Established October 1895 BNA executive member hopeful PAGE 2 Saturday August 1, 2020 $1 VAT Inclusive ‘REDEVELOP YOUR BUSINESSHEAD of the Small Business relaxed, the business community must “AsMODELS’ a result, the reopening of firms probabilities that may arise,” Holder Association, Senator Dr. Lynette look at restarting its engines and facing will require business owners to do more outlined. Holder, is advising businesses to the new normal “head on”, while than simply swing their doors open. In her Outlook June message, she also redevelop their strategies to ensure remaining conscious of the uncertainty They must now redevelop their business advised how critical it is for businesses relevance in the current COVID-19 of the progression of COVID-19 and the models and create agile operational to be dynamic. pandemic environment. probability of a second wave affecting strategies that can manoeuvre She highlighted that with restrictions the island. comfortably around any future BUSINESS MODELS on Page 2 Director of the Department of Emergency Management (DEM), Kerry Hinds (right) and President of the Roving Response Team (RRT), Ricardo Patrick, as they signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) at the DEM’s new headquarters. DEM encouraging Barbadians to create emergency plans By Regina Selman Moore of a Memorandum of Understanding multiplicity of hazards. You have for fire, for any eventuality. As (MOU) with the Roving Response the fire hazards, you can have Barbadians, you need to know the BARBADIANS are being encouraged Team (RRT), represented by President, earthquakes, tsunamis, hence hazards that can affect you at any to develop an Emergency Plan, as Ricardo Patrick. That signing the reason why the Department’s point in time, all year round and it is part of their comprehensive disaster ceremony took place at the DEM’s new programme is a multi-hazard, multi- important that you and your family preparedness efforts. headquarters, located in The George focus programme, aimed at the various have your plans in place and you Director of the Department of Greaves Building, No. 24 Warrens sectors in the public domain,” Hinds generally be prepared and be aware,” Emergency Management (DEM), Industrial Park, St. Michael. pointed out. Hinds stressed. Kerry Hinds, gave this critical piece of “Our focus is comprehensive disaster “So we encourage persons to develop advice yesterday, following the signing management and that looks at a their emergency plans and that can be EMERGENCY PLANS on Page 3 2 • Saturday August 1, 2020 The Barbados Advocate BNA executive member hopeful AN executive member of the First Vice President, Heather Deane, nurses had been brought to assist with talk about remuneration, all these Barbados Nurses’ Association (BNA) shared this view while speaking on the alleviating Barbados’ current nurse things and they are not satisfied with it. hopes while the Ghanaian nurses radio programme Down to Brass Tacks shortage. Furthermore, the nurses are saying that are working in Barbados, measures yesterday.She was responding to a ques- On Thursday, 95 Ghanaian nurses ar- successive governments have paid little will be implemented to encourage tion of why she was not agitating for the rived in Barbados.They are in the island attention to nursing”. them to remain and work in the preservation of employment for local under a two-year contract and when they The retired nursing tutor also spoke country. nurses, but instead was glad Ghanaian commence work, they will be assigned about the burden placed on the nation’s to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH), public sector nurses as the health serv- the Geriatric Hospital and polyclinics. ices available on island expand. “We are not saying not to preserve “The nursing establishment has not employment here. We love the nurses to been increased for many, many years. I remain here, but the reality is that … cannot remember the last year it was in- even if the nurses who are on the estab- creased. Over the years what has hap- lishment remain here, we do not have pened is in the QEH, in the Psychiatric enough. So we are asking that in the time Hospital and other service areas, we have that the Ghanaian nurses remain here, increased the service to clientele.We have that we put things in place to [encourage] included things like Quarter Way House the nurses to remain here.” at the Psychiatric Hospital, we have sent Deane, while on the air,gave an idea of and trained nurses to go into the commu- some of the reasons local nurses opt to nity,but these were drawn from the staff migrate overseas to work rather than re- already in place and no effort was made main. Included in what she stated were to expand nursing staff to meet the needs nurses “talk about the conditions of serv- of the society. They were expanding the ice, the need for further training, they services, but not the staff.” (MG) Proper appraisal system needed MINISTER of People Empowerment and personal responsibilities sometimes Elder Affairs, Cynthia Forde, is insisting impacted on their jobs. a proper appraisal system be placed “While we are doing this, it is incum- within the public service. bent on Government and the private in- Chief Executive Officer of the Small Business Association, Senator Dr. Lynette Addressing Parliament’s debate on the stitutions to ensure that there is a proper Holder. Public Service (General) Order,2020, she appraisal system put in place to be able said that one of the pitfalls of a small to measure the contribution of workers. community is that persons without the There must be training on a regular basis relevant qualifications may be promoted because some people because of illnesses Time for small business to the dismay of those with, simply be- and their own personal issues where a cause of who they know. child is sick, a parent has Alzheimer’s “In small societies everyone knows each and such like that they cannot get to work other, so they promote the friend of a min- on time. So a level of empathy should be sector to make changes ister or a priest or a supervisor in charge there, but the communication from those BUSINESS MODELS from Page 1 perfected this service ended up being of some other entity in government, but persons who are in charge of the institu- miles ahead of those who refused to im- overlook the ordinary poor man or tions should be coming through from “It is also imperative for companies to plement such measures in their opera- woman who strives every day but with their training to be able to listen and un- listen to the changing wants and needs tional systems before and as a result tremendous difficulties to be able to de- derstand and give them an opportunity of consumers and respond quickly with were left “scrambling” to catch up. liver.We have to look at how promotion where persons can use a sort of flexi-time effective solutions if they wish to remain The Association’s head therefore told is done and not because of favouritism to put back in the time they may have relevant and profitable. One glaring ex- small business owners to acknowledge or nepotism, but to make sure those missed because of such situations. ample which comes to mind is the height- the beginning of a new era for commerce, promoted meet the criteria,” the MP for “But the rigidity sometimes that is ened demand for delivery services across as the rules of marketing have changed St. Thomas asserted. within the governmental sector causes a the island.This demand, which was once with ‘Place’ now being redefined from Speaking on the need to deal with ap- lot of people to be disenchanted and to be only a want, has now evolved due to the brick and mortar to e-business and pointments to the Civil Service without grumbling all the time and to be feeling health and safety concerns surrounding delivery services. long delays, she insisted the current ‘nobody likes me because they are picking COVID-19. Now customers have become “Now is the time for small business administration is actively working on on me’. It is incumbent upon us to have more insistent on utilising firms which sector to re-engineer its thinking and ensuring persons received security of the appraisal system, let people know offer e-commerce platforms and delivery mechanisms to emerge stronger and tenure as long as they fitted the job’s where they have made errors and where services to avoid unnecessary interac- more ready for whatever lies ahead. profile. they have not been as professional as tions with the public,” she said. Perhaps it is also time for marketers Forde, however, insisted that supervi- they should be, and take out the anger Holder highlighted that as a result, to update their foundational model for sors and employers must be considerate and the malice over personalities,” she businesses which already offered and business,” she added. to their hardworking employees if their added. CIBC FirstCaribbean seeking COVID-19 unsung heroes across the region COMMUNITIES across the region have als and little children with piggy banks, CIBC FirstCaribbean operates and have photo of them. Persons can make multi- a unique opportunity to hail those spe- all rallied to help and to give to those worked, volunteered or been involved in ple nominations, but can only nominate cial heroes, who in the darkest moments impacted by the pandemic,” said any of the award categories listed below: a candidate/s who resides in their coun- of the COVID-19 crisis, shone brightest. Chief Executive Officer of CIBC • Medical personnel try of residence.