Sanitise Your Thoughts and Actions, Urges Anglican Bishop ANGLICAN Bishop of Expressed a Hope That the Slow Place Where We Belong
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Established October 1895 See Inside Monday March 8, 2021 $1 VAT Inclusive RAISING AWARENESS By Marsha Gittens Foundation continuing to get message out about Cystic Fibrosis LinkedIn to gain additional exposure. He further said THE head of one local Cystic Fibrosis Foundation of now know about the genetic has been featured in radio and the annual CFFB Walk/Run organisation says efforts Barbados (CFFB), Michael disease. He pointed out television programmes, in a has also assisted in getting are ongoing to increase Turton, told The Barbados presently, there are four health magazine and the more to know about the public awareness about Advocate that over the years children in Barbados who have organisation has also taken to condition. cystic fibrosis. CFFB has made strides in this been diagnosed with it. social media platforms such President and Founder of the regard and more individuals He said in the past CFFB as Instagram, Facebook and MESSAGE on Page 5 VENDING RETURNS!: Barbadians came out to shop for their vegetables and fruits in Cheapside last Saturday morning. Shoppers made sure that they were masked up as they made their purchases. Sanitise your thoughts and actions, urges Anglican Bishop ANGLICAN Bishop of expressed a hope that the slow place where we belong. That God in our lives.And to continue own being and thus for us Barbados, the Right Reverend period caused by the pandemic place and space with God and His mission and offer His love to open up hearts for any Michael Maxwell, is urging is bringing persons closer to where the ways of God are as we look to Him and look out necessary cleansing and Barbadians that as they take God. central to our lives is that level for each other and love as He unnecessary sanitization to precautions to guard against the “You know, out of this of repentance that I’m praying desires us to love.” take place as we reflect and COVID-19 virus, so too should devastating impact and havoc will materialise in our lives. Bishop Maxwell told the discern those areas or aspects they seek to sanitise their that COVID-19 is having on our “So that when we have either congregation, “This season is a of our lives that are not quite thoughts and actions. nation and on our world, I’m learned how to live with COVID- time to open up ourselves and right with God, that don’t His comments came yesterday earnestly praying that we are 19, or gain herd immunity by allow that level of zeal we demonstrate that God is in as he visited the St. Paul’s allowing this ‘slow down’ period way of the vaccine, that our new noticed in Jesus Christ, in his communion with us. Anglican Church on the third of our lives, to take us away from normal way of life will be filled love for the Father, and in his Sunday of Lent where he the marketplace and back to the with a greater zeal for glorifying love for others, to consume our SANITISE on Page 3 2 • Monday March 8, 2021 The Barbados Advocate Celebrating International Women’s Day (Message from International Women’s ons for gender equality, tremendous efforts by child care services is cru- revealed in the UN Ambassador Irwin Year. and to raise awareness of women and girls around cial to enabling women Secretary-General’s re- LaRocque, Secretary- The annual celebration the progress being made. the world to shape a more who dropped out of the cent report released in General, Caribbean affords everyone, espe- The Day also presents the just future, and highlights work force at the height of 2020.Women are Heads of Community, on the oc- cially women and girls, an opportunity to call atten- the special needs of the pandemic, to regain State or Government in 22 casion of International opportunity to reflect on tion to and address the women to recover from the employment. Research by countries, and only 24.9% Women’s Day) progress made, to call for obstacles faced by women COVID-19 pandemic. the International Labour of national parliamentar- change and to celebrate to realizing the full com- A year later,it is evident Organization shows that ians are women. There ON 8 March 2021, the acts of courage and deter- plement of their human that women are dispropor- failure to do so will further is much more work to be Caribbean Community mination by ordinary rights. tionately affected by a ris- push 47 million women done to ensure women’s (CARICOM) joins the rest women who continue to The global theme for ing incidence of domestic and girls in Latin America equal participation in de- of the world in celebrating play extraordinary roles this year’s International abuse, unemployment and the Caribbean below cision-making in govern- International Women’s in the development of Women’s Day is: ‘Women and the burden of care for the poverty line. ment and in the private Day, a special observance their communities and in Leadership: Achieving children affected by pro- Today we celebrate the sector. that was adopted by the countries. It also serves as an Equal Future in a tracted school closures. many women on the As we observe United Nations 46 years a platform to engage men COVID-19 World’. The Investments in the provi- frontline of the COVID-19 International Women’s ago in 1975, during and boys as male champi- theme celebrates the sion of quality, affordable response and recovery Day across the efforts, as healthcare Community, let us take workers, caregivers, essen- our inspiration from the tial workers, innovators, many women trailblazers community organizers, who have made a differ- and as some of the most ence in our lives in a di- exemplary and effective verse field of endeavours, national leaders in com- from politics, business and bating the pandemic. The community service, to ed- crisis has highlighted ucation, sports, culture, the tremendous value of science, technology and their contribution for engineering. Let us com- which we owe them a debt mit to redoubling our ef- of gratitude. forts to bring about a new The future is more post-COVID-19 world promising when women based on equality, mutual are equally represented respect, freedom from vio- alongside men in leader- lence and social justice. ship roles. However, It is my privilege and women are still under- pleasure to wish everyone represented in public life a happy International and decision-making, as Women’s Day. Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Ambassador Irwin LaRocque. The Barbados Advocate Monday March 8, 2021 • 3 Wickham: C’bean regionalism still has a long way to go WHILE it is important COVID response as an ex- gional airline LIAT,which the other analysts thought University of the West gional movement. to look at the ways in ample of an area that can he described as the huge that the CXC was a high Indies. “The Green Paper on which Caribbean re- be improved. “Has the re- elephant in the room.“And point; in my opinion, right Wickham also chal- Immigration Reform in gionalism has worked gional platform been more I think the demise of LIAT now, the CXC is a blot. lenged that there are Barbados is an important over the years, politi- effective in helping us to says a lot about the issues When I watch the way challenges relating to document for anyone who cal consultant Peter procure vaccines? Or have with regional transport, in which the Caribbean insularity and pointed to is interested in regional- Wickham says there we been more successful but more importantly, the Examinations Council has Barbados. “The Barbados ism to read, because it was are still a number of with what we saw was type of selfishness that now started the process Green Paper on running in the complete “serious problems” to the Trinidad, Barbados, still permeates the region of forcing Caribbean stu- Immigration Reform came opposite direction that we be addressed. Dominica ‘alliance’ that as far as these issues are dents into examination up, I believe it was 2009 assumed that we were Wickham was part of a was able to procure vac- concerned. And regional- for which they are clearly or 2010, and in my opin- going as a region. panel discussion on Brass cines from India on a ism has proven itself woe- ill-prepared, and it doesn’t ion, that was a slap in “So while I think that it Tacks Sunday where he bilateral basis ahead of fully inadequate to deal appear as though there’s a the face of regionalism. is important for us to look held a different view from time, because that seemed with that.” regional structure to har- Essentially,it was one gov- at all the great things that most of the panellists, to have been more effec- Wickham also looked ness or bridle CXC from ernment that was respon- have been happening... we noting that while the the- tive. And certainly, it was at the Caribbean running along this path, sible for the Single Market have to ask ourselves, how oretical benefits are all then from Barbados’ sort Examinations Council it tells me that regional- and Economy saying, can our regional institu- “peaches and cream”, they of goodwill and Dominica (CXC), of which he noted ism is in some problems,” ‘Look, I have some con- tions be engineered to don’t always mesh with to share some of those he is “very unhappy” at he said, adding that he cerns,’ and they were es- have to respond to some reality.