style words: through reverse Undated file photo shows furniture for auction which was used in the Presidential Suite of group on major Chinese media expression with simple tone to Waldorf Astoria New York in New York City, the United States. The historic luxury hotel Waldorf review platform Douban, which express the feeling of superior- Astoria New York is auctioning thousands of pieces of old furnishings via Kaminski Auctions for currently has more than 34,000 ity. philanthropic purpose, said a recent release by Waldorf Astoria New York. members. “My husband bought me a “Every time I read these Chanel bag, it was really ugly, I daughter of a very rich family rare, while the rich and wealthy ples for audiences who are in words, I had mixed feelings, as if was very angry...” reads one such who said she would throw up become the mainstream, the the middle class. I was a poor student. But I have cryptic, boastful statement – one when she leaves the city to go to Paper reported. These unrealistic characters to face a good student who said of many which increasingly ap- a remote area. Juxtaposing for- Whether in urban dramas or are similar to the humblebrag ‘my grades were terrible as I did- pear on social networking plat- tune and the discrimination of in youth romantic dramas, lead words posted by the Sina Weibo n’t make much effort’,” Zhang forms in China. poverty, the plotline made read- characters are usually from rich user “Mengqiqi,” who has cre- Yuan, a member of the Versailles The contents of humblegrag ers laugh and feel uncomfort- families or have a high-income ated an enviable character Literature study group told the used to show off fortune and ro- able, especially for those who job that can afford their luxury setting for herself: rich, high- Global Times. “In the group, we mance has been featured in live in the story’s remote areas. life. status, having access to high- discussed and imitated them. I other Chinese fictions such as Some Chinese TV and film The extravagant lifestyles in end places randomly, and also think the biggest significance of Guo Jingming’s Tiny Times. works also contain “humble- these dramas and films, and receiving her husband’s extreme this group is to present these Gu Li, one of main female brag” reflected in plots in which easy success of lead characters, love, giving audiences an illu- meaningless brags and life trou- characters in the story, is a the lives of ordinary people are also provide targets and exam- sion that such ‘perfection’ can bles in a humorous way.”

8 • Wednesday November 11, 2020 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 Protecting our health By Dorian Bryan doctor since COVID-19 needed at the ports of 19 and have kept pace made its presence felt on entry. The virus is being without the requirements, Respect the will HEALTH is a critical this island. So I was able to imported into the country, yet still the tone is not one aspect in all of our lives. ask questions from a pro- as visitors from medium of thanking the commu- We work hard, some fessional who has been and high-risk countries nity for its adherence for of the people play harder,and we all un- working on the frontlines come here and if we do not the most part with the derstand that even with and has encountered those take care with regards to laws, but more of a threat- AS some Barbadians go to the polls today for the St. the best intention, we can who would be considered our requirements of nega- ening one. George North By-election, we take a moment to reflect contract illnesses which high-risk, including the tive results and stricter How does that help a on another election just one week ago in the United can change the trajectory elderly and those with enforcement of self-quar- country which is under States of America which, though almost as different as of our lives. Non-Communicable antine rules, then we are pressure financially and night and day when one considers the impact, inten- So we are all told how to Diseases (NCDs). risking more intense clus- mentally if we close busi- sity and duration of the event, can still be a learning exercise and work towards One of the tests included ters and even God-forbid nesses for ‘non-compli- experience of sorts for citizens in any democratic state. a more holistic, stress-free checking of the pulse and – community spread. ance’, then what happens It was just last week that, after months of build-up life, but how can we bal- the oxygen levels. The But what we hear is to those employees in a in political campaigning, hordes of Americans went to ance this reality, and look lungs and blood pressure more of the perceived financial landscape which polling stations across that nation to cast their ballots. towards making the best were also checked and the effort to penalise is struggling? What is the In what has become a heated issue this year, millions possible strides in a com- chance to ask questions Barbadians. We under- process after a business is of ballots were also mailed in by members of the elec- petitive work environment about the disease and the stand that cases are rising closed? Can they appeal torate who were unable to vote in person, owing to a which changes on a rapid potential impacts of a vac- across the world, and our and how long does that variety of reasons, chief amongst them the risk to their basis? cine were also discussed. tourism source markets closure last? Can correc- health from the coronavirus pandemic. Since then, The only thing left is to The usual quip about los- are starting to face further tions be made and then and not surprisingly,the incumbent President Donald find a balance which in- ing some weight during waves of confirmed cases, upon another inspection Trump has acted on previously stated sentiments that cludes looking at identify- the COVID-19 lockdown lockdowns are becoming a can these businesses re- some mail-in ballots are illegal, in addition to citing un- ing things which raise our and afterwards was a pos- reality in Canada and the sume service/operations? substantiated reports of misconduct during ballot collective blood pressure itive. United States.The United This country is on edge. counting, and has sought to have the courts intervene and things which we can But as usual, issues re- Kingdom and the EU are The economic conditions in hopes of changing the outcome of the tally,which so find to eliminate from our lated to the way of life in also facing similar prob- are not as some would far has seen Joe Biden declared President-elect after lives. Barbados during this lems. want us to believe. The overtaking Trump in several swing states and secur- For me, I hate liars; I COVID-19 period inspired But what are we hear- news of potential vaccines ing more than the needed 270 Electoral College votes. am not perfect, but I push deeper thinking. ing in this country? We are is good news, which could Luckily, Mr. Trump’s displeasure has been the only myself to be as honest as We have to accept that hearing about greater restore normalcy and negative fallout from the Republicans at the announce- I can to everyone I meet. this period is causing staffing at the COVID-19 balance in our lives. ment of Biden’s win, as there had been apprehension Sometimes I am too hon- major stress on the na- Monitoring Unit and we I watch people in the su- about public demonstrations of violence from groups est and some might resent tional psyche. continue to hear threats, permarket adding up the like the Proud Boys, who were holding on to Trump’s that reality,but my grand- Barbados has a high eld- whether implied or impli- costs in their heads, in- call to “Stand back and stand by” for some reason. mother looking down on erly and NCDs vulnerable cated, stated.We are hear- cluding VAT. With prices However, even the threat of violence in a country that me from heaven would population. With the im- ing that the enforcement increasing, the prospect of has for generations honoured the long-held tradition probably nudge me in my pacts of the disease still at places of business will Christmas 2020 is not just of peaceful transfers of power after elections,and could side, if I knowingly lied, developing, this island be stringently followed, a thought anymore, but boast of being a prime example of how a democracy even if I was trying to pro- faces major potential and places on close contact within a few weeks. should be run, should not be accepted lest it become tect someone from getting threats if the virus ever including barber shops Barbadians do not have the norm. hurt, I would be in real spreads. and other locations were the luxury of lofty words Here in Barbados, we too have long had a tradition trouble. So it makes sense that identified. and promises, we need of free and fair elections and peaceful transfers of That is why my columns the authorities need to As a man, who had tangible action and not power. However difficult the polling pill is to swallow, are brutally honest, even if level with the population two-plus months of hair telling us to focus on the each party accepts the results of the people’s vote and some people get upset at when issues arise, such as growth before I could fi- promises on some distant goes about their business. We have had instances of a the realities which I point the contact which led to nally get my hair cut and land of make-believe. Parliament split more or less down the middle for the out. My columns are based the cluster concern in re- shave done in June, I en- Imagine a Christmas two main parties; instances where only two members on things which I have no- cent weeks. How is it pos- countered a barber shop rush with over 50,000-plus of a party served in Parliament as opposition; and the ticed and things which are sible that someone await- where they adjusted to the people out of work, and if last election saw a one-party Parliament, until one happening in society.Even ing a second PCR test, was new requirements quickly. the lockdowns are in effect MP decided to take his leave to form another political sometimes I talk about allowed to move around Temperature checks, hand in the UK, US and even party, thereby providing an Opposition. my own experiences and various sites on the island, sanitising, barbers wear- Canada, how can tourism Today’s by-election is another opportunity for op- people whom I came into prompting the expanding ing masks and social dis- rebound to the levels posing views to be heard and alternate representation contact with during my contact tracing and the tancing within the shop, which would provide some provided. It is also an opportunity for the people to travels in the country. scare at Ellerslie School? no walk-ins and appoint- comfort? show continued support for the ruling Barbados So I recently had a doc- If ever there was a ments having to be made. We are doing a lot of Labour Party. Whatever the case, it will be up to the tor’s appointment and it wake-up call, as to the Barbadians have adjusted talking, but the country’s people of St. George North to decide and make their was the first one at the more stringent measures to the realities of COVID- overall health is suffering. will known. Election periods are understandably heated as many issues being highlighted often touch close to home and UK PM Johnson speaks to Biden, can cause people to become emotional in their re- sponses. Subjects like poverty, jobs and employment discusses COVID-19 and climate change availability,and finances and the economy are usually trigger points.It is no surprise then that Barbados, with LONDON – British Biden, seeing common nership between our foster the so-called its severe economic outlook and current social chal- Prime Minister Boris ground on issues like countries and to working “special relationship” lenges, is the proverbial powder keg awaiting a match. Johnson said he spoke to climate change even with him on our shared between the historical Added to this combustible atmosphere is the pres- US President-elect Joe though the President- priorities – from tackling allies. ence of a host of players on the political scene,who have Biden on Tuesday about elect has aired concerns climate change, to pro- After the call, varied philosophies and perspectives on the way for- working together on about his Brexit policy. moting democracy and Johnson’s office said ward for this country. All these candidates have their tackling climate change “I just spoke to building back better the prime minister had own supporters and with so many different points of and recovering from the @JoeBiden to congratu- from the pandemic.” invited Biden to the view,at some point there will be differences of opinions. COVID-19 pandemic. late him on his election,” Johnson has never met United Nations Climate However,as the saying goes, people have to “agree to Johnson has predicted Johnson said in a tweet. Biden and commenta- Change Conference, disagree” without resorting to insults, assaults or any close ties with the “I look forward to tors have suggested he known as COP26, in other negative behaviours. United States under strengthening the part- will have to work hard to Glasgow next year. We urge all Barbadians, regardless of political affil- iation, not to get so caught up in a frenzy of emotions Telephone: 467-2000 News Fax: 434-1000 News Editor: Dorian Bryan Executive Editor: Allison Downes that they forget to demonstrate human decency,or 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 disrespect opposing candidates and/or their support- Publisher: Sir Anthony Bryan ers. @The Barbados Advocate @barbadosadvocate The Barbados Advocate Wednesday November 11, 2020 • 9

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ADVOCATE PUBLISHERS (2000) INC, FONTABELLE • FAX: 434-1000 • E-MAIL: [email protected] Another hospital is definitely not needed THE recent mention of “bed-blocking” of the press, Tuesday, November 3). countries. There are several reasons facilities – in conferences, columns and at the QEH by elderly incapacitated Nothing could be further from the for this: in the senate. The example of the St. patients has led to the media highlight- truth. (1) the largely physically active Barnabas Church Day Care Centre is ing a view that “Another hospital is Barbados has a larger proportion of lifestyle before Independence promoted a role model that can easily by followed way overdue” (cited in another section elderly citizens than most CARICOM longevity, both by many of our churches which (2) we probably have a healthier gene have church halls and similar out pool, for historical reasons linked to buildings, and by Government and the the slave trade, and private sector. Such a centre not only Three little words (3) continuing emigration of younger maintains activity into old age for a people to North America. longer period, delaying dependence, but “Should you ask, ‘What shall we eat in It might sound “foolish”, and perhaps Unfortunately, the epidemiological solves the problem of day care for many the seventh year, if we may not sow or it does not sit well with your reason but transition, with a largely inactive elderly subjects and families. gather in our crop?’” – (Leviticus 25:20) I have found this saying from Paul to be lifestyle since Independence, has pro- The long-term solutions, of course “In the jungle, yo, we rumble with the true: “God’s foolishness is wiser than duced an epidemic of chronic diseases, include both the broad public health beast / Ain’t nothin sweet – we gotta eat.” human wisdom” (1 Corinthians 1:25). which greatly increases the morbidity and educational approaches advocated – (Concrete Jungle, Sunz of Man) His ways always seem “foolish” next to of the elderly – a high prevalence of by the Chronic Non-Communicable our impeccable reasoning: “It is more high blood pressure, heart disease, di- Disease Commission led by Sir Trevor THE oft quoted Matthew 6:25 – blessed to give than to receive” (Acts abetes and their consequences such as Hassell, and the expansion of the sup- “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about 20:35); “The greatest among you will be strokes and amputations, and hence port health care services of rehabilita- your life, what you will eat or what you your servant. All who exalt themselves significant disability and dependence. tion therapy (occupational therapy and will drink, or about your body, what you will be humbled, and all who humble But this does not mean that hugely physical therapy), which help to delay will wear” – harkens back to Leviticus themselves will be exalted” (Matthew expensive tertiary care beds in a sec- invalidity, accelerate recovery from 25:20: “Should you ask, ‘What shall we 23:11-12). ond or expanded hospital are needed. illness and hospitalisation, and help eat?” It also resonates today and, unfor- The enduring principles from this an- Our beds-to-population ratio is as the disabled to function in their own tunately, is a question that is increas- cient biblical system (The Year of Jubilee) good as most western countries. homes. ingly being asked in some households. are applicable to pandemic ravished Incapacitated elderly-for-care do not We certainly do NOT need another Pundits have yet to tire of detailing the economies. The jubilee embodied a prac- need intensive and costly tertiary care. hospital or a new hospital in order to economic fallout from the pandemic, tical concern for the most important As the Prime Minister has pointed out, improve our health services and the which started with the Communists try- fixture of any society: the family. QEH beds cost five times as much as care of the elderly. In fact, some 14 ing to save face and gradually evolved to Especially its economic viability. Family geriatric hospital beds. What IS needed years ago the then Minister of Health a situation where the world is now cov- morality/values count for precious little is a multi-faceted approach, with sev- commissioned an extensive study by ering their faces. when persons are devastated by eco- eral key programmes, to prevent the the leading hospital consulting team, In Matthew 6:25-34, Jesus, in what nomic forces that render them powerless “bed blocking” the Minister commented Capita, Norman and Dawbarn. The would no doubt be considered “foolish” by (see Nehemiah 5:1–13). It also served as on, which has in fact been going on for better of their two options proposed, any stretch of the modern (that is to say, a reminder that provision ultimately decades, and fluctuates with fluctua- that of a complete rehab and improve- self-sufficient) imagination, told us not comes via God’s sovereignty. tions in staffing, operation of equip- ment job and a state-of-the-art new to worry about food and drink; rather, Some will pass on eating what they ment such as X-Ray and lab services, multi-story wing to the north, was es- “strive first for the kingdom of God and consider to be pie in the sky and will pur- morale and other causes of variable timated to cost just under six hundred his righteousness, and all these things sue their meal another way.All well and efficiency of overall care. million dollars. They also suggested will be given to you as well”. Similarly, good, but I hope that other way does not The first need, to deal with the cur- a new hospital, with less beds, at an the legislation in Leviticus served as a re- involve turning to economics to get us out rent problem, is adequate residential estimated cost of just under nine minder that God, not our circumstances of this mess. That dismal discipline that accommodation – the geriatric hospi- hundred million dollars – fifty per (in plenty or in time of need), is the ulti- lacks the philosophical, well, discipline tal, infirmary and elderly care-home cent more. I am relieved that this mate source of provision. to identify (much less admit to) its epis- beds. The latter is a programme of Government is not being misled into Therefore, provision is neither limited temological problem.A problem that has private care that has been operating proposing a new hospital, as we simply by nor exclusively dependent on human contributed to and continues to con- for some years. Infirmary beds were do not need one and would not be able effort and ingenuity; economic booms or tribute to aforementioned “starvin’ days”. seriously reduced with the demolition to afford it anyway. busts; it ultimately hinges on three little A problem that unless acknowledged and of the Christ Church Infirmary at What we DO need, as shown in the words: God will provide. Should anyone addressed, will make any recovery more Oistins, and more recently closure of study of health care human resources ask during these equally lean times, painful. that in St. Lucy.The Geriatric Hospital commissioned by the Faculty of “What shall we eat if we have no work So here we are, sandwiched between has accommodated more than 500 pa- Medical Sciences in 2007, are increases and economic prospects are bleak?” The three big words: economics’ epistemolog- tients for much of the past. Is it being in several categories of health profes- formula is the same today as it was in ical problem; and three little words. (No efficiently utilised today, to accommo- sionals. Our problems are all soluble by Leviticus and Matthew; it remains true silly, not “stop the count”.) The details of date those described as “left” at the an evidence-based, multi-faceted ap- (even if you identify with Timbo King’s economics’ epistemological problem we QEH and said to be “blocking beds”? proach and improved efficiency at all opening on Concrete Jungle): “we come leave for another time. Until then, these levels; not by more bricks and mortar. from starvin’ days”. three little words will have to do: God will Day care centres Seek/trust God first, “and I will order provide. And, I should hasten to add, in The medium-term solution is the PROFESSOR EMERITUS my blessing for you (Leviticus 25:21), the most unexpected of ways. provision of Day Care Centres. I have SIR HENRY FRASER and again, “all these things will be given written and spoken repeatedly for forty Professor of Medicine and Clinical to you as well”. ADRIAN SOBERS years about the obvious benefits of such Pharmacology

LET GOD QUOTES FOR TODAY WORDS OF SPEAK TO US WISDOM Whoopi Goldberg Dave Chappelle “God’s voice thunders in mar- American actor and American stand-up velous ways; he does great television personality comedian STAY FOCUSED things beyond our under- standing. He says to the snow, “It's being willing to walk away “The hardest thing to do is to If our thoughts and ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the that gives you strength and power be true to yourself, especially hopes are elsewhere, it rain shower, ‘Be a mighty – if you're willing to accept the when everybody is watching.” is impossible for us to set consequences of doing what you downpour.’” our faces steadily toward want to do.” the work required of us. – Job 37, vs 5-6 (NIV) 10 • Wednesday November 11, 2020 The Barbados Advocate

J.C. Penney rescue deal approved in bankruptcy court A US judge on Monday Lenders led by H/2 J.C. Penney filed for approved a deal to res- Capital Partners will for- bankruptcy in May cue J.C. Penney Co Inc give $1 billion in debt in with nearly $5 billion in from bankruptcy pro- exchange for 160 proper- debt. The company was ceedings precipitated ties and six distribution one of several retailers, by the coronavirus centres. Mall operators including J. Crew Group pandemic, averting a Simon Property Group Inc, Neiman Marcus liquidation that would and Brookfield Property Group and Brooks have put the belea- Partners will acquire the Brothers that sought guered department company’s slimmed-down Chapter 11 protection In this May 8, 2020, file photo, a parking lot at a JC Penney store is empty in store chain out of busi- retail operations for amid the coronavirus Roseville, Mich. J.C. Penney is on course to emerge from bankruptcy by ness and jeopardised $1.75 billion in cash and pandemic. Thanksgiving, after a US bankruptcy court approved the sale of the ailing tens of thousands of debt. James Cash Penney retailer to two of the nation’s largest landlords and its primary lenders. jobs. The sale approval launched the company in The US Bankruptcy comes a week after J.C. 1902, opening the first 1929 and over the next United States. The busi- commerce took a toll on Court for the Southern Penney’s lawyers an- store in Wyoming. J.C. several decades became ness began to stumble in traditional brick-and- District of Texas ap- nounced a settlement Penney went public in ubiquitous across the recent years as online mortar retail. proved the deal, which with nearly all of its cred- will allow the 118-year- itor groups that locked in old retailer to emerge support for the sale and Amazon charged with abusing EU competition rules from bankruptcy before marked a turning point the upcoming holiday in a bankruptcy case that THE European Commis- ential treatment of sell- Commissioner nesses or has done more season, the company said has been marked by sion has charged Amazon ers that use the tech Margrethe Vestager said to support them over the in a statement. The res- inter-lender fighting. with abusing its domi- giant’s logistics services. it was vital that plat- past two decades than cue deal is expected to However, a group of eq- nant position in online Amazon rejected the forms with “market Amazon.” save approximately uity holders – whose in- retail to gain an unfair charges, saying no firm power” did not “distort It also pointed out that 60,000 jobs. vestments will be wiped advantage over competi- “cared more” for small competition”. there are more than The transaction con- out – remained opposed tors. businesses. “Data on the activity of 150,000 European busi- tains multiple parts. to the deal. It said Amazon had It faces a potential fine third party sellers should nesses selling through its used data on third-party as high as 10% of its not be used to the benefit online marketplace. sellers that use its mar- global turnover if it is of Amazon when it acts The charges come as ketplace to boost sales of found guilty of breaching as a competitor to these the coronavirus crisis has its own-label goods. competition law - about sellers,” she added. driven huge sales for the The Commission also £15bn ($19bn). “With e-commerce retailer, as people in- launched a fresh probe In a statement, the booming, and Amazon creasingly turn to online into the possible prefer- EU’s Competition being the leading e-com- shopping. merce platform, a fair In August, boss Jeff BANK RATES and undistorted access to Bezos became the richest consumers online is im- man in the world with a Commercial bank rates to the public at the close of portant for all sellers.” fortune of more than business yesterday by the Central Bank of Barbados. The European $200bn after the firm’s Commission has been in- share price rocketed in Valid for November 11, 2020 vestigating Amazon since the early months of the Notes: July last year, following pandemic. Currency Buying Selling complaints from traders. Belizean Dollar 1.00000 1.00000 It says the tech giant Growing scrutiny Canadian Dollar 1.51717 1.56205 accesses sensitive data Ms Vestager has taken a East Caribbean $ 0.73704 0.74445 from small and medium- tough stance on US tech Euro 2.31516 2.41264 sized companies that use firms and what she sees Pound Sterling 2.59487 2.70413 its platform, such as sales as their grip on the digi- United States Dollar 1.98000 2.02857 figures, page visits or tal landscape. Demand/Sight: shipping information. Search engine Google, Currency Buying Selling It then uses this to help for example, has been Belizean Dollar 0.99688 1.00313 Canadian Dollar 1.52581 1.56067 with sales of its own-label fined more than ¤8bn in East Caribbean Dollar 0.73843 0.74306 products, or in choosing three separate cases, all Euro 2.34913 2.39767 suppliers, the relating to alleged abuses Guyana Dollar 0.00943 0.00949 Commission says. of power in the EU. Pound Sterling 2.63294 2.68735 In a press conference Meanwhile, in the United States Dollar 1.99000 2.02768 yesterday, Ms Vestager United States, a report Telegraphic Transfer said: “We do not take backed by Democratic Currency Buying Selling issue with the success of lawmakers recently Belizean Dollar 0.99688 1.00313 Amazon or its size.” urged changes that could Canadian Dollar 1.52870 1.56067 In a statement Amazon lead to the break-up of East Caribbean Dollar 0.73843 0.74306 Euro 2.35355 2.39767 insisted that - far from some of the country’s Guyana Dollar 0.00943 0.00949 being anti-competitive - biggest tech companies, Pound Sterling 2.63790 2.68735 its private-label products such as Amazon, United States Dollar 1.99375 2.02768 were good for customers Facebook and Google. and offered more choice. The report found that INDICATIVE RATES FOR SOME REGIONAL “Amazon represents Amazon possessed “sig- CURRENCIES AS ADVISED BY THE less than 1% of the global nificant and durable RESPECTIVE CENTRAL BANKS retail market, and there market power” in online N.B.: These rates are not meant to be used for trading. are larger retailers in shopping, which it fur- BDS$ every country in which thered in part by “anti- Guyana Dollar 0.00946 Jamaica Dollar 0.01351 we operate,” it said. competitive conduct in its T&T Dollar 0.29907 “No company cares treatment of third-party more about small busi- sellers”. The Barbados Advocate Wednesday November 11, 2020 • 11

Mark Golding sworn in as Opposition leader in Jamaica KINGSTON – Newly elected President of the People’s National Party, Mark Golding, has been sworn in. Governor General, Sir Patrick Allen, presented the Opposition leader with the Instrument of Appointment at Kings House yesterday. Golding, the Member of Parliament for St Andrew The suspected paedophile who was captured in Southern, was elected the Carenage on Monday. sixth president of the PNP on Saturday, defeating Member of Parliament for Suspected paedophile St Ann South Eastern Lisa Hanna by 296 votes. He takes over from for- beaten, tied-up in T&T mer President Dr Peter A SUSPECTED pae- police officers escorting Phillips, who announced he dophile faced the wrath of the battered suspect was stepping down on a Carenage community to the trunk of a police ve- September 4 following the after he was allegedly hicle. party’s crushing defeat in caught assaulting a child. Police say an elderly the general elections. Residents captured the woman from upper Abby During the swearing-in man, tied him to a pole Poujade street reported ceremony, Golding said: “I naked and publicly humil- that her 11-year-old am grateful to all those who iated him until police grand-child was assaulted had the trust and confi- arrived at the scene. by a man. dence in me to provide this Officers who responded, By the time officers re- opportunity to serve my found the man naked and sponded, the man was country Jamaica in this PNP President Mark Golding (left) and Governor General, Sir Patrick Allen bump bleeding from bruises. already under citizens new role.” elbows at today’s swearing-in ceremony held at Kings House (PHOTO: JOSEPH WELLINGTON) Amateur video showed arrest. 12 • Wednesday November 11, 2020 The Barbados Advocate

Belize, Guyana record COVID deaths BELMOPAN, Belize – Belize and Guyana recorded deaths from the coronavirus (COVID-19) as St Lucia and The Bahamas recorded increased cases of the virus. Trinidad and Tobago recorded no deaths of new cases over the past 24 hours. Director of Health Services, Dr Marvin Manzanero, confirmed a statement by Police Commissioner, Chester Williams that a 25-year-old police officer had died as a result of the virus that has infected 4, 230 people and killed 71 others. Williams said the officer was off duty for another medical matter. “As a department, we offer our sincere condolences of the family of the late police constable who passed away over the week- end. He was tested post-mortem and Supporters of Peru’s former President Martin Vizcarra are stopped by police from marching to Congress where lawmakers proved to be positive for COVID-19. He voted the previous night to remove Vizcarra from office, in Lima, Peru, yesterday. worked in the Corozal area and we are also grieving with his family for his loss. I want to emphasise to people for the need to comply with the regulations,”Williams Peru swears said. Dr Manzanero, said that the “patient” was “undergoing a procedure with an ear, in new leader nose, throat specialist in Belize City. In Guyana, the Ministry of Health has as political reported 10 new COVID-19 cases from 186 tests, pushing the national total to 4, 524. turmoil The new cases were reported in Region Four with eight new cases while Regions One and Three each recorded one new hits nation case. The authorities said that there are eight patients in the COVID-19 Intensive LIMA, Peru – Peru swore into office Care Unit, 69 patients in institutional iso- a new president yesterday who is lation and 757 in home isolation. unknown to most and was recently The ministry also reported the death of accused of trying to secure the mili- an 80-year-old woman, who died while re- tary’s support for a congressional ef- ceiving care at a medical facility, taking fort to boot the nation’s last leader the total number of deaths from the pan- out over unproven corruption demic to 137.To date, a total of 3, 549 per- allegations. sons have recovered from the deadly dis- Businessman and former head of ease. Congress Manuel Merino placed his hand Manuel Merino, the head of Peru’s legislature, walks outside the Congress In the Bahamas, where the number of on a Bible and swore to carry out the re- building after being sworn-in as Peru’s new president, replacing Martín Vizcarra persons infected since the first case of the mainder of the current presidential term, who was removed by lawmakers the previous night, in Lima Peru, yesterday. virus had been detected in March, reached which is set to expire in July of next year. 6,984, the authorities reported that there He then donned the red and white pres- Popular Action party and is from the an investigation into possible favouritism were 17 new cases reported over the past idential sash while wearing a face mask province of Tumbes along the country’s in government contracts. Shortly before 24 hours. and stood as the nation’s hymn was border with Ecuador. He served two that vote, local media reported that They said that 4, 943 were active cases played. terms in Congress, the first in 2001, be- Merino had reached out to high-level mil- and that there had been 154 deaths with “This is a difficult moment for the coun- fore being elected again this year as part itary leaders seeking their backing if 27 under investigation. try,” he said. “Today,the country does not of a new slate of lawmakers voted into of- Vizcarra was voted out. New Providence continues to lead the look at the future with hope, but with fice after Vizcarra dismissed Congress in The move backfired. family of islands with the most cases, worry.” 2019. Instead of pushing forward Vizcarra’s recording 5, 311, followed by Grand Merino’s swearing in was met with In his first remarks, Merino vowed to impeachment, many denounced Congress Bahama 811 and Abaco 179. anger, resignation and protests on the move forward with the presidential elec- for acting out of line and the removal ef- St Lucian health authorities say the is- streets of Peru’s capital a day after tion planned for April 2021, make un- fort failed. Lawmakers said they didn’t land recorded 10 new cases of the virus Congress voted to oust popular President specified improvements in health care to want to destabilise the country during over the past 24 hours, pushing the total Martín Vizcarra, who had campaigned ensure the country is better prepared to the pandemic upheaval. Merino later to 141. against corruption. Peruvians widely dis- face a second virus wave, boost the econ- apologised to the military but said he had The Ministry of Health and Wellness trust legislators and decried Vizcarra’s omy and crack down on crime. no ill motives. said that the cases range from ages 21 to removal as an overt power grab. “We can’t divide the country,” he said. “There was never any intention to go 68 years and that all of the cases, follow- Analysts warn the country could be But outside Congress, Peru’s divide was beyond rule of law,” he said. ing being tested for COVID-19, were thrown into a new period of instability at readily apparent. Merino took a back seat in the latest ef- placed in quarantine to await their test re- the same time as it grapples with one of Riot police blocked hundreds of protest- fort to oust Vizcarra, this time on allega- sults. the world’s worst coronavirus outbreaks. ers against Merino who banged pots and tions that he’d taken more than $630,000 The ministry said eight of these cases “It’s a coup d’état,” taxi driver Paul pans as he was sworn into office.A in bribes in exchange for construction were identified through the contact trac- Mendoza said. September Ipsos poll found that 72% of contracts while serving as governor of a ing process and epidemiological links have The new president is the country’s third Peruvians polled in urban areas disap- small province in southern Peru years been established for these eight cases. chief of state since 2016; both Vizcarra proved of the then-chief of Congress. By ago. This time, Congress overwhelming “These new cases now bring the number and his predecessor,Pedro Pablo contrast, 79% said they thought Vizcarra approved Vizcarra’s impeachment. of active cases currently in country to 109. Kuczynski, were pushed out by the pow- should continue in office. Though Vizcarra denied any wrongdo- At present, one of the active cases is in crit- erful Congress, where neither managed to Legislators first initiated impeachment ing, he quickly agreed to step down. ical care and all the remaining active secure a majority bloc. proceedings against Vizcarra in “History and the Peruvian people will cases are stable,” the Ministry of Health Merino hails from the centre-right September, accusing him of obstructing judge the decisions made,” he said. and Wellness said The Barbados Advocate Wednesday November 11, 2020 • 13

France, Germany push for US-Mexico border: tighter EU borders after attacks Bid to reunite BERLIN/PARIS – “The threat of terrorism from the Middle East and ing to their draft decision, France and Germany weighs on all of Europe. Africa in recent years have which was seen by migrant families pushed on Tuesday We must respond,” led to the re-emergence of Reuters. to tighten European Macron said after border controls in parts of Crucially for Macron, Union borders to head discussing the matter the Schengen zone – erod- the ministerial decision in- ‘finds 121 more off what President with Merkel, Austrian ing what has often been cludes language reinforc- Emmanuel Macron Chancellor Sebastian hailed as a milestone ing EU countries’ rights called the “threat of Kurz and top officials in achievement in European to temporarily suspend separated children’ terrorism” after sus- Brussels, the EU hub. integration after World free movement across pected Islamist mili- “To reform Schengen is War Two. Schengen borders during THE hunt to reunite children sleeping in tants killed eight peo- to allow free movement EU justice and interior security alerts. families separated under cages and crying for ple in Paris, Nice and in security.” ministers meet on Friday France has had them in the Trump administra- their parents, provoking Vienna within a month. Merkel sided with to discuss a joint security place since Islamist gun- tion’s “zero tolerance” mi- widespread criticism The attacks refocused Macron in demanding response. Ideas also in- men killed more than 130 gration policy is looking from within the US and the EU’s attention on reli- stricter controls along the clude imposing stricter de- people in Paris in co-ordi- for the parents of even around the globe. gious extremism, which external frontier of the mands on online platforms nated attacks in 2015. more children, an e-mail In June 2018, in fell off the top of the polit- Schengen area, which to combat online extrem- Beyond protecting EU seen by NBC News says. response to a suit filed ical agenda after the 2017 brings together 26 coun- ism, setting up a special borders, Austria’s Kurz The search involves by the American Civil defeat of Islamic State tries, including most European institute to also called for a more co- 666 children rather than Liberties Union (ACLU), forces in the Middle East. EU members as well train Muslim imams, ordinated plan for dealing the 545 known last a US judge ordered that Under pressure to beef as Iceland, Norway, being able to effectively with foreign militants. month, it says. migrant children and up security and reassure Switzerland and deport people with no But the ideas now on the The policy on illegal their parents be reunited voters following the Liechtenstein. claim to asylum in Europe, table have so far proven immigration at the within 30 days. latest attacks, Macron “It is vitally necessary to as well as criminals and difficult to agree, let alone Mexico border began in But those separated by and German Chancellor know who comes in and suspected extremists. implement, suggesting the 2018 but was pulled the pilot programme Angela Merkel said who leaves the Schengen Improving the sharing 27 national EU leaders months later amid an were not covered by this Europe’s troubled area,” she said. of security data and beef- will have a hard nut to outcry. court order, and their Schengen zone of control- National security con- ing up the bloc’s border crack when they are due to A group of lawyers was reunification was only free travel over open bor- cerns as well as chaotic force Frontex are also on decide on concrete steps appointed last month to ordered last year. ders needed urgent fixing. migration into the EU the EU’s to-do list, accord- in December. find parents, most of The remaining chil- whom were deported to dren have now been re- Central America. leased from federal insti- Palestinian negotiator The coronavirus pan- tutions into the care of demic has partly hin- sponsors – usually rela- dered the searches. tives or family friends in Erekat dies after NBC News said the the US. Dozens of the e-mail, from Steven children are under the Herzog, the lawyer head- age of five. contracting COVID-19 ing the mission to re- A House Judiciary JERUSALEM/RAMAL- co-existing alongside unite families, blames Committee report said LAH, West Bank – Saeb Israel even if, in his own the higher figure on a the Trump policy was Erekat, one of the most words, it took 50 years. lack of government infor- implemented with the experienced and high- Erekat, the secretary mation on the additional “full knowledge that profile advocates for the general of the Palestine children whose parents hundreds of children Palestinian cause over Liberation Organization, need to be found. would likely be lost to decades of dispute with said on Oct. 8 he had con- Mr. Herzog says “we their families forever”. Israel, died on Tuesday tracted the coronavirus. would appreciate the At the time, President after contracting COVID- Three years earlier he had government providing Trump initially defended 19. He was 65. undergone a lung trans- any available updated the practice, saying he Having sat down with plant in the United States contact information, or “didn’t want” to take Israeli and US leaders in that left his immune sys- other information that children from their the 1990s and 2000s, in tem compromised. may be helpful in estab- parents, but “when you recent years Erekat was He died following lishing contact for all prosecute the parents the principal face of a war multiple organ failure 666”. for coming in illegally of words with President after being hospitalised Although the “zero tol- – which should happen Donald Trump’s adminis- for three weeks in erance” policy only ran – you have to take the tration over a Middle East Jerusalem’s Hadassah from April to June 2018, children away”. plan that envisaged leav- Medical Center, a spokes- it had been running President-elect Joe ing Israel in control of woman for the Israeli under a pilot programme Biden says he will set up Jewish settlements and hospital said. He had since 2017 in the El Paso a task force to reunite all large parts of the occupied required ventilation and Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat. area. Hundreds of par- migrant families sepa- West Bank. specialised drug treat- ents and children were rated under the policy, But after peace talks ment, she added. characterised his career posted on Twitter. separated, most of them but has not said whether collapsed in 2014 he re- “Saeb has shown an ex- to achieve freedom for His funeral is expected under the pilot. parents will be able to mained a firm backer of traordinary patience and Palestine and a just and to be held on Wednesday As soon as the policy travel to the US to apply the negotiated creation of resilience, with the same lasting peace in our re- in the West Bank city of was announced, pictures for asylum with the a future Palestinian state determination that has gion,” his daughter Dalal Jericho. and audio emerged of children.

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New York: 18°C Low: 6:29 a.m. Yesterday: 0.7 mm Miami: 26°C and 6:57 p.m. For the month: 28.1 mm Max: 30.2°C Boston: 22°C For the year: 1186.1 mm Min: 25.5°C Toronto: 22°C Montreal: 20°C London: 10°C 5:56 a.m. 5:29 p.m. 14 • Wednesday November 11, 2020 The Barbados Advocate

Russian peacekeepers deploy to Nagorno-Karabakh after ceasefire deal MOSCOW/YEREVAN/ Shusha, which Armenians President Ilham Aliyev BAKU – Russian peace- call Shushi. Ethnic said. keeping troops de- Armenian forces must Armenian Prime ployed to Nagorno- give up control of a slew of Minister Nikol Pashinyan Karabakh on Tuesday other areas by Dec. 1. denied Armenia had under a deal that Russian President suffered a defeat but ac- halted six weeks of Vladimir Putin said the knowledged a “disaster” fighting between Azeri deal, announced overnight for which he took personal and ethnic Armenian and also signed by responsibility. forces, locking in place Moscow, should pave the Unrest broke out in territorial gains by way for a lasting political Yerevan, Armenia’s capi- Azerbaijan. settlement to fighting that tal, where crowds stormed The agreement was killed thousands, dis- and ransacked govern- celebrated as a victory placed many more and ment buildings overnight, in Azerbaijan, while in threatened to spark a labelling the deal a be- Armenia it triggered wider war. trayal. Some protesters unrest from crowds who Azerbaijan had been urged Pashinyan to quit, a stormed government trying to regain land lost demand later echoed by 17 A service member of the Russian peacekeeping troops stands next to a tank buildings and branded the during a war in the 1990s. political parties, while a near the border with Armenia, following the signing of a deal to end the military deal a betrayal. Azeris celebrated in the petition was started de- conflict between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces, in the region of It ends military action capital, Baku, sounding manding the agreement Nagorno-Karabakh, on November 10, 2020. and restores relative calm car and bus horns in de- be annulled. to the breakaway territory, light and cheering and Despite the celebrations No option sault. lost lives.” internationally recognised waving the Azeri national in Baku, some Azeris re- Since the fighting flared Three previous cease- Arms supplies and as part of Azerbaijan but flag. gretted Azerbaijan had on Sept. 27, Azerbaijan fires had failed and diplomatic support from populated and, until re- “This (ceasefire) state- stopped fighting before says it retook much of Nagorno-Karabakh leader Turkey,a close ally,helped cently, fully controlled by ment has historic signifi- capturing all of Nagorno- the land in and around Arayik Harutyunyan said give Azerbaijan the upper ethnic Armenians. cance.This statement con- Karabakh, and were wary Nagorno-Karabakh that it there had been no option hand in the conflict, and Azerbaijan will keep ter- stitutes Armenia’s capitu- about the arrival of peace- had lost in a 1991-94 war but to conclude a peace Ankara used it to show its ritory it captured, includ- lation. This statement keepers from Russia, in which about 30,000 peo- deal because of the risk of growing international ing the mountain enclave’s puts an end to the years- which dominated the re- ple were killed. losing the whole enclave clout, often putting it at second biggest city long occupation,” Azeri gion in Soviet times. The capture of Shusha, to Azerbaijan. odds with its NATO allies “We were about to gain or Shushi, appears to have Pashinyan said he had and Moscow. the whole of Nagorno- been a turning point. concluded the peace deal For Russia, which has a Ethiopia’s Tigray Karabakh back,” said 52- Perched on a mountain under pressure from his defence pact with Armenia year-old Kiamala Aliyeva. top above Stepanakert, own army. and a military base there, “The agreement is very Nagorno-Karabakh’s “I personally bear re- the deal is a sign it is still conflict worsens, vague. I don’t trust biggest city, it gave sponsibility for this,” he the main arbiter in the Armenia and I don’t trust Azerbaijan’s forces a com- later said on Facebook. energy-producing South refugees flee to Sudan Russia even more.” manding position from “This is a big failure and Caucasus, which it sees as which to launch an as- disaster and mourning for its own backyard. NAIROBI – Refugees The Ethiopian Press fled to Sudan on Tuesday Agency posted photos and the African Union ap- that it said showed fed- pealed for a ceasefire in a eral soldiers, backed by north Ethiopian region forces from the neigh- where Prime Minister bouring Amhara region, Abiy Ahmed is waging a at the airport. military offensive against However, Humera resi- local leaders defiant of his dents were going about authority. their lives normally, ac- About 2,500 Ethiopians cording to a communica- have escaped across the tions office of the Tigray border to Sudan from People’s Liberation Front fighting in the restive (TPLF), which governs Tigray region, with the the state of more than exodus likely to swell fast, 5 million people. an official said. State affiliated broad- Hundreds have died in caster FANA said air strikes and fighting Ethiopia had arrested 17 amid fears that Ethiopia military officers for dis- could slide into civil war rupting communications given deep animosity systems used by federal between the Tigrayans forces in Tigray, exposing and Abiy, who comes from them to potential harm. the largest Oromo ethnic Abiy, who won the group. Nobel Peace Prize in With access blocked to 2019, ordered air strikes Tigray and communica- and sent troops into tions largely down, it was Tigray last week after hard to verify the state of accusing the TPLF of at- the conflict. tacking a military base. State media said fed- Tigrayans say Abiy’s gov- eral forces had captured ernment oppresses and Humera airport, near the discriminates against borders with Sudan and them and behaved auto- Eritrea, along with a road cratically in postponing a People take part in celebrations in a street following the signing of a deal to end the military conflict over leading from the town. national election. the Nagorno-Karabakh region in Baku, Azerbaijan, on November 10, 2020. The Barbados Advocate Wednesday November 11, 2020 • 15

Report into disgraced ex US cardinal shows failings by popes, top clerics VATICAN CITY – Pope John Paul II promoted ex-US Cardinal Theodore McCarrick in 2000 despite rumours of his sexual misconduct, a Vatican report found, one of a series of failings by popes and officials who let him rise through the ranks regardless of repeated allegations against him. McCarrick, a highly influential figure in the American Church, was expelled from the Roman Catholic priesthood last year after a Vatican inves- tigation found him guilty Ex-US Cardinal Theodore of sexual crimes against Edgar McCarrick. minors and adults and abuse of power. aware of consistent With testimony from 90 rumours that after witnesses and dozens of McCarrick became a documents, letters and bishop in the early 1980s, transcripts from Vatican he preyed on adult male and US Church archives, seminarians. the 450-page document “During extended inter- offers a remarkable reck- views, often emotional, the oning by an institution persons described a range known for its secrecy, por- of behaviour, including traying a man long able to sexual abuse or assault, convince superiors of his unwanted sexual activity, innocence. intimate physical contact Even the current pope, and the sharing of beds Francis, was questioned without physical touch- for the report, which the ing,” the report’s introduc- Vatican said he ordered to tion says. be published “for the good McCarrick has said he of the universal Church”. had no recollection of child The report said that abuse and has not com- “credible evidence” that mented publicly on allega- the former archbishop of tions of misconduct with Washington, D.C. had adults. Now aged 90, he is abused minors when he living in isolation. was a priest in the 1970s Barry Coburn, did not surface until 2017. McCarrick’s lawyer, said But it said the US in an e-mail that there Church hierarchy was would be no comment. Australian PM under fire for interrupting female minister AUSTRALIAN Prime looked at allegations of Minister Scott Morrison inappropriate behaviour has been criticised for in- within the ruling Liberal terrupting a senior minis- Party. ter who was responding Mr. Morrison attempted to a question about what to address the investiga- it’s like to be a woman in tion in a press conference parliament. on Tuesday. However, Anne Ruston, minister his interruption of Ms. for families and social Ruston garnered more services, was asked if the attention on social media. culture for women in par- Video of the incident liament had improved. has been viewed more But she was interrupted than 600,000 times. a few words into her re- After being asked sponse. again by the journalist, The incident comes Ms. Ruston was able to re- amid reports of sexual spond. She said she had misconduct in parliament. felt “wholly supported” An investigation by during her time in par- ABC News’ Four Corners liament. 16 • Wednesday November 11, 2020 The Barbados Advocate

Sinead O’Connor entering 1-year ‘trauma, addiction treatment programme’ SINGER Sinead health issues. O’Connor has can- She said in her state- celled her gigs for ment that after growing 2021 and announced up with “trauma and she is entering a one- abuse” she had gone year treatment pro- straight into the music gramme for trauma industry and “never and addiction. learned really how to In a series of tweets, make a normal life”. the Irish star, best In her first post, the known for her hit version star said, “Message for of “Nothing Compares 2 folks who have tickets U” in 1990, said she had for next year’s shows: been through a “trau- those shows are being matic six years”, but now postponed until 2022 so “recovery starts”. that I may go into a one She admitted she has year trauma and addic- been addicted to tion treatment program Singer-songwriter Sinead O’Connor has cancelled cannabis for 34 years – “a because I had a very her gigs for 2021 to seek help after ‘a very trau- lifetime” – but said that traumatic six years and matic six years’. in 2020 she became this year was the end of “briefly addicted” to an- it but now recovery know what I’m talking treatment begins next other drug after one of starts.” about. And I will explain week and that a planned her children had been After thanking fans for very clearly in 2022.” memoir will still be re- unwell and she had “lost their support and apolo- She added, “Music leased in 2021. someone beloved”. gising for any inconven- business is a very unfor- The star concluded by The 53-year-old, who ience caused to those giving place for artists saying she will continue also goes by the name who have bought tickets who need to postpone to post on Twitter until Shuhada after convert- for shows, she later said: due to emotional or men- her treatment starts, ing to Islam in 2018, has “If you knew the six tal health issues.” “mostly about what a a history of mental years I’ve had, your (sic) O’Connor said her total t*** Trump is”. Bridge The Barbados Advocate Wednesday November 11, 2020 • 17 SPORTSSPORTS

Martyn Del Castilho won the VEXX Tournament with a perfect record. Teenager Greenidge

Fifteen-year-old Vanessa Greenidge is the second youngest Ladies National wins BCF’s Ladies chess champion. (BCF Pictures.) National chess title VANESSA GREENIDGE continued by default against Alesha Lovell in the her meteoric rise on the chess final round. boards by becoming the second Wilson, the National Under-14 and youngest player to win the Under-12 Female champion, kept on the Barbados Chess Federation’s leader’s heels by defeating Sierra Austin Ladies National Championship in the penultimate round and also won last weekend against Moore in the final round. The decorated 15-year-old justified National Under-20 champion Kiarra her billing as the top seed by clinching Eversley, who scored victories against the title with an almost perfect record Chanon Reifer-Belle and Erin Mahon when the Championship concluded in the last two rounds, finished third on Saturday at the Chess Centre on with four points, the same as Moore who Exmouth Gap, Brandons, St. Michael. had to settle for fourth place on the Greenidge finished with six-and-a- tie-break. Eight players competed in the half out of a maximum seven points to Championship. claim the title ahead of 11-year-old In the VEXX Tournament, which was Hannah Wilson who also performed played simultaneously, six-time impressively to take second place with national champion Martyn Del Castilho six points. was the winner with a perfect seven In the process, Greenidge became the points. second youngest person to win Del Castilho, the top seed, earned the Championship – the youngest was enough rating points that will take him Rashaana Blenman, who was 14 when past 2300 in the FIDE (World Chess she was crowned champion in 1993. Federation) ratings for the first time, It was another cap in the feather for joining five other Barbadians to have Greenidge, a double CARIFTA achieved the mark - Kevin Denny, Championships silver medallist who at Orlando Husbands, Ron Buckmire, the age of 13, was the youngest person Philip Corbin and Terry Farley. to represent Barbados at a world chess Cleveston Ifill, making a return to Olympiad in 2018. competitive chess after more than ten Greenidge won a crucial sixth round years’ absence, finished second with game against no. 2 seed and fellow joint five-and-a-half points. Travis Grant reigning national Under-16 Female took third place on the tie-break champion Gaybrianna Moore last ahead of Cyprian La Touche after both Thursday and was confirmed as players ended with four-and-a-half Hannah Wilson, 11, finished in second place. champion two days later after winning points. (BCF) 18 • Wednesday November 11, 2020 The Barbados Advocate

Mumbai Indians beat Delhi Capitals to win fifth IPL title Indian Premier League final, Dubai Delhi Capitals 156-7 (20 overs): Iyer 65* (50), Pant 56 (38), Boult 3-30 Mumbai Indians celebrate winning the IPL. The successful team has won the IPL five times in eight years. Mumbai Indians 157-5 (18.4 overs): Rohit 68 (51), Kishan 33* (19) victory. overs. leading -taker – could not prevent Mumbai Indians won by five It follows their IPL wins in 2013, 2015, Rohit batted majestically, hitting five the Mumbai openers’ onslaught and Scorecard 2017 and 2019 and means they have won fours and four sixes in his trademark, conceded 18 from his first over. the world’s premier domestic Twenty20 classical style. His first six, over long-on He returned again when Mumbai lost MUMBAI INDIANS secured a fifth competition at least twice more than off spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, came their second wicket – Suryakumar Yadav Indian Premier League title with any other team. from the third ball of the chase. was run out for 19 after a mix-up with a five-wicket win over Delhi Capitals This year’s tournament was held in the Rohit fell with the end in sight but so Rohit – and was hit for 11 as Rohit in the final. United Arab Emirates without fans and comfortable was the win that Mumbai’s ensured Delhi were unable to come back Mumbai, the most successful team in delayed from the spring because of the bench were able to shake hands in cele- into the game. IPL history,chased 157 with eight balls to coronavirus pandemic. bration before the winning runs were hit. spare as Rohit Sharma hit 68. England pace bowler Jofra Archer was ‘Mumbai were the best team’ Trent Boult took 3-30 for Mumbai, named as the most valuable player. Delhi fall short as big names fail Delhi Capitals head coach Ricky Ponting including Marcus Stoinis with the first He took 20 wickets and scored 113 runs, Delhi were appearing in their first IPL said post-match,“You’ve got to give credit ball of the match in Dubai. including 10 sixes, for Rajasthan Royals. final and had lost all three previous where credit’s due. Mumbai have been Delhi were 22-3 before captain Shreyas meetings with Mumbai this season.They the best team throughout the IPL. Iyer made 65 not out - he added 96 with Mumbai too good again were underdogs before the showpiece “I am proud of this team. It is a great Rishabh Pant - but Mumbai ensured their A comprehensive win for Mumbai was a began and suffered as their key players group of players and a great franchise. total was never enough. fitting end to a tournament in which they failed. Mumbai Indians thoroughly deserved The defending champions were always have been the outstanding team. Australia all-rounder Stoinis edged their win.” in control of their chase after Rohit and New Zealand seamer Boult, who Boult behind to fall for a first-ball duck Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma Quinton de Kock plundered 45 from the starred throughout with 25 wickets, and fellow opener Shikhar Dhawan, said, “I’m pretty happy with how things first four overs. bowled a brilliant new-ball spell to put the Delhi’s highest run-scorer in the tourna- went. Rohit was caught at deep mid-wicket game in their favour. ment, made only 15. He was bowled “We said at the beginning we want to with 20 needed from 23 balls and, Delhi rallied through Iyer and Pant, playing an ill-advised sweep to off-spinner make winning a habit for us and guys although and Hardik who made 56 off 38 balls, but Mumbai Jayant Yadav in the fourth over. were excellent throughout the tourna- Pandya soon followed, Ishan Kishan’s un- finished the innings impressively, Defending a low total, South Africa pace ment.We couldn’t have asked much more. beaten 33 off 19 balls took Mumbai to conceding only 20 runs off the last three bowler Kagiso Rabada – the tournament’s We never looked back.” Clarke resigns as FA chairman after remark about black players FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION chairman and to those who watch, play, Premier League’s potential bailout of Greg Clarke has resigned over the referee and administer it. This has English Football League clubs and the “unacceptable” language he used when crystallised my resolve to move on. structural reforms proposed as part of referring to black players. “I am deeply saddened that I have ‘Project Big Picture’. Clarke said he was “deeply saddened” offended those diverse communities in “As a person who loves football and has for the offence he had caused by using the football that I and others worked so hard given decades of service to our game, it is term “coloured footballers”. to include.” right that I put the interests of football The comments came as he was A statement from Show Racism the Red first,” added Clarke in the statement con- talking about the racist abuse of Card said Clarke’s comments “only serve firming his departure. players by trolls on social media to the to demonstrate the power of language “2020 has been a challenging year and Department for Digital, Culture, Media and the damage of stereotyping groups of I have been actively considering standing and Sport (DCMS) select committee via people”. down for some time to make way for a video link. During the parliamentary hearing, new chair now our CEO transition is Clarke said his words were a Clarke apologised after being complete and excellent executive “disservice to our game”. He prompted prompted to say sorry by MP Kevin leadership under Mark Bullingham is further criticism when referring to gay Brennan. established.” players making a “life choice” and a coach Brennan said Clarke’s language in ref- Speaking before the resignation was telling him young female players did not erence to black players was the kind that announced, Sanjay Bhandari, executive like having the ball hit hard at them. He did not encourage inclusion, while fellow chair at Kick It Out, said Clarke’s also said there were “a lot more South committee member Alex Davies-Jones comments to the DCMS were outdated. Asians than there are Afro-Caribbeans” in called it “abhorrent”. “I was particularly concerned by the the FA’s IT Clarke had earlier spoken of the need use of lazy racist stereotypes about South department because “they have to attract people into the sport from a di- Asians and their supposed career prefer- different career interests”. verse range of communities. ences. It reflects similar lazy stereotypes “We can confirm that Greg Clarke has The equality charity Kick It Out said I have heard have been spouted at club stepped down from his role as our Greg Clarke became FA chairman in his remark about black players academy level,” he said. chairman,” said an FA statement. August 2016. should be “consigned to the dustbin of “Being gay is not a ‘life choice’ as he “Peter McCormick will step into the history” and criticised his comments claimed too. The casual sexism of saying role as interim FA chairman with course.” concerning people from South Asia, gay girls do not like balls hit at them hard is immediate effect and the FA Board will Following his resignation, Clarke said, players and female footballers. staggering from anyone, let alone the begin the process of identifying “My unacceptable words in front of Clarke had been called to give evidence leader of our national game. It is and appointing a new chair in due Parliament were a disservice to our game to the DCMS committee about the completely unacceptable.” The Barbados Advocate Wednesday November 11, 2020 • 19

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Regular Market BARBADOS STOCK REPORT Security Volume High Low Market Advance/ Price Decline EPPLEY C’BEAN PROP. FUND SCC- VAL FUND 3,000 $0.56 $0.56 $0.56 $0.00 November 10, 2020

One security traded firm as 3,000 shares traded on the Regular Market, with a total value of $1,680.00. Eppley Caribbean Property Deposit Receipts Fund SCC – Value Fund was the sole security trading 3,000 shares at $0.56. Security Previous Current Advance/ Close Close Decline EMERA DEPOSIT RECEIPT $20.79 $21.12 $0.33

BARBADOSBARBADOS STSTOCKOCK EXCHANGEEXCHANGE SHARE SUMMARY INFORMATION Tuesday November 10, 2020 INDICES LAST TRADE VOLUME HIGH LOW LAST CURRENT PRICE BID ASK BID ASK TODAY'S TRADING LAST TRADING CHANGES DATE CLOSE CLOSE CHANGE PRICE PRICE SIZE SIZE November 10, 2020 November 9, 2020 Local 2,626.87 2,626.51 0.36 ABV Investments Incorporated 15-Oct-20 - - - $0.05 $0.05 - $0.02 $0.30 8,080 10,500 Cross-list 1,400.14 1,400.14 - BICO Limited 21-Sep-20 - - - $3.10 $3.10 - - - - - Composite 646.04 645.95 0.09 MARKET CAPITALISATION (in millions) Banks Holdings Limited -+ 09-Dec-19 - - - $4.85 $4.85 - - - - - TODAY'S TRADING LAST TRADING CHANGES Barbados Dairy Industries Limited -+ 04-Oct-19 - - - $3.00 $3.00 - - - - - November 10, 2020 November 9, 2020 Local 5,280.23 5,279.51 0.73 Barbados Farms Limited 04-May-20 - - - $0.40 $0.40 - $0.35 $0.39 1,000 1,000 Cross-list 178.78 178.78 - Composite 5,459.01 5,458.29 0.73 Cave Shepherd and Company Limited 15-Oct-20 - - - $4.00 $4.00 - $2.00 $4.10 1,000 1,272 MUTUAL FUND FirstCaribbean International Bank 09-Oct-20 - - - $2.00 $2.00 - $1.80 $2.00 1,200 16,709 November 10, 2020 ENDED NAME OF FUND NAV OFFER BID NAV Eppley Caribbean Property Fund SCC 17-Jul-20 - - - $0.18 $0.18 - - $0.17 - 1,000 CHANGE - Dev Fund 06-Nov-20 REPUBLIC CAPITAL GROWTH FUND w 1.2223 0.0136 06-Nov-20 REPUBLIC INCOME FUND w 1.2490 0.0003 Eppley Caribbean Property Fund SCC 10-Nov-20 3,000 $0.56 $0.56 $0.56 $0.56 $0.00 $0.56 $0.57 19,301 32,358 06-Nov-20 REPUBLIC PROPERTY FUND w 0.6860 -0.0003 -Value Fund 06-Nov-20 FORTRESS CARIBBEAN GROWTH FUND w 5.8767 5.8767 5.8767 0.1883 06-Nov-20 FORTRESS HIGH INTEREST FUND - ACC. w 2.0709 0.0134 Goddard Enterprises Limited 09-Nov-20 - -- $2.20 $2.20 - $2.20 $2.25 646 6,446 06-Nov-20 FORTRESS HIGH INTEREST FUND - DIST. w 1.0081 0.0067 30-Sep-20 ROYAL FIDELITY SELECT BALANCED FUND m 5.4112 5.4112 5.3030 -0.0489 Insurance Corporation of B’dos Limited 15-Oct-20 - - - $3.00 $3.00 - $2.10 $2.70 580 580 30-Sep-20 ROYAL FIDELITY STRATEGIC GROWTH FUNDm 0.9778 0.9778 0.9582 -0.0213 30-Sep-20 ROYAL FIDELITY PREMIUM INCOME FUND m 1.6179 1.6179 1.5854 0.0037 One Caribbean Media Limited 06-Mar-20 - - - $2.70 $2.70 - $2.00 $2.50 600 800 30-Oct-20 SAGICOR GLOBAL BALANCED FUND w 2.53 -0.06 Sagicor Financial Corporation Pref 6.5% 23-Jun-16 - - - $2.26 $2.26 - - - - - 30-Oct-20 SAGICOR SELECT GROWTH FUND w 1.51 -0.03 30-Oct-20 SAGICOR PREFERRED INCOME FUND w 0.99 0.00 Sagicor Financial Corporation Limited -+ 29-Nov-19 - -- $2.80 $2.80 - - - -- * Indicates the Fund is currently ex-div NOTES: QUOTATIONS AND NET ASSET VALUE PER SHARE ARE SUPPLIED BY THE West India Biscuit Company Limited 06-Nov-20 - - - $31.50 $31.50 - $31.00 $31.50 500 382 FUND MANAGEMENT. THE OFFERING PRICE INCLUDES NET ASSET VALUE PLUS ENTRY COSTS. Emera Deposit Receipt 14-Aug-20 - - - $20.79 $21.12 $0.33 $25.06 - 50 - m = monthly valuation, q = quarterly valuation, w = weekly

TOTAL SHARES BOUGHT & SOLD 3,000 Fixed Income Last Trade Last Current Bid Ask Bid Ask Date Close Close Price Price Size Size GOB Series B 03-Nov-20 $60.00 $60.00 - $60.00 - 59,350 GOB Series D 12-Nov-19 $50.00 $50.00 - - - - * = Security is Trading X-Div GOB Series F 03-Nov-20 $89.00 $89.00 - - - - *+* = Security is Suspended GOB Series I 24-Mar-20 $65.00 $65.00 $70.00 103,713 ** = Rights Issued NEWS Boeing loses more 737 MAX NOTICES orders, eyes jet’s US return DIVIDEND DECLARATIONS Emera Deposit Receipt – Directors have declared a cash dividend of sixty-three point seven five (CDN $0.6375) cents per common but Europe tariffs loom share to be paid on November 16th, 2020 to Shareholders on record at close of business on November 2nd, 2020. Registered holders of depositary receipts ("Depositary Receipts") issued pursuant to Section 4.1 of the Amended and Restated Deposit Agreement dated SEATTLE – Boeing Co. lost over a cash-depleting over- February 2nd, 2016 among Emera, the Barbados Central Securities Depository Inc. and registered and beneficial holders of depositary another 12 orders for its hang of unwanted jets. receipts from time to time, are entitled to receive, in proportion to the number of Depositary Receipts held by them, respectively, a distribution in the amount of any cash received by the Barbados Central Securities Depository Inc. (net of any applicable withholding grounded 737 MAX jetliner The European Union’s taxes) in connection with the Dividend (the "Distribution"). in October, and delivered 13 decision to impose tariffs of aircraft to customers, down 15% on Boeing planes this BSE NOTICES from the 20 jets delivered in week could hobble its jet COVID-19 PROCEDURAL UPDATE the same month a year ago, deliveries in Europe. In light of the ongoing COVID-19 contagion affecting the island, the Barbados Stock Exchange Inc. (BSE) and the Barbados Central company data showed on Boeing said it lost orders Securities Depository Inc. (BCSDI) have been instituting several procedural changes. Tuesday. for four 737 MAX jets from For the second straight China Development Bank Kindly note that effective May 18th, 2020, the BSE and BCSDI re-opened and has resumed normal office hours of 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Please also note that we have implemented digital temperature checks for all persons entering the building. These checks are month, the closely watched Financial Leasing Co., one being conducted on both staff and clients alike by trained personnel. monthly snapshot revealed from Czech Airlines owner 787 Dreamliner quality Smartwings, three from While we acknowledge that every person with fever may not be COVID-19 positive and that some individuals may present without flaws and the coronavirus Oman Air, and four from an symptoms, please note that any person with a temperature reading of 100˚ F (37.8˚ C) or over will be denied entry to conduct business within our offices. pandemic kept hampering undisclosed buyer or buyers. Boeing’s efforts to develop Cancelled MAX orders, We wish to thank you in advance for your understanding and cooperation, however, we must emphasize that this is a necessary step an alternative cash cow to including those where buy- for the protection of staff and clients alike. the 737 MAX. ers converted to a different The US Federal Aviation model, was 448 jets – and TRADING SUSPENSION Administration (FAA) ap- 460 for all jets across The Barbados Stock Exchange Inc. (BSE) wishes to advise that to facilitate the closing of the Scheme of Arrangement effected by way peared about a week away Boeing’s portfolio, Boeing of Section 99 of the Companies Act 1981 of Bermuda involving the transfer of all the issued and outstanding shares in Sagicor Financial Corporation Limited to Alignvest Acquisition II, it has suspended trading in the security Sagicor Financial Corporation Limited. from lifting a March 2019 said. safety ban, although the For 2020 through October, The Barbados Stock Exchange Inc. (BSE) wishes to advise that due to non-compliance with Section 4.01.3 and subject to Section pandemic kept hammering the number of MAX orders 3.01.5.(1)(b) of the Rules of the Barbados Stock Exchange Inc. trading in the Common Shares of Banks Holdings Limited were demand for jets from Boeing cancelled, or removed from suspended effective December 10th, 2019. and European rival Airbus. Boeing’s official backlog The Barbados Stock Exchange Inc. (BSE) wishes to advise that due to non-compliance with Section 4.01.3 and subject to Section Airbus sold 11 jets last when it applies stricter ac- 3.01.5.(1)(b) of the Rules of the Barbados Stock Exchange Inc. trading in the Common Shares of Barbados Dairy Industries Limited month and booked 72 jet counting standards, stood were suspended effective December 10th, 2019. deliveries, easing concerns at 1,043 aircraft. The Barbados Advocate Wednesday November 11, 2020 • 21

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Steelers’ QB, three team-mates go on COVID-19 list

THE Pittsburgh self-quarantined and Steelers have placed the Steelers remain in four more players on the NFL’s intensive pro- the COVID-19 list, in- tocol. cluding quarterback McDonald missed Ben Roethlisberger. Friday’s practice with an The move comes a day “illness” according to the after tight end Vance team’s injury report, but McDonald went on the travelled to Dallas with list after testing positive the team and played 24 following a 24-19 win at snaps total against the Dallas that pushed the Cowboys, 20 on offense Steelers to 8-0. and four on special Running back Jaylen teams. Samuels, offensive line- The team had been man Jerald Hawkins COVID-19 free during and linebacker Vince the first half of the sea- Williams joined Roethlis- son but have still been berger on the list yester- dealing with the virus. day. Their game at Tennessee The reserve/COVID-19 originally scheduled for list is either for players Oct. 4 was pushed to Oct. who have tested positive 25 because of an out- or have been in close break among the Titans. contact with someone Hours after winning in who has. Baltimore on Nov.1, All players who have Ravens defensive back been in close contact Marlon Humphrey tested must quarantine for five positive, forcing the days and are unable to Steelers to spend last visit the team’s practice Pittsburgh Steelers running back James Conner (30) takes the hand off from quarterback Ben Roethlisberger week in the league’s in- facility but can partici- (7) in the first half of an NFL football game against the Dallas Cowboys in Arlington, Texas, on Sunday. tensive protocol pro- pate virtually. gramme. They must pass opportunity to play Cincinnati Bengals. notified of McDonald’s Steelers beat the The Steelers are 8-0 for COVID-19 tests through- Sunday when the Team spokesman Burt positive test on Monday Cowboys. the first time in the out the week to have an Steelers host the Lauten says the club was morning, hours after the McDonald immediately team’s history. The Barbados Advocate Wednesday November 11, 2020 •23

P R O HOROSCOPES S A ARIES (March 21-April 19). Understand N more, fear less. It's not really a goal; it's just the D natural result when you lead with your curious C mind and follow up with your courteous ways. O N TAURUS (April 20-May 20). The good thing S about envy is that it gives people a window into their potential that they may not have seen be- fore. We tend to be envious of the things that we have in us to accomplish.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You'll run into another one of love's paradoxes: You want Z someone to put your happiness first, but this I can happen only when you put another's first. T It works out best when two people can be made S happy by the same sorts of things.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Sometimes it feels like you against the world when it's really only you against a few things that didn't go im- mediately right. After you take a breath and ad- just your attitude, try again; the world will get on your side. R E LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Your style isn't just X how you dress or what you own; it's much M deeper than that. It's a mood, a tone, a way of O moving about the world. Your outside is chang- R ing to reflect the new style emerging in you. G A VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Beauty exists in N the mind. It's only an idea, but it's a contagious one. You'll see beauty and enhance it with the quality of your attention. Then others who did- n't see it before will see it, too.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). It's once again P time to get rid of some superfluous things. This H is becoming easier for you because the bene- A fits are so rewarding. Eliminate what you don't N need so that what you do need will become T clear. O M SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Do research before you take out your wallet. You will either save a bundle or wind up spending about the same but feeling much better about it because you investigated other options.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Sorrow is M impermanent, and faith is essential. Think back A to the younger you. Wouldn't you rush back and R Y share the message if you could? Your efforts are not in vain, and neither are your dreams. W O CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). It's one R thing to get attention and another thing to hold T it. The same goes for power, love, money and H any number of possessions. Attaining tends to be easier than maintaining.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You assume M responsibility for the fulfillment of your loved O one's needs. Whether this should be the case is T another discussion, though unquestionably, H you're made stronger by your caring efforts. E R PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). When does self- G care become self-indulgence? The difference O between what feels good and what is good for O you is known by your higher mind. Hint: S Self-care counts toward health; self-indulgence E subtracts from it. Teenager Greenidge wins BCF’s Ladies National chess title Page 17

Wednesday November 11, 2020 ‘CLEAN AND GREEN’ PROJECT UNDERWAY RESIDENTS of Harmony Hall, St. Lawrence, Christ Church will soon have a redeveloped clean and green space. This comes as the Ministry of the Environment and National Beautifi- cation presses ahead with its ‘Clean and Green’ project, which is expected to be replicated in communities across Barbados. Addressing last Friday’s launch, Minister of the Environment and National Beautification, Adrian Forde said that the project is in keeping with the government’s thrust not only to beautify the country,but to reduce its carbon foot- print by planting trees, which is an effec- tive way to offset carbon emissions. “We have to send the message to the in- ternational community that we are work- ing hand in glove to be able to reduce our carbon dioxide footprint and greenhouse gases,” he stressed. “Our Prime Minister speaks about planting a million trees… Each tree that we plant is able to sequester 48 pounds of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.A million trees will represent 48 million Minister of the Environment and National Beautification, Adrian Forde driving pounds of carbon dioxide being removed the bobcat loader, alongside the National Conservation Commission (NCC) team from the atmosphere. Now when we clearing the way for start of the ‘Clean and Green’ Project at Harmony Hall, speak to the international community,by Christ Church. INSET: Environment and National Beautification Minister, 2030 we can tell the rest of the world that Adrian Forde speaking to the media on the site. little Barbados has led the charge as it re- lates to reducing our carbon footprint.” pressed pleasure to be able to continue Member of Parliament for Christ “This little noble gesture from our the project, which is now at stage 2, in Church South, Ralph Thorne thanked country can signal to the rest of the world the beautiful rustic environment. Minister Forde and his team and assured that we are serious about protecting our “Harmony Hall has a panoramic view them that the residents will maintain the larger countries and we see a lot of open environment; about beautifying our envi- of the south. It is a rustic area, it is a area; working together to keep it clean spaces which are well kept and it is our ronment – about bringing a clean holistic beautiful area… What better way to treat and green. intention, having the Ministry take this environment so that the people of to this environment than to beautify it – “I grew up hearing the term ‘idle land’ initiative to integrate the community into Barbados can once again say we are to transform it and plant trees and put and my belief is that no land should be these restored spaces and have the punching above our weight, as it relates benches – and allow this space to be a nat- idle – if we are not growing crops on it – residents contribute to the cleaning and to a green economic recovery,” he said. ural beautiful space. We want to make then we should be recreating upon it; and beautification and maintenance of The Environment Minister also ex- Barbados beautiful and clean.” we should be beautifying it. We go to the the areas,” he said. (TL) Reshaping delivery of HIV services in Caribbean countries

COUNTRIES are now exploring continuity of care. disruptions is HIV testing. disruptions are high, self-testing is an the possibility of implementing “The delivery of services at this critical “Persons requiring testing must access ideal alternative to scale-up testing.” HIV self-testing, according to the time requires reshaping the way that care at a health facility. Countries are Dr.Adams said that the pandemic has Pan Caribbean Partnership Against services are traditionally delivered. now exploring the possibility of imple- also opened up new avenues for the care HIV/AIDS (PANCAP). COVID-19 presents an opportunity to menting HIV self-testing. HIV self-test- of those who are stable and require fewer This comes as National AIDS explore innovative solutions and new ing has the potential to rapidly increase clinical interactions. By doing so, stable Programmes continue to be challenged methods for service delivery,” Director uptake of HIV testing services, especially patients do not need to visit clinics as by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Rosmond Adams pointed out. for populations with low access and those frequently as they did for medication and However, despite these challenges, they He said that amongst the services at higher risk that would otherwise not continue to deliver services to ensure the significantly impacted by the pandemic get tested. In areas where COVID-19 NEW AVENUES on Page 5

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