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Sunday November 22, 2020 $2 VAT Inclusive NO CAUSE FOR CONCERN NIS chairman assures public that there are enough funds in Scheme Recent heavy rains BARBADIANS need not worry employees. ing for their severance for a long while. threaten to delay about the current financial stand- “With the National Insurance Scheme The chairman pointed out that in the ing of the country’s National (NIS), I am proud to say that it is the government of Barbados’ debt restruc- BARVEN event Insurance Scheme (NIS). richest institution in Barbados. We con- turing exercise, the NIS took a hit of ap- Page 2 NIS chairman, Leslie Haynes told trol at this moment assets in excess of proximately $1.2 billion. However, in this to the media yesterday while at BDS$4 billion,” Haynes told a news con- spite of that, there are enough funds the same time chiding some em- ference yesterday, which was called to that will allow the NIS to see this mat- ployers for not carrying out their obliga- discuss the plight of workers at the Club ter through for the next two years. tion in paying severance to severed Barbados Hotel. They have been agitat- NIS on Page 3

Headquarters agreement signed Page 6

DEO officials engage youth showing a keen interest in volunteering their skills, on location at the DEO booth set up in Sky Mall, Haggatt Hall yesterday. DEOs seek out citizens’ valuable skills with recruitment drive

By Regina Selman Moore Michael South-East DEO, acknowledged Day and Volunteer Drive with the setting Squash spotlight on the above as he spoke with the Barbados up of information booths at various loca- Bryant Cumberbatch CONSTITUENTS across local communi- Advocate yesterday. His sentiments came tions across the island. Persons were able ties have valuable skills, which can be of as the District Emergency Organisations to learn more about the function and role Page 33 benefit to the island’s District Emergency (DEOs), which represent the volunteer of the DEOs in their communities and Organisations (DEOs). arm of the Department of Emergency they also had the opportunity to Victor Layne, Deputy Chair of the St. Management, held a Public Awareness DEO on Page 4 2 • Sunday November 22, 2020 The Barbados Advocate Recent heavy rains threaten to delay BARVEN event By Marsha Gittens cultural presentation where ‘Ma Vendor’, a char- RECENT heavy rains acter who personifies have caused some vending on the island, will delay in preparations, be depicted from around however plans for the 7:30am. He also stated Barbados Association of Retailers, Vendors, and Entrepreneurs (BARVEN) President, Allister Alexander and staging of next week’s that craft, clothing and Vice-President, Erskine Forde. Community Market fish vendors will be among Extravaganza are those plying their trade on pressing ahead. the day at the outdoor Barbados Association of market’s Mighty Grynner Retailers, Vendors, and Highway location. The Entrepreneurs (BAR- Heart and Stroke VEN) President, Allister Foundation is expected to Alexander stated this be on hand to speak about while speaking to how individuals, espe- Barbados Advocate yes- cially the youth, can go terday, ahead of the pre- adopting a healthier Independence Day activ- lifestyle. ity. The BARVEN “The rains, to be truth- President assured that ful, have been keeping every effort is being made back the preparations.We to ensure quality produce would have liked to be will be present and avail- well prepared. The area able for purchase next that we are trying to make Saturday. a carpark, we would like “We know things are some nice gravel put scarce in Barbados right down…. We have started now as far as vegetables and we expect them to be are concerned but we are completed by the time we looking to find them are ready next week for where ever they are in the Community Market this country and bring Extravaganza.” them here at the BAR- Alexander said the VEN Super Outdoor November 28th event will Market for the include activities such as a Extravaganza next week.”

Two new COVID cases

TWO visitors to the island Additionally, no one will have tested positive for be discharged from isola- COVID-19 after undergo- tion today. ing second tests. The Best-dos Santos A 41-year-old man who Public Health Laboratory arrived on American conducted 358 tests yes- Airlines on November 7, terday. There are now and was re-tested on seven people in isolation, November 9; and a 62- 241 others have recovered year-old man who came to and confirmed cases to Barbados, also on date now stand at 255, American Airlines, on comprising 134 females November 18, were diag- and 121 males. nosed with the viral ill- The laboratory has com- ness. Both men were pleted 44,146 tests. asymptomatic. (MR/BGIS)

The Barbados Advocate Sunday November 22, 2020 • 3

PM: Misinformation causing panic

“ABSOLUTE non- In recent press reports, and the National sisted the legislation had sense! You have one year Tribunal in the tradi- sense!” Opposition Senator Insurance Scheme at the been misconstrued re- within which to bring the tional way, we want an This was how Prime Caswell Franklyn argued Lloyd Erskine Sandiford garding the Severance claim and there is no expedited process,” the Minister Mia Amor temporary adjustments Centre yesterday, Payment Act and said piece of legislation that PM contended. Mottley described the made to the Act cut the Mottley expressed annoy- this misinformation was the Parliament of Mottley argued that belief that sunset leg-is- time for which severance ance there was any “no- creating panic amongst Barbados has passed that government had the best lation implemented by could be triggered and tion that the government laid off workers. has taken that away from interest of the tourism government with regards prevented laid off work- of Barbados has propped “I am upset that the any worker in this coun- workers at heart by in- to the Severance ers from approaching the up employers but deci- people who are being af- try. troducing the BEST and Payment Act reduced the ERT. mated the rights of work- fected is not me…but the “They have said you Covid Relief programs. time of any employee to However, in addressing ers and diminished the workers. And then for you cannot go to the “We realise that if we file for severance or hin- a joint press conference rights of workers.” to say ‘they cannot got to Employment Rights do not commit to the en- dered their ability to take with officials from the Speaking on the mat- the Employment Rights Tribunal. Far from that, terprises as well, where their case to the Barbados Hotel and ter for the first time since Tribunal and can’t bring we have said that we do the jobs going to go? Out Employment Rights Tourism Association, the it was raised in the pub- a claim anymore for sev- not only want you to go to through the window,” she Tribunal (ERT). Barbados Workers’ Union lic domain, Mottley in- erance’- absolute non- the Severance Rights added. (JMB) ‘Workers at The Club will get Government pushing for funds to be their money’ disbursed by Independence Day FORMER employees of any sums of money, but claims for the employees that the scheme would be The Club Barbados Resort what we will do without will be expedited to ensure moving “without delay” to may have their severance agreement, is act in accor- all received payments recover funds from all em- packages in hand by as dance with the law. The quickly. ployers who could afford soon as Independence Day. law allows us to take care “We have a board meet- to pay severance, but Prime Minister Mia of those workers, but ing (tomorrow) and in- passed on the obligations Amor Mottley disclosed equally the law requires structions have already to the NIS. yesterday that the us, and sometimes it has been given not to wait for “Rest assured that the National Insurance not been done with as a paper for all employees, NIS will make immediate Scheme (NIS) will push much diligence as I would let us process them every and extra efforts to re- through the workers’ have liked, requires the day because we have an cover those amount be- claims, and secure reim- NIS to go and to have that expedited process,” he cause every dollar that is bursement from the St. money, which they have stated. recovered is one that can James hotel. spent, reimbursed to “The public can be as- be spent invested by the “The workers at The them, because the sured, especially the for- NIS on benefits for Club will get their money. Government’s contribu- mer employees of the Club Barbadian employers. It is The General Secretary of tion is only 25 percent, but that everything will be unfair for employers who the Barbados Workers’ it is the company that done to ensure their sever- can afford to do so, not to Union is insistent that she must pay 75 percent,” she ance payments are made pay severance. We will would like it by outlined. come Independence Day,” make sure that that does NIS Chairman Leslie Haynes told Barbadians the Independence Day.In fair- NIS Chairman Leslie he said. not happen as a rule,” he fund was in good financial standing. ness to the NIS, they could Haynes assured the Haynes also reiterated argued. (JMB) not say yesterday whether that was yet possible and have indicated to me by NIS ‘aware Tuesday they would indi- cate exactly what day they can make the payment by because they have to make of problems’ the calculations and the preparations…and if not NIS from Page 1 payments. Haynes said by Independence Day, I that with the Barbados have asked that it be done “So there is no cause for Employment and as soon as possible after,” concern,” Haynes as- Sustainable she stated. sured. Transformation (BEST) She was speaking dur- Earlier Haynes told the programme having been ing a joint press confer- media that earlier this put in place, the Scheme ence with officials from year there was the issue will act as a “long stop- the Barbados Hotel and of the unemployment per”, which in cricketing Tourism Association, the benefit scheme, which terms means a fielder po- Barbados Workers’ Union saw the NIS coming to sitioned behind the and the National the table and making un- wicket keeper. Insurance Scheme at the employment benefit pay- Haynes indicated that Lloyd Erskine Sandiford ments to the tune of more this issue with the Club, Centre yesterday and in- than $135 million. as expected, is an unfore- sisted the workers would Government has prom- seen event. “But our man- not become “collateral ised to recapitalise the date is to ensure those damage” as a result of the unemployment scheme. employees are paid since issue. The Chairman said instructions have already “In one voice yesterday, that the NIS is fully been given,” he stated. we agreed that the work- aware of what is taking He added, “the public, ers of the club must not be place in Barbados and especially the former em- made to be collateral dam- knows what the problems ployees of the Club, can age of the actions of the are. be assured that every- owner of that hotel. Having dealt therefore thing will be done to en- Secondly, the NIS indi- with the unemployment sure their severance pay- cated that they have no Prime Minister Mia Mottley assures the former employees of The Club benefits, it anticipated ments are made come such agreement to pay Barbados they will get their severance packages soon the issue of severance Independence Day.

4• Sunday November 22, 2020 The Barbados Advocate

Good response Independence to recruitment Day Salute to drive from public the Nation DEO from Page 1 need clearing from trees and vines, broken hy- volunteer their assis- drants etc,” he added. next Monday tance. “So today we are look- “Today, this is basically ing to build the base of the BARBADOS’ 54th Orderlies and the a recruitment drive and DEO, because there are Anniversary of Massed Band of the also it's an educational many vulnerable persons Independence will be cel- Royal Barbados Police drive as well. We are basi- in our constituencies, per- ebrated with a Salute to Force and the Barbados cally sensitising members sons that are disabled, the Nation and the pres- Defence Force (BDF). of the community about persons that have medical entation of the National Also in attendance will the functions of the DEO conditions, are elderly or Independence Awards in be Chief Justice and how they can sign up they just live alone and in National Heroes Square, Patterson Cheltenham; and be of assistance,” times of disaster, these Bridgetown, on Monday, Leader of the Opposition, Layne said, while on loca- persons will really need November 30, beginning Joseph Atherley; tion at Sky Mall, Haggatt our assistance. The DEM at 8 a.m. National Hero The Right Hall, St.Michael. cannot assist everyone in The ceremony will in- Excellent Sir Garfield “Many of our commu- a natural disaster, so we clude the presentation of Sobers; Commissioner of nity members have a skill have to play our part as National Independence Police Tyrone Griffith; that can be very useful, in community citizens and Awards by Governor Chief of Staff of the terms of any disaster or good residents, to look General Dame Sandra BDF, Colonel Glyne any common community after our own, especially Mason; the Address to Grannum, National drive that we are going to the most vulnerable. So the Nation by Prime Independence Awardees put on. For instance, we today,this is what this re- Minister Mia Amor and specially invited have training in chainsaw cruitment is about, to ex- Victor Layne, Deputy Chair of the St. Michael Mottley; and the Salute guests. management, first aid, pand and basically have a South-East DEO, as he spoke about the DEOs’ to the Nation. A rehearsal for the community mapping and stronger community DEO recruitment drive. The Barbados event will be held on that is identifying risks presence in most con- Regiment will provide Sunday, November 22, in and hazards in your com- stituencies,” Layne said. was good and the youth drive, which was hearten- the Guard of Honour, National Heroes Square, munity like blocked water By all reports, the re- especially showed a keen ing to the DEO personnel while the other troops on Bridgetown, beginning at courses, utility lines that sponse from the public interest in the DEOs’ involved. Parade will be the Flag 7 a.m. The Barbados Advocate Sunday November 22, 2020 • 5

Nine groups receive donations through PMAD programme

A TOTAL of nine organisa- tions have received a gener- ous donation from Republic Bank (Barbados) through its Power to Make a Difference Programme (PMAD). The 2020-2021 launch of the Programme was held this week at the Bank’s Holetown branch. PMAD is the Bank’s corporate social responsibility initiative and it is established in all of the subsidiaries of Republic Financial Holdings Limited. Addressing the audience, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Republic Bank (Barbados), Anthony Clerk said of the nine recipients, three were newly added to the Programme. These are Pharma Wellness International Inc., Crime Stoppers Barbados and Eco Rebel. The remaining entities being supported through PMAD are the Barbados Adventure Race (BAR), the Diabetes & Hypertension Association of Barbados, SickKids Caribbean, the Transplant Links Community (TLC), the St. Ambrose Primary School and Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Republic Bank (Barbados), Anthony Clerk (centre), Manager Marketing & Jabez House. Corporate Communications (RBBB), Sophia Allsopp Cambridge (back row, left) pictured with the representatives of the nine Speaking more about their organisations that received a donation from Republic Bank (Barbados) through its Power to Make a Difference Programme partnership with St. Ambrose (PMAD) Primary, Clerk said they have worked with the school’s admin- School that we have made the project which will be rolled out Relief efforts in all of the terri- Wellness for the purchase of istration to help enhance the decision to have each of our later in the fiscal year.” tories in which we operate. Of pharmaceuticals and other crit- green spaces at the educational branches work closely with a Clerk also used the occasion to that sum, Republic Bank ical medical supplies. Regional institution. He stated,“we so en- primary and secondary school share that “Republic Financial (Barbados) Limited contributed support, under the banner joyed the relationship fostered near to them.We have budgeted Holdings Limited contributed $400 thousand dollars to our “Power to Unite” with the St. Ambrose [Primary] over $70,000.00 towards this US$2 million to regional COVID local Ministry of Health and continues.”(MG) All is not well at L.T. Gay Memorial

LAWRENCE T. Gay Memorial Class 4 students were at the Primary School continues to be neighbouring Grace Hill plagued by environmental is- Moravian church, Class 3 stu- sues despite being closed earlier dents went to the Jackson this year for several months and Seventh Day Adventist Church, the most recent case came Jackson; Classes 1 and 2 re- Friday as the school closed for ported to the Christ The King work to be done in regards to Anglican Church, Rock Dundo; these issues. and the reception and Infant’s Environmental problems at As and Bs were at the Ebenezer the Spooner’s Hill, St. Michael Seventh-Day Adventist Church, School are nothing new to the Eden Lodge, St Michael. parents and teaching staff of the However the new school year institution. In 2016 the students has seemingly not brought any Just last week students of Lawrence T. Gay Memorial Primary School joined their parents to and staff relocated to the Breath relief to the environmental chal- protest the ongoing environmental issues. of Life Seventh-day Adventist lenges that caused the shut- Church in White Hall; the Sarah down and parents recently as many of 21 members of the rhea. as many as 25 students have Ann Gill Methodist Church in protested in front of the school in teaching staff in a single day One parent remarked that transferred to date. Fairfield, and the Grace Hill an effort to draw attention to were not able to report for duty. teachers are getting sick and the A report was provided to the Moravian Church in Spooner’s the issues, which are still plagu- Some of the things which the ministry replaces them as was PTA but with the issues still Hill, all in St Michael, after staff ing the school, though the stu- students and staff have been the case when members from continuing many are asking for and students complained of dents and staff have returned complaining for are swollen and the Erdiston Teachers’ Training some urgent attention to be itchy skin and a noxious odor. this term. itchy eyes, stingy skin, hives, College were sent to replace given to the matter which has Earlier in 2020 the staff and Some teachers were also rashes, tingly lips, headache, them during that day. been affecting the health of students once again relocated. falling ill during this term and stomach aches and even diar- Since the September restart everyone on the compound.(CG) 6 • Sunday November 22, 2020 The Barbados Advocate

inister of Foreign Affairs Dr Jerome Walcott is pictured as he signs the Headquarters Agreement on behalf of the Government and people of Barbados during the virtual ceremony at his Ministry. Witnessing the signing was Senior Foreign Service Officer, Mrs Sandra Gittens (right). Headquarters agreement signed

EFFORTS to further strengthen the sentatives from leading private sector CARICOM Single Market and entities in the region endorsed the posi- Economy (CSME) were facilitated tion of the Conference. A group of firms, recently, with the signing of a including some of the largest business Headquarters Agreement between entities in CARICOM, met and consti- Barbados and the CARICOM tuted themselves into an Organising Private Sector Organisation (CPSO). Group with the aim of establishing a re- The agreement was signed by Minister gional private sector organisation with of Foreign Affairs, Senator Dr Jerome the specific purpose of working with the Walcott; and Chairman of the CARICOM Member States of the Caribbean Private Sector Organisation, E. Gervase Community to advance the full imple- Warner, in a virtual ceremony. mentation of the CSME. In his remarks, Dr. Walcott noted that The Organising Group of private sector it was an honour to sign on behalf of the entities are committed to ensuring the Government and people of Barbados, design and establishment of an appropri- since this country had lead responsibil- ate vehicle to represent the views of the ity for the CSME, while Mr. Warner de- Private Sector in a cooperative engage- scribed the initiative “as a great day in ment with the Organs and Councils of history”. the Caribbean Community. At its 18th Special Meeting in Trinidad The objectives of the proposed CPSO and Tobago in December 2018, the are to fully support the Conference and Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM Member States with the im- the Caribbean Community indicated that plementation of the CSME; contribute deeper involvement of the private sector to the reduction of the 'implementation and its more structured participation in deficit' relating to the decisions and ac- the CARICOM integration process would tions on the CSME; monitor the imple- be beneficial to the achievement of the mentation of decisions regarding CSME CSME objectives. implementation; advise on mechanisms The CPSO is being established as a to resolve disputes among the CARICOM consequence of the recognition by the Private Sector where issues are of strate- Conference and representatives of the gic importance to the CSME; and formu- regional private sector, that the focused late positions on issues relating to intra- input of the regional private sector and and extra-regional trade and investment labour movement could accelerate (goods, services, capital and labour,rules- progress towards the full implementa- related regimes (i.e. government procure- tion of the CSME in particular, and the ment, contingent rights). regional integration process in general. It will also help to substantially reduce This would entail full use of labour (full current and future impediments to trade employment); full exploitation of the and investment faced by business enter- other factors of production (natural re- prises (non-tariff barriers, free movement sources and capital); and competitive pro- of persons, free movement of goods, out- duction leading to greater variety and dated common external tariff and rules quantity of products and services to trade of origin); encourage and facilitate better with other countries. coordination and complementarities The Conference accordingly decided among regional private sector entities in that the Revised Treat of Chaguaramas relation to priority policy recommenda- should be amended to include represen- tions and projects in support of the tative bodies of the Private Sector and CSME; and provide advocacy at the na- the Labour Movement as Associate tional and regional levels on key issues Institutions. that are germane to the advancement of Consultations among groups of repre- the CSME. (MFAFT/BGIS)

The Barbados Advocate Sunday November 22, 2020 • 7 Health experts to explore alcohol use during pandemic

THE Healthy these harms and to regu- Caribbean Coalition late alcohol sales, promo- (HCC) in partnership tion and consumption as with the Pan American we continue into the pro- Health Organisation longed social and eco- (PAHO), the Caribbean nomic conditions of the Public Health Agency pandemic” HCC officials (CARPHA) and the noted. Organisation of The webinar will high- Eastern Caribbean light how alcohol use dur- States (OECS) ing the coronavirus pan- Commission, will be demic is related to and continuing the annual impacted by poor mental Caribbean Alcohol health, government regu- Reduction Day lation and industry ac- (CARD) webinar se- tion. Through a round- ries, next week. table format, a diverse The objective of the fifth panel of experts and advo- CARD webinar entitled cates will share regional “Alcohol and COVID-19”, research on alcohol use is to reflect on the alcohol patterns and associated consumption patterns risk and harms, linkages over the course of the pan- with mental health and demic; the reciprocal im- the impact of government pact of mental health and industry action. under crisis conditions on Finally, policy strategies alcohol consumption and and recommendations related harms and comor- will be discussed that are bidities; government and focused on reducing alco- alcohol industry action hol consumption and as- during the pandemic; and sociated harms, mitigat- to discuss priority alcohol ing poor mental health policy and programming, arising from pandemic related mental health pol- conditions and regulating icy and programming and industry marketing activ- industry regulations mov- ity. ing forward as the pan- To date, the HCC and demic continues. its partners have held an The organisers suggest annual Caribbean Alcohol that this year’s theme is Reduction Day for the most topical and critical past four years, under the to examine, because of the themes and titles: The specific harms and comor- Misuse of Alcohol (2016); bidities related to alcohol Drink less, Reduce consumption, during this Cancer (2017); Youth: public health crisis. Let’s talk about alcohol “The interconnected na- (2018); and Women and ture of alcohol consump- Alcohol (2019). The up- tion, mental health and coming webinar next NCDs during the COVID- Tuesday, is highly antici- 19 pandemic requires pated as well, in light of close examination, in the current COVID-19 order to best devise pandemic and the topics strategies to manage to be explored. (RSM) Reminder to overseas property owners to submit email address

DUE to delays with the Change of Land Tax delivery of international Mailing Address form, mail, the Barbados which should then be sub- Revenue Authority is urg- mitted to ing property owners over- [email protected]. seas to request a copy of Property owners also their 2020-2021 Land Tax have the option to review bills via email. their bill and make pay- Property owners should ments directly on EZpay+, visit the Authority’s web- the Government’s online site at bra.gov.bb to down- payment platform, at load and complete a ezpay.gov.bb.

8 • Sunday November 22, 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 Same-sex what? – Part three “HIS light was for all time, proclaimed that higher and his love was for all truth. It has this conse- The semiotics men.” That’s the Jesus I quence – that a person is follow – the Jesus of love, no more a sinner for being reconciliation, inclusive- gay than for being ness, acceptance and hope. straight. “Who am I to of a removal He lives in every human judge?” gay people, asked heart which loves. Pope Francis.“I am what I AFTER decades of advocacy,much dither and drift, He’s not, and can never am because of who we all and a recently broken promise, a governing admin- be, the Jesus of a minc- are,” remarked Martin istration has finally summoned up the courage to ingly moralising church. Luther King. Our lives are remove the statue of Lord Horatio Nelson from its He’s a Jesus who’s inti- ing. For anyone to pro- true selves. It’s only when Me-We, all humanity. For anomalous occupation of the national Heroes mate, emotional, physi- claim the Gospel on the our sexuality becomes de- the Christian, there’s no Square. cally expressive. He gets one hand and make homo- structive, when its activi- such thing as being anti- Our readers may recall that this anomaly was angry spontaneously, and phobic remarks on the ties result in exploitation LGBTQ. There’s only our foremost argument for the displacement of loves spontaneously. He other would, for him, be a and abuse, that it becomes being pro-Gospel. In the statue, on the simple basis that he was not a says what he thinks. His denial of truth itself. a sordid, tawdry, shabby, Bishop Curry’s words, national hero of Barbados, and thus had no legit- close friends were men. You know, I don’t pre- unhealthy thing, and de- “Love is the only way.” imate right to be in our pantheon. We’re told that one he tend to justify LGBTQ- means the personhood of Will the ayatollahs ever That its removal was effected on a day desig- “loved” freely lay on his ism. I don’t need to. It’s others. understand this? Will the nated by the United Nations as the international breast at supper. But he been with us since the Religions have for so persecution of LGBTQ day of tolerance would have added to the irony of accepted the friendship of dawn of man. Our sexual- long been repressive of the people ever end? By God’s what appeared to be a celebration of the displace- prostitutes. He forgave an ity is such a complex thing. body. It’s as if they’ve de- Grace it will. But for now, ment of one vestige of slavery, complete with adulteress – no matter It makes us, all of us, at valued physical life. Yet LGBTQ people? Well, with speeches and much song and dance. what the law required – one time or other confront the body is, in its way, the Martin Luther King some- But, after all this, what did the statue and sent her on her way. our own repressions, anx- soul that we see. It out- how we must “stand up symbolise that proved to be so much anathema to He is a Jesus who laughs, iety and guilt. But then wardly expresses the sub- before our most bitter op- the Barbadian that one generation might have weeps, tells jokes. He’s not that’s all part of the jour- tlety and mystery of the ponents and say: ‘We regarded it as the representation of a hero while afraid of the body, of Eros. ney to discover our true person, and acts as a win- shall match your capacity another (ours) views it as an odious symbol of the Maybe, for some, he’d be a selves. It’s part of the soul’s dow into life. If the world to inflict suffering by our inhuman bondage to which our ancestors were scandal today too. Why? journey to self-realisation. can be seen as a grain of capacity to endure suffer- made subject? Because his tolerance for We’re all sexual beings. sand, why not the meaning ing. We shall meet your Is it that our perspective is so chameleon-like humanity is pretty well Our sexuality is unique to of life in a girl’s hair,or the physical force with soul that it changes with the centuries, is it that limitless. He’s intoxicated us. We all have our fan- hands of a man? force. Do to us what you the Barbadian of today is not the Barbadian of by life. He comes eating tasies, desires, inhibitions, All this is lost on the ay- will and we will still love yesteryear, or is it that we are all a heady and drinking. He’s not AND that terrible and atollahs, for whom proof you…’.” After everything, admixture of slavers, enslaved, liberated and un- troubled by sexuality be- repressive urge to texts have been turned why? Because we stand free? cause he relates to us all as be NORMAL, whatever into idols. But the great with Jesus, God with us, In this last scenario, there is clearly room for a friends. At the root of his normality is. ‘Chastity’, I commandment, to love not Caiaphas. Nelson statue, erected by an earlier version of the sexuality is compassion, suggest, is not so much ab- God and neighbour, even Go safely, then – until Barbadian, one perhaps unenlightened by modern and the heart is the true staining from sex, but an our enemy, is a higher the next time. quantification. sexual organ. Yes, he pro- open and almost child-like truth. Jesus never said Hope Vatican-wise, from It raises in our mind however the question as to claims joy and life. He re- recognition of its life-giv- ‘love the sinner, hate the the boundary: “And do not what the modern reaction would be were there to jects fear, guilt, anxiety ing qualities as an aspect sin’. No. He recognised forget: be revolutionary!” be discovered an original eighteenth century slave and hypocritical moralis- of our yearning to be our that we’re all sinners and (Pope Francis) hut. Would it be idolised as a memento of our an- cestors’ struggle? Or would it be regarded with shame as evoking memory of a time best for- gotten now, as was the case with Lord Nelson’s Aid agencies scramble to respond statue? These queries bring into high relief, though per- haps in interrogative form, the recently populist as Ethiopians flee to Sudan assertion that this is who we are.Who, exactly are we? A people that would erect a statue to an UM RAKUBA, Sudan – supplies to move people thing else,” said 28-year- Almost all those fleeing English naval hero, or a modern nation that would At the Um Rakuba settle- away from crowded tran- old Yohannes Gor, who into Sudan have arrived deny some aspects of our colonial heritage, ment in Sudan, refugees sit points on the border to arrived by foot after flee- at the border crossing while maintaining others, in the myriad of place queue for helpings of camps further into the ing fighting in the Ethio- points of Hamdayet and names dedicated to members of the English cornflour porridge and country. pian town of Humera, Luqdi, bringing first hand Royal Family and sundry others such as US pres- put up makeshift shelters The mostly Tigrayan close to the border. accounts of the fighting. idents? under scrubland trees, refugees fled with few “I live under this tree Convoys of buses have It is our considered view that the statue of Lord their possessions and many and sleep on the dirt. We been ferrying refugees Nelson, though arguably misplaced in its location, lives upended by fighting spent days on the run be- receive limited food, a from there to settlement perfectly represented the qualities that form the in Ethiopia’s northern fore crossing into Sudan. kind of cornflour porridge, areas or camps, but poor modern Barbadian character.The courage of fight- Tigray region. Aid agencies have but it doesn’t fill you up.I roads complicate the ing on although the numerical odds are stacked Aid agencies are racing stepped in with relief lost all trace of my family transfers. against one, the strategising that brings its own re- to scale up the humani- items such as jerry cans, and I don’t know what Several hundred kilo- ward of triumph and the pride in and loyalty to tarian response in remote blankets and dry food happened to them.” metres to the south, at one’s native land. areas of eastern Sudan, rations, but conditions Phone and internet least 678 people have also That these talents were employed in the pursuit where more than 30 000 remain tough at Um links have been cut in crossed from Ethiopia of an enterprise then legally nationalist but now people fleeing the fight- Rakuba, a rugged area Tigray since Ethiopian into Sudan’s Blue Nile decidedly regarded as abhorrent, should not imme- ing have arrived in under surrounded by hills where government troops state since Nov. 17. diately detract from their merit even in these two weeks. officials are considering a launched an offensive UNHCR, the UN refugee times. Not enough, certainly, to make Nelson a The United Nations is camp for up to 10 000 peo- early this month against agency, is still verifying national hero of this era, but a relic of part of our planning for as many as ple. regional authorities they what caused them to flee, history, a part about which we appear to remain 200 000 refugees to arrive “I’ve been wearing the accused of staging a sur- said Jens Hesemann, the ambivalent, unsure of whether we should be proud in the next six months same clothes for 10 days prise attack on federal agency’s assistant repre- or should be ashamed of it. and has been mobilising because I don’t have any- forces. sentative in Sudan. The removal of the statue might indicate a de- cisive turn in one direction. Then again, it might Telephone: 467-2000 News Fax: 434-1000 News Editor: Dorian Bryan Executive Editor: Allison Downes not. It may merely be the beginning of a new mode E-mail Address: [email protected] Business Editor: Jewel Brathwaite General Manager: Sandra Clarke Assistant Managing Director: Sean Eteen of thinking. We should evoke the discipline to Website: www.barbadosadvocate.com Sports Editor: Corey Greaves Publisher: Sir Anthony Bryan maintain it for years to come. @The Barbados Advocate @barbadosadvocate The Barbados Advocate Sunday November 22, 2020 • 9

The importance of judicial independence OF late it has been diffi- interests. tegrity,I engaged him as a made. cult not to think of events The view was posited consultant. I would now In a small jurisdiction in the United States that it would throw out of have to take leave of my like Barbados, one must of America. Usually, balance the makeup of the senses to oppose his ap- believe that our judges Barbadians pay attention court, leaning it too pointment to head the are made of that high to events in that country heavily in favour of con- local judiciary because of quality, or else some of us because most of us have servatism. My issue is not the source of his appoint- may never wish to appear friends and relatives who with what constitutes ment. I do not have those before some courts. live there, but there is conservative interests. bones within me. Whatever our divisions, much greater concern Americans have the right In time, the evidence the people who staff our now. to pursue whatever norms will prove me right or courts and generally func- The country which runs fit into their culture and be dire. formed the decision. wrong, but I believe I am tion in all areas of our ju- around the world telling way of life.What is bother- It was recently an- When news broke that right in saying that dicial system, cannot be people that they either ap- some is the naked political nounced that Patterson Sir Marston Gibson Barbadians can repose part of a tainted group. prove or disapprove of agenda that informs who Cheltenham QC, will be would vacate the office of confidence in his fairness, This would make life in their elections, as it suits is selected to sit on the the next Chief Justice of Chief Justice, a heavy even when matters con- this tiny country unbear- American interests, now court. Barbados. It is not usually cloak of uncertainty de- cerning the Government’s able. finds itself in the hands of The analyst explained thought necessary in scended on many persons interest come before him. It is people like Mr. a ‘leader’ who seems bent that this appointment Barbados for us to have as they wondered about Unlike America, this is Cheltenham who keep the on taking his great coun- would see the overturning the considerations which his replacement. Many consistent with our tradi- flame of that noble try down with him.And he of important decisions and are common in the US on breathed a sigh of relief tion. tradition burning. We all believes that he has the change the face of life in the appointment of a when it became known The English tradition have our detractors: that courts to assist him. America. Since America judge at the highest level. that his replacement believes that judges, mere is embedded in our cul- I listened to a serious forces its policy prefer- Although the silence of would be Mr.Cheltenham. men and women off the ture, but I am in no doubt commentary on the conse- ences on non-nuclear the population is now en- In this case, it was more a bench, take on the best that the vast majority of quences of the appoint- countries, the effects of forced by fear and the total question of the suitability principles of the indispen- those who practise before ment of President Trump’s this may be felt around coopting of all strains of of the appointee and not sable need for objectivity, the bar and have some latest nominee to the US the world. formal media, I am sure who appointed him. fairness and a lack of bias, knowledge of his work and Supreme Court. It was Lay persons probably that this has not informed At a personal level, I regardless of personal in- character, have full confi- numbing. As great a con- see the appointment of a the lack of dissent for this had enough confidence terest. Of course, the ap- dence in Cheltenham’s cern as any other aspect judge as a purely legal decision. Fortunately, Mr. in Mr. Cheltenham to pearance of bias must be ability to properly dis- of that exercise was the matter, not recognising Cheltenham is a candi- have him represent my in- guarded against, but the charge the duties of Chief enabling of his party in the down-the-line conse- date that would have terest in his capacity as brothers and sisters of the Justice. As we watch de- what they all believe to be quences. In a country as been acceptable to either an advocate at the bar. bench are in no doubt velopments in America, a deliberate padding of the powerful as America, political party, once non- Further,because I trusted about the stern stuff of we can give thanks for our court to suit conservative those consequences may political considerations in- his scholarship and his in- which English judges are local judicial system. A Caribbean-Central America alliance for Climate Justice GOVERNMENTS in and then tough negotia- America’s total CO2 emis- The Central American Central America are call- tions over conditions on sions represents only 0.2% Bank for Economic ing for “Climate Justice” which any meaningful of the global total; the Integration authorised after the devastation of concessionary loans would Caribbean’s is even less. $1 million in non-reim- their countries by Eta and be made to help affected International help, so bursable funds for Hon- Iota as both tropical countries recover. far, for Central America duras and Nicaragua, but storms and hurricanes. If any of the countries indicates a slow response. its resources are relatively The Central American are regarded as ‘high-in- The US Agency for Inter- small. It is to Inter- countries are echoing a come’ like Antigua and national Development national Financial Insti- call previously made by Barbuda, Bahamas, announced $120 000 tutions (IFIs), such as the Caribbean governments Barbados, and St Kitts- each to Honduras and IMF, World Bank and the whose countries are re- Nevis, they will get no con- region, destroying homes, ‘Climate Justice’ by Guatemala, and $100 000 Inter-American Develop- peatedly ravaged by hurri- cessional financing unless hospitals and other criti- Caribbean governments, to Nicaragua. The Euro- ment Bank, that these canes. they are already in an cal infrastructure and pil- and now Central Ameri- pean Union (EU) did bet- countries will look for The response of the in- IMF balance of payments ing one disaster on top of can leaders, is for compen- ter,pledging $1.83 million significant resources. ternational community to support programme. another. Many have died, sation for massive damage to all Central American Like the Caribbean, the the plight of Central Yet, the situation in many are missing, tens of caused to their countries countries. But the sums Central American coun- America has, so far, not Central America and thousands are homeless. by Climate Change in are small given that the tries are facing extraordi- been different to the way neighbouring Colombia is On top of the dreadful whose creation and bal- US and EU countries are nary costs to fight the they respond to the catastrophic. Thousands human suffering, the in- looning they are least to amongst the largest con- effects of the COVID-19 Caribbean. Typically,that of people face a lack of frastructural wreckage blame. The Economic tributors to Climate pandemic in circum- response is much public drinking water, food and runs into hundreds of Commission for Latin Change. The silence of stances where their rev- handwringing, minuscule basic supplies after Eta millions of dollars. America and the Carib- other big polluting nations enues are dwindling. immediate contributions, and Iota slammed the The demand for bean notes that Central is also alarming. CONTINUED on Page 10

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The next COVID-challenge – Mass immunisation IN the last few days, ments and support have agreements with which is regarded by Gavi Pfizer BioNTech a measures to purchase Gavi are The Bahamas, as self-financing, it is not German-US company, quantities of COVID-19 Belize, St Kitts, and clear what arrangements and the US company vaccines as soon as they Trinidad. Haiti is already have been put in place, Moderna have separately become available in included as a low-income although earlier this announced that the 2021. country in the Gavi- year its President, Luis COVID-19 vaccines they Unlike the difficulties COVAX advanced market Abinader, said that have been developing faced in 2019 during the commitment mechanism, Government will deposit have proved 95 per cent H1N1 pandemic when while Guyana, Dominica, money to buy one million effective. Both subse- the poorest countries in Grenada, St Lucia, and St doses of the vaccine being quently said that they Latin America and the Vincent are eligible for developed by AstraZeneca will now apply to regula- Caribbean had access to end of 2021 of one or more Caribbean states to pur- International Develop- and the University of tors to manufacture and a vaccine six to eight of nine COVID vaccines chase, proven efficacious ment Assistance accord- Oxford. According to the roll out the vaccines. months after wealthier being developed globally vaccines via the WHO fa- ing to a recent GAVI WHO, the Dominican The two were among countries in the region, which it is supporting. cility. board submission. Republic is also one of 80 the 48 candidate vaccines such problems are not Speaking recently According to a release, Cuba, meanwhile, is de- countries that have sub- worldwide which the expected to arise this about the facility to an the EU agreed recently to veloping a vaccine of its mitted expressions of in- World Health Organi- time. Instead, the online ‘COVID Con- the use of two million own and is in discussion terest to the COVAX sation (WHO) report as WHO’s COVAX facility versation’ organised by (US$2.3m) of a much with France and the Facility. being at various stages of will ensure that the Jamaica’s Ministry of larger grant to CARPHA, WHO about vaccine This means that some- development using differ- Caribbean and other sim- Health, the Assistant for the purchase of vac- cooperation. Its Finlay time, hopefully very ent approaches to defeat- ilar regions are treated Director of the Pan cines or treatments as Vaccine Institute and rep- soon, the challenge of ing the virus. There are equitably. American Health they become available. resentatives from PAHO stemming the tide of the also in development, COVAX is a colla- Organisation (PAHO), Dr The amount is for a down- and the WHO recently pandemic will be over- being trialled, or already borative initiative involv- Jarbas Barbosa, said that payment to cover approx- met virtually to discuss taken in the region by the in limited use, several ing the WHO and other arrangements have been imately 15% of the value progress on its Soberana- complex logistical prob- bio-pharma products that global partners. By put in place for countries of vaccines required by 01 candidate vaccine, and lems associated with enable many patients se- encouraging wealthier in the region that do not seven of CARPHA’s Cuba is drawing up an in- rolling out national vacci- riously ill with COVID-19 nations to make a com- have the spending power twelve upper-middle-in- dustrial strategy to allow nation programmes, is- to recover. mitment to fund and buy to negotiate with multi- come member states that for millions of doses to sues such as who will The announcements coronavirus-related vac- ple pharmaceutical com- have agreements with be produced initially for have primary access, and and others expected cines, it is able to create a panies, to ensure access Gavi-the Vaccine Alliance national use once clinical just as important, granu- shortly are a sign of hope. critical mass of orders to vaccines when avail- and the COVAX facility investigations have been lar matters such as They raise the obvious from suppliers in a way able. He said also that the administrator. successfully concluded. whether reliable IT sys- questions as to which that ensures that low and region should not worry The funds are intended The country is also ac- tems are in place to can countries will have early middle income countries over safety and effective- to enable Antigua, cording to BioCubaFarma ensure accurate elec- access to the vaccine; the can receive a number of ness as the WHO COVAX Barbados, the BVI, the management group tronic immunisation extent to which money vaccines linked to it at mechanism requires vac- Cayman, Jamaica, Turks which brings together the records exist for all citi- and vaccine nationalism lower price. To date most cines purchased to be and Caicos, and Suri- country’s advanced bio- zens. will determine how what- wealthy nations except “overqualified” as an name to procure vaccines tech research and produc- As hope for an end to ever is available will be for the US and Russia extra guarantee that they to cover between 15% to tion facilities, overseeing the pandemic may be at distributed; and how the have offered their back- “are the best vaccines 33% of their populations. the development of three hand, what is also needed Caribbean, a region al- ing, as have several vac- available”. CARPHA additionally in- other candidate vaccines if vaccine delivery is to be ready suffering economic cine producers. His assurance follows dicated that all but which are undergoing efficient, fair and global, hardship as a conse- COVAX is also support- earlier statements by The Suriname will be sup- clinical trials as well as is international leader- quence of the pandemic, ing the building of manu- Caribbean Public Health ported with funding other products designed ship. The next steps in the will fare in the global facturing capacity and Agency (CARPHA) and passed through PAHO to strengthen the im- battle against the pan- competition to obtain procurement with the PAHO that, with EU fi- and Gavi with 100% of mune system in those at demic will indicate the access? overall objective of hav- nancial support, they the down payment of risk of mortality from the place of multilateralism Thankfully, almost all ing two billion doses have secured the down what is required by the disease. and equity in a world Caribbean states now available for ‘fair distri- payment required to sup- COVAX Facility. In the case of the sorely in need of consen- have in place arrange- bution’ globally by the port a number of Other countries that Dominican Republic, sus. Region must increase intensity of its advocacy CONTINUED from been a much stronger in- icy for the international reality of the changed plague our hemisphere As a first step, Central Page 9 strument, binding on the financial institutions situation and to amend irreparably and irre- American and Caribbean organisation. But Central and multilateral develop- the policies of financial versibly for decades to countries should agree to The havoc wreaked by American and Caribbean ment banks have to institutions to address come.” follow the pattern of Eta and Iota adds to their countries knew well that stop pretending that it. Given the Caribbean’s Barbados and Grenada to burden of human suffer- some powerful states in the economic and finan- “Similarly, while Paris increasing exposure to include a “hurricane ing. the OAS would have cial circumstances that Club members continue external shocks (hurri- clause” in their bonds, This is why 13 CARI- pushed against such a existed in January 2020 to demand debt repay- canes, pandemics and re- stipulating an immedi- COM countries, (Haiti binding resolution. are still the same in ment without debt re- cession in North America ate, if temporary, debt was the exception) joined The governments of November 2020. They structuring, they too and Europe) the region moratorium if the coun- the nations of Central these same powerful are not. The world has should face the reality must increase the volume try is struck by another America, Mexico and countries are among altered, and significantly. that countries cannot and heighten the inten- natural disaster. Such a Colombia in sponsoring those who make policies “The reality is that pay what they do not sity of its advocacy on clause should also be part a Declaration at the for the IFIs that disqual- while many countries – have. Debt default is debt which is a tightening of all external debt. If Organisation of American ify small and vulnerable including my own – are what will occur with little noose around its neck. Central American and States (OAS), on Novem- states, such as Antigua denied access to conces- prospect of repayment In the present circum- Caribbean counties insist ber 18, calling for urgent and Barbuda, Bahamas, sional financing and debt unless a balance is struck stances, the nations on it collectively and support to the affected Barbados and St Kitts- relief on the basis of the now. of Central America are strongly, they have a countries, “through hemi- Nevis, from access to wrongful measurement of “If these circumstances the Caribbean’s natural chance to succeed. spheric and global cooper- concessional financing high per capita income, continue to be ignored, or allies to make common The two sub-regions, ation to address the most because of the false crite- that per capita income the usual placebos are cause on this issue in representing 20 nations, pressing needs for recov- rion of ‘high per capita in- has been reduced by as administered rather than the international commu- can turn the crises of this ery and reconstruction”. come’. much as 40% because un- the financing vaccines nity.CARICOM countries season of hurricanes, The sponsoring coun- Making my contribu- employment has more that exist and can be ap- should initiate a strong tropical storms, and tries sought a ‘declara- tion to the OAS’ meeting, than tripled. The time plied, this pandemic of diplomatic effort with COVID-19 to advantage. tion’ rather than a ‘reso- I said the following: has long come for policy economic disaster and Central America to build But they must act to- lution’ which would have “Those who make pol- makers to admit the human suffering will such an alliance. gether. The Barbados Advocate Sunday November 22, 2020 • 11

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ADVOCATE PUBLISHERS (2000) INC, FONTABELLE • FAX: 434-1000 • E-MAIL: [email protected] The value and importance of labour WITHOUT labour nothing prospers – unemployment benefits. to be a regular feature when there are Policy and decision makers should Sophocles (circa 497/6 – 406/5) Greek Are discussions held about staff changes in management and ownership. avoid making contributions to artificial playwright. matters and the long-term survival of There is too much at stake with too cyclical unemployment; business trends Somebody needs to explain why there workers who often join the long queues much to lose in too many areas and at and market is such an entrenched culture of of unemployed persons seeking benefits too many levels. conditions already contribute their separating workers from organisations that last for no more than a few months, In such circumstances, losses continue fair share to the unemployment immediately prior or just after a change sometimes weeks? to be felt at the individual level by a pendulum. in management/ownership of For the chairman of Caves of disappearance of earnings, a loss of It is timely that this letter-writer businesses. Barbados Limited to simply say that PAYE revenue for the Treasury, no make another call for the establishment For decades, Barbadians have “we have brought all of the contracts of contributions to the National Insurance of a National Investment Council that witnessed consistent changes in employment to an end” and then to add Scheme, a reduction in the cycle of includes the voice of “labour” – Capital management and ownership, combined that he hopes he can confidently say economic activity, shrinkage in gross and Labour apart cannot be successful. with increasing levels of unemployment Chukka will take over a staff of happy domestic product and the continuing More than two thousand years ago, within the business sector. people can hardly inspire confidence or contraction of the economy. Greek playwright Sophocles knew only It seems as though neither workers or bring happiness to the sixty persons not In this Covid climate, policy and too well that without labour nothing the National Insurance Fund have any sure of future employment decision makes must be careful not to prospers. More has to be done so that protection against the wholesale loss of opportunities. exacerbate the unemployment situation “labour” can be protected. jobs and the resultant drawing down on The loss of employment does not have at any cost. MICHAEL RAY Is the Barbados middle class at risk? SO far, the recent past is good; but what fair to say that wealth opportunities – reduction of discrimination and new confirm the horrors of a non-existent if Barbados’ middle class is hacked by a ladders of vertical mobility emerged. rules that lifted everyone up.” middle class. A two-class structure is sustained post COVID crisis? Is it too And that fierce post Independence That also happened in Barbados. Free both unsightly and retrogressive. soon to consider what future will political competition marshaled the Secondary school education was the The Barbados’ middle class is in the democracy feel like? redeployment of cornucopia – and most critical lever of enfranchisement. It center of a political and economic storm. Enfranchisement is not a David fashioned new social space. expanded the school system and The removal of this security blanket will Copperfield’s illusion or children’s story. That said democratization is again at capitalised human effort. In the process alter the face of democracy, for the worse, It is a proven reform process. It turns risk. Policy is not refueling its engines. many of the working class became Having considered all things, shouldn’t marginalised sections of a society into Fuel stops and pit-stops are old, half full middle class. However, change has a advocacy,and policy makers not give this contiguous interlocking engines of or empty. Political might, rights, and never ever ending thirst. It begs dynamic important class fragile group, a 2020 growth. It is more than the laws and rivalry are under arrest and duress. One and proactive leadership responses. independence gift? To be sure, renewing suffrage that enable the transformation. party has 30 seats in parliament. Except Lowrey also explains the danger of the middle class is another victory for It advances justice and reduces for a few, activist platforms are at peace governance, political and public enfranchisement and democratization. inequality, lifts up disenfranchised and rest. In some cases, maybe, not complacency. Isn’t lifting up the marginalised – citizens. On the other hand, it feeds on driven by national priorities. Unions (1) Government bailing out airlines whoever and wherever they are – not change – a cycle of discontent that appear to prefer coalitions to the and flood the financial system with foundation and heartbeat of legacies? must be periodically addressed and strength of activism independence. money to keep it functioning, while Ultimately, any 2020 independence refreshed. Delusion will not replenish The imminent middle class crisis is leaving individuals to slowly scrape up banquet table, remains on what issues enfranchisement – awareness and already showing its ugly face in America. the pieces of their shattered careers and should shape the conversation? What understanding does. Annie Lowrey is a staff writer at The dreams. comfort would a Lord Nelson or by The 1966 Independence constitutional Atlantic, where she covers economic (2) Politicians harnessing the politics election victory lap bring to the middle framework is a case in point. It added policy. In Now We Know What Recession of fear to lash out at immigrants, class? sovereignty to the development mix, Feels Like, in part, she wrote: “That a ignoring the doctors who have manned To name just a few, what about: facilitated the ownership of decision- golden era of shared prosperity in large ventilators during the pandemic and the ownership of solar energy resources; making, and established a stage and part was because, during the war effort farmworkers who have kept produce building a new generation of homegrown platform, for dignity, servant leaders, and the civil-rights era,America made it flowing to Amazon’s delivery trucks. entrepreneurship class; ways to and honesty of effort to parade and easier for people who had been (3) The public turning a blind eye to surviving unexpected external shocks; perform. previously shut out of economic the centuries of systemic oppression that defeating the threat of single or unified Among other things, a vibrant opportunity – women, minorities, have kept Black women who don nursing power structures; saving the middle multifaceted middle class emerged.This immigrants – to enter the workforce and scrubs and ring up groceries from class; mentoring young men; food was no accident. Removing secondary climb the economic ladder, to make earning and saving enough to buy their sovereignty; land ownership as a right; school fees – a1962 decision – gained better use of their talents and potential. own homes. paid matriarchs; domestic and workers momentum and accelerated. This Citing the work of research economists Truth told societies need a strong rights representation, gift to the middle enfranchisement lever removed Lowrey attributed worker growth to: the middle class. The current condition of class, is a huge contribution to Barbados. financial and other barriers. And it is improvement and flow of talent, and some resource rich South American WALTER EDEY

LET GOD QUOTES FOR TODAY WORDS OF SPEAK TO US WISDOM Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) Sydney Smith US Transcendentalist author (1771 - 1845) English essayist IGNORANCE “Give thanks to the LORD, for “Books are the carriers of civilization. he is good! His faithful love Without books, history is silent, “Have the courage to be endures forever.” literature dumb, science crippled, ignorant of a great number of Have the courage to be thought and speculation at a standstill. things, in order to avoid the ignorant of a great number – PSALMS 107:1 (NLT) I think that there is nothing, not even calamity of being ignorant of of things, in order to avoid crime, more opposed to poetry, to everything.” the calamity of being philosophy, ay, to life itself than this ignorant of everything. incessant business.” 12 • Sunday November 22, 2020 The Barbados Advocate

Bloomberg: China’s economic BRICS countries recovery momentum to sustain move forward BEIJING – Based on According to data from driver of the post-pan- percent year on year to hand in hand in China’s economic per- the country’s National demic growth recovery in 1.77 trillion yuan (about formance in October, ana- Bureau of Statistics, in China.” 267.22 billion U.S. lysts said the country’s October, China’s value- “Crucially, consumer dollars) on the Singles’ times of adversity recovery momentum will added industrial output spending is catching up Day. WITH the theme “BRICS pushes import demand, sustain in the coming went up 6.9 percent year after a slow start and Taking into account the Partnership for Global trade among BRICS mem- months, according to a re- on year, the same as that complementing what has signs of an improving Stability, Shared Security bers, especially exports to port released recently by of September. And retail been an industrial-led re- labour market – the sur- and Innovative Growth”, China from other mem- Bloomberg. sales of consumer goods, covery,” the report com- veyed nationwide jobless the leaders of the five bers, is also picking up In the article published the main gauge of China’s mented, foreseeing retail rate in urban regions fell countries focused on global steadily. Monday with the title consumption, climbed 4.3 spending to get a boost to 5.3 percent, Bloomberg anti-epidemic and practi- For instance, in the first “China’s Strengthening percent year on year. from the Singles’ Day said that more spending cal cooperation in various 10 months of this year,the Recovery Cements Status Noting a boom in shopping festival, which can be encouraged over fields, and spoke with a bilateral trade volume be- as Global Outlier,” the an- China’s holiday sales, fell on Nov. 11. coming months. joint voice on major and tween China and Russia alysts reviewed the Julia Wang, an executive According to China’s “Looking ahead, growth urgent global issues, so as basically remained at the growth in industrial out- director and global mar- central bank, online is expected to stay to contribute to the bloc’s level of the same period put, retail sales, and im- ket strategist at JPMor- payments through robust through year-end strength in maintaining last year, and Russian proving consumer confi- gan Private Bank, was NetsUnion, the Chinese and into the first few international peace and agricultural exports to dence and employment in quoted as saying that the online-payment clearing- months of 2021,” said security and boosting the China increased by 24 per- October, forecasting consumer sector “which I house, and China Chang Shu, chief Asia world economy. cent compared with the “faster growth overall” think by mid-next year UnionPay, a card-pay- economist for Bloomberg At present, human soci- same period last year. ahead. should be a much bigger ment giant, soared 19.6 Economics. ety is experiencing its This summit will un- most serious epidemic in a doubtedly become a new century, and the world starting point for BRICS economy is going through countries to move forward its worst recession since hand in hand. In order to the Great Depression of bring together the joint ef- the 1930s. forts of all countries to The significance and fight the epidemic, China value of the BRICS has set an example: the Partnership lies not only country has set up a in cooperation in major Chinese vaccine research projects under favourable and development centre, circumstances, but also in which is willing to com- moving forward hand in bine online and offline hand in times of adversity. methods to promote the Since the beginning of the joint research and devel- year, the BRICS coopera- opment and testing of vac- tion mechanism has blos- cines in the five countries, somed in the face of the se- cooperative construction of vere challenges brought factories, authorised pro- by the COVID-19 pan- duction, mutual recogni- demic. tion of standards, and so The BRICS countries on. have maintained ex- Furthermore, with a changes of information view to expediting the and cooperation in the building of the BRICS fight against the epidemic. partnership for a new in- Since the beginning of this dustrial revolution, China year, the BRICS countries will establish an innova- have held successive meet- tion base in Xiamen, ings of special foreign min- southeast China’s Fujian isters to deal with the Province, and carry out co- COVID-19 outbreak, video operation in the fields of conferences between sen- policy coordination, per- ior health officials, video sonnel training and proj- meetings for foreign min- ect development. A cargo ship at the port of Lianyungang, east China’s Jiangsu Province, alongside vehicles set to be ex- isters, and a series of re- The factors that give ported to Belgium, September 3, 2020. lated meetings aimed at rise to instability and un- strengthening information certainty in today’s world sharing and in-depth ex- have risen significantly, change of experience in but the theme of the era - fighting the epidemic. peace and development - China’s auto imports, At the same time, has not changed, and the cooperation in drug and trend of world multipolar- vaccine research and de- ization and economic glob- velopment among a num- alization cannot be re- exports further expand ber of countries is pro- versed. gressing smoothly. Nearly The reason why BRICS CHINA’S automobile and export volume to- to $7 billion during the pe- hit by COVID-19, began a year of anti-epidemic cooperation has been able imports and exports talled $15.33 billion, glid- riod. to recover in April thanks practice has proved that to play an increasingly im- continued their growth ing by 2 percent from a In the first 10 months of to unleashed pent-up the spread of the virus can portant role on the world momentum in October month earlier, said the the year, auto imports and demand and supportive be controlled with collabo- stage is precisely because by gaining 48.9 percent CAAM, citing customs exports totalled $118.37 policies, with sales rising ration and scientific pre- it conforms to the general year on year, according data. billion, down by 8 percent by 4.4 percent year vention and control. trend of the time, and to data provided by In breakdown, auto im- year on year but narrow- on year, which ended The BRICS mechanism undertakes the mission the China Association ports climbed by 73.3 per- ing from the January to the contraction streak is full of new vigour and vi- of promoting world multi- of Automobile Manu- cent year on year to $8.33 September decrease, said over the previous 21 tality in promoting eco- polarization and safe- facturers (CAAM). billion in October while ex- the CAAM. months, according to the nomic recovery.As China’s guarding world peace and Last month, the import ports rose by 27.5 percent China’s auto market, CAAM. renewed economic growth stability. 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Chinese mainland vows zero tolerance towards ‘Taiwan independence’

A CHINESE mainland their activities the at a news conference separatist forces and both sides of the strait. trend, Zhu said. spokesperson on “biggest threat” to peace when responding to re- their financial supporters The legitimate rights All Taiwan independ- Wednesday vowed zero and stability across the ports that the Chinese in accordance with the and interests of Taiwan ence separatist forces tolerance towards Taiwan Straits. mainland is formulating law is aimed at safe- compatriots will be fully will receive condemna- “Taiwan independence,” Zhu Fenglian, spokes- a blacklist of “stubborn guarding the peace and protected, Zhu told re- tion from the people and called Taiwan inde- person for the State Taiwan secessionists.” stability of the Taiwan porters. and punishment from pendence Council’s Taiwan Affairs The fight against Straits, as well as the in- Cross-Strait reunifica- history,the spokesperson separatist forces and Office, made the remarks Taiwan independence terests of compatriots on tion is an unstoppable added.

Chinese FM: China supports EU’s ‘strategic autonomy’ CHINESE State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday that China sup- ports the European Union’s “strategic auton- omy” as one polar of the world in line with the fun- damental interests of the bloc. During a phone call with French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian,Wang said that China has no- ticed that France has been calling for the EU to keep its strategic autonomy re- cently. The Chinese foreign minister said that his FIRST SNOW OF THE SEASON: A woman gets her picture taken in the snow in the Summer Palace, Beijing, yesterday. country has been consis- tent in supporting the bloc’s autonomy as one polar of the world as China China launches Tech Breakdown: How is China’s BDS is an advocate of a multi- polar world. different from other navigation networks? He pointed out that antenna array for China and the EU have CHINA has completed its synchronous orbit As the most populated different social systems BeiDou Navigation (IGSO). What’s special country in the world, it’s originating from their Mars, moon missions Satellite System, or BDS, about the extra six satel- important for China to unique historical cultures becoming the fourth lites is that they have a have its own global navi- and traditions. France, he CHINA has launched its country’s deep-space ex- country in the world with relatively fixed range of gation satellite system to said, as the first major first array of giant ploration projects. It has a global navigation net- activity. meet the needs of the western country to estab- radio antennas to support been used to track the work, the other three This layout can en- country’s socio-economic lish diplomatic ties with missions to Mars and Mars probe Tianwen-1 being GPS of the US, hance BDS’ accuracy in development. China, has a better under- the moon, sources with the and the lunar probe GLONASS of Russia and China and the Asia- In fact, the BDS is also standing of China’s devel- Xi’an Satellite Control Chang’e-4. Galileo of Europe. Pacific region to five me- good business. According opment. Centre said on Wednes- Because each antenna As the name suggests, ters, in comparison with a to the White Paper on the He stressed that China- day. can work independently, the global navigation 10-meter accuracy in Development of China’s France relations are able After nearly two years the system can track and satellite system provides other areas. Satellite Navigation and to overcome obstacles and of construction, the control single and multi- navigation and location Secondly, BDS has a Location Services continue to develop be- deep-space antenna array ple spacecraft over hun- services on a 24-hour trump card – the short Industry (2020), the cause of the two countries’ system was built at the dreds of millions of kilo- basis.From what we message service. It is a country’s satellite indus- mutual respect. The two control centre’s Kashgar meters at the same time, know so far, building a function that allows try has maintained a 20- sides need to carry on this station in northwestern said Li Sihu, head of the sound satellite system users to have a two-way percent annual growth tradition and address each Xinjiang Uygur Autono- Kashgar station. costs a bundle. Besides, communication. since 2012. BDS con- other’s reasonable con- mous Region. It consists Li noted that the system the other systems are al- In areas not covered by tributes about 80 percent cerns,Wang added. of four 35-metre-diameter could also work with ready well-established. cellular or communica- of it. The French foreign min- antennas, three of which other observatory stations So, what makes China’s tion signals, BDS can The system has also ister spoke highly of the are newly built. Its data at home and abroad to BDS stand out among its make the short message generated tens of joint anti-COVID-19 ef- reception capability is carry out joint radio as- competitors? service available in unin- billions of dollars, count- forts of the two countries, equivalent to that of an tronomy observation ac- Firstly, the other sys- habited areas, such as less high-paying jobs, adding that China and antenna with a diameter tivities. tems have 24 satellites in deserts, forests, and and stimulated economic France need to deepen co- of 66 metres. China plans to launch a medium earth orbit mountainous or polar re- growth via big con- operation in various areas. According to the centre Long March-5 Y5 rocket (MEO). In addition to the gions. tracts in commercial in- No matter how the in- staff, the system was de- carrying the Chang’e-5 24 satellites, the BDS With this service, dustries. ternational situation veloped to enhance the lunar probe late this constellation also has users in distress can in- And with improve- changes, the EU’s stance ground station’s monitor- month. The centre is three satellites in geosta- form the rescue team ments in functions, it will of “strategic autonomy” ing range and data receiv- preparing to conduct mon- tionary earth orbit (GEO) about their location and have much more to offer should not change, Le ing sensitivity for the itoring for the mission. and three in inclined geo- condition. in the future. Drian said. 14 • Sunday November 22, 2020 The Barbados Advocate

T&T Gov’t bans all Christmas parties in the public sector, urges private sector to do same SCARBOROUGH,Tobago – The Trinidad Deyalsingh said, urging people to and Tobago government Saturday celebrate within their family unit and announced a total ban on Christmas not invite people to partake in the parties within the public sector, while celebrations. also urging the private sector to do the Prime Minister Rowley said he is aware same.The Government also announced a that many villas in Tobago have been TT$30 million (One TT dollar= fully booked for the Christmas Season US$0.16 cents) initiative aimed at and that while the government will not assisting persons who have lost their prevent people residing in Trinidad jobs, or have fallen on hard times as a travelling to the sister isle for the Season, result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) he is reiterating the need to follow all pandemic. protocols and measures put in place to Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley and prevent the spread of the virus that has Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh killed 113 and infected more than 5 000 told a news conference here that people in Trinidad and Tobago. instructions will be given to the Rowley, who along with Deyalsingh appropriate public sector officials to were participating in the Ministry of ensure that government funding for Health news conference here, said that Christmas parties over the coming weeks his target remains for schools to be will not be entertained. opened in January and that the actions of “There is to be no state-sponsored or people during the Christmas period Christmas party in the public sector,’ would determine whether that is Rowley said, acknowledging that the new achieved. order would have an effect on the “Have a responsible Christmas. It is a economies of “those who supply the big ask,” Rowley said, adding that the Christmas party, but this is to curb the “issue we are fighting is the issue of spread of the virus”. contact, where there is congregation, stay “It ought to be not only a holy isolated even from other members of your Christmas, but also a quiet one,” family”. Prime Minister, Dr. Keith Rowley.

Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Fayval Williams (background third right); and Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Desmond McKenzie (background right); join students from various primary schools in Western Kingston, in displaying devices they received under the Tablets in Schools programme, during a presentation ceremony at the Denham Town Primary School on yesterday. Also sharing in the occasion (from left, background) are Chief Executive Officer, e-Learning Jamaica (e-LJam), Keith Smith; Principal, Denham Town Primary School, Curdell Daley; Chairman, Denham Town Primary, Dr. Lee Martin; and Regional Director, Region One, Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Dasmine Kennedy. 887 students from nine West Kingston schools get tablets KINGSTON,Jamaica – A total of 887 Primary; 100 for North Street Information, Fayval Williams, in her through which the Government is students from nine primary schools Congregational; 100 for St. Anne’s address at the presentation ceremony, assisting with the purchase of tablets or in the West Kingston area have Primary; 80 for Central Branch All-Age; said the initiative aims to assist the laptops for non-PATH students; and the been provided with tablet 50 for St. Alban’s Primary and Infant, most vulnerable students to access ‘One Laptop or Tablet per computers as the Government and 21 for Chetolah Mel Nathan lessons online during the pandemic. Child’ initiative, which is a partnership continues the distribution of Educational Centre. She noted that other initiatives are with the Private Sector Organisation of devices under the Tablets in The Government, through e-Learning being pursued to ensure that more Jamaica (PSOJ) to equip students Schools programme. Jamaica (e-LJam) began the students are provided with the tools with the tools to access online During a ceremony at the Denham distribution of 40 000 tablets to students necessary for learning. education. Town Primary School yesterday, 118 on the Programme for Advancement These include: the purchase of 15 000 Williams said that even when tablets were handed over for students at Through Health and Education (PATH) laptops for PATH students in grades ten students return to the physical the institution; 150 for students of St. on October 2. The devices are targeted to 13; procurement of 16 000 tablets for classrooms, they will still be using the Andrew Primary; 148 for St. Aloysius at pupils in grades four to six. PATH students in grades seven to nine; devices to help with learning and Primary; 120 for St. George’s Girls Minister of Education, Youth and the Own Your Own Device Incentive, research. The Barbados Advocate Sunday November 22, 2020 • 15

G-20 summit opens as leaders urge united response to virus DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – The would have hosted the gathering. The remarks. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Group of 20 summit opened yesterday kingdom has presided over the G-20 this While G-20 countries have contributed said that while US$10 billion has been with appeals by the world’s most year. billions of dollars toward developing a invested in efforts to develop vaccines, powerful leaders to collectively chart a The pandemic, which has claimed vaccine for the virus, they have also diagnostics and therapeutics, another way forward as the coronavirus more than 1.37 million lives world-wide, mostly focused on securing their own US$28 billion is needed for mass pandemic overshadows this year’s has offered the G-20 an opportunity to vaccine supplies. Countries such as manufacturing, procurement and gathering, transforming it from in- prove how such bodies can facilitate Britain, the US, France and Germany – delivery of new COVID-19 vaccines person meetings to a virtual gathering of international co-operation in crises – but all G-20 member states – have directly around the world. speeches and declarations. has also underscored their shortcomings. negotiated deals with pharmaceutical Guterres called on more G-20 nations In a sign of the times, the traditional “We have a duty to rise to the challenge companies to receive billions of doses, to join COVAX, an international “family photo” of leaders in the summit together during this summit and give a meaning that the vast majority of the initiative to distribute COVID-19 was digitally designed and strong message of hope and world’s vaccine supply next year is vaccines to countries world-wide. The superimposed on a historical site just reassurance,” Saudi Arabia’s King already reserved. United States has declined to join under outside the Saudi capital, Riyadh, which Salman said in the summit’s opening A day before the summit, UN Trump.

In this handout image provided by DGDA, Diriyah Gate Development Authority of Saudi, a family photo featuring members of the G20 is projected onto the walls of Salwa Palace, At Turaif today in Diriyah, on the outskirts of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. PAHO says two billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines could be distributed to countries globally KINGSTON, Jamaica – Assistant efficacious vaccines. Director for the Pan American Dr. Barbosa said PAHO and UNICEF, Health Organisation (PAHO), Dr. the agencies designated to pilot the Jarbas Barbosa, says at least two vaccine deployment programme, billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines embarked on the purchasing process by are being targeted for distribution inviting vaccine manufacturers from to countries globally, “quickly and around the world to apply to become equitably”. suppliers for the 186 countries joining Speaking during PAHO’s COVID-19 the COVAX Facility. digital briefing on Wednesday, Dr. While noting that the two billion doses Barbosa advised that this will be done is a “remarkable figure”, Dr. Barbosa under the World Health Organisation acknowledged that this provision “won’t (WHO) COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access be sufficient to vaccinate everyone, at (COVAX) Facility by the end of 2021. least not at first”. The assistant director said the entity “Our main goal, as we [initiate] the is working closely with member first phase of vaccination, is to save countries to review their immunisation lives… and that is why it is important to programmes and strengthen their protect the most vulnerable first. The capacity to facilitate a smooth and timely priority will be to protect the healthcare deployment of coronavirus (COVID-19) workers and other front-line workers, as vaccines. well as those at a high risk of developing The COVAX Facility is designed to severe disease,” he said, pointing out that accelerate equitable access by countries these individuals would represent 20 per Assistant Director, Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO), Dr. Jarbas globally to appropriate, safe and cent of each country’s population. Barbosa. 16 • Sunday November 22, 2020 The Barbados Advocate

Guatemala: Congress on fire after protesters storm building HUNDREDS of anti-government Giammattei to resign. protesters in Guatemala have The opposition says the budget vandalised and set fire to parts of prioritises big infrastructure projects to the Congress building, before being be handled by companies with dispersed by riot police. government connections and overlooks The building in Guatemala City was the social and economic impact of the empty at the time of the attack, which Covid-19 pandemic. lasted for about ten minutes. The country has also recently been hit The fire services have managed to put by two damaging storms, Eta and the fire out but the extent of the damage Iota. is not yet known. On Friday, Vice-President Guillermo The protesters are opposed to a budget Castillo expressed his opposition to the which was approved by Congress on budget and said that both he and Wednesday night. Giammattei should step down “for the They also want President Alejandro good of the country”.

Flames rose from the building’s large windows. World Bank provides funds for agriculture resiliency in Haiti, flood risk management in Guyana WASHINGTON, United States – The “The project will also support the long- World Bank has approved more than term sustainability of agriculture US$33 million for two Caribbean through adaptation to changing weather Community (Caricom) countries to patterns,” she added. further develop the agricultural sector The World Bank said the agricultural and flood risk management. sector supplies up to 45 per cent of The Washington-based financial Haitian food needs and represents the institution said that it is providing main source of income for the rural US$7.75 million to the French-speaking population. Caricom country of Haiti to finance the However, the bank said production resilient productive landscapes, which remains highly dependent on rainfall, aims to improve adoption of resilient adding that most farmers have limited agriculture and landscape management access to agricultural inputs, knowledge, practices. or credit. Guyana will receive US$26 million in “Increasing productivity and resilience additional financing to support the of Haiti’s agriculture sector requires an ongoing flood risk management project. integrated approach that protects the “The World Bank is supporting Haiti’s environment, while seeking to increase agricultural production during the returns,” the World Bank said. emergency caused by the COVID-19 “The financing approved will support pandemic,” said Anabela Abreu, World improved landscape management and Bank Country Director for Haiti. farming practices, as well as market “This financing is important to improve access for farmers. It will also strengthen livelihoods in the agriculture sector the capacity of the Haitian Government through increased productivity and to respond promptly and effectively in better access to markets. the case of a disaster.”

The Barbados Advocate Sunday November 22, 2020 • 17 Ethiopia rejects African mediation, pushes toward rebel-held Tigray capital

NAIROBI/ADDIS Assertions on all sides ABABA – The are hard to verify be- Ethiopian govern- cause phone and internet ment rebuffed an connections have been African effort to medi- down since the beginning ate yesterday, saying of the conflict and media its troops had seized are largely barred. another town in their Eritrea denies TPLF march towards the allegations it has sent rebel-held capital of soldiers over the border northern Tigray re- to back Abiy’s offensive gion. against the Tigrayan More than two weeks forces, who are also an into Prime Minister Abiy old foe of Eritrea’s. Ahmed’s offensive, the government says African envoys Tigrayan forces are bull- On Friday, the African dozing roads and de- Union bloc appointed for- stroyed bridges to hold mer presidents Joaquim up the advance on re- Chissano of Mozambique, gional capital Mekelle, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of home to about half a mil- Liberia and Kgalema lion people. Motlanthe of South The Tigrayans have Africa as special envoys promised “hell” for their to seek a ceasefire and advancing enemies. They mediation talks. have denied destroying Abiy, who won the bridges but were not Nobel Peace Prize last reachable for comment year for a peace pact with about ploughing up Eritrea, aims to capture roads. TPLF leaders before talk- Hundreds, possibly ing. thousands, have died and “News circulating that more than 30,000 the envoys will be travel- refugees have fled to ling to Ethiopia to medi- Sudan since the conflict ate between the Federal erupted on Nov. 4. The Government and TPLF’s fighting has spread be- criminal element is fake,” yond Tigray,whose forces the government tweeted have fired rockets at the on Saturday. neighbouring Amhara re- Abiy accuses the gion and the nation of Tigrayan leaders of re- Eritrea, spurring concern volting against central of a wider war and the authority and attacking splintering of multi-eth- federal troops in the town nic Ethiopia. of Dansha. The rebels say Abiy’s government has Abiy’s government has said it will soon reach marginalised and perse- Mekelle after taking var- cuted Tigrayans since ious surrounding towns. taking office two years On Saturday it said ago. Adigrat had also fallen, Abiy denies that, say- about 116 km (72 miles) ing he is seeking only to north of Mekelle. restore law and order The Tigray People’s and preserve the unity of Liberation Front (TPLF) Ethiopia and its 115 mil- rebels said nine civilians lion people. had died among heavy Aid workers say the casualties in artillery conflict is creating a hu- hits on Adigrat. manitarian crisis in The government could Tigray, where many not immediately be among the more than 5 reached for comment, but million population were has previously repeat- already displaced and re- edly denied targeting lying on food aid even be- civilians. fore the conflict. 18 • Sunday November 22, 2020 The Barbados Advocate

G20 leaders pledge to fund fair distribution of COVID-19 vaccines

WASHINGTON – Leaders of ments to incentivize innovation,” lives, jobs and incomes, and en- of 2021 and possibly longer, and ing growing recognition that the world’s 20 biggest the leaders said in the draft G20 couraged the multilateral devel- endorses a common framework even some middle-income coun- economies will today pledge statement, seen by Reuters.“We opment banks to strengthen for dealing with debt issues be- tries may need debt relief as a re- to pay for a fair distribution recognize the role of extensive their efforts to help countries yond that. sult of the pandemic. of COVID-19 vaccines, drugs immunization as a global public deal with the crisis. “There is a lack of participa- Keen to be better prepared for and tests around the world good.” The European Union has tion from private creditors, and any potential next pandemic so that poorer countries are The leaders said the global called for $4.5 billion by the end we strongly encourage them to that might come, G20 leaders not left out, and to extend economy was starting to pick up of the year from the G20 to pay participate on comparable terms also said they would commit “to debt relief to them, a draft but the recovery remained “un- for COVID-19 fighting tools for when requested by eligible coun- advancing global pandemic pre- G20 communique showed. even, highly uncertain and sub- poorer countries. tries,” it said. paredness, prevention, detection, “We will spare no effort to en- ject to elevated downside risks.” The draft also calls on private The leaders also recognized and response” and “to the contin- sure their affordable and equi- They pledged to continue to creditors to join the debt servic- the specific challenges faced by ued sharing of timely, transpar- table access for all people, consis- use all available policy tools as ing moratorium, which the G20 countries in Africa and small is- ent, and standardized data and tent with members’ commit- long as needed to safeguard wants to extend until the middle land developing states, reflect- information”. Rockets hit Afghan capital Kabul, at least eight killed KABUL – Several rockets hit Some residents filmed the residential areas in the early rockets being fired and posted rush hour in the Afghan cap- them on social media. Several ital Kabul yesterday, killing pictures circulating on Facebook at least eight civilians and showed damaged cars, shattered wounding 31, police officials windows and holes in residen- said. tial homes. The explosions, some close to A picture of a young brother the diplomatic enclave, sent and sister, whom officials said warning sirens blaring from em- were killed in their home, was bassies and it comes two days widely shared on Facebook. before a major donor conference One of the rockets landed in for Afghanistan in Geneva. the vicinity of the Iranian em- Tariq Arian, spokesman for bassy and several fragments hit the Ministry of Interior, said at the main building but there least eight civilians had been were no casualties among the killed in the attack and 31 staff, the embassy said in a wounded. A health ministry of- statement. ficial said five bodies and 21 in- Since peace talks between the jured were taken to the hospital Afghan government and the from the incident. Taliban stalled in the Qatari Arian said “terrorists” capital of Doha, attacks by the mounted 14 rockets in a small Taliban and other extremist truck and set them off, adding groups have been on the rise, es- that an investigation is going on pecially in the capital that is to find out how the vehicle came An injured person is carried to the hospital after rockets hit residential areas in Kabul, home to more than five million inside the city. Afghanistan yesterday. Afghans. Five Lebanese prisoners die in accident following mass prison break-out BEIRUT – Five escaping prison- died when a car they seized ers died yesterday when their crashed into a tree in what the car hit a tree after more than statement described as an acci- 60 detainees broke out of a dent while one prisoner was in- Lebanese detention centre out- jured and taken to hospital. side the capital Beirut, The state news agency NNA Lebanon’s Internal Security earlier said the prisoners had Forces (ISF) said in a statement. escaped from the prison at dawn The ISF statement did not say after breaking open cell doors. how the 69 prisoners had es- In April, Amnesty caped from the facility, which a International said there had security source said holds pre- been riots inside Lebanese jails trial detainees and is part of and families had organised sit- Baabda district prison near in protests calling for the release Beirut. of prisoners over concerns about President Michel Aoun was the spread of COVID-19 in over- briefed by the caretaker interior crowded prisons. minister about the break-out It said that while the and ordered that search opera- Lebanese government had tions be intensified and the inci- taken several measures, includ- dent be investigated, the ing some releases, the authori- Presidency tweeted. ties should prioritise releasing The ISF said 15 prisoners had prisoners who had served their been caught while four others sentences and expedite a review turned themselves in. The five of pre-trial detainees. Members of the Lebanese police stand next to a damaged car in Hadath, Lebanon yesterday. The Barbados Advocate Sunday November 22, 2020 • 19

France murder: Jonathann Daval jailed for 25 years for killing wife Jonathann Daval initially reported his wife Alexia A MAN has been sen- beating her to death, and ing in October 2017, say- laws. as missing. tenced to 25 years in to burning her body. ing she had not returned But three months later, prison for killing his wife The 36-year-old was from a run. prosecutors announced and burning her body in a impassive as the verdict Her body was found that he had confessed to case that has shocked was read out on two days later, partly killing his wife. He ini- France. Saturday.He earlier said burnt and covered by tially denied burning the Kenyan Alexia Daval’s partially “sorry” while looking at branches in a forest far body,but admitted to that burnt body was found in his wife’s parents. from her usual jogging last year. woodland near the north- Prosecutors said the route. He has changed his eastern town of Gray in case was “an almost per- Her death inspired a story several times online cartel October 2017. fect domestic crime", and march of 10,000 people in through the course of the Her husband, had called for a life sen- the town of Gray.Women case. Jonathann Daval, ini- tence. also honoured the jogger Earlier this week, tially reported her as What happened to with symbolic runs in when asked by the judge missing, telling police she Alexia Daval? cities across France. if he admitted to “being is luring girls had gone jogging and Alexia Daval was a 29- After her death, Daval the only person impli- never returned. year-old banker. Her hus- appeared in tears at news cated in the death” of his He later confessed to band reported her miss- conferences with his in- wife, he replied “yes”. to orgies, police warn

POLICE in Kenya are of them, have not been investigating an “on- seen since,” the woman in line cartel” that tar- the video says. gets girls stuck at On Friday, police home because of coro- tweeted that child-protec- navirus and lures tion detectives had res- them under false pre- cued three of the seven tences to what officers girls reported missing. describe as orgies. Efforts to trace the oth- The case came to light ers were continuing, they after three missing said. teenagers were rescued They did not reveal de- by officers in the capital tails of where the girls Nairobi. were found or if any ar- The three told police rests had been made. they had seen a social The DCI said the car- media account that in- tel operated from Nairobi vited them to “parties” in and was using interna- the city. tionally registered tele- Police warned parents phone numbers. to keep a close eye on “As investigations go on Remains of two men who dies in the volcanic eruption that destroyed the ancient Roman city of their children’s activities. we wish to issue a stern Pompeii in 79 AD are discovered in a dig carried out during the coronavirus pandemic in Italy. “The DCI (Directorate warning to individuals of Criminal taking advantage of the Investigations) wishes to Covid-19 pandemic to inform the public that we prey on school girls, Their Pompeii’s ruins yield scalded are hunting down mem- days are numbered,” the bers of the cartel and DCI tweeted. they’ll be apprehended to Earlier this month the answer for their crimes,” East African country bodies of rich man and slave police said on Twitter. tightened restrictions as Cases of young girls a second wave of the coro- ROME – Archaeologists ber of crushed vertebrae, of their bodies. for research and study”. disappearing – some after navirus caused a surge in have discovered the excep- indicating that he had “These two victims were Pompeii, 23 km (14 being promised jobs – cases and deaths. tionally well-preserved re- been a slave who did perhaps seeking refuge miles) southeast of have been reported in Public gatherings are mains of two men scalded heavy labour. when they were swept Naples, was home to about Kenyan media in recent banned and an overnight to death by the volcanic The remains were found away by the pyroclastic 13,000 people when the days. curfew is in place. Schools eruption that destroyed in Civita Giuliana, 700 current at about 9 in the eruption buried it under Earlier this week the closed in March but par- the ancient Roman city of metres northwest of the morning,” said Massimo under ash, pumice pebbles relative of one girl made a tially reopened in Pompeii in 79 AD, the centre of ancient Pompeii, Osanna, director of the and dust, freezing it in tearful appeal on Twitter October. The government Italian culture ministry in an underground cham- archeological site. “It is a time. fearing she had been kid- has said they will not said on Saturday. ber in the area of a large death by thermal shock, The remains were not napped or trafficked. fully reopen until One was probably a man villa being excavated. as also demonstrated by discovered until the 16th The relative said the January. of high status, aged be- The men’s teeth and their clenched feet and century and organised ex- girl had gone missing in Kenya, which has a tween 30 and 40, who still bones were preserved, and hands.” cavations began around Nairobi on Saturday after population of 53m, has re- bore traces of a woollen the voids left by their soft In a statement, Culture 1750. However, more re- being lured by people who ported more than 75,000 cloak under his neck. tissues were filled with Minister Dario cently, attention has fo- were promising model- infections and 1,349 The second, probably plaster that was left to Franceschini said the find cused on arresting the ling jobs. deaths, according to a aged 18 to 23, was dressed harden and then exca- underlined Pompeii’s sta- decay or collapse of the ex- “My cousin along with tally by Johns Hopkins in a tunic and had a num- vated to show the outline tus as “an incredible place posed ruins. the 16-year-old girls, six University. 20 • Sunday November 22, 2020 The Barbados Advocate

Thai school students protest against ‘dinosaurs’

BANGKOK – With a pa- Student group were sum- with her mouth taped rade of people dressed in moned on Friday for shut in protest. dinosaur costumes to rep- charges over a previous Government resent Thailand’s estab- protest, but police said spokesman Anucha lishment, high school stu- Saturday’s demonstration Burapachaisri said the dents led a protest by could go ahead. prime minister hoped pro- thousands of people in Protests since July have testers would exercise Bangkok yesterday with been around three core de- their freedom construc- calls to bring down the mands: the removal of for- tively and within the law. government and reform mer junta leader Prayuth One of the hashtags the monarchy. as prime minister, a new used by the Bad Student It was the first major constitution and reforms group on Saturday trans- protest since Prime to the monarchy of King lates as Minister Prayuth Chan- Maha Vajiralongkorn. #ByeByeDinosaurs. ocha said on Thursday But the high school stu- Dinosaur-costumed per- that police would use all dents also seek greater formers paraded to the laws against protesters, freedom and fairer treat- theme tune of the Royal who have become the ment within an education News, which is shown on Dinosaur costumed actors representing Thailand’s establishment at a high biggest challenge to system they say is archaic Thai television every school student-led protest in Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand’s rulers in years. and aimed primarily at in- night. “We represent the mete- culcating obedience. Many But Benjamaporn said sumption of prosecutions the demand of protesters made no comment since orites crushing the di- spoke of the importance of the students were being under laws prohibiting in- that he resign and their the protests began in July. nosaurs to extinction,” 15- gender equality. careful about references to sults of the monarchy. accusations that he engi- When asked about the year-old high school stu- “I have been sexually the monarchy after ac- Protesters have broken neered last year’s election protesters earlier this dent leader Benjamaporn abused by teachers. School tivists took Prayuth’s com- longstanding taboos with to keep power that he first month, the king said “we Nivas told Reuters. is not a safe place,” said a ments on using all laws open criticism of the seized from an elected gov- love them all the same” Benjamaporn and an- placard held by one stu- against protesters to monarchy. ernment in 2014. and described Thailand as other leader of the Bad dent who sat in uniform mean the possible re- Prayuth has rejected The Royal Palace has a “land of compromise”. Thousands attend Pakistani cleric’s funeral despite ban

LAHORE, Pakistan – for the virus and 42 had Tens of thousands of died during the last 24 mourners attended the hours - both figures the funeral of a hardline highest for a day since Pakistani cleric in the July. eastern city of Lahore Despite the coronavirus yesterday, defying a curbs, tens of thousands government ban on turned out to mourn Rizvi, large public gatherings and organisers of the fu- in the wake of rising neral said the government COVID-19 cases in the had not told them to limit country. the gathering. Khadim Hussain Rizvi, Government officials 54, died of cardiac arrest did not respond to a re- on Thursday, just days quest for comment about after leading a violent the funeral, which protest march to the capi- wreaked havoc in Lahore tal, Islamabad, against the as cellphone services were publication in France of shut down and major cartoons depicting the roads blocked for security Prophet Muhammad. reasons. Daily coronavirus infec- A local official, who tions have risen in asked not to be named, Pakistan this month, and said he estimated that the government banned close to 200,000 people People gather to attend a funeral for Khadim Hussain Rizvi, leader of religious and political party big events and meetings had attended the event. Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan, at the Minar-e-Pakistan monument as the outbreak of the coronavirus dis- as it declared the country The gathering was so ease continues. was witnessing a “second large that Rizvi’s coffin wave” after a three-month could not be carried for the prayers, a Reuters (TLP) party, which has pressuring the govern- by thousands of protesters lull in cases. through the crowd to the journalist said. made denouncing alleged ment on a number of is- to Islamabad that blocked Official data released on site set up for the cere- Known for his fiery ser- blasphemy its rallying cry sues. a main entry road for Saturday showed 2,843 mony, and had to be posi- mons, Rizvi headed the and staged several Earlier this month, the hours and saw demonstra- people had tested positive tioned on a nearby bridge Tehrik-i-Labaik Pakistan protests in recent years – cleric led a march joined tors clash with police. The Barbados Advocate Sunday November 22, 2020 • 21

Things of Barbados past

echnology had advanced rapidly way. inflated rubber tyre and the hub of a during the 20th century. It donkey cartwheel. Taffected how Barbadians Donkey Cart Other substitutes including perform household tasks, play and Transportation has evolved discarded bicycle rims and tin metal work within their society. From the throughout Barbadian history. One bands. To move the roller, one needed Dutch oven to the donkey cart, today, form which has become obsolete is the a steerer which was a straight piece of these items and tools can only be “donkey cart”. This eco-friendly mode wire bent at a right angle about four appreciated in cultural exhibitions of transportation was not used at inches from one end. and cultural events. Check out some of night. But it was a crucial element in (KPB) these tools of the past: the process of transporting sugar cane. This “freight cart” is now extinct. The Dutch Oven second version was called the box cart. Like the clay oven, the Dutch oven The donkey cart was never used for was an effective way of cooking food. personal transportation and in some This appliance was a DIY project. A cases, it was driven by mules and person could purchase a used crate horses. lined with a tin sheet, hinges to make a door, install racks to create the Monkey Jars Dutch oven. To create heat, a wet This pottery jug was a storage crocus bag was spread across the top container for drinking water. As clay of the oven. is a poor conductor of heat and evaporation, the water inside is kept Jooking Board cool. Before the modern washing machine, people washed their clothes Mortar and Pestle using a thick slab of hardwood with a With origins in Africa, this appliance corrugated side. The two and a half consisted of a thick piece of wood, feet jooking board was efficient at mortar, and a hollowed-out vessel removing tough grime from clothing. (pestle). Barbadians would use the mortar and pestle to pound herbs and Spiders food. These are not to be confused with the insect. A spider was a two- Rollers wheeled cart that was propelled by In the early days, boys would play manpower. This old fashioned with a roller which was a metal loop Barbadians transport was used to move molasses rolled on the ground. A special would use the through Bridgetown in wooden barrels characteristic of the roller was that it mortar and called puncheons. There were would make a unique sound on pestle to pound situations where drivers would lose cemented surfaces. This toy is made herbs and food. control momentarily of the spider and from different materials including a people would attempt to get out of the collar of a large water main, a small

The two and a half feet jooking board was efficient at removing tough grime This eco-friendly mode of transportation was not used at night. from clothing.

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Baobab tree a Barbadian wonder he Baobab tree (Adansonia digitata) connects Barbados to Africa. While it may be true much of African history was destroyed by the Tcolonisers, this piece of history lives on. In Queen’s Park and Warrens locations stand two magnificent specimens of the baobab tree also known as the “Tree of Life”. The tree is also known as Corn Tree, Monkey Tamarind, monkey-bread tree, upside-down tree, and cream of tartar tree. One can only imagine the need of the enslaved African to see a symbol of home and knowing the longevity of the tree, share this immense tree with future generations. Although some, like past Europeans have sought to deface the trunk with graffiti, it still grows and bears fruit.

A source of food In Africa, the baobab tree is beneficial in several ways. This tree with its large squat jug-shaped trunk is an adaptation for water storage in the dry savannah regions of its native Africa. The fruit of the tree is used to make “tabaldi” juice. It is made by soaking the dry pulp in water. The leaves are used to make relish and young fresh leaves are dried and powdered or cooked in a sauce. In northern Nigeria, the bark and root are used in traditional medicine and provide feed for livestock. Although a resilient species, it is believed that climate change and its effects are reducing the lifespan of the baobab tree.

It is estimated that the baobab tree in Queen’s Park is over a thousand years old while the other in Warrens is believed to be brought from ‘Guiney’/Guinea around 1738. Also, St. Croix celebrates the presence of the baobab tree and the story of the Africans who brought the seeds to the Caribbean. The island at one point had about one hundred trees, more baobabs than any other island in the region.

The island’s oldest living symbol of Africa

The Baobab tree in Warrens is one of two large ancient trees on the island and is believed to be brought from ‘Guiney’/Guinea around 1738. The “Tree of Life” is one of the unique African living symbols still existing on the island today. The Barbados Advocate Sunday November 22, 2020 •23

N HOW TO FIND THE BEST NAIL SHAPE FOR YOUR HANDS

AIL LOVERS during lockdown were forced to do Ballerina and coffin A their own gel reups, polish changes, and nail health nails are two huge Ncare. This is no longer the cases but if you want to try trends we see all over your hand at doing your own nails again, just keep reading. social media, and However, it can be more fun than daunting if you get creative Williams says they’re the with it. And one way to do that is to explore new shapes. OPI’s most popular. Rebecca Reller and Polish & Co’s Theresa Williams share some They’re insights on how to identify which nail shapes similar, best complement your hands and the except coffin I looks you want to achieve. nails tend to If you have short fingers or full hands be slimmer the experts say try round nails. They at the free will help elongate your fingers and edge. make your nail beds appear slender. They’re To round your nails follow along the great for natural shape of your fingertip and longer check the symmetry of the curve nails or L by flipping your nails over, slender according to Reller. fingers, and If you want to lengthen and look so pretty slim your fingers go with an and delicate almond-shape. This shape is when done slender at the sides and slim properly.“The at the base. File the nails at ballerina trend each side and create a is going to stay narrow peak at the top. forever,” she says. If you have wide nail “It’s going to be a beds and long nails try an staple.” oval shape. Similar to the almond, this shape Continued on Next elongates nails in width Page and length but has a L more egg-like shape O V E

IFYOU’RE NOT SURE WHAT TO DO, STICK WITH THE R TRIED-AND-TRUE, UNIVERSALLY FLATTERING SQUOVAL (SQUARE + OVAL) SHAPE NAIL.

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Whether LEFT: If you have short fingers and long nails, your fingers dabble in the stiletto shape. are long or N BOTTOM: Ballerina and coffin nails are two short, full huge trends we see all over social media. or slender, this shape A looks good.

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If you love a low maintenance nail go for I a square shape. This looks great if you have long and narrow nail beds and don’t like your nails too long. This style was big in the early 2000s and has come back with renewed L energy. File nails in a straight line across the free edge of the nail to achieve. If you have short fingers and long nails, dabble in the stiletto shape. Formerly known in many professional nail circles as pointy nails, because they’re, well, pointy, this shape is made for long nails. We still see it on the red carpet on many of our L favourite celebrity beauties. If you’re not sure what to do, stick with the tried-and-true, universally flattering squoval (square + oval) ABOVE: If you want to shape nail. You might O lengthen and slim your have gotten this fingers go with an without knowing – all almond-shape. those times you told your tech to make it BOTTOM: If you have square but round the wide nail beds and long corners, you were nails try an oval shape. asking for the squoval. Whether your fingers V are long or short, full or slender, this shape looks good. And when it comes to complementary colours, more ladies are sticking with neutrals this season according to E Williams. “People are still gravitating to nails in natural and soft tones because they’re polishing at home,” she says. “So when they grow out, they don’t R have to worry about [quickly] getting back to the salon. People are scared to go back into the salon. They’re doing their nails at home so they just want something natural to S If you have short fingers or full hands the experts blend in just for say try round nails. coverage.”

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Disappearing Bajan Culture : “The Village Standpipe” tandpipe which is a standpipes have been social meeting area. It standard pipe was disconnected or removed. was a place for children Sintroduced to According to the “AZ of to play, young lovers to Barbados in 1861. The Barbados Heritage” meet, village gossip, and general population had book, water was fetched the occasional dispute access to 400 standard in galvanised buckets among neighbours. pipes distributing free and containers and water to Barbadians. But delivered to homes in the Stand pipe of the past this has all changed. In hand or on the head. It vs standpipe today 2018, the Barbados was symbolic to see The standard transfer Water Authority (BWA) women carrying water from a large iron cylinder announced that catching on their heads in the to which the faucet was water at this communal early days. At home, it attached to pipes set in water supply could be was stored in wooden concrete. The standpipe restricted. The barrels or large metal known in Barbados as government organisation drums. The standpipe “Queen Victoria’s pump” also indicated that a has been iconic of rural became obsolete in most special programme was life and many rural and urban districts being undertaken to photographers and in the 20th century as meter all standpipes. painters have captured more people installed In 2020, standpipes are the innocence of children indoor plumbing. But to still common in heavily using this natural but say the standpipe is populated and low- scarce resource. irrelevant is false. income communities. In The standpipe is not While the majority of Bridgetown, Mason Hall unique to Barbados but homes in Barbados do Street still has a has been used in United have indoor plumbing standpipe while in Black Kingdom, Africa and some houses still do not Rock, St.Michael, Europe. have the facility and standpipe sightings villagers rely on the include St. Stephen’s A place to socialise standpipe for water to Hill, Clevedale, and In the past, the wash clothes, bathe, and In the past, the standpipe was not only a necessary resource but a social Wavell Avenue. There standpipe was not only a in the preparation of meeting area. are also spots where necessary resource but a meals.(KPB) 3 ways to get stronger bones without meds HEALTHY BONES are key to maintaining independence as the years go by.Thankfully, these science-proven tricks not only give you stronger bones, they boost memory, protect your heart and even rev metabolism!

Butter your bread. Everything tastes better with butter! What’s more, all that deliciousness benefits both your bones and your waistline. Turns out, butter is packed with vitamin K-2, an under- the-radar nutrient that acts like a traffic cop and ushers calcium exactly where it’s needed in bones, reducing your fracture risk by 65 percent, according to a seven-year observational Everything tastes better with butter! study out of Tufts University. margarine. one minute a day. Really! lead author Victoria five years. where you hum the letter Incorporating little bursts Stiles, Ph.D. M while exhaling for as Bonus: Multiple Hop for 1 minute. of bone-building Hum a lullaby. long as possible, studies found that a Exciting research out of activity into your day – Bonus: Newly Our bones rebuild while triggers nitric oxide in the compound the University of Exeter say, by hopping in place publishes University of we sleep, which is why nose, which works like called conjugated linoleic in England finds while you wait for the Calgary research found simply getting 7+ hours nature’s sleeping pill. acid in butter preventing osteoporosis teakettle to sing – can that non-exercisers over nightly halves triggers weight loss by doesn’t require hours of give you stronger bones 60 who began getting osteoporosis risk. Can’t Bonus: A good night’s boosting metabolism– weekly workouts. The even better than long their hearts pumping a nod off? Try humming! A sleep reduces the risk of especially when folks magic amount that sessions of high-intensity little every day reversed simple technique called heart disease by 58 choose butter over makes a difference: just workouts, according to their brain age by a full “the bumblebee breath,” percent 26 • Sunday November 22, 2020 The Barbados Advocate

The beginner’s guide to using a PPOWEROWER DDRILLRILL

POWER drill might seem without lugging around an Drive guide: A tube-shaped like one of those tools extension cord. If you’re planning attachment that holds long screws Athat only a serious DIY- to use your drill for long stretches in place and keeps them straight er needs, but we’re here to tell at a time, you can easily keep an while driving. you it’s something that extra battery pack on hand to Insert bit: For attaching driver literally every homeowner (or switch out. bits. renter!) should have on hand. Still’s favorite drills are made by Even the most basic power DeWalt. “They’re easy to use a last Drill Controls drill can make a huge a long time,” she says. Chuck: This is where you insert difference in everyday home Your drill should come with a the drill bit. To open or close the tasks, from hanging a mirror rechargeable battery, a plug-in chuck, hold the hand grip and (an anchor is your most secure charger, and, of course, the drill press the trigger switch. option every time) to itself. A kit with a handful of basic Trigger switch: Hold down to assembling furniture (so much drill bits (for making holes) and start the drill. faster). Contractor Meredith driver bits (for screwing and Torque control: Adjust to change Still, the owner and founder of unscrewing screws) should be fine the torque, aka drilling power. NYC-based design-build firm for household tasks. There’s generally also a drill The Meredith Project, was setting specifically for drilling asked to walk us through the The Basics holes – don’t use this for driving what’s what of a power Your drill should come with a screws though, as you might end drill and how to safely use rechargeable battery, a plug-in up stripping the head! one. charger, and, of course, the drill Gear switch: Changes drill itself. A kit with a handful of basic speed. Typically, a lower gear is Buying a Drill drill bits (for making holes) and used for driving light screws, and a First-time power drill user? Still driver bits (for screwing and higher gear for drilling holes or recommends buying a cordless unscrewing screws) should be fine driving bigger screws. model, not a corded one. “There’s for household tasks. Reverse switch: Changes the really no reason to use a plug-in direction of drilling. (Regular = drill,” she tells us. “Technically, it The Bits clockwise, reverse = counter- gives you little more power, but a Drill bit: Drills holes in wood, clockwise.) When the switch is in good rechargeable cordless drill drywall, plaster, etc. the middle position, or safety, the will perform just as well.” And Driver bit: Drives (aka screwing) drill will not turn at all. you’re free to use it anywhere, screws into hard materials. Battery: Powers the drill. Tips & Tricks • Not sure what size drill bit to use for an anchor? Check the anchor’s package, says Still. It usually recommends a corresponding drill bit size. • If you’re driving a screw into an anchor, go slowly and When hanging a hook or other use a low to middle setting to ensure that the anchor doesn’t split. item, hold it against the wall and • When screwing something into wood, drilling a smaller hole first will make it easier to drive in the screw. use the drill to lightly mark where • When hanging a hook or other item, hold it against the wall and use the drill to lightly the screws will go before drilling a mark where the screws will go before drilling a guide hole or anchor. guide hole or anchor. The Barbados Advocate Sunday November 22, 2020 • 27

Prepare for an encounter with our King An adaptation of Roman Catholic Archbishop Jason Gordon’s weekly column Q: Archbishop J, why Universe. Christ is king Seven Habits of Highly have died and find do the Mass readings of the living and the Effective People, yourself in the presence become so dramatic dead. proposes as the second of the Trinity.What is the around this time? To prepare for this habit: “Begin with the feeling – awe and The Church sees the ending, the Church end in mind”. This is the wonder? Or fear and year as a sacred rhythm reflects upon apocalyptic invitation of the Church shame? in which the key literature in the gospels at this time. Stand there and listen mysteries can receive the and, of course, the Book Covey asks his readers to the Father, Son and attention they need, and of Revelation. to imagine their funeral. Holy Spirit talking about Paul, as instruments of the full truth of the This literature focuses See a family member and you, each in turn. How Christ the King justice unto God.” gospel can be reflected on Christ’s coming and, a co-worker giving your does it make you feel? Pope Pius XI, in his Is Christ Lord of every upon. in this way, invites us to eulogy.What could they You can either have a 1925 letter Quas primas dimension of my life? If In this rhythm, the consider the beginning truthfully say about you? second chance to get it (In the First), introduces not, what do I need to do year has a beginning and and the middle of our Is it the end you desire? right, or you could stay the Feast of Christ the to grow in submission to an ending. It starts with journey.Are we living as If not, begin today to and face whatever King and calls us to Christ in all areas of my Advent when we prepare Christ invites us to live? work towards the ending decision they take. What subject all of our being to life? for the coming of Christ. Are we ready to meet that you would love to would you do? One day Christ. He says: It ends fittingly with the Christ if He comes today? have for your life. we will die and face God. “If to Christ our Lord is What kind of king? Solemnity of Our Lord Stephen Covey, in his Let us do another On that day, we will not given all power in heaven Jesus said: “My Jesus Christ, King of the best-selling book The meditation. Imagine you have a second chance. and on earth; if all men kingdom is not of this purchased by his world” (Jn 18:36). He is precious blood are by a not the kind of king we new right subjected to are accustomed to. By his dominion; if this giving us free will, Christ power embraces all men, gives us the capacity to it must be clear that not belong to His Kingdom one of our faculties is and to choose whom we exempt from his empire. will serve. This choice is He must reign in our most precious. minds, which should If Christ is King, then assent with perfect His Kingdom is a submission and firm Kingdom of conscience, of belief to revealed truths love and of compassion. and to the doctrines of As we end the Christ. He must reign in liturgical year, let us our wills, which should hear God coming, let us obey the laws and go with confidence to precepts of God. He must encounter Christ and beg reign in our hearts, Him to transform us all, which should spurn as we surrender to His natural desires and love will. God above all things and Key Message: The end cleave to him alone. He of the liturgical year is a must reign in our bodies time to reflect and and in our members, prepare to encounter which should serve as Christ more deeply. instruments for the Action Step: Do the interior sanctification of meditations above. our souls, or to use the Scripture Reading: Are we living as Christ invites us to live? Are we ready to meet Christ if He comes today? words of the Apostle Matthew 25: 14–30 Will social distancing weaken my immune system? IN short, no. childhood vaccines and Some worry a lack of other built-up immunity contact with others will are also long-lasting, weaken their immune Iwasaki said, and won’t system by reducing its disappear overnight active contact with because we’re keeping germs. our distance from However, even when others during the we’re staying six feet pandemic. from others or spending Experts say anyone most of our time at looking to boost their home, our bodies are immune health during continuously responding the pandemic should to plenty of bacteria and practice habits such as other germs that stress management, inhabit indoor and healthy eating, regular outdoor environments. exercise and getting “We’re constantly enough sleep. exposed to microbes,” “These are the things said Akiko Iwasaki, an that actually affect the immune system immune system,” researcher at Yale Iwasaki said. University. “Our A seasonal flu shot immune system is will also help protect always being triggered.” you from one more The effects of potential illness.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You will You're excited about the jobs HOROSCOPES find something you've been on offer today and you won't searching a long time for. It would be too happy with those be advisable to check you can around you who seem determined to air their afford it first. If you can't there will be an alternative grievances. If you are tolerant and patient, arguments which will save you having to worry later on. can be avoided. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). There's a lot of activity TAURUS (April 20-May 20). There are one or two going on around you and people would welcome your areas in your family or domestic life that would contribution but you would rather keep out of the way benefit from a discussion. You just want some peace and leave them to it. and quiet and that's why you, for now, aren't likely to SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You could pick up say anything that might cause contention. a few ideas on how to improve a job you are working GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You could pick up some on while talking to an online friend. All it will take is to useful tips that might help improve your financial listen to someone's sensible suggestions to get this situation. Listen carefully to what is being said. Don't be work back on track. afraid to ask about anything you are unsure of. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Your mind is on CANCER (June 22-July 22). An almost confusing other places, other people and other possibilities. The amount of variety in events will keep you on your routine aspects of your life will hold very little interest. toes. What you will discover is that anything you Even so it is important to keep on top of your choose to do will lead you to the same destination. commitments. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Taking up a new hobby will AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You don't want to hurt be rewarding and can make you a more interesting anyone's feelings, even those whose company is person. People are interested in what you are becoming annoying. A friend or neighbour seems learning and friends will enjoy seeing you developing eager to dish out advice even though you don't need new skills. Communing with nature will feel richly it. They are only trying to help but you would rather rewarding in an emotional and spiritual sense. they kept their thoughts to themselves. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You're tempted to make PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Staying calm while some radical changes in a group project that isn't other people are rushing around like headless going well. This may not be the right answer. Once a chickens will work to your advantage. While nothing hurdle is cleared, there will be progress. Be patient is being solved by others whose behaviour is making and and all will be well. a situation worse, you will come up with a solution.

Bible Challenge 1) How did the angel of the Lord appear 4) Who did the angel unto Moses? of the Lord stand in A. In a burning bush front of (blocking his B. As a man way)? C. In a Flower A. Balaam D. Through a crystal B. Bill ball C. Zedekiah D. Paul 2) What did the angel of God use to sepa- 5) What did the angel rate the camp of roll back from Jesus’ Israel and the tomb? Egyptians? A. A log A. Trees B. A stone B. Goliath C. A wagon C. Pillar of clouds D. A curtain D. A riveer 6) What animal's 3) What army did the mouth did the angel of the Lord angel shut up for smite? Daniel? A. USA A. A tiger B. England B. A bear C. Assyrians C. A rabbit

D. Israelites D. A lion Ans: 1. A, 2. C, 3. C, 4. A, 5. B, 6.D B, 5. A, 4. C, 3. C, 2. A, 1. Ans:

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Jeremih Pregnant Hilary leaves ICU Duff reveals she was exposed to but remains COVID-19 hospitalized PREGNANT Hilary Duff changes in respiratory revealed she was “ex- physiology and trans- posed” to COVID-19 and lates to lower thresholds SINGER Jeremih, ing is rare for a young was quarantining as a for needed medical atten- whose real name is man his age without un- result. tion,” Dr. Amesh A. Jeremy Phillip Felton, derlying conditions.” The Younger star, 33, Adalja, senior scholar at was yesterday trans- “His family would like who is currently expect- the Johns Hopkins ferred out of ICU, a to remind the world that ing her third child, took Center for Health week after it was re- COVID-19 is real and to her Instagram Stories Security, previously told ported that he was ad- not to be taken lightly,” on Saturday to share Yahoo Life. mitted to a medical the statement said. what happened. Last month, Duff re- center for COVID-19. “Also, It’s important for “Exposed to COVID. vealed that she was ex- The 33-year-old star people infected to quar- Quarantine day 2 Fml,” pecting her second child had been taken to the antine and let their fam- Duff captioned a selfie, with husband Matthew ICU and was placed ilies and friends know following guidance from Koma. “We are growing!!! on a ventilator. He ASAP.There’s no shame the Centers for Disease Mostly me...” Duff cap- will now spend the in contracting COVID- Control and Prevention tioned an Instagram rest of his recovery 19, and people that have to quarantine for 14 days video, which featured time in a regular hos- it need to be responsible in the event of exposure. Koma affectionately rub- pital room. “The true and considerate of oth- According to the CDC, bing her stomach. healing begins. Thank ers. Everyone diagnosed pregnant people are at The couple, who mar- you all for your with COVID-19 is af- an increased risk for se- ried in December, have a prayers and wishes,” fected differently, vere illness from COVID- 2-year-old daughter a statement said yes- Unfortunately for Jeremih 19, along with other com- named Banks Violet. terday. Jeremih, COVID-19 vi- plications, such as While Duff shares son “Jeremih is currently ciously attacked his doctors and nurses is Following the news preterm birth. The or- Luca Cruz, 8, with ex- battling severe COVID- body.” helping him pull about Jeremih’s health, ganization recommends husband Mike Comrie. 19 health complications,” The statement contin- through. He’s not out of musicians banded to- that pregnant people fol- Duff has done her best the singer’s family had ued, “The family is very the woods yet, but gether to send him their low the same preventa- to protect herself said in a statement on grateful for everyone progress is being made. love and support to sup- tive measures as non- throughout the pan- Wednesday, Nov. 18. who is praying, and we The family and friends port to him. Chance the pregnant people: demic, even sounding off “He’s in the ICU on a ask for continued are praying that he Rapper, 50 Cent and Practicing social distanc- on Instagram about the ventilator to help him prayers. The family be- starts breathing on his many others took to so- ing, washing hands and “Karens won’t wear breathe. The COVID-19 lieves daily prayers to own soon, and makes a cial media with special wearing face masks. masks” over the Fourth condition he’s experienc- God (sic). A great team of full recovery.” messages. “Pregnancy induces of July holiday. Mahershala Ali refused to do sex scene due to his religion MAHERSHALA ALI was simulated sex between concerned about taking Ali’s character and Taraji his role in the 2008 film P. Henson’s. “The Curious Case of “Taraji and I begin to Benjamin Button” be- kiss, and we fall out of cause the script included the frame,” Ali explained. a sex scene, and appear- “It wasn’t clear if ing in it would’ve gone (Fincher) was trying to against his religious be- have, like, some bumping liefs. and grinding ... which I Ali, 46, who converted doubt he was. ... At that to Islam in 2000, recalled time, 15 years ago, I was getting the phone call still like, ‘OK, I can only that he got the part in a go up to this point,’ just recent episode of rapper because of – just trying Common’s podcast, to hold a space of respect “Mind Power Mixtape.” for my religion.” “My old agent called The film, which me and said, starred Brad Pitt as a ‘Mahershala, you got the man who ages in reverse, part,’ and I said, ‘There’s was Ali’s first major just one thing. ... There is movie role. After appear- that one sex scene where ing in the first four sea- they kiss. ... If there’s a sons of “House of Cards” sex scene, I can’t do it,’ ” and the last two “The Ali told Common. Hunger Games” movies, It turned out that di- he went on to earn rector David Fincher was Oscars for 2016’s willing to cut the part of “Moonlight” and 2018’s the scene that included “Green Book.” 30 • Sunday November 22, 2020 The Barbados Advocate

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SSununddaayy A Addvvococatatee C Comicsomics The Barbados Advocate Sunday November 22, 2020 • 33 SPORTSSPORTS BTC’s second day of the third racing season leaves a lot to be desired THE Barbados Turf Club’s (BTC) have thought it prudent that with that directors made a decision to bring much water on the track, and it being as forward the upgrading of the soft as it was, and a whole lot of money Garrison Savannah racing track due just spent upgrading it, that the to Covid-19 and from all reports it Racecourse Stewards would have was a job well done. postponed the days racing, and sent it to One can appreciate what the cost the Directors for them to come up with a would have been, with the complete re- new date for them to be run. For sure a surfacing of the approximately six- lot of work will have to go into repairing furlong track, plus having to import the it to be ready for the next raceday seeds, to grow the type of grass needed, November 30. Apprentice jockey O’Rico Prescod onboard War Eagle. and then the work put into it, to get it On another point, the day’s first race ready for the third racing season which was scheduled to start at 1:30 p.m. and sunset.The race was scheduled to run at This is unacceptable in horse racing, was run on October 24. It was a great job the last race was scheduled to be run off 4:55 p.m., but ran at 5:45 p.m., almost one jockeys have a responsibility not only to done, and as could be seen appreciated by at 4:55 p.m. There is no excuse hour late, and some 14 minutes after the owners and trainers that give them all the horses running on that day. whatsoever for the first race of the day to sunset. No race should run in that type rides, but most importantly to those that Without question it was money well start late, but for some reason this is now of darkness. place their bets, and that is why at major spent, but unfortunately the rains came, the norm at the Garrison, as day after My final point on the days racing, is tracks in the world the Racecourse and by the morning of the scheduled day, the races are run late from the first about apprentice jockey of O’Rico Stewards deal with this behaviour very second days racing, November 14, the race. Prescod, when winning the days day’s harshly. Should the horse, especially track was under water in certain areas There were 12 horses facing the starter feature race. The Pinnacle Feeds running on the track in the condition it with the remainder soft, which left the in the race, all 12 being two-year-olds, Midsummer Classic. He was aboard War was in after five races, stumbled, saddle Raceday Stewards with the decision of if most of which had never seen the gates Eagle, the winner. From half a furlong slipped, piece of equipment broke, he to run or postpone. at the start in their life, and the starter from the winning post this young himself off-balanced, who knows what The second day of the third racing waits until post time to load the first one. apprentice decided to start celebrating, would have happened! season got underway at the Garrison Secondly, the Barbados Turf Club must by standing straight up in the saddle, For sure the owner would have lost the Savannah on Saturday, November 14, be the only organisation that loads only holding the horse with only his left hand, stake, his trainer the commission, the with the Pinnacle Feeds Midsummer one horse at a time, everywhere else at looking all over the place including breeder his Breeders Premiums, and Classic being the feature race, which least two horses are brought up to the looking back waving his whip and right most importantly, the punters their carried a very lucrative purse of $67 000 gate to be loaded. That old fashion hand to the crowd. With a quarter of a money. He was called by the Racecourse with the winner receiving $36 850 and a method needs to stop, in order to speed up furlong to go he was still celebrating, Stewards, but not given a penalty. He Trophy. loading on racedays. while standing tall, and without even can consider himself very fortunate, as in Knowing the condition, and it being Another very questionable decision by holding down, changed hands on the most tracks in the world he would have obvious that the track would have to take the Raceday Stewards of the day, reins and then started waving with his not only fined, but grounded.There is too a beating, the Raceday Stewards went especially knowing the track conditions, left hand, while still looking all over the much at stake to allow such a celebration. ahead and decided to race. One would was allowing the final race to run after place. (CH) Squash spotlight on Bryant Cumberbatch THE Barbados Senior and Masters How many days a week do you normally Who is your favourite squash player? National Squash Championships get set spend training? My favourite squash player is Ramy to serve off from November 26-29 at the In season I train four days a week. Ashour, a technically gifted Egyptian Barbados Squash Club in Hastings. player. Ranked by the Professional Here the spotlight is one Bryant Who is your coach? Where do you often Squash Association (PSA) # 1 at his peak Cumberbatch. train? in 2010. My first coach was Rudy Goodridge and Name: Bryant Cumberbatch my dad. Now I train with the Senior Are there any goals you have in mind Age: I am 33 years old. National team (in season) at the Barbados that you would like to accomplish in the Squash Club. sport? What school did you attend? / What is My goal is to win another National title. your occupation? Have you had the privilege of I attended West Terrace Primary, representing Barbados at any regional or Besides squash are there any other Frederick Smith Secondary & Samuel international tournaments? sports that you play? If not, do you have Jackman Prescod Polytechnic. Former I have had the honour of representing any hobbies which you care to share? Chef at Lime Bar & Restaurant – Lime Barbados at the Regional level from 1996 I love Football, Road Tennis and Golf. I Grove & Lifestyle Centre. when I played in the Boys under also enjoy spending time at the beach with 12 in the Cayman Islands until family and friends and the occasional At what age did you start to play present. I took a two-year break during my landscaping. squash? teens. Bryant Cumberbatch I started playing squash at age four In addition, I have represented What do you see as your greatest with my older brothers, Gavin and Rhett. Barbados at the 2005 Pan Am Junior accomplishment? to work on my game and fitness in order Championships in Chile, 2009 CAC I have won 12 Junior National titles, 1 to remain within the top 5 players in How many years have you been playing Championships in Ecuador and 2010 CAC Senior National title and 5 Junior Barbados. squash? Championships in Guatemala. Caribbean (CASA) titles and the 2001 I have been playing this sport for the Youth Award presented by the National What would you say to a child or adult last 29 years and still enjoy it. Are you right or left-handed? Sports Council. to encourage them to choose squash as a I am right-handed. sport? What or who inspired you to play What are your plans for your game of Squash is one of the fittest and squash? What is your favourite shot? squash in the future? healthiest sports, so I would encourage I was inspired watching my dad Monty The nick, this shot hits into the ‘crack’ My plans going forward are to share as anyone looking for a good workout to come Cumberbatch playing at the Rockley i.e. between the floor and any side wall and much knowledge and experience with the and have a game of squash, while having Resort squash courts. roll out. This shot will finish the rally. youth in order to improve their game,and some fun. 34 • Sunday November 22, 2020 The Barbados Advocate

Armstrong, Croney are Chefette MudDogs champions Class B tie break goes in favour of the Patels DAVID ARMSTRONG and Andrew year’s opening round. When a crew act Croney are the 2020 Barbados as route-setters, as Armstrong and Rally Club (BRC) Chefette Croney did in September, they earn a MudDogs Safari Champions, after score equal to their best result of the winning last Saturday’s (November year – victory at the weekend, therefore, 14) third and final round of the sealed their Championship win. curtailed season. Armstrong joins Saturday’s route, which covered his father Chris, who was around 135 kilometres islandwide and Champion Driver in 2012, on the ran from day into night, started in the Club’s Roll of Honour, while parking lot outside Motorsport Services, Croney adds a third Navigator’s Haggatt Hall, St. Michael, at 2:01 p.m. crown to those won in 2018 and The dinner halt was at the Vaucluse 2006, when he won his first overall Raceway in St. Thomas, with the finish title from the Novice class. at the new Sol Charnocks facility They amassed 176 points during the opposite the Grantley Adams season in their Nassco-backed Toyota International Airport. Hilux, two more than Chris King and Gary and George Mendes were Warrick Eastmond (Nissan Frontier), comfortably ahead after the first route, who had won the season’s delayed first having incurred only 797 penalties in Safari in July and were the route- their Daihatsu Rocky,almost 400 fewer setters for last weekend’s MudDogs than Armstrong and Croney (1177 November Safari. Willie Hinds and pens), with Stephen Mayers and David Wayne Manning (Suzuki Samurai) Reece (Toyota Hilux) narrowly edging finished third respectively in the Driver Hinds and Manning for third place, and Navigator standings, having won 1358 to 1384 penalties. the second event in September. The Mendes brothers dropped back Armstrong and Croney first teamed on the second route, however, finishing up in the final Safari of 2018, in which only fifth, as Armstrong and Croney they finished second, helping Croney to were the route-winners, to claim overall the Navigator’s crown after sitting with victory, with Hinds/Manning and Jean-Marc Cozier and Benjamin Moore Mayers/Reece again evenly matched, earlier in the season. Last year, the new the advantage going to the former this partnership placed second and fourth time round, placing them third by just twice each in their first full season 40 penalties at the end of the event. together, before finishing third in this Competition for the Championship titles was even closer in Class B, with a Chefette MudDogs Safari Championship – round 3 tie for first place in both the Driver and MudDogs November Safari, November 14 Navigator standings. Despite being the highest-placed class finishers in the 1st David Armstrong/Andrew Croney (Nassco Toyota Hilux), July and November Safaris, Shaquille David Armstrong and Andrew Croney on their way to winning last Saturday’s 1661 penalties Jemmott and Shanica Toppin (Suzuki final round of the Chefette MudDogs Safari Championship, and with it the titles 2nd Gary Mendes/George Mendes (G & G Sales and Service/Neil’s Escudo) lost out to Abdullah and Bilal of 2020 Champion Driver and Champion Navigator. (PHOTO COURTESY OF IMAGE VAULT) Bistro/Blvck Diamond Kustomz/Dream Auto Kustomz/Wyndham Auto Services and off road Fabrications/Big Guys Pudding and Patel (Mitsubishi L200) in the tie break, Souse/Barbados Muffler Center/Lunatics Inc Daihatsu Rocky), which is based on the average total of Chairman Ricky Holder said: “The more of the same in 2021. 1967pens penalties incurred by each crew in weather gave us a trying event, with “With the pandemic making it such a 3rd Willie Hinds/Wayne Manning (Suzuki Samurai), 2004pens common events. Both crews competed lots of mud and stickups, so it was a tough year for everyone, I would like to 4th Stephen Mayers/David Reece (Toyota Hilux), 2044pens 5th Shaquille Jemmott/Shanica Toppin (DreamAuto in all three events this year, the average great way to end such a difficult year. thank all the competitors and marshals Kustomz/Blvck Diamond Kustomz Suzuki Escudo), 3583pens penalties for the Patels being 3045, We have had at least one new winner, for their dedication all year and 6th Abdullah Patel/Bilal Patel (Patels Equipment & compared with 4162 for Jemmott and Driver or Navigator, at every event, so especially in the conditions at the Hardware/NiLight LED Lights/Aquarius Faucets Mitsubishi L200), Toppin. congratulations to David Armstrong, weekend. Thanks also to R L Seale & Co 4003pens After Tuesday night’s (November 17) also Chris King, Willie Hinds and for the prizes and to the Carib Beach 7th Noel Edwards/Austin Barber (Ford Ranger), 4048pens 8th John Pinto/Dean Springer (GMC Sonoma), 4952pens Prizegiving Carib Beach Bar in Wayne Manning for joining the winners’ Bar for allowing us to hold our 9th Sam Ramsay/Kristina Pinto (Suzuki Samurai), 5203pens Worthing, Christ Church, MudDogs list earlier in the year. Let’s hope for Presentation there,” it was stated. 10th Damien Johnson/Derek Edwards (DreTuned Suzuki Samurai), 5258pens

Class B 1st Jemmott/Toppin, 3583pens 2nd A Patel/B Patel, 4003pens 3rd Edwards/Barber, 4048pens 4th J Pinto/Springer, 4952pens 5th Ramsey/K Pinto, 5203pens Route 1: 1st Jemmott/Toppin, 2335pens; 2nd J Pinto/Springer, 2602pens; 3rd Edwards/Barber, 2754pens; etc Route 2: 1st A Patel/B Patel, 1068pens; 2nd Jemmott/Toppin, 1248pens; 3rd Edwards/Barber, 1294pens; etc

Chefette MudDogs Safari Championship Final Points, after round 3 Overall (Driver): 1st Armstrong, 176 points; 2nd Chris King (Nissan Frontier), 174pts; 3rd Hinds, 166pts; 4th Mayers, 162pts; 5th Mendes, 154pts; 6th A Patel, 146pts; etc (Navigator): 1st Croney, 176pts; 2nd Warrick Eastmond (Nissan Frontier), 174pts; 3rd Manning, 166pts; 4th Reece, 162pts; Mendes, 154pts; 6th B Patel, 146pts; etc Class B (Driver): 1st A Patel, 174pts; 2nd Jemmott, 174pts; 3rd J Pinto, 170pts (Navigator): 1st B Patel, 174pts; 2nd Toppin, 174pts; 3rd K Pinto, 170pts; etc

Shelbury Construction Trophy Final points, after round 3 1st Mayers 25 points; 2nd Norris 21pts; 3rd Chris Armstrong (Toyota Hilux), 18pts; 4th Alleyne 11pts; 5th D Armstrong 10pts; etc Andrew Croney (left) and David Armstrong flanking Mikki Franklin at the Prizegiving at the Carib Beach Bar. The Barbados Advocate Sunday November 22, 2020 • 35

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Justin Fields throws 3 UFC’s viral knockout that inspired Kanye West JOAQUIN BUCKLEY back kick which toppled interceptions but No. 3 Ohio State admits he was “unknown” Kasanganay. when he travelled to Abu Commentator John Dhabi for his second UFC Gooden said it was “real- still beats No. 9 Indiana 42-35 fight in October. life ninja stuff". Former OHIO STATE immediately forced Ohio the return. The fumble the Indiana 7, Ohio State Things have changed a UFC fighter Dan Hardy quarterback Justin State to punt. Could was recovered by Ohio chose to go for it instead bit as he prepares for his added it was “a viral Fields threw as many Indiana pull within a State and the Buckeyes of having freshman third, against Jordan knockout". interceptions on score then? got the ball right back. backup kicker Jake Wright at UFC 255 on The video clip on UFC’s Saturday as he did in all No. Star Ohio State Indiana did get within Seibert attempt a short Saturday. Instagram of 2019. And Ohio State cornerback Shaun Wade a touchdown with 10:26 field goal. Back in October, accountexternal-link now still won. picked off Michael Penix to go after Ty Fryfogle And instead of running Buckley’s middleweight has more than 6.6m Fields threw three Jr. and ran the caught his third it up the middle or trying bout against fellow views. Not only is it the interceptions against No. interception back 36 touchdown of the day. to overpower Indiana’s American Impa favourite for knockout of 9 Indiana. But the yards for a TD and a 21- But the Hoosiers never defense, Ohio State went Kasanganay had been the year, but many also Hoosiers were largely point lead. got close to the end zone with some misdirection. fairly when the unbeaten argue it’s the best in unable to capitalize on Fields threw his third after that despite Ohio And Fields threw an Kasanganay caught a MMA history. those turnovers and interception of the game State gifting them a incomplete pass as kick from his opponent "Now people know my committed three of their two drives before Indiana chance for an unexpected Indiana’s defenders midway through the name,” laughed Buckley. own in the Buckeyes’ 42- cut the lead to 35-21. tying possession with closed in. second round. “The outpouring from 35 win. Fields heaved a ball deep fewer than five minutes The decision didn’t Then came the moment thousands of people from There were two second- across the middle as he to go. backfire after Ohio State that changed Buckley’s all over the world, all half instances that was getting taken down Ohio State had a immediately forced life. messaging me at once... I perfectly summed up and the pass was picked chance to go up two Indiana to punt. And With his left ankle still never expected it to take Indiana’s day. The off by Jamar Johnson. He possessions with 4:39 to Ohio State made the being held, the 26-year- storm like it did.” Hoosiers pulled within 14 returned it inside the go. But instead of kicking decision knowing that old defied gravity by It didn’t just send points with 5:14 to go in Ohio State 20. a field goal for a 10-point Seibert missed a field producing a spinning shockwaves through the the third quarter and But then he fumbled on lead on fourth and one at goal earlier in the game. MMA community - it inspired memes galore. NOTICES NOTICES NOTICES NOTICES NOTICES Hollywood actors commented. Kanye West was “so energised” by the kick, he “had to release theme music", playing the knockout on a loop in a video with his new track. “That was awesome,” said Buckley. “I’m appreciative of Kanye West for throwing that out there. He’s a legend in the hip-hop community and for him to be inspired by my kick and come out with a classy hit like that is pretty cool. I’m grateful.” While the kick was opportunistic, Buckley insists it was no fluke. He says the origin was a two- touch taekwondo kick he has practised “all the time". The Barbados Advocate Sunday November 22, 2020 • 37

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Thiem beats Djokovic with storming finish to reach ATP Finals LONDON – Dominic Thiem it seemed as though the end said on court. came back from the brink was nigh. “To play these legends is al- of defeat to beat Novak Instead the world number ways special and to play here is Djokovic in a gripping last- three roared back, winning the also something special. I four clash at the ATP Finals next six points and setting up thought after winning the title yesterday as he reached the two more match points with a in New York I would be more final for the second succes- scorching crosscourt backhand, calm, but that was a mistake I sive year. one of many he unleashed dur- guess.” The 27-year-old Austrian ap- ing the duel. Djokovic appeared a little peared to be sliding to defeat Djokovic saved a fifth flat at times, especially on his when he trailed 0-4 in the match point but Thiem finally trademark returns, but still third-set tiebreak but stormed got the job done when he looked as though he had pulled back to claim a 7-5 6-7(10) 7- forced his opponent to float a an unlikely victory out of 6(5) victory in just under three defensive forehand over the the fire, only to suffer an am- hours. baseline. bush. World number three Thiem Thiem will try to complete a “What he did from 0-4 in the was the better player in the breakthrough year, in which he tiebreak was unreal,” Djokovic, first set, sealing it with an ace claimed his first Grand Slam who won the title in London after breaking serve at 5-5. title by winning the US Open, from 2012-15, told reporters. An absorbing second-set against either Rafa Nadal or “I don’t think I played bad, I tiebreak saw Thiem get four Daniil Medvedev in Sunday’s made all my first serves; he chances to seal victory but he climax, guaranteeing a first- just crashed the ball and every- double-faulted on one match time champion for the fifth thing went in. What can you World number three Dominic Thiem beat Novak Djokovic in a point and Djokovic showed true year in a row. do?” gripping last-four clash at the ATP Finals yesterday. grit to snatch the set. “It was a mental battle, I got Thiem, who racked up his Serves dominated in the de- so tight in the second-set 300th career Tour win, is now to Stefanos Tsitsipas in the moves to Turin next year, after cider and when Thiem started tiebreak,” Thiem, who avenged established as a major force final. 12 years in London, to try the day’s second tiebreaker and his defeat by Djokovic in this and will attempt to go one bet- Defeat means Djokovic will again to equal Roger Federer’s then lost the next three points year’s Australian Open final, ter than last year when he lost have to wait until the event six titles at the year-ender. The Barbados Advocate Sunday November 22, 2020 • 39

Real Madrid held to draw by Villareal Spurs go top REAL Madrid missed the chance to the game wore on. Emery’s side top of the table but he hes- move within a point of La Liga lead- Instead, Villarreal got stronger and itated when well-placed to shoot and with victory ers Real Sociedad as they were held were awarded a penalty late on when Raphael Varane got the block in. to a draw by Villarreal. Samuel Chukwueze was brought down In end it was a good point for Real Mariano’s header after just two min- and Gerard Moreno slotted in the spot- Madrid, who were missing a number of over Man City utes gave Real Madrid the ideal start. kick. first-team players through injury, and However, the visitors struggled to put Moreno had a good chance to secure all they stay fourth in the table behind TOTTENHAM moved top of the Premier the game out of reach and visibly tired as three points for Villarreal and send Unai Villarreal in second. League as Jose Mourinho’s side claimed a hard-fought victory over Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City. City dominated in both possession and chances but goals from Son Heung-min and substitute Giovani lo Celso – 35 sec- onds after his introduction – sealed a fourth successive league win for Spurs. Captain Harry Kane set up Lo Celso with his ninth assist in as many league matches midway through the second half, after Son had slotted in his ninth goal of the campaign five minutes into the contest from Tanguy Ndombele’s lofted pass. Both sides had a goal disallowed in the first half, as Kane strayed offside at the end of a sweeping team move and referee Mike Dean retrospectively pe- nalised Gabriel Jesus for handball in the build-up to Aymeric Laporte’s strike. Spurs are two points above Chelsea and Leicester City,though the Foxes can reclaim top spot with victory over cham- pions Liverpool at Anfield today. Defeat leaves City 10th and eight points off the early pace – but with a Moreno’s goal was his fifth in La Liga this season game in hand. Abraham helps Chelsea see off Newcastle CHELSEA moved to the top of the Premier League table, if only for a few hours, after a solid win at Newcastle United, their fifth straight victory in all competitions. Federico Fernandez’s own goal set the Blues on their way, the Argentine de- fender poking the ball over his own line while under pressure from Ben Chilwell. Chelsea oozed quality, Newcastle keeper Karl Darlow producing excellent saves to deny the excellent Timo Werner as well as a close-range header by Tammy Abraham. But Abraham made sure of the points Federico Fernandez has scored five Premier League own goals. with a smart finish following Werner’s pass after Newcastle had threatened fore this match. tack, Chelsea were solid at the back. flight goals this season but Newcastle through Isaac Hayden and Joelinton. It had prompted Lampard to call for Antonio Rudiger, starting in place of never recovered after a slow start. Sean Longstaff hit the bar for the home Saturday early kick-offs to be scrapped 36-year-old Thiago Silva who had played Darlow kept his side in the match with side towards the end. immediately after an international break for Brazil in midweek, marked his first some excellent saves before Abraham’s Chelsea, who started the day fifth, are but the Blues made a ferocious start that league start of the season with an impor- second-half finish killed the game off. top the table on goal difference ahead of caught Newcastle cold. tant block to deny Allan Saint-Maximin Newcastle’s cause was not helped by Leicester, who are at Liverpool today. Werner and Abraham had already as the Blues chalked up a sixth clean the loss of Jamaal Lascelles to injury,the been thwarted by Darlow when Chelsea sheet in seven games. captain failing to appear at the start Six clean sheets in seven for Blues swept into an early lead, Fernandez inad- Abraham’s second goal in as many of the second half after going down Not only do Chelsea lead their group in vertently turning Mason Mount’s cross league games made sure of the points heavily. the Champions League, they are now top past his own keeper after a short corner. before Mount went close to adding a Steve Bruce sent on Miguel Almiron, of the Premier League for the first time That was Chelsea’s 35th goal in 14 third. who only arrived back from international since Frank Lampard took charge in July league and cup games but it should have duty with Paraguay on Friday,and Andy 2019. been more before half-time. Wilson a big miss for Magpies Carroll to try and rescue a point. This was the first of nine games in the Werner, who had a goal disallowed for Without leading scorer Callum Wilson, Carroll looked set to score his first goal next four weeks for Lampard’s side and offside late on, was a creative force Newcastle failed to score for the second since returning to Newcastle for a second the Chelsea boss had to plan for it with- throughout but the Germany forward successive game. spell 15 months ago, but his attempt in out several key players who were still was also wasteful. Wilson, missing with a hamstring in- injury time was deflected wide for a cor- away on international duty 48 hours be- When Newcastle did mount a rare at- jury, has netted six of his side’s 10 top- ner. Armstrong, Croney are Chefette Muddogs Champions Page 34

Sunday November 22, 2020

Opposition Leader demands full information REVEAL ALL! on lease of Harrison’s Cave

OPPOSITION Leader Senator Lisa Cummins in arrangement of the man- of claim to the award of also is the matter of the contract would meet the Bishop Joseph a press conference, made agement contract. contract over other enti- level of foreign exchange severance payment liabil- Atherley is demanding it clear that the country's In a statement to the ties, domestic or foreign, anticipated to remain in ity. If this is so, was this further details on the premier tourist attraction media, the Opposition which also tendered bids,” Barbados from the opera- stipulation applied rela- terms and conditions has not been sold, but Leader firstly questioned he stressed. tions,” he stated. tive to Chukka?” Atherley surrounding the 25- would be leased to why Chukka’s bid had In addition, Atherley in- Furthermore, he queried. year lease of Chukka, a nature adven- won from amongst the sisted that government queried whether the “Finally, government Harrison’s Cave to ture tour operator, to other bidding entities. detail the concessions Chukka business model should make clear Jamaica-based manage from December 1. “It is of interest, cer- which the company will would allow or hinder whether there is any local Chukka Caribbean However, Atherley in- tainly to the Opposition, be afforded “in light of the small businesses like taxi ownership or investment Adventures. sisted this was “insuffi- to know what is the ad- outcry over such arrange- drivers and tour bus oper- interests associated with Earlier this week, cient” information as vantage which Chukka ments with other foreign ators. Chukka,” the Opposition Minister of Tourism and Barbadians must be told brought to the table that entities in the past”. “It is understood that Leader insisted. International Transport, the specifics of the gave their bid superiority "Of important interest the company awarded the (JMB/PR)

Republic Bank is keeping the lighting traditional alive by lighting their branches with the national colours. The Head Office at Independence Square lights up the City. Republic Bank still lighting branches for Independence REPUBLIC BANK is helps us all to regain a Worthing and Six Roads our buildings with the na- keeping the sense of normalcy; it in- branches and tional colours, we are say- Independence lighting jects brightness and joy Independence Square ing that we will uphold tradition alive. into what has been an un- Head Office, are all now the traditions that our “Despite there being no precedented and chal- bathed in ultramarine people hold dear.May official lighting ceremony lenging year,” said the and gold at night. The these lights be a reminder due to COVID-19 this Bank’s Manager, special lighting will con- that we are a Bank of the year, we at Republic still Marketing and Corporate tinue throughout the people, operating for the felt the need to express Communications Sophia month of November as is good of the people. The our patriotism. We also Allsopp Cambridge. customary. management and staff believe that staying true The Speightstown, Ms. Allsopp Cambridge take this opportunity to The Limegrove Branch is now bathed in the na- to these kinds of tradi- Limegrove, Warrens, explained, “By honouring wish all Barbadians a tional colours. tions and celebrations Broad Street, Wildey, this tradition of lighting happy Independence.”

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